Paula's Space: October 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008

Isn't Fall Beautiful!?!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Snowbird

On Saturday Brittany,

Dan, Heather, Nate, the

little girls and I went to Snowbird. We had a picnic lunch and hung out on the plaza.

It was absolutely beautiful weather.

We were nice and warm in shirt sleeves as the girls played on the plaza and danced to the music.

We rode the tram to the top where the little girls had fun throwing rocks down the mountain, playing in the snow and sitting in the chair lift.

The "bigger" girls had fun in the chair lift, too.

We did a little hiking, okay walking, on the mountain top and down a little trail.

We got a good "tummy tickling" on the way

back down on the tram :-0

Friday, October 17, 2008

It is UEA weekend and instead of taking off and playing, I decided to get a bunch of stuff done to lessen the stress in my life. Heather and Brittany (bless their little hearts) came and helped me put away my patio furniture before the "real" snow flies. We took a lot of "my junk" from my storage shed and put it out for the trash pickup, knowing that most of it would get "picked up" by others instead. We put out a gas BBQ grill, a lawnmower, a bunch of exercise equipment, a basketball standard, a table frame, bean bags, cardboard storage boxes, a bunch of rebar and metal pipes, RR ties, sawhorses used for cutting wood, wooden pallet, and scraps of wood. People were coming by and taking it before we finished at dark. By noon today, most everything but the broken wood and cardboard was gone. One man's trash is another man's treasure! Anyway, the tramp is down and put away and all the furniture stashed away. I'm running some errands today, cleaning the house, working on school stuff (way too many hours spent on this), doing laundry, etc. I also slept in today - what a nice change that was. I am getting stuff done and it is helping to relieve the load on my shoulders. I've spent too much time today on my blog, so I've got to get busy with other things, at least until dark :-)

Monday, October 13, 2008

Pics of My Family

I decided it was time to upload some pics and work on my blog. It's been a little hectic creating a blog for both personal and school, but I am learning little by little. I'll never be as good at this blogging stuff as my daughters, but I'm going to run a good race. Despite the fact that it snowed this weekend, that's right, SNOW, it's going to be a great week. It is UEA on Thursday and Friday, which means no school. Yipee!! Next Monday is a Professional Day, so I go and work, but the kids don't, which is almost as good as a day off. I hope I can get caught up on some of the things I've let lag since school started.

Just a note to let everyone one know how much I love my family. They are my heart and soul and I am so proud of them. I could spend all day posting pictures of the bunch - they are great!