August part 1

It is 12:28am.. what are you doing? I am working.. take 2 of the B2C DMZ firewall upgrade... hoping this one goes better than the last all nighter we pulled...

Jim is officially in Ghazni now... we get to keep up with him through email and also through the blog they have going there... I have got to get this blogging thing down better... geez...so Jim.. I hope you read this... and maybe even comment!!!!

Ryan has started 5th grade... and football... Trenton has started soccer.. school starts for him the end of next week... Trenton will also be playing in a lacrosse league we hope to try to get him ready to try out for the school team... wow.. I think we are going to have a busy fall.

Football is back on and I am thrilled.. though I may not get much time to watch it.... seriously... I am not joking about this....

We had a pretty bad scare with dad last week.. but thankfully he is fine and back home and as long as he continues to rest and improve...he will be back to his old self in no time.. it is so very hard to watch your parents get older. My father was and still is my rock.. and it is so hard to realize and accept that he is not invincible. He was released from the hospital on a Thursday.. and that Sunday he and mom celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary... amazing if you ask me. I hope Chris and I hit 51 years... what a wonderful thought to spend that many years with someone you love <3

We are considering getting another dog... but have to get ours 'trained' more... she is great with people.. and recently was eating and while she was eating Megan stuck her hand in the dish and took food out.... Princess did not even flench... she is great with little ones... now if only she could be great with a puppy...

Any suggestions for relieving stress... I seem to be in a mode here lately where I stay pretty stressed... I can tell... I think it has to do alot with how busy we are... yeah.. I am pretty sure that is it. I think if we could go a week without either me or Chris getting woken up at least once... that might be a great place to start!!!!