We started June with a lot of manual labor. Paula had told us the week before that we were moving offices as of the 1st July so that’s what we did for the first few days of the week. Bruce came in and helped Anthony move all the BIG stuff, while I co ordinated where everything would go and moved some of the smaller stuff. So as you can imagine there was crap everywhere the only good thing was that we moved to smaller offices across the hall so the trip was nice and easy.
Friday rolled around and it was Ice Cream Social night again, Conner and I headed over early to set up and that’s where I was for the rest of the night. I started popping popcorn at 5.15 and stopped at 8.20pm. It was a great event and everyone had a really good time. I even won a yoga basket that Bruce put tickets in for me so yeay for me!!
Bruce’s Franklin freshman team (now Franklin JV team pretty much) had a tournament at Sac State so Bruce went off in the morning for the game and I joined him for the afternoon one. Bruce and Monte went out on Sunday for their Final and really enjoyed spending time with them again, I think the boys loved having them there too. We ended the weekend with a great dinner at the Riveras as always, the kids played and the adults chilled out and caught up. It’s had to get Carlos and Kristie together and at home with all the kids sport and their jobs it’s really hard to find the time to see them so when we do it’s a great day.
Conner spent the next week at Franklin basketball camp which he loved, it helped that Bruce freshman boys were there so he hung out with then a little and apparently played really great. Millie decided she couldn’t wait and gave the boys their birthday present early, a WII so you can imagine how excited they were…. Jamieson had a minimum day at school and we finished the week with a field trip to Coloma, which is very much like going to Sovereign Hill, Ballarat although it’s an actual town so it’s more things to see than things to do. That was also the week I overextended and threw my back out, the boys went over to Beth’s (Beth is our new production manager for Angels) place for a BBQ while I stayed home for a while and stretched my back out. I stretched it out and made it over after dinner, it was nice to meet some new people although a lot of faces I knew from school.
The next week Brad arrived from San Fran on Conner’s birthday. He arrived amongst the semi chaos. Bruce and I were in the midst of getting a big number of Angels orders out to new borders stores, so he was great and helped out with that. I was cooking and baking for Conner’s birthday bbq on the Friday night. He helped us with the packaging, we did some shopping, we went to the park after Conner’s birthday dinner to kick the footy around which the boys (all 4 of them loved)
Conner’s birthday was usual, he had a quiet day at home playing with his new stuff, he didn’t want to go for a drive with Bruce. We had his favorite Spaghetti for dinner and he picked out a cake. Then we went to the park to get some fresh air and run off some of the dinner and CAKE!!!
Thursday night Jamieson had his Gold Dust or Bust performance at school, which he did really great but hated every minute of. He has now decided that he doesn’t like having his photo taken, which is not going to work for me – you can imagine how that conversation goes.
Friday night, we had all the usuals over for dinner, playing etc. Riveras, Cendro’s, Daneluks’, Reed’s, Andrea & Robert, the Charles’ couldn’t make it. It was lots of fun and apparently Brad thinks I’m funny after a couple or three drinks. The night as usual ended with some dancing in the lounge room and the kids outside with glow sticks!! On Saturday Brad and I went out and finished his shopping for home, then went out to dinner which was nice. I think he has a good time, it was great to spend some time with him and there will be fun times ahead with brad when we get home.
Sunday – Happy fathers Day to Bruce. He dropped Brad off at the airport so he could fly to Vegas and then went off to watch Karate Kid at the movies. They enjoyed the movie then spent the rest of the day relaxing!!
Monday I walked to the bowling alley with Jamieson’s class on their end of year excursion so that took up the whole morning, but it was fun and I think our group had a good fun time; we were the only ones cheering so that’s always a good thing. Bruce spent the next couple of days in Utah in meetings. The boys and I just chilled at home, well, the boys more than me. I went off to work on and off as per usual. We went shopping on the weekend and found a gorgeous watch for me (which I will get on my birthday) I rounded out the month with a cool experience. Millie got 3 tickets to a re screening of Twilight- Eclipse so we got to see the movie before the midnight showing!!! It’s kind of amazing the age range of people who are fans….you name it, that demographic was there.
We ended the month with Bruce heading to LA for some meetings……
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 02, 2010
May
May turned up and Jamieson went back to school, yeay! We love him but a month off is enough to turn any parent around the twist! I went to the mall for the morning with Millie and Lexie and we ended the day at the Cendros for drinks and the kids swam. My laptop finally told me it was done and needed to go to the doctor’s so laptop free for a couple of days or few maybe, I baked lots of goodies, headed into the office to work there. Conner’s school had spring fair on and Bruce went over to help which he enjoyed and was looking forward to, he was supposed to be doing fairy floss stand. Sadly, the teenage girls took over the stand and he didn’t get to fairy floss – big bummer!!
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY – especially when you get your, I’ve been wanting one for soooo long and now that we know I can bring it home and use it – Kleenaid breast cancer pink Mixer!! Sooo pretty…
We went to Arco Arena later in the afternoon to watch Jeremy play in the All Star game for his basketball league. He played great, and we had a good time the boys were a little jealous playing on an NBA arena.
The next week Bruce went on a road trip to Phoenix, San Diego and LA for a few days. I got my laptop back and wow its fast, I had to play with a few things and load a few programs back on but it was just like a new one. COOL!! The boys had the usual basketball practice, school Conner had the regional track meet, he made the long jump (and did not too bad, his needs longer legs) and at the end of the week Conner had a furlough day for school. I cleaned Bruce’s office, which took way too long because he never puts anything away – crap everywhere.
The month progressed Conner had Track awards night, Bruce went so as not to cramp his style too much (he volunteered on track meet day so the coaches knew him), I was busy putting together angels orders, I had Volunteer tea at school and got a lovely vase of flowers for being a event chairperson, which was really nice and not at all embarrassing having to walk up there and get it, at least Paula was with me as my co chair.
We finished the month with the boys basketball team making it to the Semi finals but getting blown out of the water by the eventual winners (who have been together as a team for years) so that made the boys feel better and the pizza too I would imagine. Then we also got unexpected visit from Pete, yeay for us! He surprised the boys in the morning; we didn’t tell them he was coming so that was a lot of fun for everyone.
Conner had finals then the school year was done, which he did really well on and his grades picked up where they needed to he worked really hard and his results were really good. We did some shopping and lots of catching up and after a couple of days we put him back on a plane to LA. It was a great visit and exciting to see a familiar face from home.
Memorial day long weekend rounded out the month, Friday night we had drinks & swimming with the Cendro’s, Saturday Bruce went to Montes’ (Franklin freshman co coach) for the LA game and to say Happy Birthday. Sunday we spent the day with some new people we met at their garage sale (Sue was born in Adelaide but has been in the US for 20+ years) It was a fun day, we met some of their friends, it was hot so the kids spent most of the day in the pool and we bbq’d for dinner. Monday we ended up at Paula’s for a bbq so it was a jammed packed social weekend for us to finish a busy month.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY – especially when you get your, I’ve been wanting one for soooo long and now that we know I can bring it home and use it – Kleenaid breast cancer pink Mixer!! Sooo pretty…
We went to Arco Arena later in the afternoon to watch Jeremy play in the All Star game for his basketball league. He played great, and we had a good time the boys were a little jealous playing on an NBA arena.
The next week Bruce went on a road trip to Phoenix, San Diego and LA for a few days. I got my laptop back and wow its fast, I had to play with a few things and load a few programs back on but it was just like a new one. COOL!! The boys had the usual basketball practice, school Conner had the regional track meet, he made the long jump (and did not too bad, his needs longer legs) and at the end of the week Conner had a furlough day for school. I cleaned Bruce’s office, which took way too long because he never puts anything away – crap everywhere.
The month progressed Conner had Track awards night, Bruce went so as not to cramp his style too much (he volunteered on track meet day so the coaches knew him), I was busy putting together angels orders, I had Volunteer tea at school and got a lovely vase of flowers for being a event chairperson, which was really nice and not at all embarrassing having to walk up there and get it, at least Paula was with me as my co chair.
We finished the month with the boys basketball team making it to the Semi finals but getting blown out of the water by the eventual winners (who have been together as a team for years) so that made the boys feel better and the pizza too I would imagine. Then we also got unexpected visit from Pete, yeay for us! He surprised the boys in the morning; we didn’t tell them he was coming so that was a lot of fun for everyone.
Conner had finals then the school year was done, which he did really well on and his grades picked up where they needed to he worked really hard and his results were really good. We did some shopping and lots of catching up and after a couple of days we put him back on a plane to LA. It was a great visit and exciting to see a familiar face from home.
Memorial day long weekend rounded out the month, Friday night we had drinks & swimming with the Cendro’s, Saturday Bruce went to Montes’ (Franklin freshman co coach) for the LA game and to say Happy Birthday. Sunday we spent the day with some new people we met at their garage sale (Sue was born in Adelaide but has been in the US for 20+ years) It was a fun day, we met some of their friends, it was hot so the kids spent most of the day in the pool and we bbq’d for dinner. Monday we ended up at Paula’s for a bbq so it was a jammed packed social weekend for us to finish a busy month.
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