New metal roof

May 26th, 2009 by coral | Posted in What's going on | 1 Comment »

Here are some pictures to show our new metal roof. Paul has spent the last week or more putting this roof on, sometimes even in the rain. It had rained for more then 10 days straight and we had started taking on small amounts of water, drips here and there. Those drips were only going to get bigger and cause more damage if Paul didn’t get something up on the roof to stop them. So working in the drizzling rain was his choice.

The next project is siding, even if we have to buy it one box at a time. Siding and windows and insulation are actually a combined project, since windows will effect interior and exterior walls we might as well insulate the walls and do the exterior siding all together. The great part about all of this is President Obama is paying me back for making my home more valuable!!!

Graduation

May 7th, 2009 by coral | Posted in What's going on | No Comments »

Graduation Day is quickly approaching and I thoough I would post the link to watch the ceremony streaming live for all of you who are not going to be here. The ceremony begins at 10am Eastern Time on Saturday morning.

http://sa.armstrong.edu/graduation/memories.html

This is actually a link to a link that will become active at 9:30am the morning of the graduation.

Ashley got glasses

April 28th, 2009 by coral | Posted in What's going on | 2 Comments »

On the left are Ashley’s Favorite purple glasses that she wears to school everyday and on the right are Ashley’s blue “teacher” glasses. She is so excited to have glasses like the rest of her family. She is different from me though, she is only slightly far sighted, compared to my drastically near sighted.

I will post pictures of the kitchen, the new roof, and paul and my new glasses soon. We have a great new camera but we can’t figure out how to get the image size small enough to post. Still working through the technical stuff. Oh well! more later.

My new bedroom set

February 18th, 2009 by coral | Posted in What's going on | 1 Comment »

I recieved a new headboard free from my boss last week. I was so excited because it was the size we needed (Full) and it was all real wood. Her father made it over 30 years ago and as much as she wanted to keep it for sentimental reasons she no longer had a use or space for it. She happy to know it was going to a good home where it would be appreciated. Paul was a little intimitated by it because it is a huge piece of furniture but on Saturday he finally tackled the project and put it together in our room. While he did that I went out and splurged and bought a new mattress and box spring. I was so excited to finally sleep on a new mattress. I should have pictures to upload soon.

I am so sorry I have not updated this more often, but between school and work I have very little time left and I try to spend that time with the family. I will try to do better.

Paul’s work

January 20th, 2009 by coral | Posted in What's going on | 1 Comment »

Paul had a great year at work this year. His was the only terminal in all of SNL to go the entire year without a chargeable accident. This is a huge accomplishment, especially considering how the year began with several small incidents back to back. Last yar was a bad year for safety with his terminal ending with a driver rolling a truck the last week of the year. So not only was Paul and the Savannah terminal recognized as the only terminal to have no chargeable accidents but he is also being awarded the most improved terminal award! (YEAH!!!!)

On a seperate note, Ashley woke up this morning with an ugly looking swollen eye. I was then woken  up by Paul saying he thought she had pink eye. An hour later we are sitting in the Dr. office to be told that it is not pink eye (thank goodness!!!) it is simply a stye that has gotten out of control and infected the skin around it. Since her teacher had already told me she was not missing any major work at school only watching the inauguration I figured she could do that from home. So home i where she stayed, she is of course taking full advantage of being home when she is not “really sick”. She did watch the president take the oath of office and when I came home from watching it at school we talked about it! Hopefully I will not get called into work tonight I will get the spend a rare, all be it cold, evening home with my family.

Tattoos!

January 11th, 2009 by coral | Posted in What's going on | No Comments »

First of all let me start by saying sorry. I will try and update you all on the big things that have happened. Most of you all know that Paul and I got tattoos in June 2006, the word Tybee on our right bicep. In November I added to my ink by getting a tattoo on my right foot, but as I was not very impressed with it once it healed I never posted a picture. I then met a great tattoo artist over Christmas and decided that for Mine and Paul’s 2 year anniversary we would add to our ink together again.

I only had minor touch up work done to my arm piece, so I’m not going to post it, but I will finally post my foot ink.

I am so much happier now that the colors are more vibrant and the line work is complete and the musical notes finish it off.

I also found out this week I am officially/sort of a college graduate. I will be walking at graduation in May. I do have 1 class I need to take in the mean time to complete my 30 credit hours in this college but otherwise I am done. I do have the department head of the Economics Department trying to talk me into continuing for my BA in Economics, then her idea is that I could continue for my masters in Education. I told her find me scholarships to help pay and I will seriously consider.

Ashley is doing great! She bought a guitar with her Christmas money and is now taking private lessons every week. She also loves to play Wii bowling with Paul. We bought a Wii for Christmas as a family present. I am work insane hours as a full time bartender at the local bowling center. The hours are crazy, I sleep very little, but the job is fun the tips are nice and Paul and Ash get a kick out of coming up to bowl a lot. I also still get the pleasure of taking Ash to school every morning and picking her up every afternoon, and even have time to go in an help in her class occasionally.

Well it’s 4:30 in the morning and Ash usually wakes me up about 10 a.m. so I better go try to get some sleep. I will try very hard to write more, especially since I now have a great new camera that takes awesome pictures (now that I figured out how to use the flash).

More Hookie!

November 13th, 2008 by coral | Posted in What's going on | No Comments »

I also have pictures of Ashley and her friend on Halloween. Since Paul had to work that night we were not able to set up our normal spectical here in the yard. Instead I allowed Ash to have her best friend over for the night. We went to the bowling alley and bowled a few games, the girls spent some time in the arcade, and we snacked on the food mom gets sick of cooking. It’s nice once and a while to go to the bowling alley and let someone else cook. Ashley was a monster bride, her friend JaVonna was a dark fairy, Paul was Bernie from Weekend at Bernie’s, but the best costume goes to my boos Moni who was the best witch I have seen in ages. The pictures just does not do her costume justice!

I’m playing hookie!

November 13th, 2008 by coral | Posted in What's going on | 2 Comments »

I decided to play hookie today in order to spend the day with Paul on his birthday and finally catch up on all the things I’ve had no time for. Like posting here! Okay, lets start with pictures of me with my new hair do. I am very curious to know what everyone thinks of the new style???

Sorry this took a while

October 17th, 2008 by coral | Posted in Ashley | No Comments »

Happy  Birthday

Ashley!!

These are some pictures from Ashley’s very exciting birthday party at Memorial Park. The party was a Halloween theme, with a bloodshot eyeball pinata, cemetary cake and witches brew punch. What a great party and a great day. Certainly not something we could do in Minnesota in October.

Ashley on the News!

September 20th, 2008 by coral | Posted in Ashley | No Comments »

Thursday was Constitution Day, a National celebration of the anniversary of the Constitution being ratified. Ashley’s school put on a program including Ashley’s class that sang a song to a rag time beat. Later in the day after the program the local news channel 3 came to school and spent time filming in Ashley’s class. Ashley’s class was making edible constitutions, and Ashley was filmed reciting the preamble from memory. She was the only one in her class able to recite it without help. I unfourtunatly do not have a link for the news story, I am however working on getting a copy for the tape.