The Zuniga Family

More Hookie!

coral — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:47:05 +0000

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!

coral — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:40:39 +0000

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

coral — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:47:38 +0000

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!

coral — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:51:21 +0000

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.

First day of school pictures

coral — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:25:33 +0000

Well I finally have a minute to post pictures of Ashley on the first day of school. We also picked up and drove one of her friends to school that day.

First day of school

First Day of school

Bowling

coral — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:20:58 +0000

Bowling has become a new and exciting sport that the whole family can enjoy. Ashley has become very good in a very short time.

Ashley's highest score so far. Ashley scored an 85 without bumpers all by herself!

Back to School

coral — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:53:18 +0000

Well last week Ashley started back to school. What a crazy week this has been. I am learning how to program in HTML, which right now I hate. I am taking an intro physics class with a lab which is not so bad right now, but everytime I start to read the text book I start to fall asleep. I guess I know how to get to sleep fast at night when I come home late from work! Micro-economics is smooth and easy, thank goodness for that.

Ashley is happy to be back to school. Her best friend since Kindergarden is in her class again this year and she got a great nice teacher. She is excited to try out for Odessey of the Mind this year and can’t wait to get started in gifted again. Last year she worked with a speech therapist occasionally to help her with her s’s. This the therapist said she sounds much better, but might still take her once and a while just cause she is so sweet and a great inspiration to the others.She is also looking forward to starting back to karate later this month.

I am working at the local bowling alley on the weekends in the snack bar and bar. Paul, Ashley and I all bowl several times a week. It is a great oppertunity for us to go out and have fun as a family. The bowling alley is also helping with the school PTA, with a company wide fundraiser as well as helping us work out a local fundraising league that parents, kids and teachers can all participate in to benifit the school and the kids.

I am heading up the PTA board in charge of fundraising and grant writing this year and I am excited to be involved again. I am still available to substitute teach several days a week, however this early in the year the teachers are happy and healthy, so not much need for substitutes yet. That fact doesn’t stop me from going and hanging out at the school however. I am also car-pooling to my school this year with one of Ashley’s friend’s mom.

Construction on the house has been on hold for a while now, but soon we are starting on replacing the roof. I’m sure some of you heard about the string of hurricanes that all seemed to have the Atlantic coast, and more specifically Savannah in their sights. We spent most of last week on standby waiting for work that we were evacuating. Fortunatly all of the storms took other paths and did not effect us more then some wind and some much needed rain. Here in Savannah we are still opperating at an almost 5″ rainfall deficit. So the rain is much needed and very much appreciated.

Now that Ashley is home and I have more to write about I will definatly update more often. I might even let her write a post once and a while.

Done Stamp! almost…

coral — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:01:57 +0000

We finally got the new cabinets in the kitchen. Paul also put up shelves for me since we currently have no extra upper cabinets yet. There is still more work to do, and definitely a dishwasher yet to buy but we are working with what we have and I think we have made a huge improvement so far. I can’t wait to get

finished, but for right now I think we are taking a break on the inside of the house so we can work on the roof and siding. I am just so happy to have a functional kitchen!

Construction continued….

coral — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:55:08 +0000

I told ya’ll a few weeks ago about Paul updating the fuse panel to a breaker box in the kitchen. Well that led to finally finishing up putting in the lower cabinets all the way around the kitchen. This meant removing the shelves we had in the corner that acted as a pantry. Then removing the never used door between the kitchen and the center of the house. Paul drywalled the opening and spend days mudding and sanding. We are finally to the painting part of the project to get rid of the old gross green wall color. Once the paint is dry we get to finally put the cabinets in place. Next I get to start shopping for a dishwasher. More pictures as we get more done.

kitchen corner where door used to be

Ashley’s crazy Monkey vine

coral — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:46:34 +0000

Some friends of ours gave us this potato looking seed and said all we had to do was put it on the ground and wait. We did that just below our smaller palm tree with the hope that the vine would travel up the trunk of the palm tree. Boy are amazed at just how far and how fast it has grown. About every 3rd day it makes another trip around the tree.