Frustrated with New Hair Cut!

Well I haven't posted a picture of my new haircut because I kept forgetting and now I do not like it. I haven't figured out how to do it so that it looks good to me. I feel like it is to short and that some of the layers she cut are too short. Joey keeps telling me that it looks cute and that it will grow out!!! I love it when he tries to make me feel better about it!! Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Hopefully I will figure out how to fix my hair and make it look good, so that I can get a picture taken and post it.

Transporter For A Day

Yesterday, I had the job of transporting or escorting to kids from Fort Worth to Kansas City. It was a long, tiring day. The kids were Caleb and Kelsi, they are Joey's, Dads stepkids. They are only 9 year old so they can't fly by themselves. Joey's dad and stepmom were going on vacation to Europe. They fly standby and the flights looked better for them to leave on Wedneday. So they asked if I could fly them to Kansas City to stay with their grandma. Here is how my day went.

I checked the kids out of school at 10:00. Then we drove the 45 mins to the airport. We arrived at the airport and checked in. After going through security we found our gate and then got some lunch. While we were sitting by the gate and eating our lunch an annoucment came over the intercom. The flight to Kansas City has moved to gate C24. I look at my watch and think great our plane leaves in 30 mins and we are at gate D28. For those of you that don't know about the DFW Airport there is 5 terminals and they are not with in walking distance of each other. You have to take a bus outside the front of the terminal or the skylink, which is a train by the gates. I tell the kids to finish their lunch and then we will go ride the skylink to get to the new gate. We made it to the new gate with about 5 mins to spare to board the plane. The flight went smoothly and landed on time. We left at 12:40 and landed at 2:20. I handed the kids off to their grandma telling her what the checked bag looked like without leaving the secured area. I had to turn around and get on a plane back home at 2:50. Greatfully it was leaving from the same gate and was actually the same plane that I had just gotten off of. I was lucky to get a seat back, flying standby can be frustrating sometimes. The flight home was going great till the captin told us that DFW had some unexpected weather and are backedup and we may need to land at another airport and refuel and then when we were able to fly to DFW and land. I was thinking I just want to get home I am soo tired. We were able to land at DFW. Yea I can get in my car and drive home. I looked at the time and it was a little after 5. Great now I have to deal with rush hour traffic. It gets really bad around the airport because there are about 3 or 4 freeways that come together and then split off again. I would normally take me about 20 to 30 min to get home. Yesterday it took me 45 to 50 min, so it was that much worse. It was still annoying and slow go. I finally arrived home and was very happy to see Joey there waiting for me!!

I didn't think it would make me tired. When I got home and sat down I felt very exhausted. I guess all the moving around of gates and makeing sure the kids got where they needed to go and then makeing sure that I got home. Don't get me wrong it was kind of fun to fly somewhere for a little while and then be at home the same day!!! I was the transporter for one day!

New Hair Cut, Big Change!

Well I finally decided to get a hair cut. I didn't really go much longer than I normally do!! It has been about 8 or 9 months. I have had the same basic hair style for more than 10 years. I usually get a bob cut with layers just below my chin line. Then I let it grow out for a while till it gets long enough that it is bothering me or it just won't do anything and I am wearing a ponytail pretty much everyday. Well this time when I decided to get my hair cut I decided I wanted something different. I kept thinking what can I do differently besides my normal cut. So I decided to go with bangs. It was a big step with me because I haven't had bangs since I 14, I think. I didn't go for the side swept bangs, because I kind of got those last time and they were annoying!! What I decided to do was a big change and will take some time getting used to it. I feel like I look totally different. But you can be the judge of that. I am still trying to adjust on how to style it. Which there is always an adjustment period when you wait as long as I do to get a hair cut. I think a change is good and I needed something different. Picture will be soon to follow. I need to get Joey to take a picture. Hopefully I can get that done today. We will see though, sometimes I forget things!!!

Tristan Turns 1

Friday was my nephew Tristan's first birthday. First birthdays are so much fun. You get to watch a baby try to eat a cake. Most of them don't dig right in at first, they need a little help. But once they get that first taste, they eat until it is all gone!! He wasn't really interested in the opening of the presents, but after a little help he wanted to play with all the fun toys. My sister-in-law Danielle did a great job with the party. It was a sports theme and held at my Dad's house. We had hamburgers and hotdogs and some yummy sides.

I love living close to family. We are lucky enough to live close to some of my family and some of Joey's family!!! We live close to all the nieces and nephews. We love benig able to be apart of their lives!!! I love watching them grow up, they all change so much every year.

Here are a few pictures from the party. It was hard to get everyone in the pictures to coperate that day!!!! There is also a video of him eating his little personal cake or smasher cake as they are called!!

Tristan and Danielle(The Awsome Mom)

Tristan and Kelli (Daddy)

Tristan and Zephraim (The two cutest nephews in the world!!)

Blog Stalker

I have been informed that I am a blog stalker. I read everyone's blogs and then don't comment. I have a hard time commenting, because most of the time I do not know what to say!! Sometimes someone else has already said what I thought of to say. So then I just give up and don't do it. I am not going to promise anything, but I may try to comment once in a while!!!

So sorry to all of you that I read and do not comment on!!! I love reading eveyone's blog and like being up to dated with everyone!! I enjoy all the pictures and things that are going on. Most of the time it makes our little life seem boring!!! I love you all!! And thanks to the people that leave me comments!!

Spring Storms!!

So the past couple of weeks, about once a week we have had Texas spring thunder and lighting storms. They are tons of fun to watch. The lighting spiderwebs across the sky, which is a really cool effect. The thunder is so loud that it will occasionally shake the house and set car alarms off. I hate to admit it but sometimes this scares me. Along with these cool effects we also get some hail. Most of the time the hail isn't very big. But about two weeks ago we got hail the size of golf balls. It was so loud hitting the roof of the apartment. No my poor car has hail dents all over it. It makes me sad that now we have to fix that or just leaves all the dents on the car. Joey had offered to go move the car under an empty carport before the storm reached our house, but decided against it. We didn't think that it was going to be that bad. It only last for about ten minutes. At least none of the windows or mirrors were broken. I love to watch storms and listen to them, but I do not like all of the effects of them sometimes. Hopefully next time I can get a picture of the lighting!!

Here is a picture of some of the hail I collected with a golf ball in the middle.
Texas has some crazy weather!!

Car Problems!! Frustrations!!!!!!

Well last Saturday when I was taking Joey to work our cars check engine light came on a started flashing. Then the engine started running really rough. That put both Joey and I in a panic and stressed out mode. It is our only car we depend on it to get us both to our jobs and other things that we need to do!! I had to drive home to wait for the dealership to open to call the to see if I could bring the car in to find out what was wrong with it and if they had a loaner car!!!! I took it to Lewisville around 9:00 and dropped it off and was put in a 2009 VW Jetta to use till our car was finished being fixed. (It was fun to drive a new car for a little while!!!) I had time to stop and see Kelli, Danielle and Tristan before I had to be at the church to coach the YW in their two basketball games. (We won both games!!!)

We were both hoping that our extended warranty would cover the repairs, because we do not have any extra money. I still have not found a teaching job and I haven't had hardly any Subbing jobs due to the start of the state testing. The dealership said they may not be able to get to it on Saturday. They did not call until Monday to tell us that an ignition coil, and the electric fan motor were broken. Also that the two oil leaks that they told us about in December had gotten worse. They had faxed over a estimate to the warranty company and were waiting on what would be covered. We already new the oil leaks wouldn't be covered and would cost almost $500 to fix. After much back and forth between the warranty company and the dealership and us we finally told them to fix all the problems including the oil leaks. The warranty company wouldn't cover all the labor because they do not cover diagnostic time so we would have to pay for that. All total out of pocket we had to pay $773. This was a big headache and very stressful. I was fighting to get as much paid between the dealership and the warranty company. We got our car back on Wednesday. Hopefully we won't have to do anything else to the car for a long time!!!!

Since we don't have any extra money I have been looking for things around the house to sell on craigslist. So far I am selling my WII Fit and an old 19" tv/dvd combo. I hate to sell my Fit but I haven't used it very much and we can always get it later if I really want to when we have the money. This will help us pay on the credit card that we had to charge it to. I have also rolled all the coins that were in our coin mug. It isn't much but it will help out. I hate charging things to credit cards when I know I can't pay the balance off when the bill comes!!!

It seems like Joey and I have the worst luck. When we have figured out how to get everything paid off and start saving money for an emergency like this or for a house something always happens. Hopefully we will get this taken care of fast before anything else happens again. I just hope we get some good luck soon!!!!!! So if you hear of any teaching positions for me or good jobs for Joey let me know!!!!!