Time to Catch Up

Ok so I'm a major slacker and I fully admit it. It's been nearly a year since I last did an entry. Life has been pretty hectic to say the least. The kids are out of school for the summer which I THOUGHT I was looking forward to, but now. I can't wait for them to go back. Oh the fighting!!! You know that Christmas song, "And mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again." I use to think that line was mean. But I totally get it. What would we do without school?


So anyway, My children are now in the first and second grade. Chris had a graduation ceremony for Kindergarten and I cried like the baby. My babies aren't babies any more. They are now both "graders" in school. : ( They are so smart and surprise me more and more every day.



During the summer the kids have been doing swimming lessons and hanging out with their friends. We spend most of the week at the park. And take Fridays off. I feel equally busy during the summer as I am during the school year.



As for me, It's nice having the summer off. Yeah we are busy, but We're building memories the kids are going to remember for the rest of their lives. I love knowing that. During the school year I spend A LOT of time volunteering in the classrooms. This year will be different though. Now that both kids will be full day school I am going to go back to school. I don't want to teach anymore. Not at this moment anyway. I would like to be a nurse and work on the labor and delivery floor of a hospital. Sounds like fun doesn't it? So I'm going to go back to school and spend some free time volunteering in a hospital just to be sure that this is something I really want to do. I'm really looking forward to it.



Aris has officially graduated and now has a bachelors in Electronic Engineering. He's now looking for a new job so that he can actually use his degree. Did you know they say for every it takes a month of job hunting for every $10,000 you wish to make. This is proving true in Aris' case. So we will just have to wait and see what happens.



We have a wonderful family and love being with each other. We have made some wonderful friends since we moved to RB and can't imagine living anywhere else. This neighborhood is like family. But if for some reason Aris finds a job else where we will happily relocate so he can get his career going. Well that's enough for now.

Firestorm 2007

So this past week has been an incredible experience. On Monday, October 22, 2007 my neighbor came pounding on my door. I was hesitant to open because I wasn't sure who was pounding at that hour. I'm very glad I did. During the previous day there had been a fire out in the Ramona area and growing up in San Diego, I took it for granted that I would be ok. I mean there is always a fire out that way and It has never affected me before so I didn't know what to do when I was told we had to leave. I had gone to bed and the fire was far away and I wake up and it's in my backyard. Scary

I grabbed my kids and woke up my husband and told them we had to leave. We grabbed what we could think of. I took my kids to my mom's house in Oceanside and Aris went to work. We had no clue how huge this thing really was. We stayed at my mom's house for one night. My mom's room mate me feel uncomfortable so ended up staying the rest of the week at my Grandma's house Escondido.

We were not allowed to return to our home (if we had one to return to) until Thursday afternoon after the President had toured our community. Aris and I left the kids with my grandparents and came to see if we had a home, the kind of damage, etc. We ended up being very fortunate. Our neighborhood was not hit. Our homes stunk like smoke and the wind had cause some lights to fall off. Not a huge deal at all in comparison to some. We decided that the kids and I would stay at my grandmas for a couple more days. We were not ready to bring them home with the air quality the way it was.

Saturday we returned home. We are still cleaning up the dirt and ash that is around the house and trying to get everything clean again. The kids returned to school today. Which was a very good thing. I hadn't cried during this whole ordeal and I knew I needed too. I just couldn't bring myself to cry in front of the kids. I needed to be strong for them. But after I dropped them both off at school today and heard stories of some of my friends and the kids' classmates I couldn't stop. Many lost their homes or had major damage done.

I am very blessed that I still have a home to come home to and that my family and I are ok.

I thought I would give this blog thing a try

So, my friend Lizz sent me a link to her page and I thought it was the neatest thing. I got to see how they were doing and pictures of her and Tony's beautiful children and I thought, what a great way to stay in contact with everyone. So Here we go.

My husband and I have been married nearly 5 years. I sometimes can't believe that we have made it this long. It's been a long road. We have two gorgeous children who are 5 and 6. They started the first grade and kinderagarten this year. I can't believe how the time has flown by.

Aris is working on his Bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering. He will be done in March. I'm so proud of him. He has worked so hard for this. Once he's done. I get to focus on school. FINALLY!!! I thought I was going to be a preschool teacher. But I've changed my mind. I now would like to be a nurse and work on the labor and delivery floor of a hospital. Fun huh???

My kids sure do keep me busy. I volunteer in their classrooms three times a week, Chris does this thing at the community center called Jr. Sports. It's an 8 week program where he will learn t ball, soccer, flag football, basketball, and track and field. So far he's loving it. Adrienna is taking tap dance classes and she's a brownie girl scout. I'm her co leader. We have a good time. She's met so many awesome friends. She wants to to softball next season. So that should be fun.

Well, that's what's going on in our life right now. I will try and keep this updated.

Love Always