CORDUROY THE BEAR!!!!

Heath studied about CORDUROY the bear's first day of school, during his first week at school. They colored worksheets and drew pictures and wrote poetry about it. It was so cute, here is the poem Heath did in his poetry journal and the picture he drew of Corduroy the bear. They have started math graphing and sorting, language arts poetry and sight words, and tying their shoes. Keep up the good work Heath.

Corduroy, Corduroy, wave your hand

Corduroy, Corduroy, wink if you can

Corduroy, Corduroy, bend down low

Corduroy, Corduroy, sit just so.

LURKING??

For those nonbloggers, LURKING is looking at someones's blog on a reg basis and not commenting. Come on, we all do it, but stop, make a google account and comment away. It is fun and a great way for us to see who is enjoying our blog. Ok, with that said, I will give you the insturctions, so you have no excuse. Best of all it's free. YOU CAN DO THIS!!!!

1. Read one of my posts
2. EW and AHH at what a clever and witty writter I am (HA!!)
3. Spend time looking at my cute kids
4. Click on the word comment
5. Go to the right bottom corner and clik on NO ACCOUNT?? Sign up (it's easy, you're ok)
6. Fill in your email address and password, follow the instructions for the rest
7. ENTER
8. Then go back to my post, GO from there and comment away

Hope to hear from you all soon

UNCLE ROUGHHOUSE I mean RYAN!!!!

My younger Brother Ryan is in town from UTAH and that means happy Heath and Austin. Heath adores Ryan, he is such the fun uncle, roughhousing, wrestline, tickling, checkers, coloring , riding around in the restored 57' chevy truck. You name it he does it. We have had a super fun time visiting with Ryan and we will miss him when he is gone. Thanks for being so great uncle Ryan. We are super proud of you and glad you are doing so well in Utah, we just wish it was closer. WE LOVE YOU!!!

KINDERGARTEN KID

LOOK WHO STARTED SCHOOL!!!!

Heath started Kindergarten today at the elementary school in our neighborhood, Dad and I drove him on his first day. He was very nervous, mostly about not meeting friends and not having his friends from his old school at this school. He started out with breakfast in bed.

then moved onto his new outfit, and then his backpack and lunchbox. He was off to school, his teacher is so sweet and I think he will really like her. We found his desk and name tag, put his lunch in cubby and we were off, no tears, or drama (I was referring to me and Sonny) and we were off. It was so great to see our little Heath on his first day of school. He is so ready to learn. We are so prould of the person he is becomming. He is intelligent, confident and yet so fragile. We love our sweet little student.

When I picked him up he had met a new friend, learned about the fire drill system, ate in the cafeteria and had a great day. Way to go Kiddo!!!!

TEXAS TREE TRIM

So of course in Texas we do everything BIG, you know live large. So when it came time to trim the trees, Sonny took hold in true Texas fashion. That means you don't hire someone, or use your gardening clippers, or just stand on the ladder. NO, you climb the tree, use the BIG saw and you do it all yourself, while giving your wife an heart attack. Needless to say the trees are trimmed and Sonny is not broken.

YE HAW!!!!

A handy husband is great on the checkbook, but can make you crazy with worry. Oh well all in the name of a slammin good yard right!!!???? plus, that is the best looking tree trimmer I have every hired :)

The Final countdown

One week and counting until Heath starts school.

With one week left things in the Jackson house are getting really exciting. We registered Heath for school and bought his supplies. We got the lunch box and backpack and the school clothes. We meet the teacher on Thursday. We wonder what school will bring for Heath?? We hope a love of learning, reading and great friends. We hope he finds his hidden strengths, talents and enjoys a lifetime of learning. We wonder what the first year of school will bring. But, we can't help but wonder what the last years will bring. Maybe he will be a .......
SCIENTIST?


ROCKSTAR, PAINTER, FIREMAN???



Whatever school brings Heath, we wish our little guy all the best as he starts school.

Enjoy your last week of summer bud.

The most beautiful drive in the world

We came across a story on MSN the other day. It was a story about the most beautiful drives in the country. The second most beautiful drive in America is the Seward Highway in Alaska. It runs from Anchorage to Homer. This hwy is about 200 miles of the most beautiful and unchanged parts of this country. It is mountains, waterfalls, wildlife, glaciers, meadows, absolutely breathtaking. We have to take this HWY to get to Sonny's parents house in Soldotna. It is 3 hours of the most intense scenery I have ever seen . It gets prettier each time you drive it. We have driven it a million times, and never really appreciated it like we should. It was fun to see it and know that we have been a part of this amazing landscape. Even though it got second we think it is the best!!!

We are glad we got to be part of Alaska's frozen chosen!!!!!!!!

Ponytail challenge

THE PONYTAIL: EXCUSES! EXCUSES!

"My hair looks better up"
"I did not have time to do my hair "
"I was just staying home anyway"
" My hair is too curly"
"I was going to work out"

Whatever your excuse,ponytail, Clip or hat, you are not alone. You are among the large number of women "NOT DOING YOUR HAIR" you do everything else to get ready in the morning, but you are not living up to your hairs full potential. If you are like me, you have a thousand reasons why. But, it is going to end this week. I am proposing a challenge to all my ponytail enslaved friends. I Kathleen am accepting the challenge of not wearing my hair in a ponytail for one whole week. I am calling you all to join me, you heard me, rather read me. DO YOUR HAIR!!!!!!! Everyday all the way. Your ponytail can be one of the following, a clip, bun, hat, scrunchie, Headband, updo, twist, or braid. It has to go.

This will be very hard for me, as I think I have ponytail reflux disorder. I will blog about it all week, and want you to start whatever day you are reading this. Join me and then comment away..
If you are already doing your hair everyday. ROCK ON SISTERS!!!!!