it's been WAY too long......

i can't tell you where the last 8 months went but has been eventful. devon is almost through with first grade. he is a wiz at math and his reading skills have really grown this year. lately there have been those moments that i look at him and see that he is growing up. the saying that "they grow up right before your eyes is very true" a little clichéd but true. he got all of his homework done early so he has a rare opportunity to watch some tv and play the wii. it seems that we just go and go most of the time so it is nice to have a relaxing evening sometimes. i will try and make an effort to update on a weekly basis. a lot has happened since i last wrote. i need to add some pictures and video of devon's basketball season.

i love my cell phone

i am becoming slightly more technology savvy which means that i should be posting more often now that i know how to do it from my cell phone. check back often for updates to the blog. love all ya'll.

silly faces

a picture of me and devon

funny moment

So devon had bed time at 9pm but he thinks that he is tricky or "sneaky" as he puts it. well when he goes to bed he took his ds with him; he didnt think that I knew that he snuck it in but I did. Now i'm watching a movie (which is new for me finally adjusting to working during the day and its really nice but more on that another time) and it is 10pm and I still hear the ds so I go into his room and take the ds away. The thing is i'm not mad at him when I ask him if he thought I knew. I told him I knew from the time you were in bed at the beginning. He truly seemed shocked and starting giggling. He wondered in amazement how I knew and I used the line of i'm a mom and I will know everything you do. Then i tell him "plus I have already been sneaky even before you were here." As i'm walking out of the room he asked me if I would tell him one of my pranks and sadly I had to tell him that I can't reveal my secrets. Well in true devon fashion he tells me that "I just want to know so that I can pull the prank on nathan" it was just one of those moments that I have to laugh bc he is just like me.

school is almost out.

so devon has two more days of school left. he had graduation today atschool. he received his kindergarten diploma as well as the "most creative thinker award" and "outstanding student award". i think that devon is ready for summer and i would have to say that i am excited about not having to have the morning battle everyday. we got season passes to schliterbahn and the zoo so hopefully between those two and discovery green we will have lots of fun over the summer.

it really is not my fault

so i just wanted to let you all know that my internet has been down at my house since 4/14/08. it was just my luck. devon and i are trying to streamline the family finances so we cancelled our home phone because we did not use it enough to justify the $40 bill per month. well at the same time of scheduleing for the landline disconnect i increased our internet to faster service but it all went wrong at that point. the internet was partially disconnected on 4/14/08 and at&t could never figure out how to get the problem corrected so i decided to just cancel the service all together. well the most exciting thing in devon's life recently was our road trip to san antonio. we went up to visit nikki and her family. i would have to say it was a blast. devon hit it off with nikki's sister, emily. they played together and when we spent the day at the riverwalk devon kept going after her hand. it was the cutest thing. autumn, nikki's youngest sister, was super fun. the drive to san antonio was easy enough since it is a straight shot on I-10. along the way we stopped at buc-ee's which is a super convenience store that has like 30 gas pumps and tons of food. the bathrooms, as silly as it sounds, were great. the food and drinks are slightly over priced but it does not deter the people on road trips. if you every have the opportunity to go to buc-ee's try thier jerky and beaver nuggets. so while we were in san antonio we spent a day just hanging out at mary and steve's (nikki's mom and step-dad). we visited the riverwalk on saturday. the weather was perfect not to hot or humid. there was a children's festival going on when we were there and all the kids really seemed to enjoy it. nikki and i were supposed to hit the town on saturday night but both of us fell asleep when we got home from the riverwalk. oh, i need to share a moment that was super funny. we are walking through the mall at the riverwalk and devon took a drink of water and it went down wrong so he spit it out. the funny part of it was that as devon is spitting the water out he looked like a fountian. he was pretty mad that i was laughing at him but i could not help it. once i get my internet back i will post pictures of the weekend.