WHY?!?!?!?!

We had another Sad day yesterday. I got off my bus route and Adam kept calling me telling me he needed my help at the house before he could go to work. I kept arguing with him, I was parked to where I couldn't get out easily and I was suppose to stay for a short meeting. I finally got ticked enough that I went home. I walked in the door and Adam shot me the bad news that my grandpa had passed away earlier in the morning and that they didn't want me to know until my route was over. We went to their house and started making plans. We had to get my cousin flown out to Vegas to meet his sister to drive back. She was in the process of driving home anyway. We had to get an uncle home from Oregon and 2 cousins home from Florida. Everyone seems to be doing alright as of now, but that will surely change as time goes on. I know everyone has their time to go, but I don't understand why they all have to go within 5 months. This is the 5th grandparent. WHY?!??!?!?!

Where did OCTOBER go?

Am I am the only that the month of October has "snuck" past? GEEZ! I have a wedding cake for Sat. the 1st of Nov. Just realized this past Sat. that it is in a week. AGHHHHHH! I haven't even looked into buying the peices. WHAT WAS I THINKING? I have to run tomorrow to the city and get everything picked up. THANK GOD FOR A WONDERFUL MOTHER-IN-LAW. She is taking on the journey with me. LOL.


Did get some good news last week. I actually receieved a job promotion. I know, what on earth more can a person do driving a bus??? I changed routes last week to a shorter one. On Thurs. my boss called me into his office and offered me an Administrative Assistant position. I will be the assistant to him and the safety coordinator. I will still drive my route and then the time in between my route will be spent in the office. I can set my own hours and how I want to work them. Not to go over 40 hours a week. I am already paid for 25 hours with just my route. I have really enjoyed it the past few days I have worked. I will be learning lots of new things.

If anyone is interested. On Nov. 8th my sis-in-law and I are doing "Family Christmas Photos". We will have the option of 3 different backgrounds, all involving Christmas. For $50.00 we will do the setting, and you will receive your choice of one of the following.......8x10 print......... Gift Tags.......Greeting Cards. We will be using the building next door to her salon in Paola. Her landlord has been gracious enough to let us "borrow" it for the evening. If you would like to have a family pic done, or just a christmas pic of the kids, shoot me an email and we can get ya on the schedule. It is a pretty good deal, and the reprint prices aren't too bad either. We are both pretty excited about it....

Hope everyone has a good week, and enjoys the fall weather. I am lovin' it!

Another Trip!

So I am off tomorrow on another trip to the Plaza. Kinda funny, it will be with the same teacher that had the "bad" experience last time. So we shall see how it pans out. Doing lots of trips this week and next. We were out of school yesterday and again on Thursday and Friday. So all the trips I can get this week will help out the ol' meesly paycheck.

Went out of town this past weekend. We went back to roaring river, had a blast and caught lots of fish. It was so nice to get away. Just wish the leaves would have been a little more prettier, I have to say they have changed more in Southeast Missouri than they have here though.

Not much else going on. Getting ready to help my sister-in-law at the chili cookoff this Saturday on the Paola Square. She is doing a booth for the Salon and her photography. Addie is going to Garnett with Grandma on Saturday for a beauty pagent. She is soo excited. They had to cancel the pagent a couple of weeks ago due to the rain, so now that it is double booked againest the chili cookoff, Grandma decided to take her, since Sam had already paid for both events.

Hope everyone is having a good week. Enjoy the LOVELY fall weather.

Busy Busy Weekend

We had a very busy weekend.

Friday night a friend of mine called me and her husband had decided to have a concrete pad poured. He was trying to finish it by himself, but wasn't succeeding. We went out and helped them out until about 2:30 Sat. morning.

Sat. we got up, I took Adam to work, took Buddy to the vet, did a Senior Picture setting, and went out to Adam's parents after he arrived out there with a machine that him and his dad needed to use on Sunday. By the way, the portrait setting was one of the most fun and creative ones I have done so far. On Sunday, we spent the day at Adam's parents. We dug a hole to expose a section of the foundation on the back of their house to fix a crack that was causing a leak on the inside. We did some cleaning of the hedge row why we were there with the machine as well. I did get to learn how to operate a trac hoe while it was there. It was fun playing in the dirt if I must say. HeHe!

Other than that not doing to much this week. Just packing and baking for our upcoming weekend away. Can't wait to get away. We are going out of town with some friends.

Hope everyone has a wonderful week.

TRUE FRIENDS....ALWAYS THERE TO CRAP ON YA!!

This is what I was greeted with on my bus this afternoon. Some of the girls thought they were pretty hilarious. They sure have gotten a big kick out of it. LOL. It was pretty cleaver, I just wish I was able to leave it on there. It would make my job a little easier if I did have a toilet on my bus. HAHAHAHAHA!!! I wouldn't have to worry about kids going in their hands, that is for sure.

who would have thought?

Sooooooo...I have had nothing but trips this week. And of course, MORE FREAKIN' EXCITEMENT. On Wed. I took a group of high schoolers to the Nelson Art Museum. Due to scheduling we had to kill about an hour and a half on the Plaza before they were able to do the museum tour. They completed their tour and lunch and they decided to sit in the sculpture park at the museum. A couple of students decided to "RAT OUT" some of the other students. A group of boys decided to bring drugs..yes, you read that right, drugs with them and consumed them while we were on the plaza earlier that morning. Never did get exactly 'what type I transported to the city on my bus'. LOLOLOL. So in a case of the hurries, we loaded up the bus and headed home. We were greeted at the school by the principal, which in turn escorted all the students off the bus and into the school. So lots of paperwork later we have resolved the entire problem. Today I along with 2 other buses took a group of 150 2nd graders to Kaliedoscope. Nothing too exciting, just a very noisy load of children.

I don't have any trips next week, so maybe the excitement will die down for a while.