Sunday, August 23, 2009

These are a few pictures from my nephew's birthday party last Sunday. It was a pool party held at my brother's apartment complex. If you were at the party, but are not in any of these photos, one of the following applies:

1. I did not happen to catch you in a picture. (Dad, Mom)
2. The picture you were in had bad lighting, was blurry, or I cut the top of your head off. (McKenzie, Casey)
3. The picture you were in was of good quality, but was very unflattering of you, and you would kill me if I posted it. (Casey, Staci)

Here is Cason, the birthday boy who turned the big 8.


Here is big brother, Cooper, making a silly face. He was making a silly face in EVERY picture I took.


Cason is licking icing off a wrestling figure.


Here is my niece, Emily, getting ready to eat some icing herself.


Here is my brother, Tracey, with a "you've got to be kidding me," expression on his face.


Emily is wondering if anyone is EVER going to give her some birthday cookie.


KJ - "Seriously, how old do I have to be before you will stop taking my picture?"

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Update

Yesterday was my last day of my full-time job. The hours were just not compatible with 16 credit hours of college that starts a week from Monday. I'll most likely have a part-time job lined up in the next week or so. I've sent in my resume for several work-study jobs and for one awesome off-campus merchandising job. My friend, Debbie, works for American Greetings merchandising cards, but needed more hours. She is keeping one small store with them and taking my magazine job. I, on the other hand, need fewer hours so she put a good word in for me with her boss and I'm hoping to hear back from the boss soon. On-campus or off-campus, either way, it's all good.

I'm spending next week doing some visiting, school clothes shopping (for KJ), buying textbooks for us both, arranging transportation (we're sharing my car) and finding my classes.

School-wise, job-wise, friend-wise, KJ and I-wise...things are going well. Marriage-wise, however, things are not going well. David and I will be officially divorced in a couple of months. I can't get past my lack of trust in him so our relationship can't survive. To make matters worse, I recently found out that my lack of trust is well-founded. I won't go into details, but I spoke with both detectives with whom David had been chatting, received a call from the FBI, and had a long chat with his probation officer. I will no longer accept being lied to. David is very angry and feels betrayed that I am choosing to believe law enforcement over him. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

KJ and I are heading to my nephew's birthday party in Fort Worth tomorrow so I'll have pics for you.