Math Night With Ty

It's Math Night at Ty's school.....the introduction to Common Core and what he will be learning this year and the whole time he is at Silver Valley High School. They also are serving us dinner. My lucky night!

Pretty soon he is going to be as tall as his Dad!!!

Ty is wearing his Dads boots and a shirt Jorden left

behind that Jorden wore when he was in high school!

It's a pizza dinner night and it isn't even the weekend! These boys are happy!

I don't like to draw blocks! I just write out the numbers

and draw lines!

But Ty drew out all the blocks for us! Yay for when

they came by to check our work!  

He's such a cute kid!

Last Lunch In Middle School For Ty

 

I had to go pay the boys final lunch bills. They both owed a couple dollars and so i decided to just zip in the last day of school since i was already off and pay rather than trying to guess the amount. before it didn't matter, i just over paid so they were set when school started but i am not sure if we will be here when school started so i didn't over pay the last time i sent them with checks to school i just kinds guesstimated what it might be and i was just a couple dollars off on the two of them! I took a picture of the menu board so Ty could remember FOREVER what he had on his last day of Middle School for lunch! Somethings you want to remember forever, RIGHT?!!! Later he saw this picture in our photo stream and was like, "Mom!!! Why do you have a picture of our lunch menu in your phone?!!!" I told him he might want to know what he had on his last day of Middle School someday. He shook his head know while laughing and said, "Mom, why would i want to remember the worst food EVER?!!!" Than he and Ryan started telling me all kinds of horror stories about the cafeteria food!!!! Certain dishes ALWAYS had a a hair in it no matter what....unidentified stuff that did NOT like food and on and on. I was pretty sick after all that!!!

Accidental PJ's To School

The kids were teasing me about checking my shoes before I leave for work because i had worn a black boot and a brown boot to work  before and Ty says,
When I was in 3rd grade on Okinawa I got all the way down to the playground at school and looked down and realized I was in my Jammies!!! I ran home soooo fast to change!!!"
We all cracked up and I said "I never knew that...what Jammie's?"
Ty: "That isn't something you talk about in 3rd grade! They were Star Wars with Qui Gon Jinn on the front"
We were laughing at how he had to have been freaking out realizing he was in his jammies at school!! And even funnier how we never knew this until now!!!
Soooo funny!!!!

8th Grade Formal

Ty originally was not going to go to his 8th Grade Formal. First girls were arguing over who was going to ask him or who he was going to ask. He said he wasn't going to ask anyone. Than the drama, as he says strated with diferent girls arguing over who was going to ask him.  He finally said he wasn't going to go as it was just too much drama. Girls were upset and there were even some tears, so he said he would go, just not with anyone. That seemed to queltch the drama and things quieted down. He insisted on choosing what he was going to wear even after Vicki and i picked out a much better 'outfit'.  I dropped him off, he did NOT want me out on the schools front lawn like the other parents taking pictures. I couldn't blame him. It was quite the spectacle with kids together like it was prom!  Ugh! Why are parents in such a rush to put their children in these super low cut dresses and pair them off with a boy.....? I just don't get it......ad than wonder why there are so many teen pregnancies and STD's....Ugh! I watched Ty walk in with some guy friends. I picked him up 2 hours later. He said, "hurry up and leave! We can't get out of here fast enough!" He told me how he sat at a table with friends and just talked and danced a few dances and that he does NOT like to slow dance at ALL but he did to make the one girl that actually cried when he said he wasn't going to go happy. Ty is a really nice guy......someday some girl is goign to be really lucky.....but not for many, MANY somedays!!!! 

 

After School

Today after school.....most days after school.....boys doing homework and now Vicki studying for her ASVAB.....I'm gonna miss not seeing the kids around the kitchen table while i start dinner and all the grumbles and groans and jokes and giggles and chit chats....

Happily Off To School....NOT!

I asked the boys to give me a quick smile for Dad before they walked out the door to school....this is what I got!

Late Night Homework

Another late night of homework.....it was chemistry.....it was NOT fun......but we had some giggles while utilizing Google.  Ty is looking forward to football season being done and not having to stay up late after game night doing all of his homework.  These moments remind me that the day is getting closer when i won't have a child with me on the couch or lounging across my bed or sitting at the kitchen table working on homework..... yes, i am going to miss this.....

Middle Of Nowhere Bus Stop Struggles

Like, um, HELLO MS BUS DRIVER!!! YOU DIDN'T EVEN STOP THIS MORNING!!!  Nothing like having to chase down the bus! It was pouring down rain so Vicki was sitting in the jeep with me while we waited for the bus and the bus didn't even slow down at our stop!!! I know we are in the middle of nowhere, but so are the rest of these middle of nowhere bus stops!!! We caught the bus 2 stops down!  Oh the struggles of living in the country sometimes!!!