Where in the World Have I Been?

Seriously, I don't even know. When school ended on May 6th and I had all my research projects graded and final grades verified, I thought I'd be homefree and blogging like crazy. Then, the next week I re-entered the world of teaching in the virtual environment just when I thought it was over until the fall. I took a job teaching English 4 with the SC Virtual High School Program. So, now I have 100 students with me 24/7 for the summer! To say the least, I have been busy solving problems and studying British Literature and learning all kinds of new techno tricks. Unfortunately, my two employers use complete different systems--of course!
You can see in the pics what the boys do on my treadmill while I am on the computer...hey, I am glad someone is using it! Seriously, though, we have narrowly escaped the ER with some flips.









Other than that, we have been swimming (see Caleb underwater!) and now Jeb can dive to the bottom of the deep end and get a toy! Jeb has really been glad he knows how to dive. Seems like just yesterday my Dad was teaching ME to dive??? WOW! He is growing too fast. Caleb jumps in like crazy and can get himself to the top of the water with no vest.

We have been to Dollywood again. We had a great trip with my in-laws and we did the theme park and the water park. Jeb tried some new rides since he was bit taller and Caleb and he went on EVERY water slide they could.

I have included a couple pics that explain why despite large amounts of rain I can't get grass to grow. In one pic, Jeb is making his own mud puddles with my watering can and in the other Caleb is loading his tools after "working" in the middle of my backyard. You will notice that his work takes a lg. shovel and dump truck.




Jonas and I will be married nine years next week and I made a really fun framed photo display for our bedroom wall...it took me forever, but I think we'll smile every time we see it. It is a couple pics from when we were friend in high school, dating in college, enganged, the wedding, pre-kids, and then some recent shots. So, I am going to upload some of those blasts from the past here--don't gag when you see us in denim cut offs fishing (this was high school about 15 odd years ago). ..heee haaa!







Another excuse I have for not blogging is that Caleb pulled my nice new camera off a table at the pool and it hit the concrete. It had to return to the mothership (thank goodness for warranties) for refurbishing and is not home and functioning. YEAH! We have been buring through some warranites. Our electric fence charger got struck by lightening and we woke up to have cows, horses, goats, dogs all mixed up and FREE to roam about where they may! So, we took that in for work and are restored. The next warranty we had to claim was on our 6 mos. old Power Wheel. Caleb has already burned up one motor because he never gets off of it.

I have also been making some home improvements and teaching Jeb how to count money...both require lots of patience.