What's been happening around here? Well.....

We celebrated Charlotte's birthday and watched her be baptized. It was a special day. Below is everyone from our family who was in attendance. Jen did a fabulous job planning everything and Charlotte looked so cute in her super sparkly dress she picked out with grandma!




I spent this past weekend with my dear friend Ruthie and two of her friends who I also know pretty well. We stayed at Ruthie's beach house in Sargent,Tx. These gals are all 55 or older and VERY SOUTHERN. I can honestly say that several times amid our weekend of shopping, eating out, talking and playing cut-throat Uno, I felt like I was in the set of the movie Steel Magnolias. It was a blast and a much needed and relaxing getaway that recharged me. I didn't take my camera with me (of course) but below is a pic of me with Ruthie to my right. (beside my mom)





Monday was Faith's last volleyball game. They lost by only two points and that made them one game shy of having a perfect season. Faith improved tremendously throughout the season and was so dedicated and hard-working. She can't wait to try out again next year and is already talking about doing a volleyball camp this summer. Family and friends came out to cheer her on and she boasted the biggest cheering section of all of the players. Afterwards we celebrated with cake and pizza.


















This weekend we will go on our Annual Fall camp out with my mom's side of the family. The kids can hardly wait. I will make an effort to charge, take and use my camera. We shall see.


In other news I am finally taking the plunge to certify to teach Step aerobics at the YMCA where I've been working out for years. My certification classes are broken up into three days, totalling about 22 hours and begin next week. I am super excited and hope to be teaching at least a couple classes by the beginning of the New Year. I hope they'll give me some good ones I can teach while the kids are at school. I'll let y'all all know how it goes.

GREAT DEALS!!!!

My neighbor across the street is desperate to park her car in her garage! To do so she must sell this beautiful sofa that she bought NEW at STAR FURNITURE for $800.00. They only used it 6 MONTHS!! She is asking $300 for it. I'd buy it myself but can't fit it through the tiny doorway to my upstairs T.V. room.

Also, she has a SERTA foam mattress set for a king sized bed that she paid $1400.00 for and is selling for $400. It is 1 1/2 years old.

Leave a comment or call if you are interested. She'd love to move them by the end of the weekend. Also, pass this along to anyone you know who may be interested.

Creepy Jared

Some happenings around here. FAITH MADE THE VOLLEBALL TEAM!! I am so proud of her! And Jared even takes turns driving her to 6:50 a.m practices so it ain't so bad. I don't even want to hear about it from you seminary parents and teachers!;)

Also, here's some pics from our 80's dance. Please, oh please notice that banana clip that I barely have enough hair to fill!!

Also, Harris had his evaluation for music therapy and it went GREAT! Way better than I expected. He really wants to start so when all the paper work is done we'll see where we can squeeze it in if at all

First Day of Escuela!

Okay. So today we return to the madness of school. No more getting away with not doing laundry or buying groceries for weeks on end. We gotta do what Pabsts do worst....be on a schedule!

We woke up at 7:00 on the dot. This will be the only morning we do not hit the snooze button at least four times. Everyone got up and Jared was off to the store to buy milk (already, we are behind) Faith and Ethan get themselves completely ready and I help Harris, although he mostly does it alone. Then, I packed lunches (Faith and Ethan will do this starting next week) and helped with the last few little things. Then, after prayers, I took Harris to his first day of third grade. As you can see in the below photo he was fighting tears the entire morning. He waited until we were walking down the hall to his classroom to completely lose it and then, once he was in his seat around all of his peers, he burst into uncontrollable sobs. Poor guy. He just has anxiety like no body's business. His teacher came right over and started trying to help him and I gave him and big hug and kiss and left. I feel sad that he was sad but know that he will work through it and have a great day.....and then cry again like that tomorrow morning.

Then it was back home to grab the middle schoolerS. Yes! That's plural. Ethan is now officially a 6th grader! He was sooo nervous and he rarely gets nervous. Faith felt a little nervous too but mostly about volleyball tryouts which start today after school (Good luck, Faith!) They pulled a fast one on me and Jared (who rode with) and asked us to walk them in at the last minute. This was hilarious because Jared looked, and I am not kidding, HOMELESS! He was wearing FILTHY sweat pants, a T-shirt with what looked like a booger on the front and his bed head was OUT OF CONTROL! He kept reminding us he "didn't care" as he strode coolly up to the front of the school. What a guy....never caring about appearances;)

I can't wait til' they get home so I can hear about their days!