I am so slow at this! Life is wonderful and busy and I spend time reading all my niece's and my sister-in-law's blogs, but I just never get around to blogging myself!
We had a hairy month in June. With Anjuli's car crashed, mine decided we needed further humbling or something and the fuel pump gave up the ghost. Luckily, my ex is very willing to help with stuff like that and spent a week or so working on it until he got it figured out and fixed. It was fun figuring out how to get to school and work for 3 of us with no car. I got to know some of my classmates better! Dave got my car working just before he went to visit his mother in Fargo, North Dakota for 3 weeks and left us his car to use as well, so the last week of June and first 2 weeks of July we had 2 cars to use. It was wonderful.
We had a very quick family reunion trip to Utah in my mom and dad's van with them. We went to Heber Valley Camp and had a blast! I am so glad we got to go and see family we hadn't seen in
so long. I was really sad that my brother's family all went to have their own mini reunion in Oklahoma the same time the big Haynie reunion was in Utah, so we didn't get to see any of his family while we were there. Luckily we got to see some of them last November here in New Mexico.
Anjuli is still without a car...In fact, she has decided to move within walking distance of the university for the school year. (-Her silent protest against gas prices....and insurance prices too....) She already used her car minimally before she crashed. She would drive it the 3.5 miles to the park and ride for UNM, then ride the city bus the 16 miles to UNM. She is wonderfully frugal. I am excited for her to have her first experience living away from home....and sad at the same time. I am used to a hug from her after a hard day. I miss her already.
Luke is still reluctant to get his learner's permit. He just has no desire to drive. He rides his bike most places and is happy to have me drive him to seminary in the morning during the school year, then walk from the church to the High School. He always has after school meetings or activities and either gets a ride home, walks, or calls on his dad or me to pick him up. It helps that we are only a mile and a half from the High School and a mile from our church.
Tom is still working at our local theater and going to movies almost daily. He is always trying to line up a full week of people to go to movies with on Sundays while he is at singles ward, and then talks family into filling in where other people can't go with him. We have seen almost every movie worth seeing and then some. Free tickets are the way to go!
I have another week of nurse's aide clinicals to do before I graduate from the CNA program (which is required to start the nursing clinicals). Hopefully I will take Pharmacology this Fall. It is normally scheduled for the first semester of Nursing clinicals, but so many people have a problem with it that they have started letting people take it the semester before they are scheduled to start if there is space available. They make you wait to add the class until the starting nursing students (Fall) all get a spot, then the people who failed it last semester get a spot, then the alternates for starting nursing students (Fall) get a spot........sooooo there might not be any spots left for Spring nursing starts like me to get in... I won't know until after August 6th what my fall term will look like.
I know the 3 weeks between Summer and Fall semesters will be full of helping Anjuli get moved, helping Luke get started with his Senior year, and going out to Mesa, AZ to help Brian and Valissa get their stuff moved into their first home and having their wedding. It is set for August 30th. I am so excited about it! (I just hope they don't want too many photos of the groom's mom.....that will make me grouchy!) Blech!!!
Anyway.....that is it for my recent news... Maybe I will get some pictures posted someday!
