Dyl is So Cool...

Making cookies --yes we use Crisco --that is our worst food habit!


I've got to get to the gym and start my typically busy Saturday --workout, watch AG's son's game, T is home, then our kids' game @ 3pm. Then I hope a walk with T and Bella


(although I saw rain this morning...rain on top of snow is not my favorite for walking ....)
Last night Dyls played basketball Jr, High VS. JV High School. They have to scrimmage...we're just too far from any other teams.
Ohh yeah Bailey and Cody stopped by, she took Jr's Senior portraits, I had to choose the ones we want. Manderzz was making fried rice. Evidently she watched the lady at Peking make it often (friends with her granddaughter) so she made us a batch...it was AMAZING!

Hey!! I'm Back...

A random group of locals hanging out at the crab pots and dancing...
Sonia...that hat is sooooo cool!
There is no logical explanation!

Unalaskans dancing in the drizzle.
Pooor baby Bella...2 surgeries on Friday, but no girl-drama later!
Juno looking like a beauty queen at the soccer game on SAT. Jr and JP are the coaches, Dyl and Manderzz are both on the team. Dyl and one other 8th grader are about twice as big, muscular and hairy...err mature as the other little kids. They can't even really try, they hurt everyone if they do. There was a little girl in the stands whose nose is probably still swollen --sorry ZE.

So handsome!
Manderzz
She was jumping right in, go Manderzz!!
Look at the size difference --smaller 6th graders next to larger 8th graders is a HUGE difference!

I have no idea why I wasn't motivated to blog all through the holidays, but I wasn't . I have a couple hundred pics, and sometimes I forgot to bring a camera along --bad me!

I'm getting more on a "normal" for me schedule again, classes start next week --Math 107, HLTH 203. Also I need to finish my English class and 2 other random classes too that I am not even sure what they're called, ways to help study or do research or something. I'll know more soon. I'm going to need LOTS of help in Math, it's been a few years since my last math class. Jr is still home, he's got an A or A+ in Calculus....gotta take advantage while I can!

Bella is 41 pounds now and just over 5 months old! She was spayed on Friday and also had a dew claw removed that the breeder had missed. That surgery site is worse than the one in her abdomen! But neither are bad and she's been fine since 16 hours post surgery.
I'll get caught up on everything, maybe a week at a time, but here's yesterday:

Sonia and I went to a rummage sale with about 10 tables. All I found is a hot plate with 2 burners, good for all the get-togethers we have or for Jr. to sneak to his dorm (or residence hall as is the PC term these days) in SEP.
We ran some other errands, watched 2 soccer games and I got some pictures of Sonia and crew...I can't even explain until after Valentine's Day...they're TV stars, that's all I'm sayin...

Saturday Fun --Edited

I am acclimated to Unalaska again, I just ran to the landfill in shorts and a hoodie. The weather HAS improved, there is no wind and instead of miserable slushy stuff in the air there is a light fluffy snow falling.

Dill in maybe his last swim meet (at this point he says he's choosing Cross Country next year)

Manderzz' very pretty and delicious cookies.

Happy puppy...then cold wet puppy.

Lots of glass after a couple stormy days!!Silly Bella, thought she was stuck on this 9" stool. Juno said it could be the time out stool. (the new gate to keep her off the carpet came in record time! Amazing as I got the free shipping from Amazon, ya never know...I thought it'd take 3 weeks, I got in in 5 days!

Today was BUSY as always...I took pictures of some of the activities, one hasn't happened yet!

Dills participated in his last community swim meet this morning. I admit I snuck away with AG to the GINORMOUS garage sale that MS's sophomore class put on in the cafeteria of the high school, I missed some of the meet, I only saw Dill swim the backstroke 2x, not his best event.
He was mad at himself for not swimming his best, he didn't want to eat lunch out as is our tradition after swim meets. Sonia and I went with AS and his buddy Chris. Manderzz was still home with her cold, I brought her back some chicken (thanks CB for reminding her that a girl needs her weekly chicken & fries meal!)
We then made Mandezz get out to the beach for some fresh air, it was so nice! There was lots of glass too. Bella was loving it until she got wet and cold.
Last night I rolled out a batch of sugar cookie dough and Manderzzz cut and baked the cookies. She made her own icing, found food coloring to make it Halloween-colored and decorated cookies while puppy sitting. I say a girl who can do all of that isn't sick anymore!!
Tonight is a teacher party at the Grand a fund raiser. Go-figure, isn't everything we do around here raising funds for one thing or another? I don't mind at all.
AG and I aren't teachers (I DO NOT have the patience, I admire you and all who do-- mamawas!!) but she is the secretary and I'm on the board so we get to go! Should be great.

I volunteered as a DJ with Jane yesterday for an hour. Oh man, we had to follow Dan Y and Darryl from the hotel --THEY'RE SO GOOD! We were not as professional nor as peppy! I have had several people say we fine and they liked my country music :) The radio station had coffee, cinnamon rolls and homemade muffins for breakfast, pizza for lunch and a party at 7pm to celebrate their GREAT week of fund raising --our town loves our radio station, I hear they took in two times what their goal was, but Jane can talk about that on the UCB blog!!!
I couldn't go to the UCB party as we watched MS play volleyball, she has really improved! Good Job!

Ohhhhh that was AFTER we walked the track at the PCR watching AS's basketball practice and AG locked her keys in her vehicle... OMG I was laughing so hard, she had to get the police to help! She'll be in the famous blotter hehehe....I took a picture with my phone, but it's blurry...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Life is Good

NO WAY that's our little Manderzz....grandma is a great photographer...now give us back our baby girl who's only 11!!!

Grandma Buddy and her new friend hiking!! I LOVE IT!!

Dyls at his swim meet. He reported that he won every heat he participated in (did he or is that how he remembers it??) not bad for being sick for over a week AND oversleeping once or twice, missing practice.

ohh this is the one that really got to us! We want our little baby girl back...sheesshhhh she looks like a teenager!
Yes, grandma sells her photographs in Kodiak, mostly of bears (she is brave or crazy that mom of T's)

Jr and Juno.

Dyls always looks tired...doing both wrestling and swimming has got to be exausting!

Wow...they do like their grandma, the boys usually NEVER watchtheir sister play sports --she ALWAYS watches them though....creeps!

Grandma feeding the troops who were over last FRI for a night of Xbox, a bonfire and something ab0out an egg toss in the road...still haven't heard the story behind that?!

We missed her first game, she was soooooo excited, a GREAT coach this year, she's improving a bunch! Thanks Mr. Ley!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH............ how cute!

This is the frickin life...except some fruit would be nice. All we have is cafe, cerveza (yuk), pan y yogurt! Even better minutes later our friends from the SH contest called, brought their extra food and we went to brunch! Cabo is the best.

Here's where I'm sitting typing. i should be at the pool, but T is out fishing, i could not risk getting sea sick and ruinning his expensive charter) I am catching up on emails and everything else...which I'mnot supposed to do...T wanted a computer-free trip, pleeeeaassee! That's sort of impossible. I jump om every other day or so. I've got some time before my 2.5 hours at the spa! I love that place!!!!!

My wonderful mother in law is staying with the kidws, she is getting to know them better, T even fixed her up with a friend WH --sounds like they hit it off just like AG and I did when her husband "fixed us up" My sister made a scrapbook layout and posted it on her blog....THANKS K, it's womnderful!! We haven't changed a bit, right? There is just about 30 pounds MORE of each of us to love :)

Can There BE Any More to Do in One Day??

PT kept getting Yahtzees with 5s! He won both games.
Dills winning a heat :) hooray!
The UCSD Swim Team Jr High and High Schoolers
I love these guys!
At Don's party.
Famous Unalaskans that we sat with! Anyone recognize ZS from the disco party??? He's running for City Counsel this year
1st party of the night...trying not to eat toooo much as we had another to attend. We didn't have dessert...that's something hehe...
Manderzz working hard! AB holding the ladder for her.
Painting is fun, we'd never done it. My husband always paints and shampoos the carpets....I'm grateful, but I may start painting, I'll never shampoo carpets though!
AB loves painting....he painted all of us in addition to the buildings.
AB's parents having fun!

After "relaxing" for the summer...meaning traveling and doing lots --or not (Wrangell) and having people over and enjoying outside activities. Things are "back-to-business-as-usual"

Saturday was Zumba (aerobics with a Caribbean/South American flair. VERY fun) at 9am, a community swim meet at 10am -- I admit we were STARVING and made a deal with Dyl --we'll bring him lots of Chinese food if we can sneak over to the one restaurant on the Unalaska side before the end of the meet. (Dutch Harbor Fast Food...it is NOT fast food, not in DH....makes little sense, but it's a decent place to eat). We should not have left, we missed him win a race?.. Heat? I do not know the lingo --help!
I did see him win one before leaving. Not bad at all for a 8th grader swimming against high schoolers and adults.
How bad are AG & I? We took his sister, his best friend and girlfriend with us to eat....geez I feel guilty now that I write it. Next time I'll eat before the meet.
At 2pm we painted school bus shelters until it was time to scrub off the purple paint off our hands and faces and rush to a going-away potluck for Margaret the school Secretary for 22 or 23 years. AG is "the new Margaret" Note to self: don't say that anymore, everyone does and I bet she's sick of it!!

The last event was a City Counsel Candidate's forum at the hotel --almost got AG to eat a pice of calamari heheh..... When I got home Jr and PT were playing Mancala. PT wanted to play Yahtzee...how can I turn down a 17 year old that asks me to play Yahtzee? We played two rounds, we are NOT good! Nobody ever made the bonuses on top... we need a grandma to teach us some strategies!
I was asleep by 10pm....