Sean is working in Phoenix now and is also now working nights. His hours are
8:30pm-6:30am. As of Thursday of last week he had not been home earlier than 10am. I had a job interview at
9am. I had a backup plan to have my mom come over to watch Carter if Sean wasn't home on time. At
7:30, Sean text me to say he was about to leave work. I called my mom at
7:32 and informed her, her services were not needed this morning. At
7:45, I got in the shower and proceeded to get ready. At
8:40, I found it odd that Sean wasn't home yet. I went to my phone and saw I had several messages. One was at
8:00, one was at
8:05, and another at
8:15. All messages from Sean, informing me he wasn't going to make it home, and wondering why I wasn't responding to his messages. At
8:41, I text him to make sure he was being serious (he's kinda crazy like that sometimes, jokin' with me all the time). Unfortunately, he was serious. At
8:43, I now had no choice but to throw some clothes on Carter, throw his Top Ramen (a very nutritious breakfast, right?) into a tupperware container, and head to the interview. At
8:58, I explained to Carter that I was meeting someone and needed him to be very quiet while I talked. I then waited at an outside table, very nervously, for the man I was meeting to show up. At
9:03 he appeared and gave me a double look as he cautiously asked if I was by chance Jessica. I put on a big smile and said yes, and that I brought some back up with me. At
9:35, the appointment was done, and I thanked him for being such a family oriented person! (Carter sat quietly and ate his noodles the entire time).
Sean was home at 9:20.
oh, my multi-tasking skills of feeding a child, watching over a child, and holding a business meeting at the same time must have stood out, because i got the job! and in case you were wondering, or even if you weren't wondering i am still going to tell you: it is a part time job working with the same school district i am already working with part-time through PLATO, teaching teachers to use technology in their classrooms.
Our shower faucet began leaking at the beginning of the year. But remember how I have been husbandless for the first 8 months of the year? So it continued to leak and it became corroded and just gross. We got a new one and had it installed today. I absolutely LOVE it!
That's just gross.
You might call them sleep overs or slumber parties, but at our house they are officially known as spend the nights. I didn't know what this term meant when I first heard Sean refer to memories of spend the nights as a kid. Now the term has stuck. We had Carter's best buds (his cousins Mallory and Tyler) over for a spend the night recently. We had lots of fun having picnics, playing games, going to Splash Park, playing Super Hero/Prince and Princess, and eating treats!! 
Did you see the VMA's last night? Taylor Swift won the award best female video and was giving her speech when Kanye came up and took the mic and said Beyone had the best video. Crazy!!! I thought it was a joke at a first. Check it...here
Monday I got into the shower, and it was COLD. I love a good scalding HOT shower. But I was in no such luck. It was freezing cold!! The husband, who is now living in the same location as I, was able to come home from work and fix it!
This is the same pose we have in our yearbook for "cute campus siblings." Still cute.
800 meter swim (I did it in 16 minutes. This is a couple minutes faster than my last 800 meter swim tri. I was in the lane next to Spence and he wooped up on me. I think he lapped me twice!)
The bike was 13 miles and I met my goal of 45 minutes. The first half was down hill and was great. The way back was a little bit harder.
I did the run in about 26 minutes. My overall time was 1 hour and 32 minutes. Now, onto the next one (Casa Grande, Nov. 7th--anyone want to do it?)
Thanks for the fun weekend Spence and Marlee! I missed racing with Marlee (she's 9 months prego so I might have actually had a small chance at beating her!) But she sure makes a great coach, cheering me on and telling me how much further to go, and to pump my arms!! Thanks coach!
Isn't it weird how some people you meet you are really good friends with, but only for a short time until one of you moves away. But other people you meet you are lifelong friends with them no matter what happens or who moves where? That's Christina and I. We aren't roommates anymore (good thing, it might be kinda weird living with each other and our husbands!), but looking back on the pictures I love those days, and am sure glad we are still friends.
in my onsie tutorial post, my friend ellen said, "who knew you were so domestic." it's true. really, who knew the girl who used to go by kat and had a sub woofer in her t-bird would be so domestic. and yet, i love it. i am finding as i do these projects, i really love to sew. i made this skirt, dress, and pajama pants for carter in the last couple of weeks. so far i have really loved everything i made. except for the dress. it looks cute, right? but when i put it on, i just don't like it. at first i thought it was the sleeves, originally they were longer and fuller. i fixed those. not it. then i thought it was the belt. took it off. not it. when it's on i think it looks like a maternity dress. maybe it's because my mom really did use this same material to make my sister a maternity dress and so that's what i see when i put it on? nevertheless, i am still pretty impressed with myself that i made a dress!
this is my room at my parent's house. my scrapbooking station. i leave it out all the time and when i am over there i do a page or two at a time. this has been one of the only good things about sean being gone...i have gotten SO much scrapbooking done. a few more pages and i am COMPLETELY up to date! heaven.
2. Trace/cut out the pattern
3. Use double sided pellon and iron it onto the pattern.
4. Cut out the extra pellon around the pattern and place the pattern on the onsie
