Future Author or Conservationist ........... Friday night Andrew was honored at the Johnston County Soil and Water Conservation banquet. They hold a yearly essay and poster contest for 5th graders throught out the county . Andrew was chosen as one of the 2 to represent his school and placed 3rd in the county overall !

Here he is showing off his award and ribbon.

His teacher and principal were also there . His classmate Lauren was in the poster contest and she recieved and honorable mention.

Its not alot .... but we will take it ! This is the first time the kids have seen snow in along time - I think we got about 1/3 of an inch - on top of alittle ice - They still had school today. But it was the first time in along time that they got out of the house before the bus was waiting at the end of the drive way for them !

2 days ago it was 75 - ground is not frozen. While i was getting Aryns gear on Alyssa laid down to make a snow angel ( in 3 inches of mud!) On another note - First time this year the kids have gotten "bundle up" in their winter gear!

I think he is winking at me :D Thanks for the picture Kevin!







In other news- Job is well. Almost finished with first week . Kids have a 3 day weekend this week and a 4 day weekend next week - then not another day off till Spring break ! Yikes!

Alyssa's bedroom set comes tommorrow - she is really psyched about that !

Sunday is going to be mid 70's here!Might be a good chance to catch up on some much needed yard work!

Tonight a new episode of Man vs Wild on Discovery channel! For some reason kevin and i have become addicted to this show ! Not sure what the draw is :? ( for me sexy accent hot guy in a vulnerable situation- what more could a "desperate housewife" want !) For kevin , i think he likes to see the totally gross extremes that Bear takes to survive !

discovery channel -9 eastern - check him out ! http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/manvswild/manvswild.html

Wohooooo! january 4th and today i had the windows open in the house! 70+degrees! What a glorious day! :D ( although, we have not seen snow in 2 years the kids are starting to miss it - Andrew commented today about not seeing any in awhile ) Maybe i should refer him to woman in denver who was selling her snow on ebay! :D

Today i am free ! for the first time in over 2 weeks everyones is back to work and school ! Wohooo!

Andrew had is eye tooth removed yesterday! Man the root on that baby was huge! He never complained about any discomfort - He spent the rest of the afternoon watching Nacho Libre and napping and consuming mass quantites of mashed potato's ! (and he got a 5 spot from the tooth dairy!)

Kevin finished painting alyssa's room last night - her new furniture is coming next Saturday so between now and then i need to clean her carpet and go thru some of her things !

Starting my new job next monday(1/8/06) ! Very exciting ! glad to be back in the work force again(contributing to the future of the Josupaits and the kids college fund!)

Happy New Year ! Hope 2007 is full of peace, love and Good health !