"I got pulled over for picking up rocks"

Yep, it is true! Kate started Kindergarten this year. It is so fun to hear those first stories out of the mouths of the babes themselves. Kate has always had a fetish for picking up rocks and bringing them home. She has always done this and most recently after the passing of her bunny Peanut, she and her brother had painted rocks from their yard and put them on his little grave. Apparently it is a real "no no" at school to collect rocks on the playground. She was told by one of the teachers at recess to put the rocks down and when Kate didn't do it, she got in trouble. When relating the story to me she said "yep, Nana I got pulled over for picking up rocks at school". I laughed my head off...later of coarse!  Out of the mouths of babes.

Michael back to being a Red Raider

All to soon, the summer is over and Michael is off to Lubbock for his Junior year of college. It seems like this summer offered its share of challenges with Michael looking everywhere trying to find a job. He managed to find a one-day-at-a-time hard labor job which required him to show up each morning at 5:30 and hope to get picked to work that day at minimum wage and most of the time was sent home without a job for the day along with so many others. Many of these jobs requiring him to lift over 100 pounds by himself. He found himself working  for three different temp agencies. He felt fortunate to get a short term job at Wal-mart through one of the temp agencies.Then finally, he eventually landed a job the last 5 weeks of the summer for The Jewelry Channel. It was truly the easiest of all the jobs he had this summer and the one that he enjoyed the most. Hopefully he will be able to work for them when he comes home for Christmas Break. They really like his work and are open to the idea. We will sure miss Michael. With him here, the entire Sharp family has been within 5 miles of the house the whole summer. It was an awesome summer and one that I will always remember.

Pwew-fume

My daughter asked me to pick up her son Dallin from day camp today. I had been shopping to get Michael's back-to-school stuff and Dallin was "helping" unload the car. When I opened the trunk it smelled like the wood chips as Craig had used the car trunk to load yard supplies and had left the plastic bags in the back that had held the chips. Dallin said, "Nana, your car smells funny. It smells like Pwew-fume". Out of the mouths of babes. That was my laugh for the day.

Round Rock gets over 11 inches of rain over the past 5-7 days.
This must be some kind of record, especially for July. Wow!

More Rain!!!

Who knew? We have now had several days of rain in a row in July. The news here said that we got 4 inches today. All I can say is Wow...July is NEVER like this in Texas. We are grateful for the nice green lush lawns and for the water that we so desperately need. The storms did take out our computer, phone, and internet for about 24 hours yesterday and today. We've had some pretty impressive thunder and lightening.

Jessica says Nana!

It is true! Yesterday I was out with my daughter and her three kids. Jessica, now 7 months, when Jessica said "Hi Nana". It surprised me so much that I said, "Did she say what I thought she said" and sure enough she repeated it several times. How fun! Jessie now knows Hi, Mom, and Nana! How awesome to be in the Top Three. She is the most adorable little Touch Me Not. Yep, it is true that she is a Mommy's girl but she will break away just long enough  to give you a big hug and kiss then it is back to mom. What an adorable grandbaby!

Rain in July?

Yep. it's true. We have had a couple of whopper rain, thunder, and lightening storms the past two days. So unusual for Texas. July and August are always our hottest months without the tender mercy of water. We are grateful for the water and grateful the the storm wasn't too violent! The grass will be unusally green for this time of year. : )