Job Update

My bosses told me today they were going to talk to the "power that is" at our company and see about buying out my employment contract with the agency. Please pray that they offer me a wage that is descent for the amount of work and responsibility this position comes with. I really like working here and hope it works out for the long term. I should know something on Monday or Tuesday, I hope!

Mark is still looking for work and doing a home repair job for our pastor. He is really enjoying it! I hope he gets some referrals from this to keep him busy till the perfect job comes along.

I just whooped Marks butt in Scrabble. I beat him 248-193! :-) I rock, I know....JK

$3.69

How much did you pay for gas this week? Thats right! I paid $3.69 a gallon. Can anyone beat that price? If so where do you live?

Cartoons

Here is the latest fun conversation between Marcus and I:

M: Mom, can you wake me up at 5 in the morning? (smile on face)
A: You are 9. Why do you need to be up at 5 in the morning? (BIG eyes)
M: Because I want to watch transformers and that is the time they come on. (smile on face)
A: I am not getting up to wake you up at 5 in the AM. Are you crazy?? ("like hello" look on face)
M: Well, do you have an extra alarm clock I can use to wake me up? (arms on hips)
Dad: I have one in the garage. (laughing at us)
M: AWESOME!! thanks Dad (running to his dad)

So we gave him the clock and set it to wake him at 5. Can you believe that he really got up and watched his cartoons?? He even woke up his brother to watch with him, how nice of him!LOL. He was dressed for camp and ready to go when we woke up at 6:30. I wonder how he will be feeling (tired?) when I pick him up from camp this evening. Mark had to go get Zachery already today because he has a fever! I will keep you posted.

Weekend Full of Fun

Saturday was a day of yard work. They always are! But this day we found this moth looking bug on one of the trees. It was big and creepy but it was a beautiful green.

And of course Marcus was on the lookout for more bait. He found this worm. Yes that is a worm in my kitchen. He went and filled a bag with dirt, put a little water in it, then in went the worm. He fished with it on Sunday. In the middle of the hot day Mark took the boys fishing and I got to stay at home and watch tennis with Bella. Marcus caught three fish today! He is so excited about it!

This is Mark with Bella after the fishing trip. He needed some puppy love and she was more than willing to obliged. Yes, that is the bed he has his feet propped on.

This is Bruce and Kim. They are a couple that go to church at Calvary. They invited us to come over to their house for pizza. So after tennis and fishing we drove over. Had we known how close they live to us we would have walked. They have a beautiful home and three girls.

After we ate, the boys went out side and played in the back yard. All around the back yard are horses and dogs from the neighbors house. Kim gave the boys some carrots to feed the horses, but you know my boys and that was not good enough. They took the carrots and pulled a bunch of grass and made a salad for the horses. It was pretty funny, and thoughtful, and the horses loved it. It was a great evening out of the house and now we can say we have some friends. We all had a great time! Thank you Bruce and Kim!

Friday Night at the Funches House

After a long hard week at work for me(not really hard), energy draining week at camp for the boys(please, they were swimming & having fun, & OH fighting!), and a home improvement week for Mark(ok, he really did put in some work), this is what we did to enjoy our friday night after eating pizza from Sams's Club. I think I may have the next TobyMac in the making. My boy is gonna make me rich one day :-) or at least have alot of fun trying! Marcus did not want to be on camara! Maybe next week he will loosen up.

Welcome to the south

So when we moved in here we had a few friends. I figured that they would go away. I was wrong. So Mark being the wonderful husband he is, bombed the whole house and then sprayed the WHOLE outside perimeter and the ENTIRE inside of the house. Do you think that helped?? NOOONNNOOO it has not. Marcus says, "Mom, its OK, I can use them as bait for fishing!" Who can guess what I said next?? I said, "Great! They are free, and I can save some money on buying bait." Now even though I HATE the bugs and can not get rid of them, I am embracing the idea that Marcus is now in charge of bug capturing and I am saving money. Hopefully he does not get to save too many of them. YUK For now he is putting them in a baggie and freezing them. I have to remember that God blessed me with BOYS to raise and bug capturing is part of it. BTW: I was very embarrassed to share this issue with the world but then I saw that Heather in Georgia has the same problem and blames it on the south, so I know it has nothing to do with my cleanliness!! Can someone please confirm that this is a usual thing in the south?? Mark says we just sprayed and so they are running but that they will start to lessen and lesson as they die. Did I say YUK!

Fun times

The last two days have been work, dinner, reading, some TV and then bed. Back to the grind of life. Exept now we are in TX and not Cali. I am still enjoying my job, today I spent the whole day reconciling a dental bill that has over 600 employees on it. Nightmare! When my boss told me that the bills where the most challenging part of the job she was not kidding. Today I got a taste of it. But it is better than trying to figure out the payroll journal entry for this many employees. Mark is still looking for work. In the mean time he is making good progress on the little things around the house. This week he is focusing on getting quotes for the roof so we can get it done; Hopefully before he goes to work! We are still letting the boys grow out their hair. Can you see how long it is? Mark spiked it up for them yesterday morning before they went to camp, they loved it. Can you see the yard in the back round? That is part of the front yard.