Weed Tree

Last fall, Chad bought these trees from the Arbor foundation. A big box of dormant, packed twiggs arrived sometime during the winter. He finally got around to planting them late in the spring and not very many survived. There was this one twig, I'm not sure what kind of tree it was, but anyway, it died. Then all of a sudden, a little sprout was coming up out of the ground right next to the dead tree. At first I thought it was a tree, but as it grew taller, I now think it's a weed. Chad is convinced it's a tree, but I know it is a weed. The trunk ins't "wood", it's like a plant stalk.
We fight about it all the time and I told him I would humor him, and keep watering it. It has really grown tall. He tells me that when it grows 20 feet, I am not allowed to sit in the shade from his "tree". Tonight, when we were fighting about it, we decided to put a poll up and see what everyone else thinks this is. So check out the pictures and then tell us what you think Chad's weed-tree really is.

School Girl

OK....... here's some news. I'm going to college.

I don't know yet, exactly what my college goals are, so I'm just going to start with stuff that I know I can use now. Like English. I am having a lot of fun writing on my blog, but I have become very aware of my writing limitations. And, I have always wanted to write a book so I decided, if I'm really going to do that, I had better get some help.

Before enrolling in a math or English class you have to take a placement test to see if your scores are high enough to qualify for collegiate level learning. I took my placement test today and as it turns out, I need more help than I originally thought. I had a 107 in reading comprehension which qualifies me for English 101, but only a 76 in sentence skills and that qualifies me for English 095. They call that a split score, so I'll have to write a short essay for a tie breaker. I guess I'll go in on Monday to write the essay and see if I get to be in the smart, or the not so smart class. Hopefully they will let me know right away, so I can get enrolled in whichever while I'm still there. I'm going to try to get into the Internet instead of the live class, but the lady who helped me said they are filling up fast since the classes start next week.

Stay tuned to see what happens.

Home Depot

Yeah - We went shopping at The Home Depot!!!! I have been itching to go since they opened at 5:00 pm on Wednesday. The parking lot was jammed full of cars and people were lined up outside the door when I drove by there on my way home from work. Chad and I went back later that night thinking it had calmed down a bit, but nope. The parking lot was so full that people were parking in the dirt. We decided against going on the opening day. There were pictures in the newspaper, that place was full. People were shoulder to shoulder.

We settled on going tonight, it was still pretty busy, but not anything like the other day. And believe it or not, it was pretty fun just wandering isle to isle. It's funny, I have been to The Home Depot dozens of times. But never have I been to a Pahrump Home Depot, now that's something.

We have needed a new kitchen faucet and have been waiting till Home Depot opened to get it. Wow, I never knew there were so many kinds of faucets. Our current faucet has the hot and cold turn on's separate from the faucet, so it uses 3 holes for just the water. Well, when they put in the reverse osmosis, they moved the breather thingy to under the sink, along with the sprayer. So, we bought a new faucet that has the turn-on on the faucet so we will only be using one hole for the water and now we have room for the breather thingy and the sprayer to be in there own holes on top where they belong. Anywho, The Home Depot was really fun and I can't wait to go back to get another project for Chad to do :)

Monkeys and Cowboys aka "The Brats"

Kristy and Christopher wanted to have their pictures on my blog....so, here they are. Camron was mad at the world and didn't want to have his picture with them. So it's just the big kids this time. They will start school soon, August 25. They are going to a brand new school. So this year they are going to be bobcats at Floyd Elementary instead of scorpions at Hafen. They both say they are excited about starting school because they are bored at home. Their mom is very happy they are starting school, she wants a public preschool for Camron, so she can get rid of all the kids. Personally, I think she should have about 10 more. That ought to teach her.

Well, Mitzi went to live at her new home with Debbie. And her sister finally got a name. Rosie. I'm sure Mitzi will adjust as well as Rosie has. Rosie and Ruby were at first looking for Mitzi, but now seem to have moved on. I think Brandy is glad there is one less puppy to torment her.

We went to Tonopah over the weekend so the guys could race. Chad took 1st in his heat and 2nd in the main. Anthony was 2nd in his heat with Chad and 4th in the main. There were about 9 cars in the main, so that wasn't too bad. I can't wait till the day that Anthony finally gets a 1st. Hopefully when that happens, I'll be watching. It's so hard for me to watch the races when they get intense. I don't know what it is, but watching Chad and Anthony gets me all freaked out and quizzy to my stomach. I try really hard to stay calm and tell myself over and over, "it's OK, they are OK". By the end of the race, I am shaking and about to throw up. My family thinks it's funny to watch me during the race, and they all know that if they sit by me they better watch out. Every time there is a bump in the race, I grab the person next to me for protection. I guess it is funny. Gosh..... I just need to learn to stay calm. They are safe....right?

Coming Soon!!

The Adventures of Pakistani Pauley

The foreign American in the midst of an Identity Crisis

(***all Pakistani Pauley stories are based on real fiction. Any resemblances to actual people or events are accidentally on purpose. Names may or may not have been changed to protect the guilty***)

Brandon and Zachary

Camron

The Puppies

Ruby's puppies are driving me nuts! They are soooo cute, but boy are they full of it. Even the big dogs run and hide from them. The brown one is named Mitzi (thanks Debbie), but we haven't named the white one yet, and that's the one we are keeping. Chad keeps calling her Tiny Weenie, but I can't yell at her with that name. How can you be mad yelling "Tiny Weenie NO!"?

They both answer to puppy, puppy, puppy. But we had a Old English Sheep Dog named Puppy when I was growing up, and somehow that just doesn't fit now on a chichaua. Besides, we all have another Puppy, I don't want to steal her name and give it to a DOG. That's just plain rude. :)

I like the name Roxy, but Anthony told me Kaylynn wants to name her puppy from him that, and I don't want to steal it from her. So I'll have to keep thinking. In the mean time, vote in my poll what name you like best. Or leave a comment if you can think of something better.

Jaxen

What a

trickster...givin grandpa the ole rabbit ears! Jaxen came for a visit and we had a great time. He has gotten so big. And so smart. We went to his favorite restaurant, "Chicken on a Stick" and he had to make sure that he got to read all of our fortunes.

I think out of all the Grand boys, he is the biggest lover. The whole time, he was holding our hands or sitting on our laps, basically just hanging on us. I love that about him. I hope he stays that way forever.

It was a great visit and I can't wait to see him again soon.