Blogging hiatus

I just noticed that I haven't blogged in about a week which is really unusual for me lately with all the summer activities. Actually our computer died....as well as Doug's laptop.....so I am currently at Doug's office catching up on emails, balancing my checkbook, and blogging.
My mom got here last week and we've been keeping busy with misc. stuff like getting the kids ready for school and watching a few really bad horror movies. The Sears god came yesterday thus ending our 10 day streak of hanging each piece of laundry in our garage to dry for the world to see. My gardener is coming tomorrow to fix the sprinkler system which has been broken for a week and it's like 100 degrees so I've been hand watering the entire yard everyday for about 10 days. Last but not least, our AC is still not working...boy, when it rains it pours huh? The guy is supposed to come out next week and fix that so we will see. Doug and AJ left yesterday morning for a hockey tournament in San Jose until Monday night. Doug called me today to let me know that AJ left both his jerseys in the garage and that I needed to send them FedEx. $98 later they will be there tomorrow and AJ will have working that off! Ryan had his "meet and greet" today at school and ended up getting the teacher he didn't want. For a moment I thought he was actually going to cry but he sucked it up when he found out his best friend, Max was in his class. I have to admit I was a little sad to hear that he didn't get Mrs. Jacques since Melissa, AJ, and Ali all had her. The teacher Ryan got is very sweet though and I'm sure we will have a great year. I told him a story about when I was in 4th grade and my parents had just split up. I was going to MY "meet and greet" and found out that I got the teacher that no one wanted. He was supposedly the meanest teacher ever. Mr. Mitchell was an old, grey haired teacher that looked alot like the grumpy old man next door that would take your ball if it landed in his yard or yell at you for stepping on his grass. Surprisingly, Mr. Mitchell became my favorite teacher in elementary school. School starts on Tuesday and I cannot wait! I am an "A-type" personallity so I live for the schedule! Overall it's been a pretty great summer. Of course because we live where we live, we still have a few more months of beach days and fun in the sun.