its been awhile

well ever since I found facebook i havent gotten on this blog..jordan likes to come on here and listen to the music, so I will problably be on here added some new songs soon...the kids are out of school and we went to houston last week and are going to Tyler next week for jays job and to see my friends...life if okay here in Oklahoma Eric seems to really like it, jordan is not happy with the weather at all...we are putting her passing 1st grade present up today, its a big 18x48 pool for her to enjoy all summer...hopefully it doesnt cause a stir with the association but we will fight them on it..we are growing a garden in the back but abbi keeps digging up a new one every week so not sure how well its going to grow, we may have to enclose it but we are hopeing she will leave it alone now after we scolded her for it but I doubt it..hope everyone has a safe and happy summer cant wait to see some old friends and hope to make new ones...

the oklahoma zoo

Well it was a nice day on saturday before Easter so we headed to the zoo. Since moving here in December the weather has been too cold, wet, windy, etc...but we have been wanting to go to the zoo and decided it was time to go...The zoo is really nice and had lots of different animals to see..the kids liked the bears and jordan said she liked leaving she wasnt 100% that day-starting of a sore throat which is still bothering her today(april 19)..I liked the gorillas and the layout. There is alot more museums and parks we need to check out..We are also going to be going to alot of the lakes with the boat so Eric can kneeboard, so far he has kneeboarded in Texas, Arkansas and now will be Oklahoma we may need to hit every state..Here are some pics

well just a few words...

It has been awhile since I wrote on the blog..Eric celebrated his 11th birthday on Mar 30, he also made 4 A's and 2 B's on his report card...Jordan is doing better in school and she now has a reading specialist helping her but that wasn't easy. A couple on not so nice emails to the principal ,who happens to live across the street, made that happen. I am not thrilled with this school here, I wished we would have never left Tyler they were helping her daily and she was improving. The school here just wasted all that she had learned because of proper paper work. Jay and I are doing okay but I still have my doubts about staying here in Oklahoma I am looking forward to going back to Tyler over the summer and being around my friends again..

Well the kids are on their spring break this week and we didn't get to go anywhere this time. As you can see above we decided to have scoobys tumor removed and I am glad we did. It had gotten alot bigger since we have moved and it was intwined in the muscle so he was not as active. He is doing better everyday and wants to play fetch and play in the water sprinkler. I take him for a walk everday by the pond and I do all I can to keep him out of the water. Patience...
Well we have lived in Oklahoma now for alittle over 3 months and sometimes I catch myself thinking what am I doing here. I will see a Oklahoma license plate and think hey they are here from Oklahoma then I realize we are in Oklahoma. I guess I have moved so often that I never know where I am. Plus just trying to adjust to new surroundings, making new friends I just get to the point of "why bother" I will just leave another set of friends and a home. Maybe one day things will feel like normal until then just go along for the ride. I know that I could always go back to Tyler and be fine....

well i have finally figured out how to get the kids videos on here. These are the weather reports they made while we were waiting for Ike to come which it didn't. We were living in Tyler,TX at the time so we decided to have some fun until it was over...so enjoy
eric had to do his over about 3 times to get it the way he wanted it
jordan had a good time with hers she couldn't stop laughing and wanted to keep doing more reports. We had to stop it started raining too hard,,,

this week

Well lets see, Valentines day was nice I am getting a bench w/ hangers above, cabinets and a rod to hang clothes on built in my laundry room hopefully next week. We got the sod put down yesterday and I have been watering alot. I cannot wait to get out there and play football with Eric no more muddy shoes. Our new neighbors are here and they are building their fence tomorrow. so we will decide on the kind we want very soon. I want a short one so we can still talk with our neighbors behind us. Eric is making lots of friends he just found out another one of his friends from class lives in this neighborhood he is spending the night over there tonight. They moved here from Pennsylvania shortly before we did, even got the house I wanted to look at. Eric said he likes ours better so it made it better. Well hopefully soon we will get to go do some things around here. The weather should start to warm up. We want to go to the Museums, Zoo, Aquarium and Hiking. We need to do some 3 day trips too so I have to start working on those.

What a week

Ok so so far February has not been great nor warm and i hear March is the start of tornado season well yippy ky yah bleep bleep bleep...The tornado was just about 6 miles due east of us close enough by the way. We have gone by to see the destruction I didn't take pictures just didn't feel right. But it is so surprising to see what it can do. I lived in Corpus thankfully no hurricane I did evacuate 1 time with Eric but that was it. We were there when we thought Rita would hit but she turned so we had a "No Rita" party. In Tyler we just got wind not too bad there. But here i have to say is a little more scarier for me. I had told the kids that morning they would probably go to the safe room at school but don't worry its really safe and i said mommy will be in the closet protected their dogs. So at 245 the weather radio went off and i headed for the closet w/dogs in tow. I had prepared it earlier that day. I talked to jay but then we lost all phone use and tv so just sit and wait. I was a long 2 hours especially waiting to get the kids i knew they were tired and hungry. Once we were able to pick them up we were relieved. We will be looking at getting a storm shelter but they are backed up now. Our friends behind us are getting one in 2 weeks and said we can go to theres so I am sure I will be taking them up on that one. The weather is cold again but hopefully we will see the sun by MARCH..Here are a few picks of the hail at the house

yea its february

Finally its February we are watching the puppy bowl then the superbowl tonight..GO PITTSBURGH!!!!BOO HEHEHE. Erics cheering for the Cardinals...Well the weather is getting warmer and the kids are starting to feel better. The lady across the street brought us over some Chicken Taco soup, she is really nice. Eric wanted to shovel the ice off the back porch it was a tough job. We met the couple buying the house next door, they are moving from Dallas and wanted to get back to Oklahoma. They have 2 young beagles that our dogs already met. They are planning on putting up a fence as well so we will be working with them on that...I am somewhat getting settled here but I have my days. Jay likes his job and he now comes home at a decent hour and that is great especially at homework time. I forgotten how much i didn't like math in school guess i can re-learn it now...

scoobys adventure

The Culprits in the pond
Well we knew one day it would happen just didn't know when, scooby found the nearby pond. Yesterday when I went to go look for him I could not find him and I knew Eric would be very upset if i didn't. So I got in the truck and as soon as I turned to corner there he was playing. I guess he was tempted by the ducks flying by and had to chase them. He did get in trouble but didn't learn his lesson since we had to go look for him the next morning before Eric would go to school.
Also notice in the picture jay made a small fence for abbi to stay in while outside but she can now jump it so we will have to get a fence very soon for my own sanity and theres.

jordans performance

Jordan had her first performance at school this past thursday where she had to say a few lines. They were learning about Egypt before she got there so she only had a week to learn it and she did very well.

week in review

hello friends and family
Well to say its been cold here is an understatement, at least to me it is too cold. I haven't got use to the 20 degree temperatures here much less the 30's but it could be worse, we haven't went through tornado season. From what I hear we do not hear the sirens from where we live and the satelite tv gets knocked out so hopefully a nice neighbor will get word from someone in OKC and they will forward it on hahahaha no we do have a emergency radio that we will keep on during that time.
The kids have started school and jordan had her first grade perfomance on Thursday Jan 15th and she did very good. They have really nice teachers and have each made some friends..The schools here were alittle ahead but they are catching up very well. I take the kids to/from school since they don't want to be on the bus for 45 mins its really close to the house plus their hours are 845 to 345. Great for jordan but eric wants to get there early.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

well i hope everyone had a great new years eve, we had a good time as well. The kids popped all the fireworks and of course the dogs went crazy..for some reason they like the taste of fireworks. The next day they played with the boxes and rode on the scooters. They had to chase abbi a few times once she gets outside there is no stopping her and there is alot of room to run so it makes it harder. We are getting a fence soon just getting qoutes and seeing which the association will let us have. We later enjoyed the Fried Turkey, cabbage and peas...

Turner Falls, Oklahoma

We stopped at the scenic view to see Turner Falls over Christmas break. Jay and I had went there when we lived in Oklahoma 12 years ago and wanted to see it again. Jay told the kids how I dropped my camera in the falls and they ask if its still there, its not but the camera doesn't work anymore...Anyways enjoy the pics.
Love The Reimers