New Jobs

Well Jen finally got a job like she has been wanting to do for so long now. I guess it is a good thing since she worked 45 hours last week in 5 nights and made 840 dollars!!! Yeah and think I went to school to climb into vehicles that were upside down to work 24-72 hour shifts and make well.... DAMN SURE NOT 18 DOLLARS AN HR. lol... Yeah women definitely have room to bitch about making a 1,000-2,000 less a yr. in a corporate job than a man does. Let's think about this for a second 2,000 less a year means 40 dollars less a week... Yeah I'm sure that Paul, Dalton Lee, or Myself could go to work with Jen tomorrow and make 800 dollars next week. YEAH RIGHT......... I'm not sure about DL and teaching but I don't think there is a job out there doing what P or myself do that we could make 800 a wk. working 45 hours unless we became a chief somewhere..Hell I don't think we make 800 a wk. working a whole hell of a lot more than that.
But back to the main point at hand.. Jen is really happy and enjoys where she works (must be nice)lol...She comes home almost every night says her feet hurt and then smiles and laughs about how good of a time she had that night. Well anyway the only bad thing that we have found so far is the fact that with me working at Texas Childrens and her at this job there are going to be many times when we won't even get to see one another for 5-7 days at a time.."Yes, I know this is some peoples Idea of a dream marriage"... but Jen and I are not like that we truly enjoy being around on another. So I am now looking for a new job that I will be off nights so that we can stop paying my mom 30 dollars a night to watch the kids sleep. I am looking for some EMS job that works 12-16 hr. Shifts during the day or I might even just go to a reg. job while I am working my way through school. I really was getting tired of TCH anyway something about having to deal with nurses as your partners all shift just seemed weird. I remembered why most EMT's run into and out of an ER as quickly as possible.
We'll I guess I will let you go for now.. We are about to go walking with T.
Wish me luck with the job search...

A day at the museum

I didn't think that going to the museum would have ever been that fun. Steve and I decided that we wanted to take the kiddos to the science museum for a full day of fun. Cherryl insisted on keeping Tiffany because she was going to have Krystal's little girl over here, too. Well, I call Mama T to see if she wants to go with us. We go by and everyone gets loaded into the Durango and off we go. A few stops later and a 2nd trip to Wal-mart, we are at the museum! We park and go inside to find a monstrous line for non-members and a 2 minute wait for the smart ones who bought memberships. Since we have never been to the museum TOGETHER, we trot on over the the long one. We look at the prices and figure out that it would just be cheaper if Steve and I get the family membership and T pay for herself. Under the straps that keep us in line we go into the the nicer and shorter line for members. A hundred and some odd dollars later, we are now members of the Houston Science Museum.

First place we hit, the bathroom. All kids had a full sprite on the way and the bladders were full. So was my hair since Zachary managed to somehow fling his whole bottle to the middle of the Durango and the sticky soda ended up in my hair, the front seat and all over the floorboard in the middle. GREAT!

Then to the butterflies! They were amazing!! So beautiful! T took some really great pictures with her new gorgeous camera. Including some of me by the waterfall for Steve.

We continued to get a snack and another bathroom break. Then off to the exhibit halls. That was an adventure! Have you ever thought of how those teachers feel when they take the class to the museum?? Well, now Steve, T and I know exactly how they feel!! LOL The kids were so excited over everything and they couldn't see enough of it.

We then continued on to see the Frog Exhibit. So Cool!! They had frogs that were no bigger than a 1/2 inch! After the frogs and yet, another bathroom break for Kaitlyn, we decided that that was then end and we were starving!

Chili's on I-10 is where we decide to go...BIG mistake. It was HORRIBLE!!!!! I think that story is best told by Steve and T.

And our last stop was to visit P at work. The kids had a great time playing on the engine and we had a nice time chatting with P. We were all exhausted.

The day could not have been any better, well except dinner. It was simply wonderful to be with family all day!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day today. I plan on cleaning the house and tonight I am cooking dinner for Tina and Paul. Finally I get to return the favor of her cooking so many times for us!! Plus, the in-laws aren't here to smoke them out of the house.

Steve got home this morning to see the card and candy that I had bought for him. It was the first time I actually got to surprise him. I kept my mouth shut about it for 2 whole weeks!! LOL Well, of course I had to tell Tina. I don't think I would have been able to make it if I hadn't told someone. It is kind of hard to believe that we have been married for a year now. Doesn't seem that long ago that I was being walked "down the aisle" by Cammy!! LOL

Again, I hope today is a great day. I love ya'll!!