One week to go...

Ok, so I have been cleaning my house frantically in order to prepare for the arrive of our company next week. My mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew and 2 nieces are coming out. My niece Kaitlyn has a gymnastics meet on Sunday the 8th of February here in Dallas, so they are making a family trip of it. What is special about this family get together is that Brien has no idea that his brother, nephew and one niece are coming also and they will arrive on his birthday which is next Friday. Also, Tyler and Hunter have absolutely NO IDEA that their moo-moo and pop-pop are coming into town nor their uncle and cousins. It has been killing me to keep this from Brien and I am counting down the days until next Wednesday when his parents arrive and then on Friday when everyone else arrives.

I am hoping that my parents are able to come out soon also. I haven't seen them since I went to get the kids from Florida back in August.

Other things going on, kids are great. Tyler is doing very good in school. He made the AB honor roll again. Hunter is learning his sight words and we are working on getting him to start reading more on his own but that is a slow processes. We had a lovely ice storm this past week. The kids missed 2 days of school and Brien got to stay home as well. I already had off from work so I didn't get the opportunity to miss work. I did take some pictures which I will post later once I download them from my camera.

Ok...back to work....LOL

Gator Nation!!!

Well, all I have to say is that "It's great to be a Florida Gator! I said it's great to be a Florida Gator!" Yes, last night the Florida Gators won the BCS National Championship game against Oklahoma. It was a great game and it could have gone either way. I do feel bad for those OU fans like my nephew Josh, my sister Marti, my brother-in-law James, my cousin Kimmie, and my friend Jillian. OU put up a good fight but Florida had more fight in them. So now Florida has won 3 National Championships total and the SEC conference has won its 3rd straight BCS title. Now I am hoping that Tim Tebow, the quarterback for Florida, returns next year for his senior year.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all. I hope you are enjoying the day as much as we are. The kids were waking us up at 7:50am in order to open presents. They received lots of good stuff and are happy with what they got. Last night was extra special in our household though. Not only did we get visited by the one and only Santa Claus but his friend the tooth fairy made a stop also. Hunter lost his first tooth yesterday. He felt special since he was getting visited by 2 people overnight. I will post pictures of him toothless and of Christmas morning later. Enjoy the day!

Birthday Boy

Well today is the day that my baby was born 6 years ago. man, I can't believe that it has been that long ago. He has grown up so much since that first day I held in my arms. Today I am going to have lunch with him at school where I will be bringing him McDonalds and then later he will share a cookie cake with his classmates. Well, that is all for now since I have to run out to the store.

Ned

Here is a more recent picture of me and my baby Kudu Ned. He is such a sweet Kudu. He is very friendly and will let me love on him.
And here is our baby African Crested Porcupines that were born on the 14th of October.

It was a great day at work...

Ok, so I went to work today and had a great day. It was time for our lion cubs to get their second round of vaccinations and I was there to help out. Here is what I got to do today.
This is our male lion cub and let me tell you, he was a heavy little booger. LOL. Can I just say that I love my job.

The kids are doing great and so is Brien. The weather is finally starting to change which I love. Today only got to about 68 degrees and with working outside, it was a nice change from the 100+ weather we had been having.

Sorry this isn't a long post but I am exhausted and need to go to bed.

Finally a chance to catch up...

Ok...here we are in September and I finally have the house to myself and the three dogs. Now a little time to catch you all up on the happenings here in the Schou household.
Kids....well, they started school back on August 25th. So far so good. I still can't believe my little Hunter is in Kindergarten and Tyler in 6th grade. It's crazy. LOL. Our school day consists of me getting up by 5:40am and making sure both of them get up. Tyler pretty much takes care of himself in the morning by getting his own breakfast and making his own lunch. I am very grateful for that. I get Hunter's breakfast ready and lay out clothes for him and he does all the rest. I make his lunch unless it is a pizza day at school and then he wants to buy his lunch. Then on days I work, I get ready for work. By 6:45am we are saying goodbye to Brien and heading out to the car. I drive them up to the bus stop just a couple of blocks up and wait for it to arrive. They get on the bus and head off to school and I head off to work. Other than that, kids are doing great and they look forward to their weekends. Here are pictures of the kids on their first day of school.
Brien...well, he has kept himself busy on the weekends since I am usually working. He helped out James finish his fence; he worked on fixing his truck; he started to work on his shop and it is looking good; plus working on the yard. I honestly don't know where he finds the energy after working all week but somehow he does. I will take pictures of the workshop soon and post them also.
As for me...let me first start by saying, I love my family. Next, I love my job. I can't believe that I am finally doing the job that I have dreamed of doing which is working with animals. It isn't exactly what I had dreamed of which was to be an animal trainer at Sea World but I get to work with other exotic animals which are just as exciting. All I can tell you right now is that I have done something at my job that I wouldn't have ever dreamed of being able to do in my entire life but I can explain that one later. It is a lot of hard work but the rewards I get from it outweigh the hard laboring work. I do have a little guy who follows me and he is one of our Kudu babies. His name is Ned and he is great. This is him by himself and him trying to get the radio that I wear on my belt. He is such a cutie.
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