Where oh where has my time went to...

The last few months have been up and down in this girls life for sure.  Not many people know but in the beginning of September my yearly contract with UF was not renewed so I am currently unemployed.  What a blow.  I can say that I was very upset and I felt lost.  One thing I am grateful for is they paid me through December so that helped tremendously.

  The first few weeks were kind of rough adjusting, but I have since gotten into the swing of things and I am loving being home with the kids in the afternoons, getting homework done early, cooking dinner and relaxing.  I have always worked 1 or 2 jobs and I never quite realized how rushed our evenings have always been when we don't get in the door until 6.

However, I am no less busy.  My days start when I get the kids off to school.  Then sometimes its cleaning, projects, taking care of our animals and sometimes its reading, computer time, shopping or mommy time!!

A few weeks back my friend Cassie and I went to Cody's for lunch...I love their chicken wings and onion rings..

We have made a few different things lately.  The kids, and I made pizza and I made a spinach artichoke dip for game day Saturday.
I am not sure if I mentioned but game day Saturdays are sacred in this house.  Lots of finger food...wings, homemade mozarella sticks, tex mex dip, cream cheese wontons and whatever else my family requests.  I love cooking for them!!

spinach and artichoke dip

Everyone had fallen back into a great pattern.  Our weekends are our favorite time.  They cleaned out and weeded the fish pond the other day.

Trace of course spends his time collecting wild animals and then I end up taking care of them...like...

FROGS!!  Thankfully after a few weeks he let them go.

Hannah went to Cheerleading camp the other weekend and this Friday she gets to cheer at the varsity game and she is so excited!!  I am going to work on her hair bows today.

We went to AJ's  JV football game last week and Hannah caught a shirt the Cheerleaders throw out.  She was so excited!!  It is a smidge to big though.. :)

Both Trace and Hannah are playing flag football this year.  We thought when they had signups for flag later they would offer Cheerleading but they didn't so they are both playing.  Its cute watching Hannah hike the ball!!  I just love the pictures.  I am working on her hair bows for that too today.  I figured she might be playing a boy sport but she can still rock it with ribbons and bows!!

Go Dolphins!!

I am all over with this post but I am totally loving instagram....I love how it changes my pictures

I can't get enough of them!!

That's it for now....

Anita