Summer is almost over... and the way we spent out time..

Only 3 more days until the boys go back to school.. It has been a real laid back summer so to speak.. No big summer trips as we have done in the past. I will say I have this feeling of letdown as you all know we usually take a nice family summer trip every year. This year it just seemed we had too many conflicts with Justin and Marc and their sports. I did not miss out on traveling that is for sure. I'll make sure that we get in one family trip outside of Texas next summer. After all we only have one more official summer until Marc graduates! Holy crap! Speaking of that.. The summer Marc graduates we are taking a cruise more than likely out of Puerto Rico with some old friends. Yes, this has already been confirmed!!! The wives are planning this. Of course family and other friends are invited. So mark your calendars for June 2011 if you want to attend a super awesome celebration!
Marc got his license so you know he was always out and about. His summer days were filled with hanging out with his buddies, baseball and more baseball, little bit of work, and of course cruising in his new ride. He is just loving his new mustang and even though he only has to pay for gas he has starting asking us for gas money.. Go figure! When we weren't so willing to fork over $$ for that he decided he should work a little more. Is it too much to ask to at least pay for gas?! The beauty of him finallly driving is running errands, taking his brothers places such as the movies, picking up from practice, you name it...
Justin has kept us going with his sports. He played for the rec league of Cibolo which ran into summer for their all stars.. He made the Cibolo Owls select baseball team, which is brand new. He has some really awesome coaches. While I can say this is not his true sport, I think is well-rounded athlete so the areas he is lacking he will pick up in no time.. He is now a freshman, meaning I have two boys in high school now.. Damn! He is playing football right now which has kept him super busy these last few weeks. I feel like I always said he is overlooked for his size, because he sure has the talent. This boys lives and breathes football! He says over and over again he will have a career in something sports related, and I have no doubt about that. Personally I can see in something with sports advertising/marketing. Maybe even a sports agent/lawyer. We will see in time what the future holds for him.
Ricky.. My little baby.. He has has the most laid back summer of all.. staying up late into the night.. sleeping until nearly lunch time. He and I went to Six Flags quite a bit early into the summer. We also went to the movies quite a bit, one of my favorites being G-Force. He has surely been anticipating the arrival of little Henry, Ricardo's sister Ameli's son. I have somewhat let him down by not letting him get the chance to meet him.. He will soon though.. I promised him! On this note Ricardo needs to start seriously traveling more so I can take advantage of those miles!~
Reasons why I am not looking forward to school are more due to ME.. This should be my final year in school.... After all I have perfected how to make going to college a career.. I should be in the phase of being able to double up on my classes so I can graduate next November.. I have run into backlog of funding issues.. The joys of playing the waiting game! The postive note is that I can finally use the GI Bill $$ and not have to take out any more student loans. I am feeling the push to hurry up and get a job. The family fails to realize that I am feeling a true protest coming on for when I actually do graduate... I will not be able to give the daily rides to school, the rides from school, the homeade meals made promptly by 5pm.. the rides up to school for items that were forgotten then need to be delivered asap or it will be a deducted grade, special lunches,the list is endless... Yeah you can say I feel soo under-appreciated and some days ready to forget my kids and get to work!!
Who would have ever thought I would be a stay at home mother. Not me!
Well Ricky and I were sure hoping things would pan out for finally getting to adopt our little girl. Things were just not meant to be and I don't really want to go into detail. I am still torn up about it but like I said... maybe it just wasn't meant to be... The good thing is my sister found out she is having a girl so I can spoil her, along with Steven's little girl and then send them back home.. That's about it for the update. I'll add pics this afternoon..