Alyx's Field Trip

Alyx had a field trip today to the Frontier Culture Museum in Stanton. We had a great time. There were lots of new things since I went with Autumn in 1st grade. First we came to a house in progress, the 1720's Valley cabin. It was really neat, the kids got to split wood to help make shingles for the house in progress and help make a fence.

They also got to saw the wood, with a two person saw!

After the 1720's farm we moved the 1780's farm. This one was super interesting-at least to me. The first part of the home (when you look at the picture the left side) was built in 1780 by a German settler George Bowman in Timberville, just up from Rader's Lutheran Church. Then the second part, the parlor (the room the class is setting in) was built by his grandson John Bowman around 1820. More interesting when I called my mom and told her about it she said we'll you know your Granddaddy's good friend John, he is John Bowman-he was named after his great grandfather-so how cool I've actually meet someone from this family! I think I learned more then the kids.

While at the Bowman farm Alyx also got to do some wood work.

Then it was off to lunch, this is a pic of Alyx and her good friend Jesse who was in our group. Then we went to the store, of course, here is a pic of Alyx and Jesse waiting for the class. We had a great time as always-I just love field trips!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend despite all the rain!

Picture

I usually hate pictures of myself, mainly cause I'm so darn fat (working on it) but Kevin took a really good picture of Autumn, Alyx and I Saturday while it was beautiful outside before we went to Charlottesville with some friends to eat at Cheeseburgers in Paradise-which was wonderful. So I thought I'd share the pic. Hope everyone has a great week, my allergies are acting up-a good sign of spring!

Sorry!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Work has been crazy! In case you don't know what I do, I am the lead Program Administrator the charge card programs here at JMU. So total we have 496 small purchase charge cards, and in small purchase really isn't that small they all have transaction limits of $4999 and monthly limits between $5000 and $50000, so not really small and over 300 travel cards. Well we just entered into a new state contract with Bank of America Visa cards moving from the GE MasterCards, so that means testing file feeds, learning a new system, teaching that system to cardholders, myself and the girl that works with me. Also I represented the state supported College and Unversities on the bid/review process (big honor) but lots of time setting up training, etc. Plus we had a state audit on our cards-so it's been crazy-lots of stress and all that junk because it's my baby sink or swim and my neck is on the line if it isn't done right. Well the new cards hit the campus this week, still some stuff to figure out but things aren't quite so bad now I just need to catch up on all the regular work that has taken a backseat.

The girls are getting ready to start softball. Practices started this week, Alyx on Monday/Thursday and Autumn on Wednesday/Saturday. It should be very exciting when they both start games because they both will be traveling this year so it looks like two times a week in Timberville and two times a week somewhere else (Harrisonburg, Grottoes, Woodstock, Mt Jackson, New Market, Bridgewater!) so we will be busy busy.

I am also doing a weight loss challenge with some friends family. We each pay $10 a month and on May 1 the one who has lost the biggest percentage of their starting weight wins the money. I've cut out all soda from my diet (which was super hard) and I've cut back on other things and I've tried to walk about 4 times a week 2.5 miles (has only happened once this week). So far I'm only at 4.2 pounds lost but hopefully things will turn around.

So that's the update on the Dellinger family.