mum wins city finals!

Mum's tennis team won the city championship! She was captain of this winning team. They also won best table (everyone dresses up their own food table) which had a wedding theme - hence the veils on some of the ladies hats. Dad was the biggest supporter (he told me to write that). Mum has been pretty pumped since her win - hard to live with, but would have been worse if she lost.

The Brandon's

Jeremiah really likes his new job. He told me that he looks forward to going to work and talking with the different people. I like the fact that he gets free gas for his work truck, because he does a lot of driving. I got a job in Springfield at St. Johns Hospital in the NICU. I will start there July 13th at 8:00am. That is really early. We are moving into our new house Fathers Day weekend. I hope the weather is nice. Hope everybody is doing good.

girls prom 2009

these are all of our girls, there's only five in our group of 14 because there were some boys that came without dates and one girl was late. from left to right: Amanda, Kristy, Nichole, me, and Jessica. nichole and her date came to my house after prom and spent the night, it was super fun. nichole and i have been best buds since 7th grade!

prom 2009

this is one of my photos taken at my friend siraji's house; that's where the 14 of us in my group met for photos. this is one of 4 of the "couples" photos, I'll be sure to upload group and boy/girl pictures. rodrigo and I had a super fun time with our "couples" photo part because, out of the 14, we were the only two that was actually a "couple" so we got lots of pictures taken.

Happy Birthday/ Happy Anniversary

Happy Birthday Rick. Happy Anniversary Fred & Shawn.

Starting today Onsrud is going back to 40 hour weeks from 36 hour weeks. I was enjoying working 36 hours, but the pay cut stunk.

Congrats Scott on your new job. Another place to visit!!!!

I have a wish list of things to do Memorial Day weekend. We will see how much gets done.

Have a nice Memorial Day.

Texas!

Hello all,

For those of you who haven't heard I have recently accepted a job offer in Cypress-Fairbanks, Texas. Cypress-Fairbanks is a northwest suburb of Houston. The school district has yet to place me, but that should be coming within the next few weeks.

The subbing in Mattoon is going great. I no longer envy English teachers with the massive amounts of grading... Nonetheless its been a fun adventure!

Here in the next week or two I will be moving back to Ohio for one last summer of working a Cedar Point. I can be found in the Park Operations office taking in all the phone calls and complaints about the park!

Hope everyone is doing great and have a phenomenal Memorial Day!

Hey everyone!!!

We had a great weekend. We were very blessed with beautiful weather. We were able to get all our yard work done. We pulled weeds and more weeds, put sand in between our patio blocks and planted some hostas and flowers. It looks lovely. :)

We are seriously considering looking in the foreclosed home market for a new place. We plan on staying in this area. We think we are going to try on the landlord hat and rent out our townhome?!? We'll see how it goes. We are getting the paperwork ready to apply for a loan this week.

The top pick is of Evelyn trying a teething biscuit for the first time. She liked it. :) The next pic is her in the bike carriage. She sits so contently and looks out the window while we pull her along on our bikes. It's adorable to watch Dave pull her along.

I have to apologize to Scott...after several attempts, he still hasn't received the re invite to join the blog and has been wanting to post for a few days now. I hope he got the one I just sent him. Please email me if someone else didn't get their invite.

Happy, happy birthday to Uncle Rick tomorrow. Happy anniversary to Uncle Fred & Aunt Shawn on Thursday. Happy anniversary to me & Dave on Sunday and happy anniversary to Uncle Rick & Aunt Ellen on the 28th!!!

Love ya,
Missy

Jeremiah's Graduation

Saturday Jeremiah graduated from ISU.

There is alot going on in the Brandon family.

First off Jeremiah got a job with M&M FS in Carlinville, Illinois. He is going to be in crop sales. He will be the sales manager of the different chemicals that the farmers use. His office is going to be in Girard,Illinois. So we are going to have to move. Our house just got put on the market this week and we are closing on our new house June 19th. I am going for 4 different interviews Wednesday at St. John's hospital in Springfield. I hope that I can get a job. I promise I will keep all of you up to date. For once my parents are not looking at moving well at least for now.

after 7 comes...

Yes, today I'm 8 months old.

I've had a pretty busy month. Thanks to Daddy, I'm a rolling-over fool! :)

I love touching peoples faces, especially their mouths. It's crazy how they move.

I really enjoy eating bananas and today I tried mangoes.

I'm learning sign language at school and I go to a class called Busy Babies on Friday mornings with Mommy. We sing songs, read books, play with puppets and even parachutes. Every class is different. I loved the puppet time so much Mommy and Daddy got me a monkey puppet. He and Chloe are not friends. Maybe that will change???

I love to talk and scream. I can even say "baba". Mommy and Daddy are not sure what it means because it is not related to a bottle. It's fun to keep them guessing, although I'm not sure I know what it means. :)

ROCKSTARS

Here is Bobby's band, Sound of Mountains playing at Durty Nellie's Friday night. What a nice way to end his birthday. Uncle Don, Dave and Dad were so inspired by the performance, they thought they'd give it a try themselves. Mom missed the show because she was watching Evelyn. However, she attempted stardom with the others.

Evelyn is a...

She is trying to decide which shades she likes more.