Aloha and Goodnight

Good evening everyone. I'm pretty behind on my blogging due to an unfortunate issue with our internet so instead of going through everything I'll try to go through the gist of it quickly. The week of internet going down, we celebrated Jill's 34th birthday with sushi w/family and some awesome gifts from Mia. Sushi was fantastic as always at Big Tuna. One of the best parts of the day, was Mia's creativity making cupcakes. She made Dr. Pepper Cupcakes with a black cherry cool-whip frosting topped with an Oreo crumble. I wasn't allowed to do do much accept open and close the oven. She was quite proud of herself as well as myself. Thursday while she made her cupcakes, AT&T installed internet and on Friday, it was already down. Are YOU KIDDING ME?! I was already weary of the issues they've had with other people and sure enough we did. The box stopped working and we were internet-less till TODAY. With two people who work from home, this was far from acceptable yet we couldn't do anything about it but suffer. Sorry Milwaukee Torrent. Luckily, this season I've had a guy helping out a ton so that was great. At some point, Mia reunited with Cecilia and played at her house for an hour or so. The kids would have played for hours but I had to work on a very rare Wednesday night.

Over the weekend, we visited Uncle Tommy's new condo and had some lunch. Awesome. Throughout this week, I completed my last few days of work (YAY!!!) and we've been packing and re-packing and adjusting everything for our big trip. This week, I luckily talked Mia into bringing her school bag instead of this tiny pink thing. It'll be so much easier to leave the little bag on wheels behind. Yesterday was the 4th so we had a few cookouts between my brother Andy's house and my in-laws.

Today, I had my first art lesson with a 7th grader. I was requested to teach this awesome kid some art skills. Honored, I was looking forward to this for a few weeks so along with Mia who played with her Kindle, we did a little apple drawing. I wasn't sure what she truly wanted to improve on, so I figured a little apple sketching with color pencils and pastels would be a fun warm up. She informed me she'd like to get better with human anatomy and animals. After our trip, I'll be working on a Hedwig pen sketch with her. When she told me she was a massive Potter-head, I knew it'd be a lesson worth teaching. I sincerely love teaching kids and the older the kid(s) the more they can retain and pick up so I look forward to doing it again.

Tomorrow, picnic with friends, hair cut and getting any last minute things done.  Torrent game Saturday so hopefully they can end the season on a good note. This will be the last blog before we leave for the trip. That's all for now, thanks for reading and ALOHA!