A New View At Work

I moved back to the capitol tower after finishing up my software project. My new work area is located on the south side of the 16th floor. Several people have asked what the view is like from my desk so I took a few pictures. As you can probably tell, this view is a little bit better than my last worksite where I had a ground level view of a parking lot.

This picture is looking to the southwest towards the Missouri River. Fort Abraham Lincoln historical site with the George Custer house is in the distance across the river:

This picture is looking straight south over the capitol mall. Above the valley in the background is the University of Mary:

This picture is looking straight down from my window. Flowers are used to spell out North Dakota as well as create the shapes around the flagpoles. The distance down to the ground is around 220 ft.

Basement Update

Work on the basement has been moving forward. The bathroom and hallway are now painted and almost ready for flooring. Doors are also in the process of being installed.

Basement Hallway:

Door to Bedroom:

Bathroom Floor Getting Cleaned and Prepared for Tile:

Valynn's art

Here is a link to Valynn's art.

click on art gallery, kindergarten

Her fish is the 6th row down and the 4th one over. Blue body, green fins, yellow face.


Blobs 5th row down and 3rd one over.

So mom has yet to cook this weekend.....

and supper has been in the fridge since Friday. I pulled out a frozen meal to have on Friday since I was going to be gone all day. Well Friday night we were invited at the last minute to a birthday party for a girl in Valynn's class. She's also the granddaughter of the people we bought our house from. They ordered too much KFC and invited us over to supper. On Saturday we had a housewarming party for the couple across the street and a Alex's birthday, so we got meals at both parties. Tonight we're going over to Brad and Chantel's for supper, hopefully fish that the men are out catching as I'm typing this.
Here is the link to some pictures from last nights birthday party.
I took a picture of Kyra this morning wearing a dress that was one of my favorites on Valynn. I thought it would be fun to compare them. Valynn is the top two and Kyra the bottom two.

Field Trip

Valynn had her field trip to the Children's Museum yesterday. She had a great time. I was in charge of Valynn and another kid from her class. The boy was an identical twin, talk about confusing when trying to keep track of him. Valynn's favorite part was the cow milking parlor. She was telling all the kids how it was done. Mason and Kyra had a great time with the sitter, they played games and went outside.

Didn't get mother of the day yesterday.

Since this story is making it around the neighborhood I thought I would post it for all to get a laugh at. Yesterday afternoon in the midst of a melt down by my older two, I locked my youngest in a dark closet by herself. I went to my closet to get something, turned around, shut the light off, and closed the door. A few seconds later I heard Kyra crying so I started opening up doors looking for her (she likes to close doors), after opening Valynn's door, Mason's door, and the bathroom door I was at a loss of where she could be. I finally found her in my closet, she must have followed me in there and I didn't see her. I am now told she need counseling. I guess I'll just send her with Valynn, who I forgot to get at the bus stop a couple of weeks ago.

Autumn Adventure

We attended CAT's Autumn Adventure yesterday. The kids had a great time. We would have liked to have stayed longer to go on the hayride and check out some of the pioneer exhibits but we needed to get home. Today we watched Alex for a few hours. The kids found some leaves and raked them up to play in.