McKade turned 18 months on the 10th of this month! WOW! He is coming up with new words almost every day now. The past day or two his word is MOOOOOO COW. Last night he said it in his sleep! Today he recognized a MOOOOO COW on TV! It's amazing!

Mc had Father's Day pictures made on Friday. They are so great! The one above is my absolute favorite! I (of course) had to order it. It will be totally in black & white EXCEPT for the tie. Yeah, I know! It looks like 4th of July! OH WELL!

Last week I decided (officially) to complete my degree. It may just be my urge to learn something new. (Why couldn't I just learn to sew?) I checked into a couple of Bachelor's programs & settled on Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences. I have completed the application and the financial aid stuff. Tomorrow I will make copies of my ARRT registration card and fax the application down to Orlando. Maybe when I graduate in 15 years, we can actually go there! It would be perfect. McKade is almost 2 now, so *if* I can finish this program in 2 years-ish, he will be 4. Maybe we CAN go to Orlando. I guess we'll have to see about that. FIRST I have to secure a student loan to PAY for going back to college. Call me if you are interested in donating! LOL- just kidding! With any luck in a couple of years, I will have my Bachelor's in Radiologic Sciences... or I could just be in a mental institution!

Yesterday was Father's Day. We made a weekend out of the holiday. Friday Heath was convinced that I hadn't planned ANYTHING... he got mad Friday night and those cooking & renting a movie plans went right out the window. Hope he had a great time at his friend Ty's! Saturday Heath & McKade had to get measured for tuxes. While they did their man thing & went to the flea market, Mom & I went shopping for a retirement gift for Mr. Dale Martin. His retirement reception was on Saturday night. Since we had a babysitter, we took advantage of the situation. After the reception, we went to Tupelo and ate at the Olive Garden then went to see Kung Fu Panda. YES it is a kid's movie & it is HILARIOUS! Sunday we went to church at Southern Hills with Heath's family. McKade actually lasted 5 minutes into the service before he jumped off of the pew and hit the pew in front of him & blacked his eye! He didn't cry long- yay! Then he was back in church yelling "budddn, buddn" during prayers. I tried to cover his mouth and the only good that did was to make him Indian yell! Then there was the high pitched scream when I told him NO to throwing cars across the room. I took him out and spanked him. He crawled under the pew and LAUGHED at Heath, ate about 1/2 a gallon of gold fish, drank some blue kool-aid, then rubbed goldfish all over my white sweater! I finally just spatted his leg in church after he tried to kick the man in front of us in the head - repeatedly! Then the screaming began. We had to leave. It was bad. Alltogether McKade did pretty well. We made it through 1/3 of the service. Eventhough I have NO idea what was being said! WHAT DO I NEED TO DO!? We had lunch at church, then came home and took an afternoon nap. Heath got an AWESOME watch from us. It came from HourPower. The inside of the watch opens up to a picture of McKade and an engraving that says "Daddy's Superman"... that's what Heath called McKade the entire time he was in the hospital. I think the weekend turned out pretty well!