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How frustrating! My camera is on the fritz and I cant up load any of the pictures from the pumpkin patch this past weekend or the pictures from Rendee's shower! CRAP! But I can put a picture of my new car!! YEP....I traded the mountaineer. I was so tired of all the trouble we were having with it so for $40 more a month we could have a new car!! I LOVE IT!! It is a red Ford Fusion and it only costs $30 to fill up rather than the $80 with the mountaineer. We have officially downsized. I have mixed emotions about the size but the newness is pretty darn fabulous!! Anyway. Tyler is doing great at school lately. I figured out the secret. If he gets a sticker for the day then we go get ice cream....needless to say we have gone for ice cream the past 3 school days. Pretty genius if I do say so myself! Ha! His teacher is such a ......for lack of anything nice I will leave that to your imagination..... she is so hateful! I was standing outside as the line walked up and the kids have to give her high five before they can go to their parent. Well Ty is standing in front of her with his hand in the air and she says, "Ty, wait!" and proceeds to name off names of kids whose parents she sees finally after everyone is gone she looks at Ty and says, "ok now go". I hate her. I hate to say she is picking on my child but I think she is. Its pretty bad when another parent approaches you as you go to your car and says she did the same thing to her kid the year before. "She is just THAT WAY" they said. Sheesh! I have a feeling I will be meeting with her in her conference period soon.....before Christmas maybe! All of this "trouble" Ty is in is starting to get really old. Raegan....man! She is a hand full. It just started one day and as not stopped. I don't know if we will make it to 2 without me ringing her neck! She is sooo sweet but she has figured out how to pull her weight around here and I and seem to get her to stop shrieking MOMMY when ever Ty is in the vicinity, or has something sh wants. She is driving me nuts! As for everything else....well....the BIG GAME is son Saturday and I cant be more excited!! We are heading to Raiderland on Friday and trick- or -treating my old stomping grounds and tailgating on Saturday! We don't have tickets to the game but plan on drinking lots of beer and watching it in the parking lot! Cant wait! Mom is watching the kids and we will be with Kyle, Kristina, Kyles family, and Crystal & Donny! Its going to be good and I think we have a chance of beating them! Ill let ya know how it all turns out! Julie

FOR SALE!!

Up for a new business venture? Pottery Ranch is for sale. As a result of events out of my control an executive decision was made to sell the business...scroll down to see pictures...if your interested in a paint your own pottery studio here in San Angelo, call me. (325)650-1072......sniff.sniff. Julie Wittie

Car trouble!

Yep. Something that started out as a small hole in my radiator has turned into a bit 'ol fiasco!! Here is the deal. Keep up now.....we paid a guy to replace our radiator that had a hole in it. Said "guy" did and not only did he do that....he gave us a radiator that had an internal leak. After driving it around for a week and a half we realized something was STILL leaking from the bottom of our car. SO i take it back to said "guy" and he replaces #1 radiator with #2 radiator. I drive it for 2 weeks and figure out that something is wrong with my car. It was doing funny things so while in Levelland seeing my parents my mom gives me her car to drive and my dad takes my car to the Ford dealership where he works, and where we bought the car. SOOOO....2 weeks later and lots of warranty work done and money spent...we figured that there was a problem with the transmission. My dad brings me the car only to find that the problem was not fixed. We still have a PROBLEM!!! I take it to a shop here and they tried to charge me $350 to tell me it was broken. Yeah after I turned on the Julie "charm" the charges were waived and I was on my way. I even heard Tyler say to his teacher, "yeah see that stuff leaking out from under that car....thats MY mom' car" . UGH how embarassing!! Long story short....My car is still in the shop and I have been without my car for 2 weeks. Matt was toting me around until my mom traded me again and my car is in the shop in Levelland and I am driving my moms Explorer........WHEW. Needless to say I have a few choice words to say to above said "guy" who caused all of this! And I might just have to trade the piece of shit in and get me a

I just LOVED Heather's and I think I just need to go get me one too! LOL! My plea to Matt is, what I save in gas will go to the payment! Yeah right!

On a lighter note. Roadrunners finally got their beer license and are serving bottled beer. We were stoked! It is slow go but we think the beer will be a hit. Pottery Ranch is SLOW! We are hurting for business and are ready for the Christmas rush! I will have to take pictures of my new stuff I have painted! The kiddos are doing fabulous! Tyler straightened up in school and Raegan LOVES her daycare! It is so comforting to know this as I drop her off every morning. We are still shopping for a house. The one I loved did not accept our offer and the house was already overpriced. We found out they were getting forclosed on by the bank and had to sell it for no less than the asking price. So GOOD LUCK is all I have to say to them!! But anyway we are still looking! I have been watching the Biggest Loser and as I do when a new one starts......I'm ready to jump on the weight loss bandwagon. In fact there are a lot of things I am ready to change about my life but too much to mention now. I have some decisions to make and some soul searching to do I'm sure I will rant about them in another post. Thanks for reading! Julie

Kindergarten TAKE 2....CLICK

Well Tyler made it to day 10 and then......he ended up in the Principal's office! Yep! Couldn't believe the phone call Matt got from the teacher that Tyler had "poked" another child in the cheek with a fork at lunch! Of course you can guess my reaction...."He STABBED a kid???????ALREADY????" Ha! Yep I tend to exaggerate. I knew he might end up in the Principal's office some day (maybe 2nd grade) but not even 2 weeks into kindergarten? Man....what is in store for me? If you know me then you know that I insisted Matt march up to the school and BEAT HIM (were my exact words)....but Matt reminded me that it is not like when we were in school and we could get CPS called on us for "beating" our child! Strike 3 on "Mother of the Year". So he just got his but busted when he got home. So needless to say I'm praying week 3 goes off without a hitch....but I'm not going to hold my breath! On another note...Matt and I are celebrating our 6th anniversary on the 14th! I cant believe it has been that long! And what better way to celebrate than to buy a house!! Yep...we put in an offer on a house today! I cant wait! I have been on the lookout for a house I like and I finally found one! I will keep everyone posted on the result of our offer!! I hope we can get a good price on it cause I think I'm already tooo attached to it. Julie

Ohhhh!! Hi!!!!

Well, well, look who is back! I almost forgot I started a blog and feel pretty bad that the past several months has not been documented. CRAP! Here is the rundown...... May.....well May was a good month....Kristina and I implemented lots of changes at PR and I quit working at Roadrunners for the time being. Tyler graduated from PreK and was home for the summer. I had a sad attempt at keeping Raegan out of daycare and was taking her up to PR with me. Didn't work. She started a horrible daycare (I wont mention it of course) and after several weeks of sickness I found the ULTIMATE daycare in San Angelo! Mosaic Redwine is here new "home away from home". Not much else in May. Not exciting anyway. June....with Raegan in daycare I decided to have Tyler with me at PR for the summer. I had day camps 3 days a week there with different themes and a large group frequent us on Mondays when we were closed. It has been fabulous owning the Pottery Ranch and Ty didn't mind being there so much either! We didn't go anywhere during June since owning 2 businesses doesn't allow time for it! So much for summer vacation! July....I like to call it the dreaded month. We had a fabulous 4th here at our house with all of our friends! Jared and Heather even came for a visit and we were so glad to spend time with our dear friends who abandoned us. (I say that cause I know she will read this HA) No we love our visits with Jared and Heather and only wish they were more frequent. We went to Austin to see LaBecca and Nick get married! My mom came for the weekend to watch the kiddos so we could run off to Austin with Kyle and Kristina! We even got to spend a night and day in Fredericksburg! And if you know me you know how much I love Fredericksburg. We went to the outlets in San Marcos and even to Gruene to the Gristmill to eat lunch!! SO much fun! And then it happened!!! I turned 30! It sucks to hit a milestone like that, but I have great friends and family that made it really special! And as it turns out it isn't so bad! August....not much else has happened in August either. Matt turned 29 and we celebrated by going to schlitterbahn with his family! It was a blast! Pottery Ranch wound down and the restaurant sped up........oh and Tyler has started kindergarten. Ill tell that story in another post! That pretty much sums it up! Ill give more details later on the important stuff....but what matters is i plan on posting more frequently! So get READY!!!