the GRRRR update....

Ok I'm trying not to be gone for so long these days! So as you know Tyson has been laid off for over a month now and guess how blessed we've been by the unemployment office~you guessed it ZIP! ZELCH! ZERO! NADDA!!!! They keep finding some crappy piddly reason to kick back his claim~I mean you have to be a rocket scientist to be able to fill out the stupid forms!!!! And of course when you try to call you have to wait on hold FOREVER!!! all the while, you are supposed to be making 5 job contacts a week trying to find a job~it's a catch 22 I tell you!

Ok I promise this is going somewhere~we have however been blessed in other ways and so far we are good! so really I can't complain, but DANG! someone needs to get their act together. So then we move on to the Workforce Solutions who is supposed to be helping Tyson get his school paid for~but no one can tell him if this semester is going to be taken care of. And of course Tyson doesn't push the issue, So I got on the phone yesterday to the director of financial aid at the college and found out that the school will be taken care of for this semester if the stupid workforce office will fax a letter stating they aren't going to take care of it. UGH!!! Even the lady I talked to at the college yesterday was frustrated.

So then I came home and looked up his claim status online last night and it said that he will be getting back pay for the last month and we should have it by Wednesday!

WOOHOO!!!! I know their game they want you to get frustrated and forget about it but HA! I've got them figured out and we are going to beat them at their own game!!! I know I'm awful!

So, the best exciting news~we cashed out Tyson's 401K because we had to do something with it and this was the best option for us right now! and now this



is mine all mine!!! I'm so excited because it will free up a large amount of money each month and it's actually paid for before it quits! haha

Today we took Jed and a few of his friends to Laser Tag to have a birthday party. He requested these cupcakes.


I thought they turned out cute.

Here's the latest project Tyson has been up too~he's had big plans for this area of our yard since we moved in 2 years ago and since he's got all this free time on his hands these days he's been working on it.

here's the before




here's the afters







Of course Tyson isn't bored enough yet to replace a part on my car that I've had for um, like 6 months! haha We'll see how long it lasts!!!