New Pictures Update

We've uploaded some new pictures to our Flickr site. With some of them I was playing around with a couple settings/features on our camera...you'll be able to tell which ones. ;-) Here are a few to get you started or you can click HERE to go on to all the pictures. FYI...if you are viewing this from work and your workplace blocks the Flickr site...you may not be able to see the pictures below. (edit...turns out that you may be able to see the pics after all. The school district where we work blocks Flickr and since I linked these pictures straight from our Flickr site I assumed I wouldn't be able to see them at work but I am here now (8:23am eastern, Sept 19) and they are showing up so that's cool!)

Austin loves trains and here is telling you the sound a train makes....Choo Choo!!!!

Here he is trying to ham it up for the camera.....CHEEEEEEEESE!!

He also LOVES planes and helicopters. We heard a plane and he was trying to find it.

Yes I try to get into EVERYTHING

Trying to fill Daddy's shoes already!

New Pictures

We've posted up new pictures of Austin as well as of trips to Stone Mountain, Jen's mom, Dorothy, and Steve's visit as well as my mom and dad's visit. Here is a small preview and you can see the rest of them HERE

Updates!

Ok, so I finally got around to setting up our old domain name to now point to this blog. So if you type in www.tjamimms.com you should get this webpage. Don't worry...if you have this site bookmarked with the old address (http://tjmimms.blogspot.com), you're bookmark will still bring you here.

Jen's mom and stepdad were in town a week ago and my mom and dad were here for the long weekend. We had fun with all the grandparents and will be getting pictures posted hopefully this evening. But for now.....it's BACK TO WORK!!

At the Flying Machine Restaurant watching the planes.

I'm Sore

Not sore as in mad at someone/something...sore as in physically sore. I know, you're probably saying, "Big deal!" In actuality it's probably not a big deal but I never knew you could get sore from vomiting. Now you're probably saying.."Yeah, thanks for that visual." heheh. Here's what happened. This past Thursday night, Austin woke up vomiting on two separate occasions. I stayed up with him after the second one and he finally went back to sleep. I stayed up and then stayed home with him on Friday. By the end of that day he was doing alot better and Saturday he was back to normal. Jennifer's mom and stepdad were in town and on Saturday evening we all went with Tom, Gretchen, Levi, and Emily to the Flying Machine for dinner and to watch planes take off and land from the Gwinnett Airport. Austin loves planes and helicopters so we thought it would be a blast. We all had a good time but....late Saturday night, early Sunday morning, it was my turn to be up vomiting. A good 20-30 minutes I was in the bathroom doing this. I wasn't really feeling better the rest of Sunday and only really feel about 100% as of today. Yesterday though I noticed that across about the middle to upper part of my back I was really sore if I took a deep breath. I could not figure out why I would be sore there. I told Jen about it and she said that it was probably from my episode on Saturday night. I guess I've never thrown up bad enough before that it's made my whole upper body sore because today the soreness now includes my chest and ribs. It would have made sense to me if my stomach muscles were sore...not my upper body. I guess you do learn something new everyday...although I would have rather not learned about this one first hand.

Chillin' in my rocker

Lucky tired after a long day

No we didn't get another dog, its Tom & Gretchen's puppy he is soo cute but a ball of energy!

Got Yogurt?

Busy Week!

As the title says, last week was a busy week. A week ago Thursday, Jen calls me at work to say that there is water dripping from the door to the attic. I leave work early and come home and it turns out that the drip pan for the air conditioner was overflowing and running down and through the attic doorway. Also turns out the water was gathering in one of our return ducts as well. I get all/most of the water dried up and we think we're good. We had arranged for a babysitter for Austin so we could go out and see the new Harry Potter movie and the get some dinner. Well, while we are in the movie, the babysitter calls and says that water is starting to drip from the attic door again. We had left a trash can below that door in the ceiling, so we stayed and finished the movie but then came right home. Water had soaked through the return ducting and was running from that out the attic door. Luckily we have a friend from small group who installs a/c units. I had called him before the movie and he said he could come over on Friday. So Friday afternoon he came over and we were up in the attic for about three hours. Turns out a piece of insulation ductboard (sp?) had fallen and clogged the drain pipe for the a/c so the water was running down and filling up the drain pan, getting into one of the return ducts and running out the attic door. So we got the pipe unclogged and things returned to normal. We still need to replace the piece of ducting that was soaked by the water but our friend will be helping us with that this evening.

This last week was the first week back for all teachers, so for Jen and I it has meant a very busy work week. Jen had a situation at work were out of nowhere she was being told by teachers and some employees from a different school that the principal at this other school had told the staff there that Jen would be at there school part time as well as working at her current school. Well, the next day, Jen had a meeting with her principal and told her what she had heard. Her principal was very upset that Jen had found out this way. She explained that there had been talks about that but nothing had been finalized. Later, we guess her principal contacted the principal at the other school because Jen found out that the other principal sent out a retraction to what she had told her staff. The final outcome is that Jen will not be working part time at both schools. She will be 'full time' at her school for this year. Next year is possibly a different story but Jen is going to be looking for a position with a school closer to home.

I started working at my new school in July. It's been going well so far. Kids start back tomorrow. I wasn't able to get everything completed that I wanted to before school started but overall, I think I did a pretty good job considering having to learn a new network, new people...basically quite a bit of new stuff. I think I can get the rest done within the first 2 weeks. That makes it sound like there is still alot left to do. That's not really the case but once kids start school it's very difficult to get as much done during the day.

Austin started back to daycare as well this week. We think he is starting to get readjusted to that. So far, every day when Jen has dropped him off he has flipped out and cried but it's getting better. His cough has started up again along with a runny nose. Not sure if it is due to being back around all the kids at school or not. The cough is a pain because it is waking him up at night and not letting him get a real good night's sleep. We are starting to try a low dose of kids benadryl to see if that will help. If nothing else, it may knock him out enough to let him sleep well. ;-)

Well, that's all for now. See you all later!

Austins new-to-him car.

Trash to Treasure

Hey Grandpa, I'm riding a Deer

Having fun at Kroger!

Trip to Helen, GA

We went to Helen, GA today and had a lot of fun. It was extremely hot. (on our way home one of the bank signs said it was 109 degrees!) Some pictures are posted on our flicker account http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjamimms/. There is a lot to do when Austin get a little older too. The whole place is set up like an alpine village even the Wendy's restaurant was looking very Scandinavian! It was fun and we all came home tired. I have to go to work on Monday! :(


**edit** I found a way to create a slide show of Flickr pictures and embed it on a website or blog so I'm testing it here with our pictures from the Helen trip. (Tony)


Created with flickrSLiDR.

I Love Taking Pictures of Austin!

OK, So I went a little over kill on the photos of Austin today. Austin is so much fun to take photos of! He will now say cheese but usually it is delayed or to early, its pretty funny!

I was messing with the settings on my camera and taking pictures of Austin and his blanket. Apparently Austin was done and brought the lens cap (where he got it from I have no clue!) and decided to try to put it on the camera, hence the picture above. It was so funny I took the lens cap from him and put it on the floor he picks it up and tries again. I guess we are done :)

My "motherly" instinct is unfortunately still over riding my "get the camera that is funny!" instinct, several weeks ago Tony and I were in the kitchen when we heard some splashing we turn around and Austin is standing with both feet in the dogs water bowl and today I thought I heard the dogs eating their food but when I turn to look at the dog bowls Austin had his dump truck 4wheeling though the dog food. (Which seems to be the most logical place to play with a dump truck, smart kid!). Of course both times I had gotten him to stop before I thought of getting my camera!

Austin the Builder

Austin wearing daddy's new hat!

Ok, well part of the changes that I talked about in my last post have actually now happened. We have put our pictures up on Flickr. To see our pictures from now on, head over to http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjamimms/. Hopefully soon I'll get our domain name transferred to this blog and then if you type in http://www.tjamimms.com/ it will come here. Not to worry though, you won't have to change any bookmarks or favorites that you may already have pointing here, http://tjmimms.blogspot.com/ will still work.

Now for some Austin updates....I think many of you may already know but Austin LOVES the water. He loves playing on the steps in our subdivision pool. If we would let him, he would jump off into the deeper water. He's feerless with it right now. We can't let him try that though since he has his tubes in his ears. I think if he was able to actually try it, he may not be as brave after that ;-).

Seems like every time we go to the pool, a helicopter will fly over. Austin now loves helicopters too. It's happened so much at the pool that now as soon as we get to the pool he will start pointing up to the sky and looking for the helicopter to fly over. He's big on helicopters and planes. Even if he can't find the plane, if he hears it he will point to the sky.

Austin now also makes 'vroom vroom' sounds for cars. He'll run his hand back and forth across his chest or stomach and call out 'Vroom Vroom!!' When he is talking about a car or truck. The whole hand across the chest/stomach thing started with him having a car in his hand and rolling back and forth across his stomach/chest. Now he'll do it with or without the car.

Jen's been talking about her having to go back to work next Monday. I'm not sure what the big deal is, I've been working all summer! ;-) Just kidding honey! We both think Austin is going to have a bit of a hard time readjusting to being dropped off at preschool. When we leave him with childcare at church or with anyone, if he sees us leaving he loses it and starts crying. Sometimes it's almost the kind of crying where you have to tell him 'Ok Austin...take a breath son....breathe Austin!' He has just really gotten used to being at home with mommie. We know he'll be fine but it's gonna take a few days.

I've started working at my new school. I started at the beginning of July. It's going well. I've had to learn alot. I think I'm going to like it. It's only 2.5 miles from the house so it can't be too bad right ;-). The next couple months are going to be really busy though as school starts up again.

I think that pretty much brings you all (ya'll for the southerners) up to date. If I've left anything out, I'm sure Jen will post about it.

Just wanted to let everyone know that soon (won't put a specific date on it because it all depends on when I get time to do this) we will be taking down our website and then using the address for that site as the new address for this blog. So instead of typing http://tjmimms.blogspot.com you'll type in www.tjamimms.com and you will come here. We are going to start hosting our pictures on Flickr. Once we get that setup I'll post the link to that as well as put it over in the side bar with the rest of our links.