Kayla has applied to the Nursing program! finally!!

well good news! Kayla is at a crossroads in her life and has just applied to go to the nursing program! she will also be applying to other schools very soon. This is very exciting to her and I and has been a great accomplishment in her behalf. Now we get to wait for a month and sit and twiddle our thumbs in hopes that she gets in!

I am currently working on some computer certifications. I am currently working on MCITP: Server aAdministrator. it works with windows servers, users and domains. It will also give me a good basis on how a web server works. around September I will be working on some designs for webpages in PHP that I can display as examples to companies and maybe start designing for them also. You wouldn't believe how many people have asked me to make a web page for them.... It's time I learn!

We have been coming up with projects we want to do and one of them is the boat. We call it Project: Boat. We are in the middle of reupholstering it. It has been a fun experience! We ended up taking out the fold down seats, the sidings with Vinyl on them, and breaking lots of parts accidently. After we took off the folding down seats we realized how horrible the wood was so we ended up scraping the wood and buying some other wood to replace it! we are drawing out the patterns to cut out from the two large half inch plywood that we baught yesterday. We then will put it all together with new hinges and supports and it should turn out a lot better. We kept the same cusions as the old seats cause that stuff is just a little to far out of budget. Then its off to cut out the patterns of the upholstery that we very carefully unstiched and it left a pattern for us to fallow. We haven't baught any fabric yet so the colors we arn't for sure yet. I have found some cheap places online to buy this stuff so that is a plus. Taring apart the boat we have realized how dirty it really is. So not only has it become an upholstery project but a clean up project as well. We varnished the wood plank on the back of the boat, as well as any other wood features of the boat. It looks great! We are hoping to also fix the tilt/trim motor that lowers and highers the outboard in/out of the water. That could be costly so we are just going to get a few estimates and go from there.