Our First Two Weeks Of Institute

Oh boy! Where to start??? We set off for OKC on Monday the 2nd for Bobby's first day of institute. We had to go back because I forgot his dress clothes lol, but we made it on time plus we got to stop and grab some lunch and check out a place to put Bianca in for dancing classes. 

So we get to OKC University and Bobby goes to check in. The apartments look nice from the outside, so we were kinda excited! I was just praying we didn't get a 2nd floor apartment, please no, not me, pregnant with 2 kids, one 20 something lbs to carry up and down the stairs. When Bobby came back from registering he had good news and bad news. Good news was that we got a ground floor apartment, YAY!!!!!!! Bad news was that apparently his laptop got a crack in it. Greeeaaatt. That meant that I had to go out later when he was at his first session and buy him a laptop. Me who knows nothing about technology ahaha. But I got a good one and it was the cheapest one at Walmart so yay. Suck to set us back a bit money wise, but laptops were REQUIRED!!! But that meant I got to have the cracked screen laptop, yay! I don't have to use the old, slow desktop anymore. We just hooked up the cracked laptop to the moniter we had for the desktop and it was as good as new. And fast. I forgot what a fast computer was like. ;)

Alright so the apartment. Pretty on the outside and the worst possible grossness on the inside. Seriously, they did NOT clean or vacuum the apartments out after the college kids left, I SWEAR!!! I wasn't expecting the ritz, but come on!!! I expected dorm style carpets, fine. But I did not expect dirt all over the floor and spiders in the bathrooms. Thank goodness someone left a vase in the dishwasher, because that was the spider killing vase of the summer. GROSS GROSS GROSSS!!!!!!! We had 4 bedrooms, so we picked the 3 cleanest for us and the kids. The 4th was turned into the computer room/kids "playroom." We took the mattress off the bed and turned it into a slide for the kids LOL. They had fun at least. Ugh, this place is so gross though!!! Just 6 week...just 6 weeks. I shall be in Edmond as often as possible LOL!!!

The next day when Bobby left at 6:30AM, I started getting us and the kids up and we left too. We went to the house in Jenks and waited for the mover to come. They actually came when they said they would, so I just kept the kids calm and told them where to put the stuff. We labeled out boxes pretty well, even the boxes that had a million things written on them, we bought labels and put the new locations on each box, so that's what I told the movers. Just put them where the LABEL says, not what's written on the box. They still got it wrong. It took a LONG time to get everything sorted and unpacked because of that. Not a good moving experience at ALL. Blah. They finished in a few hours though, so that was an upside. I ordered some pizza for me and the kids and then we headed back to OKC. I timed it well so they could sleep in the car for naptime and I could listen to what ever I wanted to in the car (don't have very many food cravings with Micah, but all I want to do is listen to early 2000's punk pop music! I guess he's our little emo rocker boy hehe). It worked out, but was just annoying that we had to come all the way back for the stupid furniture. 

 Institute blows. This first week Bobby just has training, but like from 7/8 AM until 11pm, so he hardly ever sees the kids. I get to see him because I stay up reading waiting for him, and he comes home for dinner (thank goodness), but still, ughhh! Anyways, on the 4th, I took the kids out to get Bianca's ballet uniform she needs. She needs pink tights and a purple leotard, so we grabbed that and she was so excited to start dancing! Seems like a nice place, so I'm excited.

 The next day we went up to Edmond and played at our old park we loved. I randomly ran into Laura Anderson there which was fun!!! I miss Edmond. Then we ate at McDonald's for fun and to let the kids play on the play place (which Bianca did not want to climb up into, but Cameron did LOL).

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This is how institute makes us feel

  Normally we're probably going to go home on the weekends, but since this is their first week at Institute and they're starting teaching summer school on Monday, there's a couple of required sessions they had to attend on Saturday. I hate staying in the dorm, but I am so excited to go back to our old Edmond ward on Sunday! Bobby had a session on Saturday, but the kids and I went over to our friends the Bailey's house. They were having a BBQ to celebrate their baby #3! It was nice to catch up with them again. Michelle May was there too and it was so nice seeing her again. It was a fun time. I wish Bobby could have came to help follow Cameron the Explorer around, but it was nice.

 As Michelle pointed out, Bianca and I were matching, haha. Church on Sunday was fun, kinda weird to be back, and even weirder to stand up and say that we were visitors, since it felt like old times. We got to go to Alfredo's this weekend too. I hate that there's free queso with your salsa because I can't have any being pregnant, wah wah! ;)

Life went on the next week. Bobby was even busier! He was gone by like 6/6:30AM to get breakfast and to get to his school. He is teaching Kindergarten this summer! But it sucks because they teach all day, come back, get maybe 15 mins to change (I get to at least say hi to him them, but not the kids because it's during naptime), then he goes to a session, comes back for dinner for less than an hour, and then goes to another session, and then has TONS of work to do after it...DUE THE NEXT DAY!!! So he's out doing the work in a group until seriously 11pm every night. No sleep for him. And I'm a busy single mother during the weekdays heh. 

Monday the kids and I went shopping for Father's Day stuff and to get Bianca her tap and ballet shoes at Once Upon A Child (2 different ones lol but we got cheap ones finally)

On Tuesday I was too tired to take them out anywhere, so we just played outside. They like the volleyball court because of the sand. Bianca calls it the beach hahahahahaha. Awww I miss NC. :(

 Wednesday was Bianca's first dance class at OKC Ballet! Man, they're...professional there. Doesn't seem like it's too fun for the kids. Of course we're coming from The Little Gym Wilmington which was AMAZING, but still. Bianca had fun, but the teacher seemed a bit serious. I guess it's because it is one of the best places to study ballet in OK, but still. It was funny, one little kid got put in time out because she was hanging on the barre. Bianca told me all about it hehe. But it's a nice place. Cameron enjoys running around. I do not enjoy chasing him. lol. You can't see in the class either, which is kinda sad, but she said she had fun, and us parents took turns looking in the door and sneaking some pics of our little ones, so it wasn't so bad.

Thursday we just hung out and finished Father's Day presents.

 We were excited on Friday because we were heading back to Jenks. Who'd have thought I'd ever be saying that?? ;) We ate lunch and waiting until nap time to head out. On Fridays, it's community day, so you go to the city you will be teaching in and they show you around and such. So I just had to worry about getting me and the kids to Tulsa. We picked Bobby up after his sessions at the TFA offices and we were excited to have our weekend with him. Or at least see him for longer than an hour a day.