We've Been Gone Too Long :)

Wowsers. I didn't realize how long it's been since I posted! :) What have we been up to that has kept me so busy? :)
Well...the weeks seem to have flown by. My online hours have really picked up again now that school started (I can work up to 12 hours/week!), I started my college class 3 weeks ago (it's going great), and I am still doing one night/week at Sylvan...all the while being McKenzie and Kylie's mommy, Rob's wife, and a friend to a few people :)
We had our "we're officially staying" bonfire party last Friday...6 people and 3 kids bore the rain to come out and join us --- thank you! And guess what? It didn't rain during the whole bonfire!!! God is great!
The girls and I have been to the zoo and traveling quite a bit every week running errands, going to the library, and two weeks ago, we went to Jackson for the day and visited my parents. It was so nice.
Things are going well here on the homefront, excpet our basement has (so far) 320 gallons of water in it from the rains this past weekend. There is still much, much more to Shop Vac out and we are having our own issues with the Oakland County Drain Commission, because if they had lowered the dam on time and during the rains as appropriate, we would not have flooded. It's just very disconcerting because we just finished off 1/2 of our basement just before Kylie was born, so now it's been quite a clean up.
Let's see...I really don't have any other super exciting news to share, except, we are getting Marley on Sunday!!!! : ) Woot! Woot! :) Oh, and McKenzie Grace got a big surprise last night after I got out of Sylvan. A really nice student there named Shatara used her earned tokens (they earn tokens for finishing assignments) to buy her a giant, and I mean giant "Marty" from Madagascar. You can see the picture attached. It was soooo sweet of this girl to "buy" Marty for my little princess. She loves it!!! :)
Let's see....Hmmm....no other news really. When I think of something exciting to tell you, I'll write some more...In the meantime, I guess I better get back to work here online. I am just waiting for a kid to answer my questions. I made him/her (we don't know the "mystery" student...could be a him or her) a practice vocab test with their words and they are taking a really, really long time to answer!! :) So it goes... :)
Adios for now...
Edited to add: Camera batteries dead. Will post more pics later. :)