School

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Things have been absolutely CRAZY!!!! I am at work 8 hours a day/5 days a week. Every waking minute that I don't have Jacob seems to be filled with doing school work. YUCK!!!

Right now I have 2 online classes: Business Finance and Advertising and Sales Promotions. Mom and I spend hours upon hours working on my Business Finance class and it is kicking our butt. Luckily we are now starting week 7 of a 8 week course. Thank goodness!!

The next 8 weeks I have: Statistics on campus 2 nights a week, and then Consumer Behavior and Western Civilization II online. Yeah, I am not for sure how I am going to pull this one off yet but after that I only have 3 more classes and I AM DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know what I am going to do with myself once I graduate. PARTY!!!!!! (yeah right)

Well I better get back to the homework....

Loehner Crew on Christmas Morning!!

Better late than never!!

Here is the Loehner Crew plus Jacob on Christmorning. If you look really hard you can see dad in the back window. From left to right, me (Rachel) - 24, Robin - 22, Katie - 21, Sarah - 18, and the good ole brother John across the front at 14. Let me tell you, he is on heavy little man. And then of course Jacob - 3, on "Aunt" Katie's shoulders. He always has to be in on all the action.

I would like to think that we are a close family but if you would come down to mom and dad's when we are all together, you would never know it.

"Big Sister" has her work cut out for her and I think out of all 4 of them John has been the hardest to keep up with. Imagine that?!

Girls Weekend in St. Louis!!

Well the wedding planning has officially begun!! YIKES.

Angie (my maid of honor) and I went to a Bridal show in St. Louis a few weekends ago. It was HUGE!! There were so many ideas and booths. I even got a massage!! My first one and it was wonderful.

The above picture was taken at the bridal show in a photo booth that you can rent for your wedding. So didn't even know that was an option!

Needless to say, we sampled lots of goodies and got lots of freebies.

Of course, we made a full weekend out of it and did some shopping!!!!

Home for my Car!!

For the first time in 24 years of my life, I actually have a garage with working garage doors for my car. You have no idea how excited I am about this!!!!!!!!! No more scraping ice and snow off of my car, no more starting the car 30 minutes before I have to go to work, no more hussling to get things into the car when it is pouring down rain.


I LOVE IT!!!

Thank you so much Brad and Randy for putting them in for me!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009 New Year Resolutions!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope that everyone had a Happy New Year. Well I guess it is that time of year again where we come up with our new year resolutions ( that very rarely ever make it all year).

My New Year's Resolutions are:

1. Be Healthy and Fit - meaning that I actually want to try and exercise 3 times a week, and eat healthier.

2. Cook - okay this is a big for me. I want to learn how to cook actual healthy meals for my family. Trust me, I am the queen at pizza, hot dogs, mac & cheese, and quick bake casseroles but other than that.....Rachel is pretty limited. It seems that by the time I get home in the evenings the last thing I feel like doing is cooking a big meal for us. So.....if there are any ideas out there, please feel free to share.

3. Simplify My Life - This is a big one. Needless to say my house looks like a tornado hit it, my office at work is almost as bad. I have a three old, go to school, work full time, and also have my own Mary Kay business. Get the hint....need to simplify. At least get some order and routines going.

4. Graduate From College - Praise the LORD!!! My anticipated graduation date is August 2009. Fingers crossed.

Okay, well I think that is it for 2009. WOW, thats a list. YIKES!!! Now I actually have to accomplish them.


So what are your 2009 New Year Resolutions??

Happy Holidays

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! I know that we sure did. Jacob got so many things that I don't think he knows what to do with them all. I promise to post pictures soon.





My sister Katie, his godmother, gave him a goldfish for Christmas. Jacob was exstatic!! He named him Frank, well Frank went belly up that next day. (I don't think goldfish like to travel) Well Brad and I had the brilliant idea of going to PETCO and buying him Frank #2 before he found out that Frank #1 died. So while Jacob was at his dads on Saturday we went to get Frank #2.





Two hours and $91 later, we are leaving PETCO with one small gold fish, a 14 gallon tank with a filter and a light, rocks, fake plants and who knows what else. Brad decided that Jacob needed more than just one fish and of course we couldn't keep Frank #2 in that small little fish bowl forever. OMG!!

Well, we got it all set up and put Frank in the big tank. When Jacob came home on Sunday he couldn't believe his eyes. He watched that fish swim for hours. He was a spunky little dude. Later that evening we left to go grocery shopping and stop back by PETCO to get a few more fish for the tank. By the time we got to PETCO they were closed so we headed home. When we got home the first thing that Jacob did was go and check on Frank. "Mommy look Frank is sleeping!!" Needless to say, FRANK WAS DEAD. Yep, you heard me right....fish #2 down the toilet.

I think that the water was to hot in the tank so we moved the tank to a different room. So tonight we are on a mission to get some more fish!!

Snow Day!!!

I love SNOW DAYS!!! Tuesday Brad, Jacob and I had a snow day and it was wonderful!! The weather and roads were crappy so we just decided to stay home. We played games, and colored Christmas pictures, and watch movies.

Jacob and Brad both helped me do laundry and dishes. Aren't they wonderful?!

Then we all took a 2 hour nap.Yes, I needed it. And then Bernie made us soup for supper and it was delicious.

LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW!!!