Another wild and wacky week in the Olbinski house.

Okay, really not that wild or wacky, but it was very busy and we even accomplished a few things. The first is that I started my second to last class at University of Phoenix, meaning in about 10 weeks, I’ll be completely FINISHED.

And to go along with that, I registered for COMMENCEMENT which will be on November 7th at the Arizona Cardinals stadium at 10am. I’m soooo excited, I cannot wait to be done with school and cannot wait to actually WALK at my graduation.

Work was busy last week and ended on a sour note as two more people got laid off, including my boss. I’ve been told not to worry, and I believe it, but the carnage around me is always hard to take.

On the homefront, we changed up our master bathroom a bit by removing the glass doors and framing from the shower and hanging a curtain up instead. I was just tired of trying to keep the glass clean, it’s just not worth it and the curtain really makes the place feel a lot warmer. Took a lot of work and elbow grease to get the glue from the framing off the tile.

The three-day weekend flew past unbelievably quick. We took Lyla to see the animated film Up on Friday and she did great as in not crying or whining. But my bright idea was to go right after her morning nap so she wouldn’t be fussy, but that is her “active” time and proved to be the wrong time to go. She wanted to play the whole time.

On the 4th we went out to Maricopa and our friends the Eeds’ house to hang with them and a bunch of other friends. A nice day of swimming, eating, playing cornhole and watching fireworks. Lyla did great in the pool again and even went under the water for quick dips a bunch of times and always held her breath!

She also played with her friend Tatum, which you can see in the picture to the right.

Not sure if I told the story already, but we found Lyla in the morning sitting up in her crib. We saw her on the monitor, walked into her room and there she was, sitting up, hands clasped and smiling. I lowered the crib later that day.

Oh and we got our first monsoon storm on Friday night, and I went a bit nuts posting about it and photographing it. I posted some of my own lightning photos on my weather blog, haboobing.com, so go check them out!