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HELLO!!!! i will finally be able to check updated my blog off my long to do list. the main reason i haven't posted was due to some computer issues we were having this summer in which that dell had to send someone out to put a new hard drive in our lap top. at this point i can use the computer but can't upload my photos, nick is working on it. so there will be no pictures this time, but i will get them up asap.

summer is officially over at the hughes household and we are in full back to school mode. summer was great!!! it went by so fast, too fast!!! we took the kids to the mall of america towards the end of july and had so much fun. august was spent swimming at the smith's pool (thanks mary jo and bill), going out on aunt nat-nat's new boat, and getting the lids ready for the new school year. which brings us to back to school. alivia is loving 1st grade. she has the same teacher she had for kindergarten and i think all the same kids are in her class. i get so amazed daily at how fast she is growing up. owen is still going to CCVI.....yay!!!! he is in their kindergarten. when nick and i decided to keep him at CCVI that meant that we would have to transport him their ourselves this year. (stupid independence school district) so that has created my biggest challenge this school year.....i have to get liv on the bus at 8:20am, noah to his sitters in blue springs on the days i work (3-4days) and then owen to CCVI in kc by 9am....ugh, wore me out just typing it.....and then do it all again at 3pm. thanks to our neighbors, their sitter and nicks mom we seem to have a routine that has been working. this weekend we took liv and owen to the circus. liv loved it and owen did too at first, but i think that visually it was a little bit over stimulating for him because he started to not feel good and slept for more then half the show. :-( still we had a good time!!

owen has been doing ok. he goes back to the kidney center tuesday. his labs have been getting a little worse. he gets tired very easy. and just has some really crumby feeling days. so i'm really anxious to go to this appointment and see what we find out.

noah is growing like a weed and makes us smile & laugh everyday. i couldn't love that kid more!!!!

thanks everyone for being great family, friends, and supporters!!! i will try my hardest not to make you wait so long between posts again :-)