A Weekly Update

Hello Friends!

Wow! What a busy past couple of weeks we have had! I have been so busy getting ready for school two weeks ago, and just finished my first week of school this past week! Our inservice week before school started was awesome! We got a new super intendant and he is awesome! Check out the hilarious video he created below, he showed this to us at our convocation at the beginning of the year. 

Not only is he really funny, but he is so kind! My team and I went to eat lunch at BJ's on Tuesday, the day after he showed us the "Happy" video, and we ran into him! After making a couple of jokes of sending over a drink to his table (a Dr. Pepper), we decided we would buy him dessert and send it over to his table! We planned on sending over a dessert with a note we wrote on a napkin saying "Thank you for a "happy" convocation, we know we're going to have a happy year!" and signed it from our team. Well, unfortunately, our waitress didn't understand. She went over to his table and asked if he wanted a dessert, when he declined, she just gave him our note. It was so stupid and we were embarrassed! After that we asked for our check, and she said that it had been taken care of. Well, we knew that part of our meal had been taken care of by the manager, because they had messed up some of our food and they had told us they were taking care of that part. We checked to see if the manager was  taking care of all our meal and she said "yes" and pointed to our new super intendant and said "He took care of it for you". How sweet is that?! So we went to say thank you, and he had written us a note back on another napkin!! We just couldn't get over how down to earth and sweet our new super is! 

Meet the Teacher Night went great, I LOVED getting to see all my old kids! They are so adorable! I am SO in the right profession for me! I seriously left school with such a full heart that night! My first week back at school was good and busy as well! I can tell I am already needing to work on getting used to this whole swapping class thing. I am already behind in both classes and had to play major catch up on Friday! I need to get that on lock down, quick! 

The weekend before school started, we went to the Rangers game with Kelsey and Ryan. The boys had fun!

That Sunday, I made some corny apple cookies for my team, because I LOVE corny things like that!

 Sara helped a little!! :) 

These are the adorable flowers that Nick and Susan sent me for the first day of school! They are so sweet!! They even had a couple of crayons in there! How adorable!!

We also had a surprise this week, an unpleasant one. We found out on Monday that Zach will not have a job as of September 15th, his product got sold to another company and they would not be able to take everyone on. SO, we prayed about it, a lot and God provided for us! Zach found out two days later that he was getting picked up by the new company that bought his product! God is so good! For some reason, I wasn't really worried about it, I was really at peace about and had faith that it would work out, and it paid off, praise the Lord! The only negative is, we don't have benefits with this job. We had GREAT benefits before, so this is a downside, but we get a paycheck every month, so that is good. I have faith that God will take care of this little problem for us too! I can easily go to my insurance at school, its just not very good, and we will have to pay out of pocket for Zach for now, and maybe his new company can provide better insurance later on. 

Well, after not getting home until 10:00 every single night my first week of school, we then went to Abilene with our friends, Ryan and Kelsey to see Kelsey's grandparents. It was a fun trip. They are so sweet and enjoy seeing us and we got some really great food when we go! We get to eat at Perinis, which has the best burger I have ever had in my life. We also get Nanny's chocolate pie, which is DE-licious! 

 The beautiful view at Perinis!

 The jalapeno cheesecake that Ryan and I ventured out to try at Perinis! It was pretty good, as long as I didn't smell it haha

 This is THE most delicious burger I have EVER had in my life. It is the third time in my life I have been able to eat it! 

Here is the delicious  chocolate pie that Nanny made! It is seriously so good. 

Anyways, that's all! Thanks for checkin' in! 

Our First Home

Hi Family and Friends!

So, as I was posting my summer blog posts about all my DIY projects I've done. I realized that my friends and family from far away still have not seen our first home! As a result, I am dedicating this post to a vitural tour of our first home!

This picture was taken on moving day after we closed on the house. Soooo, it was December 13th 2012 I believe? This December (2014) will mark year number two complete in our first home. So I think I did the math right there. 

 Here is our dining room. The dining room, kitchen and living room are all open to one another, which I love. Especially when we have company over for dinner, games or parties. I want a new rug in here though, I hate it. It is the cheap one we got just to have something when we first moved in.

The two pictures above are of the kitchen. The first one is looking in from the dining room. The second one is from the windowsill in the kitchen looking into the kitchen and into the dining room. 

The pictures above are of our downstairs living room. The first picture is looking in from the kitchen (right by the little side table you see in the second picture). The second picture is taken from behind the long couch and in front of the three white mirrors you see on the wall.

 Here is a picture of our bedroom. I couldn't really get a good picture of another angle cause it's actually kind of a small room. My furniture is also huge, so it can't all fit into the frame very well. I like the wall in this picture though because I did a little Pinterest project on the wall! We used a stencil to paint with a high gloss of the paint on the wall, so it's a settle pattern that you can only see when the light hits parts of it right.

 The pictures above are of our master bathroom. I like the way it turned out, I just redecorated it. It took me forever to get the tub to look a way that I liked enough that as balanced. I love love love the colors though. I also love the little table against the wall, a Hobby Lobby find, my favorite place! :)

 Here is a picture of our guest bathroom.

 These are two shots of our "office" it's actually a 4th bedroom, but it's so small, so its our office. I kind of hate this room the most cause it's just an eclectic place of random furniture. I hate that it doesn't flow and doesn't have any character to it.

Here's what I like to call my "boy room". When I have a boy one day, I imagine this to be the color scheme. I want it to have a woodsy, nature kind of feel. I am obviously lacking wall decor in this room. I just haven't found anything that goes with the theme I am looking for. 

The pictures above is what I imagine to be my "girl room" once I have a girl. My inspiration for this room was the purple, gold, and cream kind of tribal looking pillow. I love these colors! I also love antique "shabby" furniture, so I combined the two in here! I really like the way it turned out so far. 

SIDE NOTE: I know, I'm crazy for thinking my life will end up perfect and that I'll have one boy and one girl. I really want it that way. Zach only wants two kids ( I want three), but were compromising by having one and adopting the other, so I WILL have one of each, HA! I've had it on my heart for a long time to want to adopt, so hopefully we can get together the funds to make this happen!

Here's a pic of our wonderful laundry room where almost no laundry occurs. 

The pictures above are of our upstairs living room. This is all our old college furniture, plus two bookshelves up agains the banister I bought to house the old books from my old 2nd grade classroom. This is a teacher problem if I've ever seen one. At least Leah has a plethora of books to choose from when she comes over, so will my kids whenever I have them, because I REFUSE to get rid of them! I love books too much, clearly. I am also lacking wall decor in this room too. One room at a time, right?

Anyways, hope you enjoyed the tour of our first home! We sure do love it so far!! :) 

Thanks for checkin' in!

Summer Lovin'

Hello Friends and Family! 

I've decided to dedicate this post to the pictures I have from this summer! These are just my "normal days" from the summer where I wasn't doing my DIY projects or teaching summer camp! 

 All the pictures above are from Sarah's birthday weekend/outings! 

 This picture is from a corny picnic that my SarBear took with me! 

 The pictures above here, I feel HORRIBLE about! I was cleaning the house when Chesney wanted to go outside to go to the bathroom. Well, I looked out and he was still going, so I went on to clean for a few minutes before going to check on him again. Well, this was the day two of cleaning my house. I was cleaning top to bottom and getting EVERYTHING finished! I forgot about him and left him out there, in the HEAT, for over an hour!! He was panting SO bad when he came in, I felt like the worst dog owner EVER. He was SO exhausted when he finally cooled off, as you can see in the first picture, he just crashed! 

 Now, I did have to include a few pictures from my second summer camp. The second one I did was a Frozen summer camp and Leah got to come! This was her first ever "school experience". She actually did ALOT better than I thought she would, so I feel much better having her come to Chandler with me next year, if she comes that is. 

 The rest of my Leah pictures are just from sleepovers and other play dates we have had throughout the summer. 

 We went to go each ice cream at Braums with Grandma Glayds. This was such a special night, she was in a good mood and very talkative, it was nice. 

 I met Harry Wong this summer at a workshop! I was super stoked to get a picture with him and get my book signed! 

 Kelsey, Ryan, Zach and I all went on a golf trip. The boys got in a fight with some stranger and we left early. 

 We also went on our first 5k run, the "MustDash". It was okay, but only cause I walked most the time. Although they can be fun, I'm not sure it's my kind of thing. 

 Lastly, I worked on a Habitat for Humanity House. This is one of the pictures I got with my mom from painting the house!

As you can see, a busy summer, and that's not even half my pictures! Those are just a few!! 

Thanks for checkin' in!