I want to get back in the habit of posting ten gifts each time I post. I've been busy preparing for fall retreat this weekend so I don't have time for an actual post, but here's to being thankful for the small things.
46. A great fall break relaxing with Nathan and my family
47. Roasting marshmallows by the fire
48. days when the Sun is out, the windows are down, and the music is loud
49. Phone dates with my best bud Ashley
50. A new pastor and pastor's wife he have hearts for young adults
51. Carry in dinners
52 boots and scarves
53. Gifts from my kiddos after fall break
54. A clean room
55. Free butterfingers
Monday, October 20, 2014
Friday, October 17, 2014
Bedroom Redo
After many years I decided it was time to get ride of the bright orange. Since I was a teenager my room has been a bright bright orange color. With a bright bright pink comforter. Most people said "how do you sleep in here?" when they walked into my room. I decided to tone it done a little bit since I'm still living at home.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Giraffes & Birds
Fall Break Trip
I have officialy fniished my 2nd first nine weeks as a teacher. Wahoo! It has been a good first nine weeks of year two. I have a bigger class this year, but I love my kiddos. However, I defintiely needed a break. I was super excited about our week long fall break this year. My family planned a trip to Virginia to meet my brother and his family. Nathan even decided to join along and I was super excited about that. My parents left Friday morning, but Nathan and I left after I got out of work on Friday. It wasn't too long of a drive and we got there just in time to see the kiddos before they went to bed. We of course fit in a game of cards after the kids were tucked in. What would a family vacation be without cards?
I slept in the floor next to C in his blow up bed and every night he ended up crawling beside of me and sleeping with me the rest of the morning. It was nice to get these extra snuggles in. Saturday we got up and ate pancakes for breakfast before heading to a festival at the resort we stayed at. The resort has a really neat chair lift through the mountains but because of the heavy fog we decided to pass on the chair lift. I was pretty disappointed about not getting to take some pictures of the mountains, but Nathan and I enjoyed sharing a turkey leg from the festival. R got to ride a pony and get a face painted like wonder woman. She is certainly a spunky little girl. We headed back to the room Mom and Dad stayed back with the kiddos so the four of us could go to dinner. After dinner we played Taboo couple against couple. Nathan and I ended up edging out Jason and Traci before the girls kicked butt against the guys. I loved games like Taboo because it is a lot of fun and creates a lot of laughter, plus it is still competition (which is super imporatant to my family).
Sunday the weather was a little bit better, but still wasn't a sunny day. We ended up playing two rounds of putt putt in the sprinkling rain. C loved playing and Nathan was a good helper. We went back to the room and watched movies and napped. Then, we sang happy birthday to Nathan and enjoyed some cookie cake. That night we picked up BBQ and relaxed in the room before playing more cards before going to bed.
Monday the kiddos and Jason and Traci headed back home after lunch which was super sad. Nathan and I planned to stay another day since he was on spring break as well. We played putt putt again with my parents before going shopping and going to dinner at Texas Road House. We ended the night with another game of cards before heading to bed. We had planned on spending most of the day at the resort but because of the rainy day we decided to head home in the morning. We had to stop at Bass Pro on the way home, but I figured I owed him one.
It was such a fun, relaxing, and much needed weekend with my family.
I slept in the floor next to C in his blow up bed and every night he ended up crawling beside of me and sleeping with me the rest of the morning. It was nice to get these extra snuggles in. Saturday we got up and ate pancakes for breakfast before heading to a festival at the resort we stayed at. The resort has a really neat chair lift through the mountains but because of the heavy fog we decided to pass on the chair lift. I was pretty disappointed about not getting to take some pictures of the mountains, but Nathan and I enjoyed sharing a turkey leg from the festival. R got to ride a pony and get a face painted like wonder woman. She is certainly a spunky little girl. We headed back to the room Mom and Dad stayed back with the kiddos so the four of us could go to dinner. After dinner we played Taboo couple against couple. Nathan and I ended up edging out Jason and Traci before the girls kicked butt against the guys. I loved games like Taboo because it is a lot of fun and creates a lot of laughter, plus it is still competition (which is super imporatant to my family).
Monday the kiddos and Jason and Traci headed back home after lunch which was super sad. Nathan and I planned to stay another day since he was on spring break as well. We played putt putt again with my parents before going shopping and going to dinner at Texas Road House. We ended the night with another game of cards before heading to bed. We had planned on spending most of the day at the resort but because of the rainy day we decided to head home in the morning. We had to stop at Bass Pro on the way home, but I figured I owed him one.
It was such a fun, relaxing, and much needed weekend with my family.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Summer Sweep
I had every intention of blogging regularly over the summer, but my inention turned into a failure. I had intentions of blogging about all the sweet summer happings individually, but I spent my time wasting away on netflix haha. Then school got started and well it's October now. However, I've had this post in my drafts for quite a while so I thought I'd go ahead and post a quick sweep of my wonderful summer.
I had plenty of days and nights by the pool and even got pedicures with Erin! I am always barefoot so my feet needed it badly.
We went to visit my Aunt and spent the day on the lake on her new boat. This day was adventure just getting to the lake. Nathan and I drove seperately, and I am not as good as a navigator as we would have hoped. Those garmin things come in handy when you need to get somewhere and aren't sure of how to get there, however you might want to enter the correct address. After driving up and down what I thought was the correct road more the once we realized we were on the wrong side of the lake. About 30 minutes later we arrived safely as my parents were pulling in the driveway, who happened to leave home about 45 minutes after we did. Needless to say, Nathan is even more patient than I thought he was.
The next day my parents and I went to visit my brother and his family at the beach. It was such a fun trip with my sweet niece and nephew. R and I spent time walking back and forth and back forth on the beach. C loved playing wiffle ball on the beach. He fell down every time he missed, told me I was doing it wrong, or told me it was broken. We went to the Ocean City Board Walk and road rides with the kiddos a couple nights while we were there and of course what would a family vacation be without some friendly competition.
Erin and I drove to Virginia to visit Eliza. We spent a lot of our time eating, talking, shopping, talking, and visiting around Virginia. We did make a trip to the beach in the rain and clouds. We also went to Bush Gardens for the day. If you know me, you know I love roller coasters. It was my idea to go to Bush Gardens. Erin and I found a way to get 20% off each ticket and off we went. I just bought a super cool (and corny) shirt and I was so excited to wear it. I packed it for this very day of our trip. We got there as soon as the park opened and as luck would have it we picked the super hot sunny day for our park day. We rode a motion ride and a roller coaster first thing. We rode the roller coaster two times in a row. Then we decided to ride the Aplengiest. I already felt a little bit queasy, but I took a couple of deep breath and told myself to suck it up. BAD IDEA SELF!!! We got on and the ride began to start, then it hit me. That feeling of sickness which is a no return feeling. The entire ride as Erin is screaming "I HATE THIS!", I am doing breathing techniques to stop myself from getting sick. Luckily, the ride ended, however, not soon enough. As we are awkwardly stopped, yet still strapped down the feeling of sickness was only getting worse. It was uncontrollable at this point. I could do nothing to make the feeling go away. Needless to say, I upchucked/threw up/barfed/vomicked/whatever you may call it, all of myself. Yep, that's right I am one of those people. It happens, people really do throw up on roller coasters, it isn't a myth. Erin ever so politely waved me off with the words "I Love you, but I just can't". Eliza, not so politely laughed in my face. Yes, what a sweet compassionate friend I have. Please keep in mind that I am still strapped in my seat...with throw up allll over me. As soon as I was set free, "I ran for my life". Erin simply told the next riders that "We've had an accident" and Eliza told the workers what happened .Meanwhile, I was quickly walking/running as discreetly as one could with throw up all over them to the bathroom. After my wonderful friends bought me a new shirt we slowly continued with our day. However, while riding one of those slow boring trains we noticed that Erin had a little gift from me...funniest moment of the day. Needless to say, I didn't ride anymore rides this rest of the day. However, the trip was a blast and I will forever remember this trip and look back and laugh at the most embarrassing moment of my entire life.
I also worked a lot on my classroom to declutter and organizer before school got started. I had planned to do a lot more, but I still was proud of how my classroom looked before school started.
Eliza came in to visit her boyfriend and we all went on a triple date to Max Patch. It was really fun to hang out with the fellas this time.
I had plenty of days and nights by the pool and even got pedicures with Erin! I am always barefoot so my feet needed it badly.
We went to visit my Aunt and spent the day on the lake on her new boat. This day was adventure just getting to the lake. Nathan and I drove seperately, and I am not as good as a navigator as we would have hoped. Those garmin things come in handy when you need to get somewhere and aren't sure of how to get there, however you might want to enter the correct address. After driving up and down what I thought was the correct road more the once we realized we were on the wrong side of the lake. About 30 minutes later we arrived safely as my parents were pulling in the driveway, who happened to leave home about 45 minutes after we did. Needless to say, Nathan is even more patient than I thought he was.
The next day my parents and I went to visit my brother and his family at the beach. It was such a fun trip with my sweet niece and nephew. R and I spent time walking back and forth and back forth on the beach. C loved playing wiffle ball on the beach. He fell down every time he missed, told me I was doing it wrong, or told me it was broken. We went to the Ocean City Board Walk and road rides with the kiddos a couple nights while we were there and of course what would a family vacation be without some friendly competition.
Erin and I drove to Virginia to visit Eliza. We spent a lot of our time eating, talking, shopping, talking, and visiting around Virginia. We did make a trip to the beach in the rain and clouds. We also went to Bush Gardens for the day. If you know me, you know I love roller coasters. It was my idea to go to Bush Gardens. Erin and I found a way to get 20% off each ticket and off we went. I just bought a super cool (and corny) shirt and I was so excited to wear it. I packed it for this very day of our trip. We got there as soon as the park opened and as luck would have it we picked the super hot sunny day for our park day. We rode a motion ride and a roller coaster first thing. We rode the roller coaster two times in a row. Then we decided to ride the Aplengiest. I already felt a little bit queasy, but I took a couple of deep breath and told myself to suck it up. BAD IDEA SELF!!! We got on and the ride began to start, then it hit me. That feeling of sickness which is a no return feeling. The entire ride as Erin is screaming "I HATE THIS!", I am doing breathing techniques to stop myself from getting sick. Luckily, the ride ended, however, not soon enough. As we are awkwardly stopped, yet still strapped down the feeling of sickness was only getting worse. It was uncontrollable at this point. I could do nothing to make the feeling go away. Needless to say, I upchucked/threw up/barfed/vomicked/whatever you may call it, all of myself. Yep, that's right I am one of those people. It happens, people really do throw up on roller coasters, it isn't a myth. Erin ever so politely waved me off with the words "I Love you, but I just can't". Eliza, not so politely laughed in my face. Yes, what a sweet compassionate friend I have. Please keep in mind that I am still strapped in my seat...with throw up allll over me. As soon as I was set free, "I ran for my life". Erin simply told the next riders that "We've had an accident" and Eliza told the workers what happened .Meanwhile, I was quickly walking/running as discreetly as one could with throw up all over them to the bathroom. After my wonderful friends bought me a new shirt we slowly continued with our day. However, while riding one of those slow boring trains we noticed that Erin had a little gift from me...funniest moment of the day. Needless to say, I didn't ride anymore rides this rest of the day. However, the trip was a blast and I will forever remember this trip and look back and laugh at the most embarrassing moment of my entire life.
I also worked a lot on my classroom to declutter and organizer before school got started. I had planned to do a lot more, but I still was proud of how my classroom looked before school started.
Eliza came in to visit her boyfriend and we all went on a triple date to Max Patch. It was really fun to hang out with the fellas this time.
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