Christmas and Some Exciting News

Justin and I had a wonderful Christmas! We spent Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas Day with his. Here are just a few pictures of our holiday.

We had such a great time exchanging gifts, eating, spending time with family and enjoying the kids. Aimee and Aidan are so much fun to watch. The excitement on their faces when they open a present is just priceless. Kinda like the excitement I felt a few weeks before Christmas when I found out mine and Justin's life was about to change dramatically.....

This is a picture of us on December 3rd after taking a pregnancy test that came out positive!! It was a very early test, so we waited a few days to tell anyone... actually just two days, we couldn't bear waiting long to tell our families. We knew they would be so excited. 

So now I have been to the doctor and have had it confirmed that I am actually pregnant and about 9 weeks along!!! 

"Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful"

Here are our pics of the snow last week. We were lucky enough to see it at 1:00 a.m and I couldn't believe how hard it was snowing. Such a memory!!!

Pictures of my mom and dad's house.

Want a S'more? S'more what?

Here's what we did for Halloween!!!

Justin loved scaring all the kids with my dad's scary old man mask. It gives me the creeps!Yummy smore stuff..."First...you roast a mallow." The best Cowboy fans ever!

Burrito Head

Throughout my few years of teaching school, so many funny things have been said or done by my students that I could probably write a book. Here's one for the book. Today, one of my second graders came up with a new way of trying to get to go to the nurse. After lunch she asked me to feel her forehead to see if she had fever. At the same time, someone else told me that she had put her burrito on her head to make it warm! Now this made me laugh, but it was even more funny when I noticed later that she had some crusted over beans on the side of her head. 

Hurrications 2008

It has been a busy few weeks with all the hurricanes and evacuations. Personally, I am glad it is all over! I am thankful that we did not have any damage to our house and am really glad that life is almost back to normal for me and my family. Justin is really happy that, as of 8:30 this morning, our satellite is working and we have TV!!!

Here are a few pics from our hurrications, starting with shopping in San Marcus during GUSTAV...

Me lassoing my hubby next to a covered wagon in Gruene.

Cody and Julia at The Gruene River Grill....some of the best food ever!

Now, on to IKE!!! Here we are at a restaurant in Grand Prairie. The Murphys and the Beans stayed at the same hotel and so we got to go out and do things together.

We ventured to the Fort Worth Stockyards to do some true Texas shopping.

One thing that we did a lot of was, EAT! We made a few icecream runs too.
My first trip to a Laudromat! HaHa!
Julia, Stephanie and Aimee went ice skating with me at the Dallas Galleria ice rink.

One of the most fun parts of our "hurrication" was on the way home! We made one final shopping stop at this awesome Christmas store. FABULOUS!

Sigh.....

That is what I am doing as I sit here on my couch after a long week of getting my classroom ready for the first day of school on Monday. I moved classrooms which meant cleaning out my new room before moving in, moving all my stuff, and then setting everything up in between meetings and of course, visiting with my other teacher friends. I have finally finished and everything looks just like I want it. I can say that I am actually ready for school to start. I have a good feeling about this year. I know the job can be trying and stressful at times, but I want to keep a positive outlook and try not to get too stressed by the little things. So...that's what I'm going to do! 

Aimee, Julia, and Carrie's Day o' Fun

I was so happy that Aimee came to spend the night with me this past Wednesday. Julia and I took her to Club Flech to paint pottery. The pictures are of our pottery before they put it in the kiln. It should come out bright and shiny and the colors will be a lot different than they look. We had a great time pretending to be artists.

Later, Justin joined us as we went bowling at Crossroads. We had fun bowling and acting silly. Aimee actually beat my score!!!

Caribbean Cruise

On July 20th, we took a cruise with The Murphy's; Justin's parents, Mike and Ellen, his brother, David and David's girlfriend, Caroline. We had such a great time and got to see some great Caribbean islands. Our first stop was Montego Bay, Jamaica where we spent the day at a Margaritaville on the beach. We swam and ate Caribbean Jerk chicken.

Our second port of call was Grand Cayman Island where we spent another fun day at the beach. We rode jet skis and watched David and Caroline parasail. We also got to walk around do a little shopping.

Lastly, we stopped in Cozumel where we went snorkeling, which was amazing because the water was so blue. We saw tons of fish since the water was so clear. After that we ate lunch at Senor Frogs and did a little souvenir shopping.

We not only had fun on all our excursions, but the cruise ship had a lot of things to do on it. We swam,watched shows, played Bingo, lost money in the casino, and of course, ate plenty of food. I especially loved getting dressed up for the Captain's Dinner.

I can't wait until our next cruise vacation!!!