One Year Anniversary

Our 1st anniversary was wonderful! My husband had all kinds of surprises planned for me. This has been an amazing year! We can't wait for what is ahead of us!

Our cake was actually really good!

The Roaring Fork...delicious!!

Pics from our honeymoon for the living room

Home Improvement

Mom came down for a whole week!! We were so happy she came to visit and help around the house! We spent our days shopping for us and the house. Mom told Aaron not to worry, we won't shop so much every time she comes down...ha ha. We wanted to put hardware in our kitchen and our bathroom. Mom is a pro at this so she helped us out! She actually did all of them. My job was to screw them in. The house looks great! It's funny how something so small can make a big difference. Mom and I also painted our dresser because it didn't match our bedroom stuff. We stained it and then painted it again and now it looks like a brand new piece of furniture! Thursday, she helped hang some stuff in the house and then headed home. Thanks for all your help!!

Port A 2010

I know it has been awhile since the last blog. We didn't have Internet for a week and have been so busy unpacking and organizing. The week after school was out, we took a break from everything and went to Port Aransas for four days. Fourteen of us invaded Port Royal for a week in the sun. It was a blast. We spent everyday at the pool and made a few trips to the beach. We love getting together with this group of friends. We will all meet again when we head up to Azle to Mom and Dad's house for a concert at Billy Bob's and some more fun in the sun!

Well I am currently blogging from my classroom after school. We will not have internet for a week so the blogs will be minimal. I will try to post some new pictures soon. This week has been INSANE! We moved all day Saturday by ourselves...it was a long, hard day but we survived. I made Aaron promise me there would be NO fighting during the move...you know how moving a washing machine can cause some stress between people. We made it through with no fights, no injuries and no broken funiture or appliances!! YAY! Our house is not organized yet but it is coming along. I am almost finished in the kitchen and our goal is to have the main areas and our bedroom done by this weekend. As we unpack stuff I move stuff right back in....

This craziest part of this week has been moving my classroom. During my 2 short years of teaching I have acquired a TON of stuff. I think I will be finished tomorrow thanks to my 10 little elves. My kids have helped me a ton! I even kept some willing boys in from music today to help carry stuff to Mrs. Kozak's TIGHT car. I started to tear up today when I was packing up some of my stuff. We were having indoor recess because of the rain and we had the music on. Our theme song this year has been Michael Jackson's "We are the World" and my kids LOVE to sing to it. It was on today and they were all playing quietly and singing and it made me think about leaving them. My students here have such hard lives and I like to believe I am a positive influence and role model. I know teachers here will continue to love them but I like knowing that they get a hug each day and some words of encouragement.

This weekend I am heading up to Ft. Worth to see my family and drop of little miss Stella. Aaron and I are going to the beach Wednesday with a group of friends and Nana and Papa J are

going to watch our little one!