Yippee!

Mom came and visited a couple of weeks ago! I was so excited for her to finally come down again. The last trip she was supposed to make down here was almost a year ago, but Pawpaw passed away the day before she was supposed to head this way.

It was wonderful getting to see Mom! We had a lazy weekend. We went and saw two movies: RED and Life as We Know It. We really enjoyed both of them. We also rented movies to watch at home. I made tacos for dinner one night. And of course....I made Mom a birthday cake (two actually...so she could take one home). She requested a German Chocolate Pound Cake...so that is exactly what she got! And it was delicious, if I do say so myself! We also went and looked a this cool junk/antique shop here in town. They had some beautiful armoirs and a beautiful desk that I desperately wanted! But we of course don't have any room for anymore furniture! All in all, the visit with Mom was great!

Last weekend we went to Waco for my nieces birthday party! She had a costume party, so we dressed up as ourselves! Brad went as a fisherman (complete with silly fishing pole and cardboard fish) and I went as a witch!

Somehow I forgot to take a good pic of both of us with Willoughby!

I also helped Angie die her hair back to her natural color...no more highlights for her! We went to the taco trailer twice! Said hi to Francisco...who of course asked where I was living now and asked about Lani....oh how I miss our Sundays of tacos and Desperate Housewives!

Today, I had the day off! No one needed me to sub (except for one of the high schools, which I politely declined). I went and voted! As I was voting, I was bitten by tiny ants.....ANTS ARE THE DEVIL! Then I went and bought groceries and came home to start baking! I made a cake for this weekend (which I won't actually put icing on until Friday) and cookies! The cookies did not turn out the same as the last time i made them, which is funny because I used the same recipe. But they still taste excellent. They just look a little odd. I shared some of the better looking cookies with our neighbors downstairs. I saw one of them as I was getting back from the grocery store. She mentioned that she had planned on making cookies too, but left the cookie dough at their other house. So I took them a couple of bags to munch on! They are really sweet neighbors!

Now I am off to cook dinner before Brad gets home!

10/8/10-10/10/10 Catch Up

Friday I had the first "Do you have a baby in your belly?" of the year. I get this a lot because of the way I carry my weight, but so far I haven't heard it this year. Until Friday. One of my kindergartners asked me, then said, "it looks like you have a baby in there." They also asked me if I was married to Mr. G. He was the sub they had on Thursday.

Saturday, we picked Lani up from the airport and had lunch at Guadalajara! Lunch was yummy and it was wonderful to get to see Lani!!!! We chilled out in her hotel room with her until it was time for her other friend to pick her up to go to the wedding.

When we got back home, we went grocery shopping and rented some movies. We watched Remember Me and The Karate Kid. Both were good movies, but I was not expecting the ending of Remember Me. It was a really good movie and its ending came out of left field. Brad and I were both thrown off by it. But it was really good.

Today, we went to a new church. We did not like this church at all. It is definitely not the place for us. They were friendly when we came in, but we did not like the message or the style of preaching. It seemed like the preacher just kept saying that everything we do is wrong. There was no "God ultimately loves you all you have to do is ask for forgiveness." When they took up the offering, they did not pass it down our row so they did not get our visitor card. I had planned on dropping it in at the end of service, but after service was very glad that we were somehow over looked. I think it might be better that they do not have any of our information.

We have decided that we will stick with South Park Baptist Church. We really enjoyed it a great deal. They have a young married couples group and we enjoyed the message there. Also, I went there one day on my own while Brad was at work and still felt welcomed and comfortable. That is important to me since I will have to go on my own quite often because of Brad's work.

Productive Day!

Today I organized my scrapbooking stuff (wedding/non-wedding)! I was able to get rid of two boxes! I also scrapbooked all of the photobooth pics! They were easy and quick because I just did a pic per page (occasionally two pics) and the message card that went with it!

Now I just need to get more pages for my scrapbooks. Also, I want to get one of those things that can turn anything into a sticker (I can't remember what they are called...but the have an x in the name!). I'm also in desperate need of more glue!

I also finished uploading my first disc of the wedding photos onto facebook. Only another 500+ pics to go!

Next, I am going to make Christmas cards! We normally order them from Wal-Mart, but I have decided to make my own this year.

Wed. - Fri.

On Wednesday we had a shelter in place at school...no biggie....Except that the class I was supposed to be with was outside in the music room (a portable). So we ended up with the two classes that had been in PE and couldn't get back to their rooms (in the annex outside). So we watched a movie with them. And then....we were updated that it would be after school was supposed to be out before they had the gas leak capped! It wasn't to bad, I don't think our kids even noticed that school was supposed to be over!

Thursday and Friday I had a wonderful group of kids! I love this group because I worked with most of them last year in third grade and they are all really sweet kids! I know you aren't supposed to have favorites, but several of my favorites are in this group! Also, Brad brought me lunch today! Such a sweety!

Update on the cake......

Brad took one of the cakes to work and............EVERYBODY LOVED IT!!! I may keep my little mix up from now on! It wasn't as fluffy of a cake, but it was really moist!