Summer School, Heat, Birthdays, & Life

I can't believe it's been a month since I last posted..our life has been CRAZY busy! I started summer school on June 9th (or sometime around then) and have been working my tail off...my final was yesterday and I'm waiting and waiting..did I mention waiting some more on the grades to be posted...the suspense is killing me!

We have been very busy with work and school for me and of course with our house. We have had friends and family over a few times over the last month and we can't wait to have more over!

I will call myself a whimp because this heat is CRAZY! I can't stand to be hot and I think this year is worse than ever! This is the time when I wish I had a pool or owned a boat! My poor husband is mowing the yard as I write this!

Our 4th was great but laid back. My mom went to the ER last Monday with horrible stomach pains and just got out today! Between now and then she had surgery to remove a build up of scar tissue from a previous surgery which was causing the horrible stomach pains. My sister was a real trooper and stayed several nights with my mom, with me being in summer school and also my crazy fear of hospitals it was hard for me to be there all the time like Kim was. We went and visited my mom in the hospital to start out our 4th and then went to my grandparent's for lunch and for me to have study session for math with Mikey and then finally it was over to dad's for a BBQ and fireworks!

My sweet husband is turning 26 on Saturday! We are headed to his parent's for his birthday and I hope he has a great day! I keep asking him what he wants for his birthday and he says nothing. Brian is the type of person that if he really doesn't want anything he doesn't want anything or if he does he will buy it for himself! He is also the person that don't buy him something he won't use, because he REALLY won't use it! I love you babe and hope you have a great birthday on Saturday! I'm sure I'll find something to get him between now and Saturday..after all we are going to see George Strait in August for both our birthdays.

I am excited that my best friend will be moving back home very shortly. She is stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado right now with the Army and will be getting out soon and moving back home! I can't wait to have her and her sweet baby girl Olivia just a few minutes away! Also we are just playing the waiting game on when my brother is coming home...he did a major part of his paperwork today, so hopefully he'll be here soon. We're really hoping he gets to come to the George Strait concert with us!

I have also realized recently that my sweet nephew isn't a baby anymore and is a full blown toddler and is definitely looking like one! Besides my daddy and Brian this sweet boy has my heart! I love this kid more than he could imagine! It's hard to believe he'll be 2 in October!

Say A Prayer

Please say a prayer for me this next month. I start summer school tomorrow and it is my last class (it's a math class) that stands between me and student teaching. I did well last summer in math and I know that I can do it again this summer it's just that math isn't my best subject. Please pray for favor with my professor (I've heard good and bad about him) and a clear understanding of the subject matter.

Busy Busy

We're still alive we've just been busy. We've been busy getting settled into our house and working like crazy! We had a great weekend and Brian is nearly finished building our deck! I finally convinced Brian to hang some pictures on the wall (okay it was only 3...but still it's a start!) and they look great! We hung out with Kim & Guy and my friend David and his wife Meghan on Saturday night and had a great time! This is my last week of freedom before summer school starts on June 9th! It will be my last math class EVER so I'm ready to get that over with!

In other news I found out my student teaching placement this past week and I am SO blessed! It is a school that is literally maybe 5 minutes from my house! I will be in a Kindergarten class for 6 weeks and then in a 4th grade class for 6 weeks! I am a little nervous about 4th grade, because the only experience that I've ever had in the classroom has been with Kindergarten, but I know it will be a great semester!

We're just busy working away. We have Chelsea's graduation this weekend and we're also hoping that Brian's parent's will be able to come visit this weekend. We're excited for them to see our new house! We're also just waiting on them to send Matt home...it's all a waiting game at this point!

The King of Country

That's right Brian, Matt, and I are going to see The King of Country...aka George Strait!! He is coming to Houston in August (happy early birthday to me!) and bringing Sugarlang, Blake Shelton, and Julianne Houghe with him! Brian and I have always said that if he ever came to town or close to town that we would go see him...he's on the top of my list of people to see in concert (and I've seen alot of concerts). We knew he'd be coming to Arlington in July with Reba (he's opening the cowboy's new stadium) and we figured that we'd go stay with Brian's parent's and see the concert, but we couldn't get tickets. Brian's assistant read in the Chronicle Friday morning that you could buy tickets on the website so my wonderful husband bought 3 tickets!! We are super excited and since Brian's birthday is in July and mine is in August (the weekend after the concert) that is our birthday present to eachother and Matt's ticket is his present to himself because he's coming home!

I SURVIVED...

I SURVIVED METHODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel extremely accomplished and am very proud to say that I received A's in all 4 of my classes and that I received a perfect 3 on my mini TWS...this is a HUGE project and feel alot more prepared for student teaching. I already know that I will be in Conroe ISD for my student teaching, but I am one of the people that don't know their campus placement yet, so please pray that a) I get a campus close to my house and b) that one of my best friends, Lauren and I get the same campus!



I will update more tomorrow, but now it's time to get ready for bed....5:20 sure comes early!

It's Starting To Look Like Home

It's starting to look more like home around here. I haven't taken pictures yet because I want to get everything in place before I take pictures, but I will get them taken eventually. We were extremely blessed to have a HUGE amount of help from my family last weekend when we moved in. Brian and my grandpa have been working hard on our backyard and Brian finished one of their backyard projects last night. Our backyard doesn't have grass in it right now, but Brian hopes to get the guy out to put grass back there this week or next. All in all everything is getting there. I just got done waiting on Rooms To Go to deliver our entertainment center (they delivered the original one last week but dropped it off the truck!) so I have few boxes to unpack in our living room and then my other project for today is to work on upacking the room that will be our office. We still need to get pictures on the walls and decorations up but that will come in time.

In other news I have officially survived methods!! I have about a three week break until summer school starts in June. I am taking my LAST MATH CLASS EVER in June and then will have a break until student teaching starts in August. I am still waiting on my exact school assignment, but do know that it will be in Conroe ISD.

Take A Tour

Ok so we're still alive just busy as can be because we're moving this weekend!! Brian and I are very excited to move into our first home and have been busy packing up our apartment. It will be a little sad to leave this apartment as we have some great memories here, but we've definitely outgrown this place and it will be nice to have more room. My Granny told us that right now it will seem like our house is huge (it's a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath 2 story) right now but before we know it that house will be filled up too!

Here's some pictures of our new house and our current apartment all packed up! This is what it looked like before we started packing up! Thank you to my mother in law for all of the boxes!

This is what it looks like every evening...this is our pile to take the the house tonight!

Front View

Living Room

Looking Into Kitchen

Garage (finally I get to park my car in a garage!)

Garden Tub in Master Bath

More Master Bath

Kitchen View

One of the extra bedrooms

Our HUGE backyard...I couldn't even get the whole backyard in one picture! My little dog might get lost back there!

View from front of the house

Say a prayer that the weather will cooperate with us for a great weekend to move!