Friday, January 29, 2010

I've been given the gift of time

Sometimes I like to talk big. All school year I've been saying how whenever we have our ice storm I will use that time to sit down and do some serious writing for national board. Sounds like a grand plan, however, when there's laundry to do and the husband is home too, it's harder to put your nose to the grindstone. Well, tomorrow I'll be home alone for about eight hours and all of the laundry is done, so we'll see how much writing I get finished. Also here are some pictures I took while I was NOT working on my portfolio.


Sunday, January 10, 2010

What are you going to do next?

Although it is a bit delayed. Happy 2010! We are very excited about the coming year and I will mention all of what that will entail at the end of the post. First things first.

I thought I would take this moment to catch everybody up on our Christmas festivities.

The grand total count of Christmas gatherings with family was supposed to be 4.

Christmas #1
Should have been on Christmas Eve at my grandmother's house, however as most people know there was a massive blizzard in the OKC metro that day, so that party was canceled. Luckily, my sister and I visited my grandmother the day before and brought her these lovely flowers.


Christmas #2
We went out on Christmas day and drove through roads that for the most part have not seen a snow plow. We had Christmas day at my parent's house. We had a fun time and got to play with
my nieces and we ate yummy food.
Christmas #3
We met up with my husband's family at the Great Cedar Lodge near Branson, MO. We left the day after Christmas. We got to see Silver Dollar City, the new shopping area called the Landing, and we just relaxed and ate wonderful food.





Eating some s'mores

Mother and Son


The fun ones!


Christmas #4
We went to my brother's house on the 2nd day of the new year. This is usually when my dad gets to have Christmas with all four of his children plus grandchildren. We had drawn names to exchange gifts, and of course enjoyed some more wonderful food.

So now that the new year is here we still have a lot to do!

Did you hear up above that we enjoyed lots of wonderful food? Well, now we think we should probably cut back a bit and get our bodies into better shape. We'll see how that goes. Getting into smaller clothes is always a good motivator for me, we'll see what motivates the hubby! Here is something we purchased to help motivate us.

Also, I am now into the more intense part of applying for national certification. All of my portfolio/videos must be post marked by March 31st. As a result, I will continue to neglect our blog for a while. Hopefully I can get back into it come April. Until next time...