the best of friends

Two years ago today I married my best friend. It has flown by so quickly. Whenever we have friends who are planning a wedding we tell them it would be easier to just elope. Still can't tell if we're half joking on that. However, I am glad on how our wedding turned out. Both of our moms really went out of their way to make it extremely nice and we were able to share our special day with our family and close friends.





Would I do it all over again? Yes I would, in a heartbeat!

just a cute little bundle

On June 12th my cousin gave birth to twin baby girls, Claire and Sadie. One baby was 4.5 lb and the other was five, so there was just over nine pounds of baby!

I was content just getting to hold one baby, but then my aunt thought this would be a good idea...


My husband better watch out! Twins do run in my family! For those of you who don't know, my mom is a twin and her twin sister had twin boys.


Honestly, I thought I would be more on top of this blog with school being out and all. Actually, things have not slowed down one bit. I should be back soon since I have a few pictures that I have not uploaded to the computer just yet.

the moment we've been waiting for

We bought new furniture in April. It has taken two months to finish re-decorating the living room. I put up new curtains, bought a new picture, painted my old mirror, and added a nice red rug. Then it took a while for me to get the after picture. So now I am ready to share the completed project. Drum roll please....

The living room Before:

And After:

It's still not finished. We are thinking about painting the walls maybe a light, light brown color, maybe. I'll have to play in the paint sample department at Lowe's or Home Depot. So we will see.

It was fun to do, but I don't think extreme home makeover will be calling me any time soon.

Let's get it over with.

One more day of school... on Monday! Things won't slow down though, things are only going to get busier for me from there. I have two days to get all of my stuff out of my classroom and into a different room down the hall since I will be in 4th grade next year. Then I will go to professional development throughout the next three weeks. Summer, you will just have to wait for now, and so will this blog.

things are gonna change

About a month ago I found out for sure that I would be back in my building next school year and I got to sign a continuing contract with the school district. This month I found out that my grade assignment next year will be changing to 4th grade! I am way super excited about this because originally I have always wanted to teach 3rd or 4th grade and my major actually covers this grade level. I learned and adapted to teaching kindergarten and it has been a good experience, but it's time to move up. There may be times I might miss kindergarten next year, but I am looking forward to working with older more independent students.

Also this is what I will be working on becoming next school year:


I just found out last week that I received the scholarship that I applied for to pay for national board certification. This is a huge deal for me. 1. The scholarship pays for the $2500 application fee and 2. I've been planning on doing this ever since I began teaching.

However, completing the national certification process will be a ton of extra work on top of everything I already have to do at school. I am up for this challenge, but there will just be a lot of change next school year for me. I think all of these changes are going to be good ones, maybe not always pleasant, but overall for the better.

(Plus, in honor of summer, time to change the background of this blog!)

your mother and mine

Happy Mother's Day!

For Mother's day I had my mom and dad over for dinner Saturday night. I've spent most of my life eating fabulous food from my mother's kitchen. So I felt that it was about time that I reciprocate that to her. My wonderful husband cooked tilapia for us and I baked a lime cheesecake. It was lots of fun taking care of my mom for a change. She has dedicated her life to taking care of me, my sister, and now her grandchildren. So, Happy Mother's Day Mom! You're the greatest!

It's just a closet

This summer I was going to re-organize my closet; basically clean all the junk out of it. Well last night at about eleven o'clock I thought it would be a good idea to get started on that "little" project. Many of my old clothes triggered so many memories like where I bought them from, where I was living at the time, first dates, events I went to in them, etc. Then I realized that I have kept some of my clothes for over ten years now. It is definitely time to part with this section of my wardrobe that I have not been wearing at all.


Here is a pile of some decent clothes that I will be dropping off at Goodwill.


And now I have more hangers!

I did not finish the project last night but now I have more space and the closet is more functional.

This weekend turned into doing several small projects around the house. We moved our old couch out of the kitchen and into the garage, I put up new curtains in the living room, I put up a new shower curtain, and I started cleaning out that closet. I felt very accomplished. The rest of the house will have to wait until summer.