What are you grateful for?

After looking at the current bodyrock.tv blog they ask their readers to take the time to reflect on what they are grateful for, so I am doing just that :)

1. Living in American where I have such freedoms as speech, religion, and press.
2. A loving, hot husband who takes care of me ;)
3. Having a normal, healthy delivery for Gavin.
4. Coarline being such a tentative loving sister (and she's only 23 months!)
5. Having awesome talented friends who make me stuff...you know who you are!
6. My career. Enough said, if you know me then you know I love working.
7. Having a job next year. It may not be the same grade (ever) but I love the challenge and change.
8. Health- I am missing working out and I want to have a hot bod...now! Also, having healthy kids and husband...it's something I never want to take for granite.
9. Electronics...ac, cars, computers, phones, internet...love it all!!!!
10. Last but certainly not the least, my Grandparents. They have been such a blessing. I would not be where I am today, the person I am today if they were there. I love them and wish nothing but the best for them. R.I.P. Simo...

Twitter wars

I recently got a smart phone, and I'll be the first to admit that I am not smart enough for it. But I am learning! While I am learning Matt has been helping me out. He asked me if I would like him to create a twitter account for me, and I told him no, which turned into a big argument. He said he liked to read what other pastors had to say and it was very encouraging and inspiring. My argument was if I wanted a twitter account I would have one already and be using it. I thought it would be a waste of his time, my data, and truthfully if I don't use it, it's clutter to me and it has to go. Anyways, after battling it out, I read the intro and chapter 1 of Axiom (a book Matt is reading) and Matt's argument totally makes sense. Great leaders convey a message in a short word or phrase, and twitter is an excellent platform to do so. Although I am not on the band wagon yet, I will be shortly. Until then I read Holly Furtick's blog and ordered a book on amazon. Hahah, Matt that's what you get :)

A little Remodeling

So I inherited (stole) my sisters old dresser for Coraline. It was this cute whitish-pink color. But my sister had loved on it while growing up so it was in need of a little TLC. Since Gavin's arrival is quickly approaching (March 22), I am totally in the nesting mode and kicking Coraline out of her current room so Gavin can be closer to the master and Coraline can have the bigger room.



My inspiration came from pinterest. Someone had recovered their dresser in different fabrics. I thought that would be awesome. I bought fabrics, but in the end chickened out and just used the same color paint. Sometimes in my life I have to have things matchy matchy. Oh well, I really liked how they turned out.



I painted the drawers before I realized they were numbered so I didn't give much thought to which drawer should be what color. When I was putting them pack in I thought I could switch them around, turns out I couldn't because they were not aligned. So that's why there is a blue next to a blue.

Well, so much has changed since the last time I blogged. I am now a happy kindergarten teacher (not that I didn't like second grade, it just that I have a love/hate relationship with kinder), Coraline is running around like a crazy child, and I am expecting baby Rainey number 2 (and yes when the time comes we will find out what it is-hopefully Christmas time!). Oh, yeah and Matt's still around ;)

I really love this time of year, when the weather starts to cool off and the rest of the world gets ready for winter, and the deserts rats get ready to plant flowers. So Matt and I have been cleaning up the backyard to get it ready for many play dates. I have been search for a little play set, but haven’t found anything I sold on with design and price, but I'm still looking.

Last night I had Coraline try on her Halloween costume. I love it because I bought it last year after Halloween for half price. (Yeah, I'm that kind of mom). I made a red tutu for a red dress run, that I never did because it rained that day, so I wrapped it around Coraline twice and it adds an extra flare to her costume. I also, bought black tights. Now I just need to make some antennas and hope she keeps them on her head!

Happy Birthday Coraline!

This week I am teaching my second grades about poems.
So I created a poem to model for my students.
I think its kind of cute :)

Last Saturday was fun.
Fill with lots of sun.
My baby Coraline just turned one.

There was cake, and laughter,
While we watch her slaughter
Her sweet layered ladybug cake.

I love my baby Coraline
This much I know is true,
She grew 2 inches in about a month or two.

It's Birthday time

I can't believe my baby is a year old. Her actual birthday is Monday, but we celebrated today. She is so precious. I can't believe how one little baby could completely change the way I feel, think, and act. I kind of have an idea what love really is.

The party was amazing! Good food, amazing cake, and awesome fellowship. A big thank you to everyone who came out. Thanks for making memories with my family :)

Man, these times are hard...

I need to seriously blog more! The truth of the matter is, I need more time. But if I had more time then I would only fill it with more things. So here I am blogging.

I secretly like it when my baby wakes up in the middle of the night crying. She only wants me to hold her for a moment and then she goes back to sleep. I wonder if that is how God feels when we cry out to him? He holds us for a moment so we can mentally get back into the game, and then we're off dreaming again. I like it.

So this whole we might not pay government employees is lame. I'm not worried because I know my needs will be taken care of, its just lame. I'm praying for all the families whose livelihood depend on that income. And since education is a function of the state, I fear that it could trickle down to my salary, which would make it very difficult to find the motivation to go to work. I love my baby more than my paycheck, which would be non existent. Now, I'm just rambling.
I need to think of a closing catch phrase like, "Stay classy San Diego," or something...