Lunch with Friends

My sweet friends Sharee and Jessica came over to my neck of the woods for lunch yesterday. Jessica brought her little girl Emmy and we had such a good time.

We went to Lucille's, a Fort Worth favorite and Sharee's friend from childhood, Hailey, met us for lunch too. It was so fun to just hang out like old times.

The Quest for the Perfect Coffee Table...

We've been on the quest for the perfect coffee table since we bought our house, which means I've been searching for a year and a half. We are currently using the same coffee table Josh had before we were married. It is functional but it is also from IKEA and our dog chewed it a little as a puppy. For those of you who haven't stopped by our home, here is a pic:
I found a great one when we first started looking but had a REALLY REALLY bad experience with the sales woman and the manager. Long story short, when we went to close the deal on a sectional these actual words came out of the managers mouth: "You're young and I'm not sure if you've bought quality furniture before." For the Baylor grads out there, the saleswoman reminded me of Dr. Curry for the curriculum class. UGH!!
Anyway, I haven't been able to find it at another store but here is the pic:

Then we went to Stacy's furniture. Everyone in the DFW metroplex knows the commerical slogan that "If you aren't shopping with Stacy, then you're burning money." Of course we don't want to burn money. There we found a coffee table which might be the one. It is HUGE but it is also the perfect height to sit at while we eat dinner...which is a major plus in a coffee table since we eat at the coffee table a lot more than our kitchen or dining room tables.
So what do you think??

Driving without contacts = Bad!!

Today on the way home from class and I experienced one of the scariest things that has ever happened to me. I had just exited the highway and was sitting at a red light on the service road. My eyes were a little dry and itchy so I rubbed them both. When I opened my eyes my vision was a little blurry.....for those of you who wear contacts you know this isn't too unusual when you rub your eye for your contact to get messed up.....but then,
BOTH OF THE CONTACTS FELL OUT OF MY EYES!!!! AT THE SAME TIME!!!

Now, I've worn contacts since 1993 and can count on one hand how many times a lens has popped out of eye. So I turned the corner and pulled into my neighborhood was able to pull over and tried to find the contacts. I could only find one and when I tried to put it in I dropped it again. I was searching everywhere but couldn't find them. So I continued to drive home, squinting through the pouring rain because I couldn't see a thing!!! To tell you how blind I am, I passed three stop signs and could make out the red octagon but the word never came into focus!!

I did make it home safely and somehow managed to even park the car in the garage without incident. Praise the Lord that I was close to home when this happened because I don't know what I would've done if this had happened to me on the highway.

I finished...

I finished Harry Pottery Sunday afternoon around 1pm. Josh hasn't even started reading yet but of course I'm dying to discuss. So, if you've finished and you need to talk about it....call me!!

I married Harry Potter.

Yesterday, Josh went to Baton Rouge for work. In the airport a woman asked him, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Harry Potter?"

Then later when the flight attendant was giving the safety briefing and when he finished he looks at Josh and then says, "We have Harry Potter on the plane tonight." He has experienced several incidents like this....especially with all the "Harry Hype" going on right now.

It is just the dark hair and glasses and the lightening bolt scar on his forehead (kidding!). Personally I think Josh is cuter than Daniel Radcliffe (who plays Harry Pottery) but I might be a little biased. :)

I keep trying to convince Josh to throw on his graduation robes and let me draw a little purple lightening bolt on his forehead and go out in public. Wouldn't that be fun???

However, he told me that it is crazy that people dress up to go buy their Harry Potter books.....so we will be waiting at home on Saturday for the mailman to bring ours.

I don't think I'll finish reading it Saturday though because we have Matt & Emily's engagement party that night. It will give me a good excuse to avoid studying or working on my final project for my grad school class.

I thought that I liked school....

I thought that I liked school....but as I start graduate classes I realize that I really liked the fun part of undergrad---eating in Memorial with all my friends, walking around campus, hanging out, wearing the same tshirt as 200 other girls on the same day (this is such a Baylor thing by the way).

Now that I'm back in school it is all coming crashing back how I sat in the back of classes and slept or worked on other stuff while the professors talked. Or how I was late for almost EVERY meeting of my curriculum design class....it started at 8am on MWF and lasted for two hours....the entire course contained only about two weeks of useful material so I still made an A despite arriving at 8:15-8:20 every morning. I remember skipping all my classes when a big project was due at 5pm.....and just working on it all day.

But now I'm really doing school. I have papers to write and books to read. My school district will reimburse part of my tutition if I get good grades....so I'm motivated to get some money back since we are trying to do this without loans.
It isn't all bad though. I am taking two classes--one on Monday nights and one on Thursday nights. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Thursday night class. I hate Monday nights....so I'm batting 500....not too bad.
And I keep trying to focus on the positive side that I'm only taking one class in the fall and then maybe a wintermester and I'll have 12 hours done by the end of the year. Woohoo!

I forgot how good I was at procrastinating!!!!

I should be writing a paper for my Foundation of Educational Policy class but I'm not. I haven't been for quite a while. I'm forgot how good I am at procrastinating and now I'm just amazed at myself. It is 10:45pm and I've been back here in the office most of the night.....I have almost 2 pages written but I've also checked all the blogs I like to read, read some message boards on The Nest, checked out cnn.com and done a little "window shopping" on Coach.com.

The paper is due Monday night....so I guess I still have some time....although it is difficult to write mainly because I'm bored to tears. The topic: Political Agendas in Education. I had to read a book about it and now I have to write a book review. Did you know a book review is different than a book report??? A book report is much easier by the way. Anyway, I had originally planned to finish the paper tonight so I could work in the yard tomorrow.....but it looks like I'll be back in here typing after church. Woohoo!!

Happy 4th Anniversary to us!!

Woohoo!!! Today is our 4th Anniversary.....but Josh had to work today and I had class from 5-9pm so we are actually celebrating tomorrow. Here is what we will do to celebrate:

--eat at some point this week off of our china
--drink champagne while we watch our wedding video

This is what we do every year. However, this morning I woke up to find a dozen roses on my kitchen table and a sweet card from Josh. He woke up early and got them before he went to work. Isn't he great??

You'd better Belize It....

Well, we've been back from Belize for a few weeks and I'm just now getting around to posting the pictures. It turns out that grad school is a little more time consuming than I thought.
Anyway, Belize was amazing. It was probably the best vacation we've ever been on. The country is beautiful and the people are friendly. We had so much fun relaxing, snorkeling and exploring.

This is a picture we took of ourselves our first day in Belize. Please notice how incredibly pale we both are. The next day we would spend 2 hours snorkelling and return to the resort redder than red. It was a bad sunburn....like I can't sit down or wear pants bad.....however, the snorkel trip was so amazing that it was totally worth it.


This is the front of the casita we stayed in. It was our own little thatched roof house for the week. It was amazing. So amazing that I told Josh if we ever build a custom home I want a master bathroom just like the casita's....


We spent a great deal of time on these chairs under this umbrella---especially after the sunburn. This was directly in front of our little casita.



We went on a tour and they told us we had to ride across a river on a ferry.....we were quite surprised when we realized this was the ferry. The guy standing on it just turned a crank to pull the boat across the river.

Exploring Belize....

We spent an entire day in Belize exploring the Mayan Ruins in the western part of the country. Our first stop was Xunantunich. This is El Castillo--the 2nd tallest structure in Belize.


And here's the view from the top: (if you look closely I think that is Guatemala out there)


This is the side of the El Castillo temple. We learned a lot about Mayan culture that day. Long story short, it was pretty brutal.


We also checked out the ruins at Cahal Pech. These ruins were smaller but had more passageways and little rooms to explore. One of the families on the tour had a 13 year old son who loved taking pics. He volunteered to take several for us and it was kind of like having our own personal vacation version of Flash.


This is a Mayan ball court. The losers were sacrificed but sometimes so were the winners. Fun, huh??

Leaving Belize...

Here is Josh getting on the plane that took us from Dangriga back to Belize City for the American flight home. It sat about 14 people and flew about 500 feet off the ground.....which sounded scary until we did it and then it was awesome.
We were sad to leave Belize and head back to the real world.....I think Josh was the saddest since he had to go to work the next day.

SPAMALOT!!

Tonight we went to see Spamalot with my sister and her husband. One word: HILARIOUS!! We laughed so hard. I think I might have forgotten how funny the movie was in the first place. But the musical had it all--singing, dancing, a black knight, terrible taunts by the French and of course the Knights Who Say "Ni."

You must go see it if you get the chance.....but if it isn't coming to a city near you than you can just watch the movie and laugh all over again.

I'm off to find a shurbery!

Our second honeymoon....

Our bags our packed, Monty is at my mom's and we're ready to head to Belize!!! I'm so excited. Five days of laying in hammocks, exploring Mayan ruins, snorkelling and getting tan!! (Hopefully, it is the rainy season in the rain forest though so I might come back just as pale as I am now.) Some people think you aren't suppose to go on a second honeymoon until you've been married a long time but we think 4 years is long enough.
I'll be sure to post pictures when we return!!!

Woohoo!! I love vacation!!

4 1/2 more days of work

This year has flown by. It is weird to think that there are only 4 1/2 more days of school left before summer. I am excited but also a little sad. I'm not really saying good bye to kids now that I'm working in the office but it will be weird not seeing my work friends on a daily basis. I don't know how I'll eat lunch without Maurie and Heather. The other people in the office actually work a longer contract than I do at this point.....so they'll be up at school without me. I will probably have to stop by to hang out a little.

Of course I have a lot planned for this summer----2 classes toward my master's, cheer camp, youth camp (yes, I'm 27 and still go to camps), our dream vacation, finding the perfect coffee table, touching up the paint in our hallways, tons of other projects around the house, etc.

I actually have a list of stuff to do....it's the "After May 25th list"....I can't wait to get started.

It's May! It's May!

It's May. Despite the rain showers and tornado warnings I love May....because it means summer is coming. Woohoo!!! 15 school days left.
Of course summer won't be totally a blow off this year because I'm actually going back to school this summer to start working on my master's in Educational Leadership. Fun times, right?

Actually, with 15 school days left I'd better stop blogging and get to work.

Pictures as promised

We started off Easter weekend at Caleb and Brittney's wedding. I think you can really tell I've highlighted my hair in this top pic. Anyway, We had so much fun catching up with old friends from Baylor. It had been snowing earlier in the day so wraps were definitely necessary. And hey look, I figured out how to type between pics! I'm a genius.

Coming soon....MORE PICTURES!!!

Today I took three disposable cameras to get the film developed. I decided to go ahead and fork over the extra money to get a CD so I can load some of the pics up to the blog.....YIPPEE. Of course I'm also interested to see what pictures are even on these cameras since I don't even remember when we used two of the cameras.

Honestly, I love Jesus but I drink a little

I laughed so hard at this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1lDBx1gBww

Wedding Pictures!!!

Jason and Hailey got married on March 10th. We had so much fun all weekend. Here are some pics of the Newly-Weems' first kiss as a married couple, cutting the cake and Josh giving a toast. I have tried to figure out how to post the pictures with words in between but I'm a blog idiot so I can't do it. Plus, I'm at work so I probably need to be doing something else anyway.

Baby Hunter is Here!!

My sweet friend Carole had a beautiful baby boy on Friday, March 17th. He is so sweet and perfect that it was hard to give him up once I started holding him. I can't wait to watch this little boy grow up!