Prom & Our New House

We have one more week of school until the summer break. I can't even believe it. I know I am going to be so emotional next week...

Last Saturday my baby brother went to Prom with his girlfriend Christa, who is still in high school. They looked soooo cute! I had a total rewind from last year. Jeff has one year of college under her belt. Hopefully next year will be easier for him.

Jeff and Christa:

On Wednesday, Kevin and I took the day off and went out to Plano to sign the papers and close on our house!!! I can't believe it is ours. I am really waiting for someone to come by and say, ahhh... ya know what... we made a mistake, you can't move in... we're gonna need our house back! Crazy, I know.. but I am not a rational person. :)

I told a friend of mine this fear and she said that by law we have the right to defend our property. Anybody got a musket or daggers????

We will be moving in the Wednesday after schools out. I can't wait!

Our keys:

Our house:

Entry way, looking into dinning:

foyer:

kitchen:

family room:

back of family room:
Family room from stairs:
bedroom #2

bedroom #3

bedroom #4

gameroom:

media room:

upstairs bathroom:

master bedroom:
master bathroom:
I am loving being a tour guide!

Rangers VS Yankees

Stevie and I went to the Ranger Game this evening. We had the best time!! There was a 2 and half hour rain delay that we waited out in the Gold Club until the rain stopped.

Stevie and me at 6:30pm before our fun rain delay (love ya Steves! Had the best time!!!):

View from our seats once the game FINALLY started at 9:15! I love our seats. My grandparents have had them for years and it is the BEST place to watch the game!

My camera died... we got some great pics of our favorite players (I got a great one of Johnny Damon) Don't get me wrong, I am a Rangers fan... but he is so pretty!

WE CLOSE ON OUR HOUSE TOMORROW! FINGERS CROSSED!

Tears of Proudness

First things first... This week was a whirlwind! But it was one of the best weeks of my life. I got to help direct my first play and our students preformed it this week. They performed "Into the Woods Junior" and did amazing! It's a great play made even better by the talent we had this year. They got standing ovations!! Everyone who saw it said they couldn't believe it was a Junior High Play.

I am so grateful to our choir director, who REALLY directed it... :) Our history teacher, my mentor, who worked so hard on the costumes and props AND ran the whole thing backstage, including the "quick" changes :)... one of our English teachers, who created the most magnificent stage... and our school... whose support is beyond anything I could have ever imagined. Everyone who had any hand in it... just made it that much better. It was just one of those weeks that made me feel like I had really accomplished something.

I was so excited that my parents and Kevin came to see it. I invited lots of people (totally last minute!!)... but it completely makes sense that people couldn't come and I mean it was a junior high play!!! :) But I wish more people had come... just so I could show off. A few of our students are amazing actors and one of the girls has a voice you have to hear to believe. She made me cry. Of course they all made me cry at the end because I was so PROUD! Can you tell??
(I have pictures, but I don't want to post them... these are my students after all)

After we wrapped Friday night, we (the adults) went to Fuzzy to celebrate. My sides hurt from laughing so much. At one point I was trying to talk, while laughing, and it was so high pitched that no one understood me. RIDICULOUS! But the most fun!

Kev and I went to the new house on Saturday... it is so close to being finished! The carpet is in. We are supposed to close on May 27th. Our loan was approved! There is still much to be done, I think. They have to put all the blinds in....

The mantel has been stained... but there is a hole in the middle. Why would they stain it with the hole in the middle??

Our appliances are in the house... just still in boxes. GOOD thing too, because we are supposed to have a gas stove and we looked in the box and the stove is electric. I called our sales guy and they are going to fix it. That's why we LOVE KHOVNANIAN! He even asked me what stove I originally picked out for the other house to make up for it... fingers crossed that works out... cuz that was an AWESOME stove... 5 burners and a double oven.


Last night I went to Denton to celebrate my pseudo-sister's college graduation! Jamie graduated!!!!! I didn't take any pictures... but here is one of my favorites of the two of us:

Congrats Jamie!! We are soooo proud of you!

Today Kev and I went out to Cabela's to look at fishing equipment. Kevin is really into fishing lately and we had never been there so we thought we'd check it out.

That place is huge!! We had a great time. We ended up outside looking at boats. The fact that we are looking at boats is Brad's fault. One of my best friends, Jordan and her husband Brad live in Florida. We go visit them as often as we can and when they are in town, they stay with us. Kevin and Brad have become very good friends and have a way of hatching ridiculous plans. This plan involves both Kevin and me AND Brad and Jordan buying 2 boats: one fresh water that would stay in Texas and one bay boat that will live in Florida. They jokingly said they'd each pay for half of the others boat. Jordan and I nipped that in the bud. :)

SOOOO... we are at Cabela's and we make our way to the boats... We have set a price limit... and have made a pact that we won't look seriously until one of our cars is paid off. Since the monthly payments on a boat are similar to a car payment. But today... we dreamed:

This one is in our price range... I like that it isn't only a fishing boat and Kev likes that it has a fishing package...

This boat is double the cost of the one above and is not at all what we need/want... but i was a pretty cool looking boat... If you look really closely you can see Kev peeking his head around the corner... that's how big this boat is!

We took this one for Brad and Jordan.... 30 grand and this could be yours!

AND if we win the lottery... we'll have no problem spending $140K on this baby!!

3 Weeks left until Summer. It is so bitter sweet for a first year teacher.

Dance Moves the Rock

Please... oh please watch this! be sure and scroll down to turn off my jukebox. Then turn your speakers up... this kid will rock your socks off!!!

Bad Blogger (w/pictures)

It's been awhile...

as more time goes by, the more I have to say and the thought of blogging was totally overwhelming me. Isn't that crazy? I think it may be that life is overwhelming me right now. School is almost out. I can literally smell summer every time I go outside. I don't think it helps my students behavior when their teacher is ready for summer just as much as they are.

So update on my life.... Spring Play is in 2 weeks... if you want to come see it email me and I'll give ya more info. I don't think specifics should placed out on the world wide web.

I am raising money to play in a bowling tournament called Bowl For Kids Sake to benefit Big Brothers and Big Sisters. I need $100 total. I have $60 pledged... and only $10 actually, physically in my possession. If you want to donate let me know. Please don't try to donate on the actual website since donations need to go through my school. It's confusing, I know... but if you are interested please let me know!! :) Any amount is welcome... $1, $2...

Alright... what else?

Jordan, Brad and Baby Jack spent the week with us not last week, but the week before. I LOVE IT when they come stay with us. Kev and I had to work all week, but it was the most fun to come home and hang out with them. Brad's sister gave birth to her second child, and that's why they were here. So we were all on our own schedules... but still we had a great time. I took that Thursday off.... We did so much while they were here... we ate sushi, saw 17 Again, ate wedding cake snow cones.... went down memory lane, the boys fished and hung out. We went by the new house and showed them how much space we'll have for them the next time they visit! We went to an Art Festival in Southlake. That was really fun. Jordan and I even left the baby with the boys and had our own night of fun. I'm always sad to see them go, but we'll be in Florida in late June so we don't have to wait too long to see them.

Brad cleaning the fish out at PK!

My hubby cleaning the cooler that was FULL of delicious BASS!

The fish!

Jack and I are "shocked" at how much fish the boys caught!

Jordana packing up at PK!

On Thursday we had lunch with my Mom at Piranha. Jack really enjoyed it! :)

Jack and My Mama:

Last week was FULL of work. Getting ready for the Spring Play... TAKS week... and our little "field trip" that could. Due to the Swine Flu we couldn't use the bus... but we made it all work and we went out to see our choir teacher star in "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat"... He "wrecked" it as my students say.

My Uncle David's birthday was last week and we went out to dinner at Victory Park in Dallas. It was really good. The Hummus was SO GOOD!

Here is my Uncle and his parents (and yes, that tiny woman gave birth to that really tall man) :)

My Gma and my cousin Jeremy outside the restaurant:

Saturday morning I put on my Matron of Honor hat piled into the car with my Mom, Gma, Gpa and their dog Missie and headed out to Bossier City, LA for Ember's first bridal shower that was for Josh's side of the family. It was so much fun. The drive was extremely comical. I'll just leave it at that (look at who was in the car). We were late to the shower but Ember completely understood and we got there just in time for presents. The shower was beautiful. Amazing food and such good company. It was a great time. Ember got a baking scoop from Gma that brought tears to her eyes due to the memories of being in the kitchen with Gma for all these years.

We stayed the night in Bossier and missed all the storms here in the metroplex. Kev said they were really bad. It was great to get to spend some time with the engaged couple. Em and Josh are so fun and they have the best time together. I love watching their love. I know that is corny... but when you are around them you just feel it.

Sunday morning/afternoon we checked out of the hotel and went over to Josh's Memaw's house for Sunday lunch. It reminded me of Christmas there was so much food. It was soooo good. Apparently she cooks like that every Sunday! AMAZING.

Unfortunately we had to eat and leave because my Mom had to be at a Banquet at 6pm that evening. At some point during the drive I lost my voice. I started to feel bad Friday night... just my throat.. but slowly but surely I have started to feel worse.

I am so grateful that we didn't have school today because I would not have been able to make it! I went to the doctor and it is NOT THE SWINE FLU. Possibly Strep throat and he'll let me know in a couple of days?????????? Since when? So in the mean time he gave me antibiotics. I am feeling better. My voice is like 80%. Oh how I wish Arlington ISD would just follow suit with all the other districts and close until Wednesday. Oh well.

Ooook.... I think that's all I got.

Deuces! :) I am so hip.

The Lake

What a weekend! :) The Boykins are in town from Florida (they drove in FRIDAY NIGHT) and we headed straight for Possum Kingdom. What can I say, the boys LOVE to fish and Jordana and I can't get enough of that gorgeous water! We had the best time and I promise I have more pictures, but my camera is in my car... I took these with my phone...

The lake from our dock, early Saturday morning... the water was so calm!

Playing with Baby Jack inside the condo... my favorite place with one of my favorite kids...

We have 4 Mondays left until Summer... and 1 of them is tomorrow. WOW! This year has flown by! I guess it really does FLY when you love what you do! I also get to add coaching to my days next year! Let me know if you want to come watch the PANTHERS rock people's socks off! :)

I'm so excited the Boykins are here!! We have the best time with them... you'd think Kev and Brad were separated at birth! They have so much in common are as good of friends as Jordana and me.... well ALMOST!

Alright... bed!

We have a closing date!

Looks like it is going to be the end of May for closing on the new house. They have it set at for a tentative May 27th. That is the 2nd to last week of school so we are hoping to move it back two weeks so we'll be done. Only because we have to take a day off school to close and those last few weeks are important to reviewing for finals. I just don't want to miss.... but we'll see.

Every time I go by it I am amazed at all that can be done in one week! The lighting is in... the plumbing, toilets, faucets, showers, kitchen granite, closet rails, door handles, mantle, backsplash, floor tile and even the fences are in!

master shower:

upstairs shower:

entry way from upstairs:

Breakfast nook:

Breakfast nook lighting:

KITCHEN from the family room:

backsplash and countertops:

looking from kitchen into living room:

fireplace with mantle:

standing in living room looking into foyer and dining room:

Dinning room chandelier:

back of house with fence:

I will take more tomorrow. I can't wait to see all that is done.