Life's A Dance

I have REALLY, REALLY enjoyed this Thanksgiving Break. We have had a lot of family time that I have really enjoyed with my husband, my sister, and my puppy. We got out early Tuesday and I came home to a broken water heater (which is still broken although it is the middle of being fixed, at least it's coming in from being ordered, supposedely) but had a great night, nevertheless. The next morning I woke up and we all went over to my school and worked on my classroom which iis starting to come into place, finally!!!! :) My hubby Karl is totally amazing and really helps me out a whole bunch. My room couldn't have gotten to where it is without him. We were up at my classroom a WHOLE crap load of time. We left at around 6 maybe 7 and I don't really remember what we did that night aftwerward. Anyway, Thanksgiving morning I took an amazingly cold shower and got ready to go to Shirley's house for Thanksgiving dinner and we had a really great time. I totally swamped people every...

Today was Kiana's first EVER bath and it went great. She was a little scared but made it through really well. Afterwards Karl went to fix something with the faucet so he had to turn it on and she ran like crazy to the bathroom, so i guess she enjoyed it. :) I would upload pictures but either my computer doesn't like it or my internet won't let me. I hope to get it fixed soon so hopefully after Christmas I will be able to start uploading pictures. She is so adorable and is really, SUPER smart. I just love having her in our house. She's not totally ready to run around all by herself yet but she is still a real joy. So, we bought our Christmas gifts yesterday and they should be here in 3 - 7 days. :) This is what we bought. Here is mine: http://www.jumpinjammerz.com/green+diva+dotz/product-466-pajamas/ Here is Karl's: http://www.jumpinjammerz.com/red+dragons/product-522-pajamas/ I tried putting the pictures up here but you know how that goes. So, I am supposed to be wo...

Anyone know a good cell phone service provider? This is the second time that we worked with someone at AT&T and I am about ready to switch providers. We went in there today to get my phone moved to Karl's plan, which we had to get a form filled out by my mom (well, kinda :), it helps when I can sign like mom; it's not like I didn't have her permission) in order to do so. We walked in and talked to this guy, gave him the form, and we thought that he understodd what we needed to be done and he just started going. We got to the point where I would pick out a phone and he started getting stuff ready and I re-asked him, after he wanted to know what number I wanted to use for it, if my phone was now on Karl's plan and he just went crazy on us. Basically he said that we never told him that that is what we wanted. He was very rude, basically saying that it was our fault that he did all this work for nothing. It was very disheartening and I really wanted to tell him to forge...

Let me just tell you, it has been a crazy day . . . strike that . . . a crazy week! For those faint at heart and who have a week stomach, this post may not be for you. The morning started alright. Kiana had a good morning and did not give me a hard time at all. I went to school and all during the morning instruction (reading) my spleen, at least I think it is my spleen, was hurting SO bad. I am going to probably go to the doctor soon to see about it. I hope it's nothing too serious. Then at the end of the day one of my girls tells me that her stomach hurts. So I let her get a drink and sit in my chair because she didn't feel like throwing up. Well, I am reading a story about farm animals and right as I saw QUACK she stands up and vomits all over the floor. So I send out my after-school care kids and then sent out my other kids to follow Brandi's class out the door. I told my little girl to just wait there, in her vomit, until I came back because no one would answer their ph...

Such is my life recently . . . and it is not at all enjoyable. I wish I could just get rid of all the gunk in my throat and stop sneezing and coughing. Anyway, here I on the couch, supposed to be working on my homework that is due today but I just can't get into it . . . again. :) It's hard for me to be at school all week then come home on the weekends and do homework. But enough about me . . . Yesterday was a lot of fun. Karl and I cleaned up the house and Grant & Amber came over for homemade pizza, which wasn't ready yet but at least they are willing to help with making food. :) Yay for cucumbers, carrots, and potato chips until the pizza was made, though. :) The pizza was delicious!!! So good, I can't beliieve how filling those pizzas are. You go to Dominos and can eat like a whole pizza and then you make one of our homemade pizzas for about 5 dollars and three slices fills you up like that. :) So good! After eating dinner, Nat and Mara and the girls came over fo...

Can you believe that Karl and I have been married for over 6 months? That is half a year!!! We have a house . . . BILLS . . . a beautiful chinchilla . . . BILLS . . . a gorgeous puppy . . . BILLS . . . great jobs . . . BILLS . . . and oh so much more. It is amazing how much we have been blessed even in this short time of being married. But I still can't believe that it has been that long. I was just spending some time on Facebook . . . you know an hour or so (it seems like you get sucked in for about that length of time and then you wonder where THAT time went, too) . . . and I realized that so much has changed for other people. I have 10 or so friends that just got married and about 10 friends who are about to get married. There are people that I went to college with who are having babies and those that have already had babies and gone through a divorce . . . WHEN DID WE ALL GROW UP??? When did we go from being children to adults????? It's such a weird thing to me. I look at m...

So we made it the whole week without telling a sole . . . we got a PUPPY!!!! Her name is Kiana and she is absolutely sweet and . . . well, for right now, knocked out from the meds. :/ I will try to upload a pic but will have to write more soon. You got to love her. :)

So we have been cleaning, reorganizing, and unpacking like crazy this weekend. I am so exhausted. I seriously think that we have done more the past three days then what we have done since we moved into the house. It's starting to look really good though and we are finding more and more room :). Of course the storage building is jammed packed, but that's what they're for, right???? :) The kitchen sink is still out of commission so all our dishes from the past week are just sitting on the kitchen counter. Nasty, I know, but such is life, I guess. I hope that it will be taken care of tomorrow. I'm ready for all our projects to be done with for a while. And then tonight as we were cleaning Kaycee's cage, our bathroom sink started leaking. :( We just can't get a break. So the only sink that we can use now is the one at the back of the house, which is alright with me. I just wish our house would stop falling apart. I was able to start buying Christmas gifts today and ...