Swingin'

Yesterday at Star School waiting for Shawn to get through driving the bus.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

I am excited about decorating for Christmas this year. Shawn and I went to Wal-Mart and got some maroon and silver christmas ornaments. Gig 'em Aggies! And I even made a wreath out of come cedar branches I cut off of a tree out by our house. I put a red bow on it. It looks a little scrawny, but I got tired of getting scratched up by the cedar. Oh well! We are supposed to get our tree this weekend, so that will be fun. Shawn is going to cut it down at a Christmas Tree Farm.

Shawn has some big ideas for what he wants to get Ashilee and Brytini and Bryce. We'll see what happens!

Misty's wreck

There has been a lot going on lately. Recently a good friend, Misty, (the twin sister of one of my best friends) was in a car accident. She fell asleep at the wheel and hit a tree. She was in ICU for a week or so, and she had a cracked pelvis and a sliced spleen. She had a lot of mucus in her lungs, so she was on a ventilator for about a week. Things seemed to be getting better, though, and they moved her to her own room and after two weeks of being in the hospital she was moved to a rehab facility nearby. That was on Thanksgiving.

The very next day she was moved back to ICU. Her lungs filled with fluid. She had pneumonia. One of her lungs collapsed, and one of her lungs had a blood clot in it. (Not sure if it was the same lung or not) She is only 25, and she is fighting for her life. They said they almost lost her Friday night. Anyone that reads this, please pray for Misty!

Brandy (her sister) is set to get married December 22, and we are not even sure if Misty will be out of the hospital by then. We aren't sure what is going to happen. It is heartbreaking. She had been driving back and forth to school and that is when she fell asleep while she was driving.

Toe-tally fun!

Just a cute photo of our Henry (also known as "Hank" to some...)

Finally a Bridesmaid!

Brandy is getting married! December 22, 2007! So I get to be a bridesmaid now :) Woohoo... And hopefully the bridal shower will be December 1. Hopefully that all works out! I'm excited for Brandy and Will, and it's only going to be 5 days before our anniversary.

Fall Festival Star, TX

This weekend we had the Fall Festival... I helped run the cakewalk, and Shawn did the concessions stand. They also had Bingo, so when we were done at around 9:30, we went over there and it didnt' end til 1am. We won some little things, and a couple of useful things, too :) One was a bionic wrench, and also we got a cute pot for a plant that has a little chalkboard on the side of it. Here is a picture of Shawn in his Rodeo Clown getup... I did the face paint!

Pics from David's Wedding

Here are a couple of pictures from the wedding! One cute one of the kids, and one with Brandy and Leigha :) and of course, one of all 6 of us as we scrambled out to get to the wedding on time...

I finally talked to Pam after a while, and her Pinning Ceremony is December 13, a Thursday. She is graduating from nursing school and she will be an RN. I don't know if I'll be able to make it, but I would absolutely love to, cause I know it's been a long road to get to this point, and she did it!! I am really proud of her, she never quit and she has done so well with grades and everything. Now she just needs to move closer to me. Then it would be perfect :)

Anyway, we have a fall festival this weekend, the 27th, at school. And guess who was voluntold to put on a cakewalk? You guessed it, me. There are supposed to be around 100 cakes, and I'll probably be making quite a few of those. My classes are going to take over the home ec room and bake all day Friday. That part should be pretty fun, anyway... We have a concession stand to do this Friday, too! It is going to be another busy weekend!

God's grace

God is good! We got to go to David and Whitney's wedding this weekend and I finally got to see Brandy's baby! Leigha is a cutie :) It has been a long time since I saw Brandy, a few months I guess. She looked great! I think motherhood agrees with her. And we had fun hanging out til around midnight. We finally had to give it up though, cause we were going to church the next day at 9 at Living Hope!! www.lhbc.net I love that place! We really miss all of our friends who go there, and the authentic way that people live out their Christianity. Praise God for bringing us all back for a visit. We also got to introduce the girls to the whole family, so that was fun. I'll post a picture someday, but I am on Shawn's computer, so I can't do a whole lot...

I am at school right now and I am bored... I have things to do but I don't want to grade so I don't have anything else to do ;)

Wedding Weekend

This weekend my cousin David is getting married ( www.whitneyanddavid.com )... We have got new dresses and the boys have tuxes. We are ready :) And I finally get to see Brandy's baby!! She is already 2 and a half months old! Can't wait to see everyone, and I should have some great pictures to show, too!

A New School Year... Darn.

It is the second week of school... I wasn't ready to come back. I was enjoying my summer, thank you very much! But I guess I'll get over it by next summer :)

We now have four kids to get ready every morning! Bryce and Henry, and our two new girls, Ashilee and Brytini. They are in 6th and 2nd grades. It has been nice having older kids around, they really help out with the boys! Ashilee has decided she is going to do cheerleading this year, so we have practice after school til 5 on Mondays and Tuesdays... At least the lady that is keeping Bryce and Henry is nice enough to bring them to me in the afternoons. That is such a wonderful thing to not have to run off to pick them up and then go back to school to pick up Ashilee. That would be a lot of running around, especially since we are out in the middle of nowhere and I'd have to drive 20 miles round trip to get them.

I am also senior sponsor, which means I have to do every concession stand at every home game from here to eternity. I did NOT sign up for this!! Anyway, today we are doing benchmark tests. A practice TAKS test basically. In my opinion it is a big waste of time, but they didn't ask me. So I am in with a class of 2 people supervising so I decided I should update the blog.

Other than work, life is actually pretty peachy:) Bryce just turned 2 a week ago, and Henry is almost 6 months old now... Ashilee turned 12 in July and Brytini was 7 in March. We also just got a new puppy named Abraham. There is a story that is really sad as to why we don't have Damascus anymore, but I won't dwell on that today. Abraham is a mastiff (half American, half English?). He is a fawn color with black around his nose and mouth. He's a cutie...

As long as I'm rambling, we got Netflix this month, and I have to say that I like it a lot. Being out in the middle of nowhere like we are, it is a huge hassle to rent a movie and then be able to bring it back on time, and on the satellite it is more expensive and you have to wait for the movie to come on to watch it on Pay per view. This netflix is cool, we just send the one we watched in, and we get another a couple of days later. We watched Deja Vu last night, that was a good movie. I really like Denzel Washington anyway, and the story was really interesting. Two thumbs up from Marcie and Abraham:)