Ready for Christmas!

We have a Christmas tree! I've been hunting for one that will fit in our little apartment, and I finally found it at Lowe's. I know it's October, but it's never too early to start shopping for Christmas stuff! I even went to Hobby Lobby and bought 3 boxes of ornaments. Only 6 more weeks until we can put it up and decorate. I found a Cowboys ornament for Cody so he has to help me decorate, even if he is just hanging the one ornament.

Cody comes home tomorrow - FINALLY! He's been in Vegas all week at a conference for work. I've been lonely, but I really haven't had much time to miss him because I've been SO busy with school. My unit plan is almost done. I only have 2 more lessons to teach.... and the music teacher is evaluating me.... weird. And now for a strange moment we had in the middle of reading "Sarah, Plain and Tall" today.

Mrs. C: Would you please take that gum out of your mouth?
Kid: No, umm...it's not gum.
Mrs. C: Then what is it?
Kid: It's my fingernail.

Ugh.. these kids are so gross sometimes. I've seen two kids this week yank their teeth out and gush blood all over the place. Nothing grosses me out more than pulling teeth. One girl keeps telling me she throws up in her mouth a little. I mean really.. gross. I don't want to hear it, but I guess it comes with the job.....

OK - enough for today. Maybe Cody will come home with some good pictures for me to put up on here... check back...all 3 of you who read this = )

Diets Don't Work, Weight Watchers Does

YAY - so I've lost 3 pounds! I know it doesn't seem like a lot, but it does to me! As long as I see the numbers getting smaller, it will make me try harder! I have 14 more pounds to go before I reach my goal weight. I'd actually like to go lower... so we'll see how this works out first. Too bad Thanksgiving and Christmas are so soon... I'm not sure how I'll be able to resist all the yummy desserts!

Anyway - enough about being chubby... I'm offically done with 1/3 of my student teaching! I should really be halfway done - but the hurricanes messed that up. I have to do my unit plan this week...that should be interesting. And there are 79 more days until graduation. That sounds so far away. Oh well.. I'm excited!

I'll finish this with a school story. I took up a kid's note today that he was writing while I was teaching. It said, "Do you like me? Will you kiss me?" Oh the joys of teaching boys and girls who are discovering each other... haha. These kids are really cracking me up!

Squall

The last couple of days at school were spent writing sentences with our new vocabulary words. Squall was one of them, so here's the definition and a sentence one of my students wrote:

squall (n.) - a strong gust of wind that arises very suddenly

"Do you know what a squall mean?"

I saw this and immediately started laughing because Cody and I had just talked about writing sentences like that when we were in elementary school. Our most commonly used sentence would be something more like this:

"Squall is one of our vocabulary words."

Later on in the day, I was having a conversation about the word squall to help a boy write his sentence. He kept trying to say it, but he just couldn't say it right. He said, "I don't know how y'all say that word. My teeth are too big to say it right." I've never heard that one before... it's so hard to not laugh at these kids in front of their face. Poor babies. They are so cute though! Even when we decorate the room with large wood paddles. = )

Wedding Pictures

If there is anyone out there with digital pictures from my wedding - let me know! I'd like to see them! THANKS!

Ike Hurrication

Thanks to Ike, we had another vacation! This time it was longer, but it got old pretty fast... there are only so many times you can eat out... Here's a picture of our first night in Grand Prairie. Mickey ordered the hugest meal I've ever seen. It was so big, it was worthy of a photo (it looked way bigger in person)!

The second day was the Dallas World Aquarium. Carrie was totally excited about it!

Cody thought I should take a picture by my twin - a sloth.
These sharks freaked me out. I don't know what they were called though...
I have no idea what this is but it was weird looking, too!
The scariest animal at the zoo - CODY!
Another picture from the many restaurants we visited on our hurrication.
We found a Freebirds!!!!! I finally made my own art with the burrito foil.
One day we went to the Fort Worth Stockyards. We missed the best part of it though because we didn't really what we were doing there. But we did run into a huge cow and took a picture with him!
We went to the Dallas Galleria. Not my favorite mall ever, but we decided to ice skate while there. Amiee never let go of that wall!! I tried to teach her how to skate, but it didn't work out well.
I don't remember how she fell, but it was funny!
So after our fun trip in the Dallas area, we headed home after we found out we had power. Of course we stopped by the #1 Christmas store in Texas first to pick up a few decorations! = ) We got home to our lovely apartment with an extremely stinky refrigerator! We left meat in the freezer thinking we would only be gone for a day or two... I will never again do that! Even if it's a false alarm - all meat will be thrown away!

Anyway - most things are back to normal around here. Well, except for the restaurants that have limited menus. Not that we need to be eating at restaurants anyway. I swear, I have gained a few pounds while gone. It's time for a diet. The diet of choice this time is Weight Watchers. I've done it before, and it works. I got a free trial to the WW Online, and it's really neat! It also gave me access to the WW store so I could buy the newest point books! I'm actually excited about doing it. I guess putting this info out in public will hold me accountable. Maybe. Hopefully. We'll see.

Ok - time to get back to reading Breaking Dawn... so good so far! Team Edward.. haha!

Mean Mrs. Bean

I have been student teaching for just 5 days now. Today was my first day to change someone's color! It felt great, too. Too bad he had already had 3 color changes by other teachers... I can't wait to do it again! = )

Gustav Shopping Vacation in San Marcos

One week after Cody and I left San Antonio, we had to head right back in that direction to evacuate because of Hurricane Gustav. After driving in the middle of the night through crazy back roads with Cody's family, we ended up at our hotel in San Marcos. During our stay, we shopping at the outlet mall, went to Gruene, and ate a lot. Although trip was unnecessary, we had fun!
Everyone played dress up in J.Crew except for Carrie and me...

I found these amazing sunglasses in Gruene!

On this day, Cody and I had been married for 3 months! : )