I told my Principal

As most of you know, I am going to be a full time homemaker as of May 23, 2008 ( at 2:30pm to be exact!) We made this decision to bring me home a year and a half ago. I was nervous to let the cat out of the bag too early at school. I felt that it was time to tell my principal as contracts for the next year are due for teachers to sign for next year. I wanted to beat my contract so I told her on Friday. At first I was so nervous! But then I was calm and collective in my conviction and my principal was very happy for me and respected my decision to come home and be with my children. I felt like a huge monkey jumped off my back after the meeting with her. My secret is out. Before my secret was out, this journey seemed "surreal". Now, it feels real. It is happening. We are on the last leg of the race. Everyday we are moving closer and closer to the finish line. I just need to figure out what I will do with myself once we cross the finish line! lol

Poker and Friends

 
 
 
 
Saturday night we went over to the Stamps. She made a fabulous dinner for my birthday. We had Chicken Louise with aparagus and rice, yummy! Cay made the best apple pie I have ever tasted!!! Of course there was Blue Bell with the pie.
After dinner, we decided to play cards. We started out with Blackjack but soon we were bored so we moved on to Poker. It was my first time ever to play Poker! I must have had beginners luck, because I won three hands! After cards, we began to go down memory lane as we looked through Cay's old pictures of her and Kevin in the "early years". George and Kevin showed of their early days by putting on earrings. They both haven't wore earrings for years! As always when we go to the Stamps, we had a fantastic time!

Post Christmas

Is your tree still up? Christmas decorations still out? I am just curious as to how fast and when your family cleans up after Christmas. Are you ready to pack them up or are you wanting to enjoy them throughout the month of January too? I often catch myself of saying we do not have many "traditions" in our family and after I said it, I realize that we have had a tradition for almost 15 years...putting up all Christmas decorations by 12 noon Christmas Day. We are so ready to have our house back from the decorations! How quickly do you pack away your decorations after Christmas?

Happy Birthday George!

 

 

Today is George's 21st birthday! That's what I said, but I stood to be corrected. George said he was 18! Let's just say he is "half-dead" as he refferred to himself at 40 and four years today have passed since that dreary day. Do the math! Sadie loves to bake so she did the honors. She was in such a hurry to present her cake to Dad that she wouldn't wait on me to make the frosting! Thank goodness we didn't have 44 candles, because Sadie would have found a way to put them all on the cake the fire alarm would have gone off for sure! Happy Birthday George! We love you!

happy new Year w/ Mormon Champange

 

 

We went to Granny's for New Year's Eve and to celebrate the new year. Forrest and Sadie were saying all day that they were going to stay up till 2008. Granny and Grampie bailed on us around 11:30pm. Grampie did wonder back in to see the ball drop to officially welcome in the new year and to take a picture of us at exactly the beginning of the year 2008. Sadie and I ran outside and screamed "Happy New Year" to all the neighbors. It's just a little tradidtion we have started. Forrest and Sadie made Mormon Champagne, a mixture of grape/peach juice with ginger ale. It's really good! We want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope that you have a wonderful 2008.

Happy Birthday Mom!

 
Sadie made me this delicious birthday cake for my birthday. Sadie took to the kitchen to do her baking. When she was done, she brought out her cake, baked in a glass pan smaller than a loaf pan, with 36 candles for me to blow out. It took my a couple of blows to get all the candles out. We were surprised the fire alarm didn't go off with all the smoke the candles were producing! Thank you my sweet sadie-girl for my beauriful cake! I love you forever!

Havoc Hockey Game

 

 

I received free tickets to the Havoc game for last Friday night so I took Sadie and "the girls" which are Eryn and Natalee Ricks. We had the best time! The girls had never been to a game and they really loved the three fights the hockey players got into along with participating in the "wave" . We sure had a blast!