Monday, May 30, 2011

Manic Month of May/Memorial Day

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Alright blog world.... I haven't quite been my usual regular try to blog once a week to get my creative juices flowing self, but if you are a teacher you know the about the month of MAY!!! It has been absolutely ridiculously high stressed to say the least. There is just a lot to do and many school related things that race through my mind and the month is almost over. I have 4 days left with students, and then teachers have to go back for one more day next Monday. Hopefully when we start earlier this year we won't be sticking around at the school until the first week of June. There is so much I need to get off my chest!!! :-)

First and foremost we had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend spending time with each other, friends, and family.

Thanks so much to our troops and their families! We visited 3 memorials this weekend for troops.

*** WARNING*** This post is long and random and filled with pictures from the month of May. *** So if you can make it through this I'm impressed!******

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(Hubby's picture) Prayer is AMAZING!!
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This was at a small cemetery outside of town that we biked too. :-)
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Cheers to Beautiful Sunsets this weekend! 
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A bull:-)
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A calf :-) This was not in the slightest bit afraid it just came right up to us. 

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We got the opportunity to snuggle our new nephew. Isn't he so cute!! :-) He's only about 2 weeks old and just so tiny. :-) 

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My good friend who teaches across  the hall is getting hitched and man alive am I happy for her. She is the best! We are yoga partners too! :-) 

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We grilled out on Sat night with 2 other AWESOME couples and had a great time. Hubby built us a fire and had a great time with them! 

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I have been working on painting some of the flower pots and sprucing them up and kirby came running up on the deck and knocked this one over and I didn't really care but was a little in awe of how much it broke apart after only falling down 3 stairs. 

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I got crafty with my good friends from school and had seen someone else blog about spray painting mason jars. Well I couldn't find mason jars at the time, and my spray paint was also defective so I need to re do it, but I don't think it looks all that bad really. Do you? 

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I made this one for the centerpiece for the table on the deck. Once the spray paint threw off my smooth clean look to the jars my friend gave me the idea to sponge it and so this is how it turned out. I think I may have waited too long and I may or may have not been a little pouty about my dysfunctional can of spray paint. :-) 

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Hubby's uncle's birthday celebration!! Our first time at Latin King! :-) MMMM... goood! :-) 

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The garden is in and I'm proud to say it is looking magnificent! This year we are NOT doing corn, due to circumstances of a limited garden space. However, in the garden this year are the following.
1. Beans
2. peas
3. OKRA!!!! :-)
4. Tomatos
5. Peppers
6. Carrots
7. Watermelon and I may have put Pumpkin in too, we will see what comes up.
I'm EXCITED!!!

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The annual ICUBS game! Always a good time! 

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A gorgeous walk down the Raccoon River! Hopefully soon we can canoe down it! :-) 

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A couple of other things are: 
1. I applied for a Level 1 position and will have a new batch of kiddos next year and all 6th graders!
2. I applied for Grad school and got in and my financial aid went through so whoo...!!! Happy day! I start classes this summer on top of teaching summer school! Lots of fun!
3. Hubby also requested to go to first shift at his work so we could have our nights off together and it was approved! AMEN! Prayer does AMAZing things! 

Another Amazing thing that I experienced this month is a random stranger in church leaned over and said she would be praying for me for whatever was going on in my life! WOW!!! We are on a love you DM series and the topic was about prayer that day, but still I was touched and it brought tears to my eyes. I was speechless! 

That is my Miscellaneous Monday! And Kudos to you for making it through a not clearly planned or scripted reading, but a lot of me Babbling and getting things off my chest! :-) 
Thursday, April 28, 2011

A full plate

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thanks you for your sacrifice to us and may we always celebrate in joy that your ALIVE.
AMEN!!

EASTER!!
I didn't get a picture in our Easter outfits from church, which I'm very sad about, so this one will have to do.
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We had a great time and got to see a lot of my family! :-) And spend time with my brother and SIL! :-) We had a really fun night! We also made lots of food for Easter!

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We went bowling!!
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Treats!

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Kirby loves his uncle!
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We enjoyed being home with my parents and had  wonderful Easter! The Kirbster also turned 6 on Monday!
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He was very spoiled all day! 

Monday my handsome hubby also had his last day of classes for his architecture program!! He is now a certified drafter!!! CONGRATS!! I am so proud of you!! 

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Have a great day!

Friday, April 22, 2011

Genesis & Matthew


The morning started out with rain...

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A strange kinda day... it makes you think.... Good Friday and Earth day..... can they correlate?

Answer: ABSOLUTELY!!!

When searching for an answer to a lingering question in your head, what better place to go for an answer than the bible. 

Let's start at the beginning with Genesis, the first book of the bible. In Genesis 1:1 it states, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." In 1970 when Nixon was president, it was the time when the US was becoming familiar with the Environmental clean air and water acts. Which means that Earth day has only been a  designated national holiday for 41 years!
I know I have some goals of my own to be better at taking care of our earth. I believe that God created this earth that we live on and that we should do our best conscious effort to take care of it. 

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Whether that means small things like planting a tree, using LED light bulbs, or taking shorter showers, recycling, driving cars that get good gas milage, carpooling. Whatever it might be, we all can do little things to help take care of this world that has been created by God for us. 

Today was not only Earth Day it was Good Friday, which is the day Jesus died on the Cross. Today I saw rain, then I saw a hint of sun, then I observed this....


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An image that really caught my eye... It's almost like a hazy fog that has lasted through the night. It reminds me of what it may have been like the night Jesus was crucified on the cross this day thousands of years ago, between two criminals. In Matthew 27:51, "It says the earth quaked and the rocks were split." 

The bible clearly tells us that God created the heavens and the earth, and that God sent his own son to die on the cross for our sins. God is love, he always has been, always will be. When we need answers he's the one we need to go to. 

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John 3:16, "For GOD so loved the WORLD he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 

Amen!!

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Happy Easter! & Safe travels!!


Wednesday, April 20, 2011

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

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Leading off today I'm first and foremost always loving my husband. :-)

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I'm loving my easter dress and am so excited for Easter weekend with my family! :-)

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I'm loving that it was an early out today.

I'm loving that I am planning on bringing dessert to easter..

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YUMM!! I'm hungry!! :-)














I'm loving the IZZE drinks right now, sparkling blackberry, especially since they come with a coupon at the gas station so it only makes it a dollar!!

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I"m loving the noise of the train as it passes through out little town every night!

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I"m loving that the button on my right black shoe fell off and I fixed it at school with a brass fastener and then used a black sharpie and you can't hardly tell!

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I'm loving that the asparagus I planted last year is so eager to get out of that ground!!


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I"m loving me a handsome CLEAN almost 6 year old puppy! :-) 


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I'm totally in LOVE with the skirt I'm wearing in this picture was made by my MIL and I love it and my new school bag is made out of black and white skirt! I'm in Love!!!

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I'm loving the beautiful orange, purple, red, white, and pink tulips coming up!!


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I'm loving that when I walked to the mailbox today that there wasn't any bills in the mailbox with my name on it! :-)


Happy Wednesday!! :-)