Catching Up...

Blogging about my weekend is just about the only fun thing left on my to do list so thought I would avoid the rest of the list a bit longer. :)

Thursday night we had parent teacher conferences until 7:30 - pretty long and boring. Because of that we got Friday off. Nice I know. Unfortunately I started the day with a dentist appointment. Had to have a couple of cavities filled. Those of you who know me know how much I hate the dentist. I always call Andrew crying afterwards, even for routine teeth cleaning. I just really hate the dentist. I never had a bad experience or anything - just dont' like it. This ought to tell you how much I hate the dentist - I would rather go to the gynocologist every day than to go to the dentist.

After that I went home to relax and nap with my puppies. After our nap I got ready and headed to Batesville to pick up Chaney, my ten year old cousin. Picked her up and then we went to see High School Musical 3. The movie was good, but I cracked up the whole movie. It was packed and those girls were screaming as if Zac Effron was really in the room. They were crying too - it was just funny.

Saturday morning my mom and Ashlee came down and the four of us went shopping. Really enjoyed that time. I got a couple of new Christmas ornaments - I love fun ornaments. I got a couple of new shirts and some scrapbooking supplies. We had lunch at Cheeburger Cheeburger - very yummy.

Sunday morning we got up and headed to church. Cary gave a good sermon on living out God's purpose in our lives. It was an awesome service. After church we did a photo shoot with the dogs for our Christmas card. The dogs did wonderfully. They were very cooperative. Unfortunately we did this at noon and the sun was very bright. We are going to have do our shoot again.

After pics, we took a nap and then headed over to Jill's. Andrew's mom and dad were down so we all went over to visit. We left Jill's and went to Lowe's and Kohl's. We are planning on redecorating our bedroom. Unfortunately we can't make up our minds on what we want. While we were out our friend Shaun called. He is down from New York and had a list of restaurants he wanted to eat at. So we met him and his girlfriend, Dianna at US Pizza for dinner. Had the best pizza EVER!! Very yummy.

So I had an awesome weekend. And I'm glad because this week has been rough. It is Homecoming/Red Ribbon week at school. It has been wild.

Well I guess that's it for now. I've got to get started on my not so fun to do list.

Camping Pictures

I thought I would take advantage of my day off and finally post some pictures of our camping trip. Hope you enjoy them.

I told you we took a lot of stuff...


Our big tent and little tent.



A few pics from early Saturday morning...




The view at Mt. Nebo was absolutely beautiful. Just take a look for yourself.





We went for a hike Saturday afternoon. Got some great pics!

It's a Book Party

So after going to Jill's book party I've decided to have one of my own. It was so much fun. Thought I'd share the website so you could all check it out. Obviously if you are in my area I'd love to have you at the party on November 15th, but I realize for some of you that isn't possible. Check out the website. These books are very reasonably priced and make great additions to your classroom, your children's library, or even great Christmas gifts. The website is www.ubah.com/HOS127848 and they will ship directly to your home!

One of those times...

when you ask why? When you realize that bad things do happen to people you know, even your friends and family.

My cousin called today to let me know his other cousin (no relation to me) and my best friend from elementary school and high school was found shot in her home today. Her husband was found with her. The family believes the husband killed her and then himself.

She just turned 26 on October 19. I just can't believe it. It is awful. Obviously her family is not taking it well. Please pray for both families. He had children but they did not have any together.

I'm just in shock.

Mt. Nebo

I just realized that my camera is out in my car and I really don't want to get up and go get. So I will have to post some pics later but I thought I would go ahead and share about our camping experience this past weekend.

First let me just say that it was a lot of fun. I'm glad Andrew and I can now say we've been camping. :) Friday afternoon as we were loading our friend Slack's 4 runner things got a little out of hand. We had an insane amount of stuff for three people. The back of Slack's 4 runner was packed full and so was one side of the back seat. We left just enough room for her to sit back there. Andrew drove and I sat up front with Liberty & Liam.

We got to camp after dark. We sat up Sinclair & Amanda's tent (more friends that went with us) first. I laughed so hard. Their tent was tiny - just wait till you see the pics. I honestly thought they were going to sleep in two tents. After they set their tent up which only took like two minute because it was so small, the guys got a fire going and began grilling burgers. It was getting very cold very quickly so the fire was nice. We enjoyed our yummy burgers and dogs around the fire. Then we sat up our mansion of a tent. Andrew and I borrowed my little brother's tent which is a two room tent. We immediately decided that Sinclair and Amanda would sleep with us seeing as how their queen size air matress wouldn't fit in their tent and Slack would get the baby tent. By this time it was very dark and we were very tired so we headed to bed. To say that it was cold would be a very large understatement. We froze. My joints hurt because I was so cold. I couldn't get comfortable at all. It was incredibly windy outside. No one in the big tent slept well. We were too cold to be comfortable. Slack however slept quite well. Our big tent apparently blocked all the wind from her little tent.

Saturday morning we got up and had breakfast. Scrambled eggs and bacon - quite yummy. After breakfast we all went for a hike. It was absolutely beautiful. We basically hiked down the mountain and then back up. The dogs loved this. This was Liberty's second mountain to climb. She loves this sort of thing. She has so much energy and loves being in the lead. She is amazingly good at staying on the trail too. This was Liam's first hike and he did great. I only had to carry him up a few steep rocks. He probably could have done the whole thing, but he's my baby and I have to take good care of him. :)

After lunch, it was time for a nap while it was warm out. We all slept 2-3 hours. Then we got up for lunch, did a Wal-Mart run, and sat around the fire listening to the Razorback game. Thankfully I went to bed at the beginning of the 3rd quarter. I was very upset to wake up Sunday morning only to learn we lost 21-20 in the last two minutes of the game. Sigh!! By the way we all slept much better Saturday night. It was much warmer. Andrew and I had the best night's sleep we'd had in awhile.

We got up early Sunday morning, packed up, and headed back to NLR for church which was awesome as always.

So that is our camping trip in the short version. Got a couple of close calls with the dogs, but I'll save those for another post with pics.

Tomorrow is the big day!

We are finally going camping tomorrow. I am so excited. We are going to Mt. Nebo. I have no idea where that is, but it doesn't matter. I can't wait to sleep in a tent with my hubby and our furbabies. :) You can all be watching for pictures because I'm sure that there will lots taken.

Thank you Chelsey.

I have been tagged by Chelsey to list six happy things and then choose six people. This couldn't have come on a better day. It has been one of those days when nothing would work for me - my computer, the copier, my students. It is definitely a great moment to stop and be reminded of all of the good things. I'm not going to choose six people - I challenge anyone who reads this to make their own list. Surely we all have six little things to be happy about.


1. I have a God and Savior who loves me no matter what and who never gives up on me. I was reminded of that in a song we sang at church yesterday. I'm am so thankful to be a child of God.

2. I have a husband who is also a child of God and he is HOT!! LOL - sorry. I went to a wedding this weekend and saw quite a few boys that I dated and/or thought were hot back in high school. Time has changed them. :) Anyways - I have the greatest husband -most of the time. After all , he is a sinner like me. He loves the Lord though and for that I am very thankful.

3. My babies - Liberty Bell & Liam Bailey. They are so fun. I know most people don't understand and think I'm crazy but those two really are my children. They are so sweet and a little crazy.

4. I'm going camping this weekend. Camping was one of my favorite things to do as a child and I haven't been in forever. Andrew and I are going with some friends of ours. I'm looking forward to camping and to the fellowship of good Christian friends.


5. I don't have to go to school the next two days. I have a workshop to go to that should be pretty fun.

6. The holidays are so close. I am so ready for them. I absolutely love Christmas. I'll admit I've already listened to Christmas music this year. I love this time of year.