Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving has come and gone.  It definitely went by too quick.  I love spending time with family, especially all of my family at one time. We celebrated on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon with lots of food, laughs, and more food!

Unfortunately, Bryan came down with a flu bug on Wednesday evening and is just starting to feel better. He was able to make it to our family gatherings but was hardly able to eat anything.  Poor guy!  We are just thankful that he was able to make it to our celebrations. Now here's to hoping that the rest of the family doesn't catch it.

I was too busy having fun to take many pictures but here they are...

 We hope that everyone had a great thanksgiving!  We sure are blessed, not only on Thanksgiving, but always!

 Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love endures forever. Psalm 118:1

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Wednesday Randoms

We have been busy preparing for Thanksgiving around here. But in the meantime, we have been playing dress up...

Visiting Grandma in her new home..Renaissance Assisted Living!

And wishing my niece, Phoenix, well on her first day of school!  

Now I'm just hoping that my hubby starts to feel better by tomorrow and finger crossed the rest of the family doesn't catch the sickness he has. 

Teacher Appreciation

Christian has had a long term substitute teacher since the beginning of the year because his regular teacher has been out on maternity leave.  Ms. V's last day is Wednesday and I know that Christian is going to miss her a lot.  She has the perfect personality and patience level to work with 1st graders!  We are sure sad to see her go.  So to show our appreciation, Christian wanted to get her a gift...

Good Luck Ms. V, you will be missed! 

Its the Little Things

The past few weeks have been very difficult for me.  My daily routine involves leaving before anyone is out of bed, getting home right at dinner time, spending about 1 hour with the kids before putting them to bed and then going to bed.  My family is having to do things without me and Bryan is having to take on full responsibility of everything to keep this household running!  I'm just ready for a break from school, papers, and my internship.  Unfortunately, I am not going to be getting a break from my internship but I have one more weekend of class and then I get to have 4 entire days off in a row to spend with my family and thanking God for all my blessings!  

I just want to say a special thanks to my amazing husband for how much he is putting up with.  He is doing everything and still having to put up with me and lately, it has been a very stressed, crabby me :(  So thank you babe, you don't know how much I appreciate it! 

Making monkey bread with Dad while I worked on homework! 

Parent Teacher Conferences

I'm one proud Momma today. After having Bryleigh's parent-teacher conference yesterday and Christian's this afternoon, we received awesome reports regarding both of the kiddos!  Although the kids described by the teachers seem to be two very different children that we see at home but we were assured they were talking about our children ;)  Isn't that the way that it always is thought !?!

Bryleigh is excelling in her social skills which did not surprise us one bit. She is well liked by her peers and is always willing to share. She is also the little helper at school, always wanting to clean up after snack time and put toys away for the teachers. She is doing well identifying numbers. We have begun to work on writing her name and she is doing very well for such a difficult name to learn to write. 

Christian is also doing very well.  He is very attentive in class. He is very polite and always raises his hand before talking.  He is also a very good problem solver.  He is a perfectionist when it comes to math. He is always that last one completed with his worksheets because he wants to make sure that the answers are all correct.  He also is the little classroom organizer. At the end of the day, he loves making sure everything is neat and organized.  This doesn't surprise me considering he cleaned his room so that it was spotless the other day because "he just wanted it organized." Well I think I may have worn off on my boy a little too much!  

My day as Preschool helper last week...Such a fun morning!

We are so proud of our kiddos!  Its exciting to see them grown and learn!

Happy Veteran's Day

Happy Veteran's Day to all those that have served so that we can live in a free country!  God bless our heroes!

Also, a big shout out to one of the cutest 6 year old's I know!  Happy Birthday Landon!  I'm so glad that we were able to celebrate yesterday with you and Carson for your birthdays this month! It doesn't get any better than Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs! 

Sweet little Gavin

The Birthday Boys! 

Blessed Birthday

I turned 27 years old yesterday!  I had a great day of celebrations. My co workers made my day special by decorating my office door and taking me out to lunch!  I work with a great group of ladies and I couldn't be more thankful.

I went out to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings (my favorite!) last night with my entire family.  I love that everyone was able to come out and help me celebrate

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I'm looking forward to my 27th year! It is starting off really great! 

Bryleigh's Feather Project

Bryleigh and I had a fun time the other night decorating her feather for school...

And tonight we saw a performer at the library.  The kids had a great time watching him do magic tricks and juggle.  It was a fun hour to be able to forget about my responsibilities and laugh with the kiddos!

My Early Birthday Present

All I can say is that I have one amazing husband and I'm so blessed that he is mine!  I don't know I was so lucky to find someone who cares so much about me and would do anything to make me smile! 

I went grocery shopping tonight and came home to this...

Will you remarry me?

My birthday isn't even hear yet and I'm having an amazing start to my 27th year!