Christmas, Packing, and Cocks

Well, we have now started packing everything in the lake house up. It's a complete disaster.. I really do not understand how people live in clutter. The house isn't THAT bad, it is just boxes everywhere. Now, next time someone comes to our house it will probably be a wreck because I just made that statement. Anyways- I can't handle it. Ready to move. Ready to get settled. End of story. 

We did lots of Christmas shopping yesterday, and for the first time ever we fought the Wal-Mart madness on Thursday night. People really need to get a life calm down with the "Black Friday" stuff. It was completely insane and unlike anything I have ever witnessed before. When you begin fighting over bed sheets, from Wal-Mart, then there's a problem. And I mean weave ripping, hands flying, and sheets being thrown all over the place. HYSTERICAL. It was worth it to me just to people watch, even though we did get some toy shopping done $200.00 later. 

This Christmas season has been very different. With the packing we are doing, and not being at home- I have been missing out on decorating my parents house. We did go with them today to pick out the Christmas tree though which is always fun. Thats the best way to be put in the Christmas spirit- a real tree, with a real sap smell. Gotta love it. This year, Tim and I will not have a real tree because of the time crunch, but next year we will and can't wait :)

With today being the Saturday after Thanksgiving, everyone and their mama is discussing the Carolina/Clemson game, especially on Facebook. I am banning facebook until tomorrow. Yes, I am a huge football fan- but do the statuses about football really have to start, like yesterday? We are about to head out and pick up some wings and watch the game now, yum... catch up later. 

GO COCKS!

Ramblings about Thankfulness

Happy Turkey Day Eve!

We have been pretty busy lately with school, work, family, and house situation. We spent last weekend in Charleston celebrating a special baby's birthday...

I can't believe Waker is already 1! Where has this past year gone? He had such a fun party that consisted of babies, family, and friends getting together outside and enjoying the awesome fall weather. It is always so good to see that little sweetie since it doesn't happen too often.

We came home on Sunday to start a short work week. This little Thanksgiving break was much needed! Between work and the house stuff going on, our heads have been spinning. Speaking of this-
I believe we can finally see the end of the long complicated tunnel. It looks like we will be closing on our house next Wednesday. I spent the day today packing up at the lake. I took everything off the walls and began packing up some little "sit arounds". There is still lots to do, and our house is a wreck right now- but I can handle it for one week. We have also been refinishing some furniture. We are working on a bakers rack right now that I am painting black. Tim is working on an antique armoir that has been stored for a long time. It is actually my dad's dad that built it. We are so excited to be able to use it in our home.

As of tomorrow- we will be going to Spartanburg to spend Thanksgiving with Tim's family, and then coming back to do Thanksgiving with my family. I love turkey day... it's a fun time filled with yummy food, family, and busting out the Christmas decor! By the way, I am about to explode wanting to decorate for Christmas. I have everything planned out of where it is going to go in our new house. I have joked and said that Tim will be fixing stuff in the house and I am going to be sneaking and decorating the Christmas tree, we shall see.

                                                            Ahhh... can't wait.

On this Thanksgiving Eve I am thinking about all we have to be thankful for this year. A roof over our head, a happy 5 months of marriage, a wonderful family, good health, and lots more. I make a point each day to be thankful for the many blessings we are given, so days like tomorrow are always extra special to me.

                                               Hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving!

A Catch up on life

Well, it's post Halloween and I can tell... unlike my children at school today, I have been off my sugar high for about 12358958 hours now. I came home from school today, cooked supper, had a shower, and was on the couch at 8:00. Amazing feeling. We had a fun Halloween hanging out at my parent's house and giving out candy to the trick-or-treaters. I have always loved Halloween, it is such a fun holiday and it reminds me that my favorites are around the corner: Thanksgiving and CHRISTMAS! I am not believing that Christmas is less than 2 months away. Wow, and that on Christmas day Tim and I will be married 6 months. Time is flying.

On that note, we have been pretty consumed with purchasing our first home! Exciting, right?! After looking pretty frantically for a few weeks, we came across one that we believe is perfect for us, and in the location that we have been wanting. We also believe that it is a complete blessing because the sweet contacted us just by word of mouth. Couldn't be any more perfect. We went and looked at the house 3 times, took the families, and decided to make an offer. Whew, that was the easy part. Now comes the bank paperwork, inspection, termite inspection, appraisal, and the list goes on and on...... It is pretty complicated and this process has been very exciting, emotional, stressful, and fun. If everything goes "as planned" our closing date is set for November 30!!! We can't wait to get in there, decorate, and make it our own home. We already have some great ideas of what to do. Perfect timing for Pinterest and Hobby Lobby to come into play-- I can already tell I'm going to get myself in trouble :) So- the next few weeks will be consisting of packing all of our things up, finding and refinishing old furniture, and organizing.

Off to go finish watching 90210- hope to blog more soon!

FINALLY....

Well, hello there. After 2 months, I have finally figured out how to "recover" my blog, since apparently it was lost somewhere in cyber space for a while.

I was reading my last post, and A LOT has changed since August. Let's see, I have completed the first nine weeks of teaching. There were a few rough patches at the beginning, but I am loving it now. I am finally used to waking up at the crack of dawn and being ready for the kiddos by 7:30 am. It is frustrating on the weekends as I still wake up at the same time- guess that's the sign of being a big girl.
Tim and I are going on our next journey as a married couple- we are going to be buying our first home. We have been renting an awesome place at the lake, but sad to say- our time is just about up. We will surely be enjoying this last month out here. Will post more about home hunting on a later date when we know a little more about what is going on. Looking for a house is very confusing, mind boggling, overwhelming, stressful, emotional, and fun- if that makes any sense. It has been a scary step for us, but we feel like this is what we need to do.  Keep your fingers crossed that this will work out for us- we are praying that we are making the right decision.

Since I didn't expect to get back in on the blogging world tonight and it is past my bedtime, I don't have much to say.

Check back later for more info on our future home (hopefully), recent pictures, and updates on life.

Next...

Tomorrow is a very exciting, anxious, nerve racking day. Tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen- I will be attending my first day at the elementary school I am going to be teaching kindergarten at. Of course, I have been there for several weeks working in my room, but tomorrow is the official first day for teachers. I am a little nervous at this point with lots of "what ifs"....

What to expect?
Will I live up to the requirements?
What if my kiddos hate me?
What if I forget to do something?
How am I EVER going to make it to school in time?
What if my assistant thinks I'm bossy?

This is just about 2% of all the thoughts flying through my head at this point. I know everything will work out though, and I am so thankful for the opportunity to be in this situation.

Today was filled with a little bit of nothing...
I went to lunch with some members of an education board in Greenwood. They have "adopted" me, if you will, for the school year and they bought me lots of goodies for my classroom. We enjoyed a nice little lunch at O'Charleys. From then, I went to shop around a little. I bought 3 new shirts for school, 2 more canvas boards for our house, and some groceries at Corleys. I then came home to waste away time on Facebook (instead of writing the 23984443 thank you cards that are still sitting there... mom!). A little while later I ventured off to Zumba for an hour workout. It was soooo hard to get there, but once it was over (like always) I was so glad I went. The hubby went to Lowe's while I was there and got a few things for the house. When we came home, I fixed a quick supper of chicken strips and baked potatoes and we enjoyed that on the back porch.The rest of my evening has been spent organizing files on my jumpdrive for school tomorrow while Tim and a few others are fishing on the pier.

Anywho, I should have been in the bed about 5 hours ago since I will be getting up at 6 AM. It's going to be hard to fit in my 12-14 hours of sleep now with this school schedule :) I'm not complaining... just rambling, it's called- nervous energy.

Well, off to pick out my clothes and TRY to go to sleep, I'm normally just getting started at this point of the night. This should be interesting. Night all!

Summer

This post title is disappointing to me- the end. I love summer... I love other seasons as well but I guess summer is a favorite because of the time off. I enjoy spending time laying out, swimming, fishing, lake days, and of course beach vacations with the family. Doesn't get much better than that- besides Christmas time when everyone is together again for celebrating the holidays. Once summer is over, I am ready for Christmas and vice versa.

So, being at the lake for the later part of the summer has been wonderful for us. I can honestly say we are getting very spoiled out here and I can't imagine not being able to sit on our screened in porch all the time while looking at the lake. Don't even wanna think about it. We have been sure to make the most of the time out here. We are loving having family and friends over for grilling and porch time! We spent the afternoon today in the lake on floats, which was rather humorous. Who knew Lake Greenwood could be a freaking wave pool/high tide at the ocean? When we weren't relaxing on a float, we were jumping off the pier like crazy people, followed by some late night fishing. SO MUCH FUN! I am going to miss these days..... but even more than that, I am going to miss the "free time" I have had. I don't feel like it has been much this summer with wedding planning, getting married, and getting settled in- but I wouldn't trade it for anything. It is now time to go back to school.. sigh. Don't get me wrong, I am excited about a new year with new sweeties- but there is nothing like late summer nights with not a care in the world. I'm getting depressed now writing this, so I'm going to go put some gel in my hair and sit on the porch, again. I may just stay up all night and sleep all morning tomorrow, only 1 more day of freedom with sleeping late... and those of you who know me, know that this is what I dread the most. Being in town at 7:10 coming from the lake? Wooooo.... don't know how that's gonna work out. We shall see.

1 OUT OF A MILLION

So, last night when I went to wake the cute hubby up to move him from the couch to the bed (yes, you heard me right.... he actually let me sit in the recliner, simply because my computer needed to be plugged up) he gave me a little show. For those of you who know Tim, he can literally sit down to "watch tv" and within 3 minutes he is sleeping. And- within 4 minutes after that, he is snoring away. So, after hearing him vibrate the house for let's see.. about 2 hours, I decided it was time to wake him and send him to bed. He is not an easy waker, sometimes he can be angry (in a sweet way) and sometimes he can be funny- which brings me to my next point. I finally got him to sit up, after him telling me to "take it, take it, take it". I have no idea what he wanted me to take. He sat up on the couch, started smacking his lips, and making these horrible faces. He began pointing towards to bedroom constantly with his eyes closed. He was a complete nut! After this little phase was complete, he began moaning and groaning, and hopped in the bed to quickly pick up where he left off (snoring).

I love these little moments with him.... it was 12 am and I was laughing my head off. This is just another reason why I love him to death- he always keeps me laughing, whether he knows it or not :)

Pressure.

This is what I have felt, for let's see... about a week now. Don't ask, but I have just recently been totally obsessed with blogs. By saying this, I mean- I check blogs like every chance I get in front of a computer. Most of this started when my sister-in-law (Shout out to Meg) started hers. I began looking at hers and then following her followers, if that makes any sense. Since then, I have started watching other blogs and I am completely overwhelmed with what people have to say. Do I know everyone I follow? Nope. But that makes it even more fun. Seriously though, I can't believe I am actually beginning this- I have absolutely nothing to say and our lives are pretty boring- now... up until 1 month ago my life was CRAZY fun!

That takes me to my next point.. ahem- Tim and I have now been married for 1 month. What in the world? For those of you who may not know the whole story- lemme sum it up. Tim and I have been together for 8 1/2 years now. We pretty much know everything about each other. He decided to secure the knot on April 16, 2010. From that date, and I mean that exact day, we were planning the most important day of our lives. On June 25, 2011 we became a little family :) The word "family" sounds so weird to me being just the two of us, but I guess that is what it is... Anywho, our wedding day was everything we imagined and more... now, I know every girl says that about their wedding day- but this is for real. I am so thankful for the way everything turned out. We have the most amazing family and friends that helped everything to work out perfectly. Now, the sad part you ask---- it's over! Everyone told me that it was somewhat of a let down when it is over... the first 3 weeks after the wedding was a relief. We had an amazing honeymoon in Jamaica, began moving into the house at the lake, and Tim decided to throw a bunch of sickness in there. Now I am beginning to miss all of the planning, searching, organizing, labeling, meetings, emotions, crying, laughing, late night projects, registering, showers, parties, programs, flowers, editing, and everything else that goes along with weddings. My next goal is to enjoy married life with my amazing husband- whew, I sweat every time I say that "word". We are enjoying the whole married life- it is everything we thought it would be. I am so excited about this next chapter in our lives and what the future holds for us.

Don't judge me by my blog, hopefully it will get better/more interesting- but I am not promising anything :)

Until then- gotta wake the sleeping beauty up so he can move from the recliner to the bed.