The end is in sight!

Well, the end of the school year is just around the corner. We have 2 1/2 days left. It is bitter sweet for me. I was reassigned, so I will not be coming back to my school next year. It is sad to clean out my desk completely. So, I am happy for Summer to be here, but I am sad to leave and move on. However, the reassignment does have some positives. I will only be 2 minutes away from my house and I look good in red(their school colors). I am going back to my old junior high. I am going to be a TIGER again. I will be teaching the same class and doing the same thing, but it will be like starting all over again with a whole new set of students. It will be weird to go back to the school I went to junior high at. The actual building was new my 8th grade year. So, we were the first 8th grade class to graduate from the new building. I remember as a high school student I wanted to get out of Katy so bad. I told myself I would never come back to Katy. However, I found myself back here 5 years ago. I wasn't teaching at Katy, so I told myself it was ok. Funny, now I will be teaching at Katy. It's not a bad thing. I am kind of excited to see how things go. I will miss my co-workers at Cinco and all the good times we had, but at least we are still close enough we can hang out. I will miss the students I have taught and miss seeing them grow and progress, but I guess that is what facebook will help with...right? So, as the school year ends and the summer begins, I will be thinking of all the great times I had at Cinco. It will be weird next year when I am setting up my new desk and I won't have Anabell or Susan there to make me laugh. I guess I will just have to call them. :)

Spencer and I are celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary this weekend. We dropped the kids off at their mimi's house and we are off to San Antonio. It is weird not to have the kids with us. It is too quiet. I enjoy hearing their giggles in the back seat and their noises. It will be nice though to have some mommy and daddy time. The last 5 years have been the best years of my life. Spencer is the most amazing man I have ever met. He is so unselfish! He loves me so much and he doesn't only say it everyday...he shows me everyday! I know in my heart he would die for me if he had to! I love how he looks at me like I am the hottest person in the world! I remember our wedding like it was yesterday. I am so glad he chose me to be with him for forever! We are going to be kids again this weekend and go to Six Flags. I will post pictures later.

Tarren is growing so fast! He has the cutest sayings. He will say, " I can't want to do that" instead of saying I don't want to do that. He will say, "motor bicycle" instead of motorcycle. He knows his shapes and will point them out on stuff he sees. He knows his colors and loves to be read to. He is a great big brother. He will ask where's the baby when he can't see Samuel. He loves to make Samuel laugh. He got new shoes and refers to them as his cool shoes. He wanted to show his babysitter them so bad. So, he wore them there the next day and when I dropped him off he didn't say anything. He just propped his foot up waiting for her to see. It was cute. I am going to work on potty training him as soon as school is out. I am just tired of buying so many diapers. We will see how it goes.

Samuel is crawling good now. One minute he will be in the living room and the next he is in the kitchen. He is pulling up and pushing a walking toy around. So, I think he will be walking in the next couple of months. He loves to eat anything we are eating. He is done with baby food. He will refuse to eat it. He loves to follow us around and be held. He says mama very clearly now and then just all kinds of other sounds. He loves his big brother and loves to go in his room and mess up all of the toys. He loves to lean in and get kisses. He also is very ticklish. He will be 1 in about 3 weeks. I can't believe my baby is almost 1. This year went way too fast!

Anyway, I am off to have fun at Six Flags...MORE FLAGS...MORE FUN!!!

Early Mother's Day Present

I am super tired of my digital camera giving red eye every time I take a picture. So, for Mother's Day I wanted a new camera. I was looking at getting one of those really big cameras that have the super big lenses that you can attach, but Spencer talked me out of it. He asked me would you really want to carry an extra case just for the camera stuff. He has a point. I already have my hands full with babies, diaper bag and a purse. So, he found this camera that is freaking cool and it is the size of a small digital camera. It takes clear pictures and it lets you fix red eye on the picture. It is called the sony cyber shot tx100 and I LOVE IT!

Here is an example of red eye that it let me fix.



The video quality is amazing and it lets you take a video and then in the middle of it watching it, you can decide you want a picture and push a button and you have your picture from your video. It is amazing and it is small! LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

Here is my sweet boy.

Spencer won tickets from a radio show to go to the racetrack. We have never gone before so we figured it would be an experience. We also got free dinner. Don't worry...we didn't bet. :) It was amazing how beautiful these horses are. We saw two horses that fell down and it was so sad. They couldn't get back up so they had to use a big trailer to carry them away.

Happy 3rd Birthday!!!

Tarren turned 3 today, but we had the party on Friday. He has been so excited to turn 3 and has been talking about it the last month. I asked him what type of party he wanted and he told me cars. So, that is what we had. We just had a simple party here at the house. I bought a few cars decorations and then made a cake and decorated it with car toys.

He was very excited. He kept saying "ooooooh" "wow". It was cute. We had hamburgers and hot dogs and let the kids play. It is a lot of fun because all of the kids are about the same age so they have a blast playing together. Tarren was very excited to blow out his candles and blew out the first one before Spencer even finished lighting the rest. So, we had to relight.

He got lots of cool toys and has been playing with them ever since.

EASTER
We went to Pearland yesterday to celebrate Easter. We had a wonderful dinner with all of the family and then we had the Easter egg hunt. Tarren understood it much better this year and kept telling his daddy, "we got to run to get the eggs".

Samuel grabbed an Easter Egg or 2 with the help of his Mimi.

He doesn't like the feel of grass on his legs, so he will take turns holding each leg up.

After all the eggs are found, we bring out the confetti eggs. They are fun, but you find confetti for days in your clothes and on your body. Tarren had a blast getting Mimi.

One long week...

This past week has been one of the longest weeks of my life. We found out that they were going to be doing lay-offs in our district. I was a little stressed out. We are not quite in a financial spot where I could not work yet plus we want to have a third child and I am not so sure we could afford that on a single income. Anyways, they came to our school to do the lay-offs on Wednesday and talk about being stressed. Everytime I heard a door open, I thought they were coming for me. They never came down to talk to me, so I guess for now I am safe. They laid off 7 people at our school. They are suppose to come back next week to do reassignments. I have a feeling I will probably be reassigned to another school because we have 3 PE teachers and I think they are going down to 2. We will see. I am just happy for now I have a job. On Thursday, the high school students decided to do a walk out and since our junior high is right next door to the high school, our kids decided to do the same. Friday a bunch of them just never came to class. It was one crazy week. It will be interesting to see how the next few go. On a positive note, we only have 7 more weeks until Summer vaction. I am looking forward to that!

So, these last few days Samuel has started to be a little more mobile. He is now laying on his stomach and dragging himself along as he pulls with his arms and pushes with his feet. He has quite the temper. He is WAY different than Tarren. You could Tarren no and he would stop, but Samuel seems to not really care and continues to do whatever he wants. He is a mama's boy for sure. He loves to be held by his mama.

(The red eye in my camera is about to start driving me crazy!)

Tarren is turning 3 in a week. I can not believe it has already been 3 years! He is so excited! He keeps telling me that he wants a cars birthday party. So, we are just going to have a simple party with a cars cake. I caught him today singing happy birthday to himself. It was cute.

Samuel is 9 months!!

My little baby is growing up way too fast! He is officially 9 months today. We took him to his 9 month appointment yesterday and here are his stats:

Weight: 19lbs 12 oz - 40%

Height: 29 inches - 77%

Head: 18 inches - ?

He has quite the little personality. He loves to laugh and smile. He loves to be held! He chews on anything he can and especially loves to put paper in his mouth. He has 6 teeth now. The top four all came in at once. That was fun times. He loves his older brother and will laugh and laugh when he is around. He loves to grab his hair and just touch him. He loves taking a bath. He loves to play peek-a-boo and clap. He loves this little piggie on his toes. He has not started to crawl yet, but he is starting to do the rocking forward. He does not like most baby food. He will clamp his mouth shut and not open it. He would much rather have our food or his brothers. I love this little boy and I can't wait to see more of his personality.

Rodeo!!! Alan Jackson

We went to the Rodeo on Friday. We got there around 1:00. We usually get there later and don't have enough time to do everything, so this year we went earlier. We were able to do everything and then have some time left over. So, next year we are going to go around 3. That should give us plenty of time plus the kids can take a nap. They did a pretty good job until right before the actual rodeo. Tarren started getting really cranky. We let him run and play in the grass and that seemed to help. Samuel was cranky in the rodeo, which wasn't fun. He slept for about 20 minutes on Spencer, but then he woke up. I took him upstairs for a little bit, but he never feel asleep. He goes kind of crazy when he is tired. It was almost like he was on a sugar high. He was jumping up and down all crazy like. He also kept rubbing his head on me like a cat. It was kind of cute. When the fireworks went off he would scamper up me like a monkey, but he never cried. Tarren had a lot of fun when the rodeo started. He really likes music,so he was singing along. He would close his eyes and really get into it. I wish I had videoed him. He woke up this morning singing the chorus(or a couple of words of it) to one of the songs. Anyways, here are a few pictures from it.

PETTING ZOO

FUN ON THE FARM (Samuel fell asleep)

BUTTERFLY EXHIBIT

Two Happy Boys

First part of Spring Break....

We had family come into town on Friday March 11th because Spencer's Mom was getting married on Saturday. We went to the wedding on Saturday and it was lovely. I did not get any pictures of the wedding...sorry. On Monday, we went to the Rockets game with Spencer's brother's family.

After the game we took a group picture. Spencer, Texann, Samuel, Jared, Tarren, Jana, Ty, KaLynn, Trevor and Ryan.

Spencer's crazy hairdo. The best part was watching people's eyes as we walked by. When we got to our seats, there were some older women that wanted to take a picture of Spencer's hair. It was funny.

Our family picture.

On Tuesday, we went to the beach. It was pretty windy and chilly. We let the kids play in the sand for a little bit and then we took a ride on the ferry to feed the seagulls.

Samuel LOVED the sand. He just kept raking his fingers through it. Afterwards, he was trying to eat it off his hand and would get mad every time I tried to wipe the sand off.

Samuel's HUGE cheeks. It took me a long time to get him to look up. He just wanted to keep playing with the sand.

Family picture on the rocks.

Tarren loved throwing rocks in the water, but it was really cold. So, when the water would come rushing up and touch his feet, he would FREAK out.

We went on the ferry to feed the seagulls. Samuel had fun holding the bread because it didn't matter if it was squished.

We had a lot of fun having family in town. Tarren really got attached to Jana. He woke up this morning asking, "where's Jana"? I told them they went home. I can't believe Spring Break is already half way over. There are more pictures to come.