Spring Break

So I am finally on Spring Break! I can not begin to tell you how much I needed a Vacation! I have no plans of course, because Brandon is working and can't really afford to take any time off. Surprisingly and luckily, he has been SUPER BUSY at work lately, which is wonderful when thinking about the economy.
I am kind of glad I am just going to be hanging out around here. I can just relax and do things i have a hard time doing during the work week. Like I REALLY need to clean the house, go get my eyes checked and get new glasses, get my hair cut, catch up on school work (the paper work aspect) and just be LAZY!
Brandon and I began looking for a house this weekend. Even though we have been told numerous times that Vestavia has not been effected by the housing market, there is not a whole lot out there in our price range. We did find one that is going to need some fixing up, but is a great little house, if you can look past the horrible wall paper and terrible decorations in the house! We are hopefully going to go looking again this weekend with a realtor. We went Sunday with Scott and Tammy. That was good and fun because they have great vision and have lived here for a long time and know where the good areas are as well as prices. The have updated almost all of thier houses and their vision for potential is GREAT. None hte less, this is an exciting time, and we are both just enjoying it, but wish us luck in the process!!!
I am going to go enjoy being lazy, and eventually clean the house (eventually being the key word)!!!!

Its SNOWING!!!

It is SNOWING!!!!! I was so depressed that I was not going to get to see any snow this year, and I even moved further north! But at last, the snow began to fall!!!! We had about 3 .5 to 4 inches! Brandon and I built a snowman, and let me just tell you, Barkley had a ball. He ran through the snow and would bite at it, and stick his nose in it!!! He was so cold and snowy wt he had frozen clumps of snow on his fur at his feet. I had to take him inside and run warm water on them to thaw them out! Brandon and I built a snowman that is about 3.5 ft tall Don't worry we took lots of pictures and of course I took video of Barkley running in the snow! I will post pictures in a minute!!! We are fixing to head to Scott and Tammy's to play in the snow with the girls, which should be a FUN time. Happy Snow Day to all and have FUN playing....I will.

Its been a while...

Ummm, since it has been a month since my last post, I decided I should update!!! Life has been busy as usual. Work keeps me busy of course. My lucky students had yesterday and today off of school because we unfortunate teachers had Professional Development. If you ask me, we the teachers are the ones that needed the VACATION! I don't know why, but I am soo burned out and dying for a break. Brandon has been busy to with work (which, don't get me wrong is GREAT considereing the Economy) he had to be out of town yesterday, has a meeting out of town tonight, has to be in Lee county by 7:30 in the moning ( I told him to be real quiet when he gets up at 4:15!) and then he has to be in Notasulga Thursday night, Friday, and Saturday morning. So it will just be me and Barkley Thursday and Friday night, which of course means a girls night with Amber=) and Jim and Diann gane a child for 2 nights! We are both hoping life will slow down a bit, and we are hoping to go looking at houses some this weekend...always exciting=) I hope everyone else is going well and staying busy, but not to busy, it gets tiring. I will try not to wait so long before I post again. Talk to you soon!!!

Our Road Trip

So the weekend rolled around again, and Brandon and I were wondering what we were going to do. We have been in Birminhham the past several weekends, just enjoying being at our house and not having to travel.However, we had NOTHING planned and wanted to do something different. So we decided to go on an Adventure!! We left yestetday morning and drove on 2 lane back roads up to Florence Alabama. The ride was quite pretty. We stopped at a national forest and walked down the trail where you would go to put your canoe in. It was so quiet and peaceful. The wate in the river was so blue and green. As you know it has been FREEZING here, so there were icicles hanging all over the rock next to the river. They were HUGE about 6 feet long and hung into the river. I thought they were so pretty. Oh yeah, and Barkley went with us, and he enjoyed running up and down the hills and smelling all the new smells! We then got back in the car and travel on to Florence. We drove around the campus of UNA it is sooo pretty. Then we ate at a local mexican restaurante, that was quite delicious!!! Then we headed home. But not with out going throuh Tuscumbia and driving by the birth house of the one and only...Helen Keller!!!! Unfortunately we were to late to go on the tour (guess we will have to save that for our next adventure!) The house is quite lovely! after that final stop we continued our drive back to Birmingham. I will say we had a great time, and plan to tour north alabama (Huntsville and all) next, only this time we will have to make a few more stops to sight see and or shop along the way!! Hope everyone has a great Holiday on Monday, Brandon and I are going to meet with as mortgage broker to get our ducks in a row, so we can start house hunting...how exciting!!!! I will let you know how that exprience goes. Until then...

Happy 2009....My vacation is OVER=(

Soooo, Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone had a fun NYE. We had a wonderful time, Lacey, Chad, Shay and Josh came up to Birmingham, and Brandon grilled steaks and I fixed everything else. We decided not to go out (to save money!) so we just stayed at the house and drank and played games. Yes that is right we played games, and I must say we had a BLAST. We played Catch Phrase and Apples to Apples. Both of which are fun while sober, but extremely funny and entertaining with alittle bit of alcohol in you system!!!! So none the less, we had fun welcoming in 2009, and I hope everyone will have wonderful and prosperous 2009!!!

Now on a sad note, This is officially my last day of vacation=(. I have a teacher work day tomorrow, and the kiddos will return to me on Tuesday. I will say I enjoyed my break. I spent some time in Montgomery, Columbus, undecorated and redecorated and rearranged my house, went shopping, saw Marley and Me with Tammy and the girls, entertained friends, and even managed to go to school to get some work done! Whew, I think I need a vacation from my vacation!!!! I am sad it is over, but not going to lie, I am ready to get back into my routine. I will start back hard core though because open enrollment for next year starts the 15th, so I will have to start testing, plus I have 2 referrals sitting on my desk from Early Intervention of kids that turn 3 in Feb. and March, and will need to be in my classroom.

I will say I think Barkley is going to go into a state of depression when I leave in the morning. He really has enjoyed having his mom home with him most of the day. Well I hope everyone enjoys there Sunday afternoon and are going to be as lazy and I am! It is quite nasty and extremely foggy outside on the mountain. Until next time.....have fun and be sweet=)

The Christmas Rush is OVER!!!

Well like Always, Christmas comes and it goes. Although I am sad to see it go, I am glad the traveling is over. Santa was good to me as always, and I had several highlights including:
Ugg boots, the new Ralph Lauren Notorious perfume, brown boots, sex and the city the movie, more pieces to my Christmas china, a coat, and the fun essentials in the stocking!

Brandon and I finally got home on Saturday, and Allison and Ryan were in town for a wedding, so they spent the night and as always, we had a FABULOUS time catching up!

Sunday was a day of undecorating, cleaning up and out, and re-arranging the house....Always makes for a good time=). I will say I am much more pleased with how my house looks! I was informed of some sad news by Tammy. The Royal Standard my FAVORITE store in downtown Homewood was going out of business=( However, everything was half off! Royal Standard sells neat unique gifts and some antiques, and they are incredibly inexpensive.

Have no fear, I was there first thing Monday morning!!! I got some presents for next year and some cute things for my house. Brandon meet me down there on his lunch break, because I dare not make a big purchase without consulting him!!! We got a pretty brass/iron light fixture for our future home (it was only $85.00) then I got a big beautifully framed beveled glass mirror it was ($100), and a pretty wreath that is not Christmas. Needless to say, I am VERY excited and pleased, however, sad that my favorite store is closing. If I can figure out how, I will post pictures of my purchases!!!! Until then, I am going to enjoy my week off and do some work for school and around the house!!!!!!

Christmas...3 days and counting!

Can you believe Christmas is like 3.5 days away??? I sure can't. We had the Holston family Christmas today and that was crazy as always. All 14 of us were at mom and dad's in Montgomery. I will say we had fun none the less. In case you didn't notice (Allison, I know you did) I never posted pictures of my house decorated. That is because the didn't save when Brandon went to put them on here. I mean if he can't do it and it not work I SURE CAN NOT even try to do it. Oh well, we will have to try again.

I am in Montgomery for the next couple of days. Brandon has to work Monday and Tuesday, so I just stayed in Montgomery. I have to go to the Dr. for a procedure tomorrow and I had nothing to do in Birmingham. Tuesday I am going to Columbus with mom and dad to have dinner and go to a play with Brandon's parents. Brandon is going to meet us over there and then we will come back to Montgomery for Christmas craziness and travel. We will spend Christmas eve night in Montgomery, have Christmas morning, and eat Christmas lunch with my family then it is off to Columbus for Christmas dinner. Then back to Birmingham Saturday! WOW I am tired just typing out our schedule!!! I am excited about New Years, I think Lacey and Chad and Shay and Josh are coming up to Birmingham to go out and stay with us!!! Should be fun as always! Well I am about to go to bed, it is my bed time you know!!!!!