The joys of teaching

Recent student quotes:

Student: Is your husband in Italy?

Me: No, Why?

Student: Because you're happier when he's here!

Student: I am having a hard time rememberizing this song.

Me: Did you get to memorizing this song?

Student: Sort of, but some of it is still soggy.

Last week one of my cute students made this for me. Thought it was cute how she spelled my new last name. I have a feeling it will be spelled like this the rest of my life!

I was struggling with bad behavior in some of my group classes. I got fed up and asked some of the good kids what to do with those who misbehave. This what they came up with!

These little kiddos make me laugh each and every day. However, at the same time, they can sure make me lose my patience! I guess this can serve as preparation for when I have kids of my own :)

DALLAS HERE WE COME!

Tomorrow we get to go to the big-D and celebrate this silly kid's 5th birthday!

We are so excited to take a weekend getaway. No work, just all play. We have been counting down the days for months now and it's finally here! Can't wait to see my sister and her cute family. Tomorrow my dad and brother are flying in to come look at houses with us and then we'll drive straight to Dallas after that. Speaking of houses, we still haven't found a house! We are having a hard time deciding which area we want to live in and if we want to build or buy pre-owned. So many decisions around here. We have looked at 40+ homes and I'm ready for it to be over and done with. Houston is so big that it leaves us with many choices. Almost too many. Tyler and I are probably 2 of the most indecisive people in the world and we happened to marry each other. Oh dear. Someone tell us what to do!

I learn something new everyday

The other day I learned something very important...that Tyler is 32, not 31! A few months ago I blogged about his 31st birthday. Come to find out, I can't do math. I knew all along he was born in 1980 but didn't realize it was 2012. And even funnier, Tyler isn't the one who caught my mistake. It was his friend Joey! haha. Thanks, Joey for helping me learn new things about my husband. Small details.

Exhausting weekend

This past weekend was absolutely tiring! I played 3 weddings on Saturday and 2 church services on Sunday. By the time I finished all I wanted to do was go to bed. But it was 4 pm...so we decided to have a relaxing day by the pool. It was 82 degrees with no humidity. Something very unusual for Houston. We wish it was like this all year long. Everyone here thinks this summer is going to be a nightmare considering temperatures are already at a high and it's only March. Thank goodness for air conditioning!

Tyler relaxing at our pool. WE NEED VISITORS!!!

Am I the only one who feels like this?

Happy 31st Tyler!

I am so far behind on posting. It was Tyler's birthday back on January 9th. What I remember that day...

• It was raining cats and dogs. Looked like a hurricane.
• We took my car in to shop to get a new transmission.
• Tyler worked from home. Was bummed I wasn't working from home
• We had oatmeal from McDonald's for breakfast
• Then Arby's for lunch
• And then I took him to Benjy's for dinner
• I surprised him with some much needed sunglasses
• Realized I married the most handsome, sweet man out there!

Friday night craft

Don't know what it is about crafting but I absolutely love it. And to have a husband who will do it with me makes it even better! I've wanted to make a wooden vintage sign for a long time now and I finally decided to do it. We went to home depot and had a piece of wood cut to our liking. Tyler then sanded the heck out of it,

While I found a font that I liked. I printed off the font on to card stock so it would be easier to trace on to the wood. 

 We found some paint at home depot that was mixed wrong for 50 cents! It turned out to be the perfect color of gray I wanted. 

We were too impatient to wait for it to dry so we brought out the blow dryer. Worked like a champ.

Then traced our saying with pencil. 

Painting was a little time consuming

A lot of sanding

Finally done. We thought it turned out ok. Of course there were a few things I'd change or pay closer attention to but i'm sure go it's unnoticeable to anyone else's eye.