Holiday Concert 2012

Next came these little rascals....my students! Here are a few pictures from our Holiday Concert back in December. These kids work so incredibly hard and am so proud of them. It's always so stressful working up to a concert and I get so stressed out, making a mean teacher. But, when all is said and done and when the concert is over, I am the happiest teacher out there.

Where to begin?

So many things to blog about and so little time! I just got home from work and am absolutely exhausted. Must be the cute baby in my belly that drains all my energy. Or, it could be the 50 children I teach each week.  It's so terrible of me but I haven't blogged since last July! So much has happened and I want to blog about everything....just one a day (or month!) at a time though.

So much has happened since July. Probably the biggest news is my small little family is expanding! We are expecting a baby boy in June 2013. Couldn't be more excited about that. I'll blog later how the experience has been so far. But for now, let's back up. As I have mentioned before, Tyler and I bought our first home this past summer. We have loved making it OUR home and have learned a ton of little things along the way. Things you wouldn't learn living in an apartment - something we have both done for a very long time! One of the first purchases we wanted was to buy a BBQ. However, other purchases took precedence over another way of cooking our food. We felt we could wait to add that convenience. To our surprise, my parents gave us a BBQ for Christmas!!! yeah! We couldn't be more thrilled.

This is taken on our very petite back patio. Even though it's tiny we fell in love with it when we saw the house. And yes, this picture is taken in December! Summer all year long here :) ok, so it's not so fun after all. I just want to make it sound awesome so we'd get more visitors. Our door is always open.

While Tyler BBQ'd our first meal, I enjoyed myself in the front yard. And yes, once again, this is December! I love how green our yard gets even in the winter. This was our first time trimming trees and bushes. It ended up looking ok but I could definitely use some lessons.

I believe I was 3 months pregnant in this picture. The funny thing is I thought I was HUGE when Tyler was secretly taking this picture and I was so upset. Haha, little did I know, the worst was yet to come. And still, the worst is yet to come. I am so dreading the second half of my pregnancy!

Happy 40th Heath!

My brother in law, Heath, turned 40 last month and we surprised him with a fun weekend in Austin. They live in Dallas so we met them in Austin - a nice in the middle meeting spot. It was a much needed vacation for all of us. We floated the San Marcos river, shopped 'til we dropped, and fed our faces with WAY too much food. 

Here we are at the most delicious (& expensive) restaurant we have ever eaten at - Uchiko's. Seriously, it was the best food I have ever tried. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.  I have never eaten food of that caliber before. The best part....desert. Sweet polenta ice cream. My only regret -we shared it. I need my own next time!

 Don't mind me, I'm just cooking my  steak on my very own hot rock. 

Compliments of the San Marcos River. 

No vacation in Austin is complete without spending a whole day at the Pottery Barn outlet. Dangerous.

My most favorite find. Originally $800. My price - $190. Thank you discount! Just reaping the benefits of working there. Now I need a job at Nordstrom to make my life complete!

I've been keeping an eye out for this piece. Found it!

Thank you Hill's for such a fun vacation. Wish we lived in the same city so we can always be on vacation :)

So behind!

Can't believe I haven't blogged in almost 2 months! So much has happened. First things first, we bought a home! So exciting. We have loved every bit of it and can't wait until we're all finished moving in. The home search was quite labor intensive for us. Tyler and I take forever (and I really mean FOREVER!) to make decisions and have to check out all our options before deciding. It took us 3 months of seeing over 40 homes to finally finding the perfect one. The second we walked in the front door we knew this was the house we want. It took us a full day to really decide on the offer we wanted to put in. We finally decided and put in our offer. Sadly, the realtor immediately got back to us letting us know the sellers had already accepted another offer earlier that day! Tyler and I were crushed. We then decided we want to rent apartments for the rest of our lives! We were so sick of the home buying process. A few weeks later we received the best email ever - an email from our realtor letting us know the house we wanted went back on the market!!! Tyler and I wasted no time and immediately put in our offer. Within a few hours the sellers accepted and the house was finally ours!

Here we are signing our lives away!

WE NEED VISITORS! COME TO TEXAS!

we.love.sunday's.

Sunday game of Yahtzee by the pool. Yep, Yahtzee. You'd think we were old fogey's but that's the only 2 player game we had! Anyone have 2 player games up their sleeve? Or better yet, anyone want to come visit?! Oh and bring a camera because we need one!

Ready, Set, JUICE!

I've had it. Had it with headaches. Had it with no energy. Had it with nausea. Had it with the dizziness. Had it with just about everything! I have seriously tried everything to get rid of this pain. Seven years worth. I am convinced that it might be the food that I'm putting in my body. Ok, halfway convinced. I have been reading a lot about juicing and healing and wonder if juicing might help. So, I bought a juicer and decided to do a 10 day juice cleanse. That way I can detox my body and then add each food group slowly in to my diet. Then I can hopefully target what it is that makes my head hurt. Tyler is gracious enough to do it with me! Tomorrow is officially our first full day but we decided to do a tester tonight.

I let Tyler give it a shot....

And of course he had to give me his best face. That's why I love him. There's never a dull moment when Tyler's in the room. He makes a crappy situation in to something fun. 

I was going to post the recipe we tried but ended up not liking it. There was too much fruit. Not to mention, Tyler was in charge of reading the recipe and he left out an important ingredient - coconut water.  That would have helped it out tremendously. So with that said, I'm in charge from now on! 

Excited for day 1 tomorrow!

Caught you!

Hilarious! So the other day I wondered where Tyler went. I knew he said he was going to shave but couldn't find him in our spacious 900sqft apartment. Until I saw the light on our deck. I looked out the blinds and this is what I found! He attached my handheld mirror to a cord hanging from our storage closet! haha Pretty creative but white trash at the same time. To his credit, he said he didn't want to get hair all over our bathroom floor. Instead he decided it was better to sweep it off our deck on to our neighbors deck :)