OUR NEW HOME................

these are some pictures of our new house. i always seem to forget to put them in in reverse order. so if you know how to do that I would love you to tell me. if you want to start at the bottom and go up they will be in order. anyway, this is the place we call home now.

we feel blessed.


This is Rebekah's room.

This is Hannah's room.
This is the upstairs loft.
This is in the living room. Our new flat screen. We just had it mounted.
This is our living room. We spend alot of time in here.
Another picture of the living room. If you look close enough you will see traces of our other home. Some are in the decorations. Some are in just things that were given to us by friends.
This is part of the dinette. I love these valances. They are original to the house.
This is the kitchen. I love this room. I love dark wood furniture. It feels so homey.
This is the office. It sits to the right as you come in the entrance to the house.
This is the formal dining room. I got to get new furniture. I was so excited.
This is my new china cabinet. Isn't it gorgeous? My grandmother's china is in it.
The front entry way.
Beautiful plants I am trying to keep alive. This is in front of our house.
This is the front of our house. I drove up and was in love.
More beautiful plants. You can't tell but there are begonias in the front. They are so pretty.
I love the front of my house. I feel so blessed. What a great God we serve. Nothing is impossible for God.

a sprinkle of life.....................

* wow summer is going by so fast. so much has happened since i last posted. i went to my first workshop up here. not bad, pretty good, pretty much the same as any workshop any where else. the people were friendly one lady even helped me learn a new program that is essential to teaching up here. it is a program that you have to use for your lesson plans and your scope and sequence. for those of you that do not know what a scope and sequence is, it is a plan for what to teach, and in what order to teach it. the nice thing, is, that it also gives you activities to use for these lessons. that pretty good, in my book. i let you know at the end of the year if it is actually a good thing.

* i went home for a baby shower. it was very nice with a great turn out. it was good to see my family and friends again. i have only been away for 3 weeks, but it was still good to see people that I dearly love. it was also so nice to go back to MY church, with MY church family. it was so good to have an alter time. i loved that the praise and worship was more than just three or four songs. it has been such a long time since i have been a new person, in a new church. i think we, that attend church forget what it is like to be new. it is definitley a different experience. when you go to church the next time, remember that. it is hard to go into places where relationships are already formed. it is hard to go into a place where people are standing in their own little groups laughing and talking and all they offer is a quick smile and a hello.

* i guess God is trying to teach me a new lesson. i will try to learn it quickly. i guess i like the familiar, who doesn't? i know God will lead us to a new place. i am ready.

* next week i have workshops monday-thursday. then i will be going to school to work in my class and with my team members. i am kind of ready for school to start. i know that is odd, but i am.

* we brought a friend up here with us to spend a week with us. we took the kids to six flags and a water park. we had such a great time. this young lady us such a delight to be around. it has been such a blessing to have her here. she is going to help me post some pictures of our house.

* i don't really anything else. ttfn

Small Town Girl, In A Big Town World..........

*on tuesday, david was off so we went up to my class and got it totally set up. it is such a cool new room, i am actually excited to go back to school. ( will someone please remind me of that when it is march and i am ready for summer again.) every day that we go up to school, i meet new teachers that i am going to work with. here is what is cool about living in a big place, all of the people you meet are not from texas. i have met people from all over the world. my next door neighbors are from Belise. wow!!!! they are so nice.

* well my room is all set up except the bulletin boards. i will do those later. it is so nice to have everything new. i have never had that before. that is so exciting. i have already met one of hannah's teachers and two of bekah's teachers. they were very nice.

* we went to visit a new church on sunday. it was just a few minutes from our house. the senior pastor was on vacation so it was the youth minister that did the sermon. the church was alot like ours. people were wearing everything from shorts, to dresses and slacks. the building looks different from the outside, but is very similar to ours on the inside.

* the youth pastor, who did the service was very good, but i kept waiting for him to give the scripture so we could open the bible and read it for the sermon. that never happened, but he did quote alot of scripture. also there was no invitation and no alter time. so david and i decided to try the church again tonight.

* so we get dressed for church and we drive up there and it is 6:55 and there are no cars there, or there are only 5. we thought that was weird, but we decided to give it a try. we walk up to the church, and notice that there are only kids there. needless to say, they were only having a youth service. we spoke to the youth pastor, who was very friendly, and he said that they were in transition, and were in a building phase. the only service they had for adults was sunday morning. they also did not have anything for children on wed. i thought that was strange. but since david is going to be gone, we are going to give the church on sunday, just me and the girls. so if any of yall have ANY suggestions on where to go to church that may be close to here, just let me know. i really want the girls to get plugged in.

*on that front, the girls have already made neighborhood friends. they come out during the day, and they all ride their bikes and scooters up and down the street. it is so cool. i am so glad that they are making friends so easily.

* i have started walking again. we walked on monday night around 5:30. it wasn't too bad. i walked tonight at about 7:30 pm. it was much nicer and cooler. all of the subdivisions have large sidewalks around them, so i walked on that tonight. they make for a nice track. i walked for about 40 minutes. it was so nice outside. there seems to be a constant breeze here. which is nice, since i am not used to the humidity. nothing like getting out of the shower and having a thin layer of sweat all over your body. i wonder how long it will take me to get used to the humidity.

* well david has his first weekend trip this weekend. he leaves for honduras tomorrow. he will return sunday or monday. so me and the girls will venture out sometime this weekend for a shopping trip. we also will go swimming a couple of times. then we will go to church on sunday.

*i don't know much else so i guess i will say ttfn.......

THE BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE.......

today we had a great day. we got up around 10 and then made our way down to my new school. it was so fun and i didn't get lost. yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it took me about 8-10 minutes to get there. once i was there, i went in and met my new boss, again. i also met her secretary.

i went into my classroom. it was soooooooo cool. everything was new. everything was clean. we, me and the girls, organized my desks. it was awesome. we opened up some school supplies that were already in my class. it was so fun unwrapping all the new materials.

we stayed for about three hours. it is amazing how once you step into your class the times just flies. after we finished our objective for the day, we walked around the campus looking for any new staff the i could introduce myself to. we met several people. a fifth grade teacher, a third grade teacher, and a special education teacher. they were all so nice. and were all so glad to meet me.

after we went to the school, we headed off to the grocery store to get stocked up with groceries. There is this one store that is close to my house so we decided to go there. it is such a beautiful store. i really thought it would really be expensive, but it wasn't, it just looked like it. the name of the store is market place. we decided to eat lunch there, before the shopping ensued. we had pizza slices and three cokes. it was $11.00. but the slices were really like two pieces in one slice. the pizza was great.

it had been so long since i had been to the store for groceries, the bill was a little hefty. but over all not too bad. it was fun shopping at a new store. we then went home to unload the groceries.

we live in a community that has a community pool. so after we unloaded the groceries, we headed off to the pool. In the beginning, there was 7 people besides us there. after about 1 1/2 hours, we were the only ones there. it was so cool. it was like we had our very own swimming pool.

we then came home and i made shake and bake chicken and rice pilaf and green beans. it was so delicious. i loved eating the simple little meal in our new house. david got home from colorado about 9.

we then got bekah's room completely set up. now most of the house is set up. i still have alot of boxes to unload, probably stuff we really don't need. i figure i will set out to do 5 or 6 boxes a day. maybe by the middle of next week it will be finished. i hope, because then i have to set up my class.

well that was my day. pretty productive.

ttfn..............

Greetings From A Far Off Land..........

we are here.. we are here.. we are here... well we left early friday morning for McK. i drove the tahoe, david drove the big truck, and my mil drove david's truck, and bob, david's dad drove another truck to pull the trailer. we left at 7 a.m. and arrived in McK. at 12:10. it was a quick trip.

we had alot of family, mine and david's, help us move in this past weekend. david's brother and his bil, helped sooooo much. i don't know what we would have dome without them. it took us about two hours to unload the truck.

then the real fun began. my wonderful mother and sister jan, totally set up my kitchen. thanks mom. we just unloaded boxes after boxes. later that night, my bil, invited us to his house for hamburgers and a swim. we had such a great time visiting.

the next day, my sister and bil, came up. they helped us with more unpacking. then we all went to most spectacular mexican food restaurant, La Hacienda Ranch. what wonderful food. come up some time and we will take you there. when we got back, everyone was so tired we went to bed.

the next day was a hard day. everyone left. i cried many times that day.

today was a better day. i had a meeting with my teaching team members. they seem very nice. we met for about two hours.

i love my house. it is such a blessing.

now i am working on adjusting to living up here. we are going to visit a church on wed. that is right up the street from us. i am excited to get plugged in.

i miss you and i love you.

ttfn.....