Saturday, July 24, 2010

A wedding and VACATION!

WARNING: picture OVERLOAD! (You know you LOVE it!)

The Mr and I attended a special wedding before I headed to my conference in mid July! It's actually one of the Mr.'s very best friends, R! She got married to a wonderful man, W! The Mr. was one of the ushers.


Mr., Mrs. LAH, T and K! K is the Mr.'s best friend!


Such a beautiful background! Love ATL!


The bride in white with all of her PTC friends!


I LOVE LOVE LOVE this pic! This is so them!!


Such good friends!



Girl time!

Baby Ethel loves her Grandpa!


The newly married couple! YAY!


Look at those handsome gentlemen!!

The church was so pretty!

With my BEAUTIFUL Mother-in-LOVE!!!!!

J and Mrs. LAH! Love this girl!!! She is Mr.'s girl best friend!!

We had a great time dancing the night away!

Cuttin' the cake!

Keys time!! First day on the boat!

Mr. LOVES to fish in the ocean!

He caught a big one! (Funny story: so we took it back to the house for the Mr. to cook it up! Well he put it on the fish cleaning table and gave the fish a few stabs. Well, when he came back to finish cleaning it up, the fish was GONE!!! It jumped off the table back into the ocean!)

One of our favorite dinner spots int he Keys!

The H children! B, A and the Mr.!

Watchin' the sun set!

Moon!


Our God is such an AMAZING God!!!!

In South FL, everyone has a Manatee mailbox!!! I totally think we would have to have one if we lived in the Keys!

Front of the house we rented for the week!

One of our favorite spots, Alligator Lighthouse!

All the kids at Islamorada, FL!


Favorite picture of the trip! BLISS!


We had a relaxing vacation! The seas were really rough because there was an average of 20-25 MPH winds, but it was still sunny and hot! We only got to dive 2 days, but it was still so much fun! We had a wonderful time cooking yummy dinners, late night swims, long boat rides, shopping at our favorite store, fishin', jumpin' off lighthouses and so much more! We can't wait for the next time to get down to our second home!


Now, it's back to the real world! Back to work and back to school!






Saturday, July 17, 2010

Greetings From...

This will be our view for the next 8 days!

The ocean and the family boat!


We will be scuba diving, eating, snorkling, shopping, eating ice cream, playing games, watching sunsets and much much more!


I might update this week, if not, you know where I am!

Friday, July 16, 2010

CT fun!

Lobster in CT...yes sir!!




Wednesday night of Confratute, we headed to Mystic, CT. Yes, you've probably heard of Mystic Pizza one of Julia Roberts first big movies. Well that's where we were...Mystic, CT! So we first ate at literally a "hole in the wall" lobster place called Abbots..it was AMAZING! The view, the food, the service and the atmosphere! We sat right outside on the water! SO fun! (Wish the Mr. had been with me so he could have expirenced all of this, especially because he goes lobstering every chance he gets!)






Our district's crew that went!



The view from my seat!





About to eat some yummy lobster!





Isn't he cute?!!?



School girls!



Abbot the Lobster!





"Lobster Hands!"




After Abbots we headed to downtown Mystic to grab ice cream at the Mystic Drawbridge

no kidding...best ice cream I've ever had. NO lie. I had the Mint Chocolate Oreo!!




We had a wonderful time and it was so nice to see more of CT instead of just UCONN's campus(which is beautiful!).




I CANNOT wait to come back to Confratute next year! I need to start saving!





Wednesday, July 14, 2010

GEOCACHING!!!!

Okay...I found something I'm SOO excited about!!!

GEOCACHING!!!!!

Go HERE to find out what a fun adventure you can have!!


So I'm at Confratute with some of my best buddies from school, K and A! They went to a strand here at Confratue about using Geocaching in schools and with students. So, we all signed up and got started!! We found a cache right here on UCONN's campus!!!
These are the tools and our cache we found!!!

We are SOOOO excited!!!

We cannot wait to do more caching!!!


And, you can Geocache in the OCEAN!!!!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Confratute 2010

Hello from Confratute!!

I know you're probaby wondering what Confratute is!?!?! Well go HERE and read up on what I'm up to this week!

I'm having a blast and learning a TON! It's so great to be a teacher/dork and everyone else here is too!


Our weekend was great! The Mr. and I headed to a wedding in Atlanta..so beautiful and fun!! I'll post picutres soon!


Confratute is literally all day, so I haven't gotten a chance to upload pictures, read blogs or really blog that much...but it's all worth it because Confratute is so amazing! I'll leave you with a funny picture and story! So we fly in on Sunday and get to UCONN about 2pm...needless to say we hadn't eaten since breakfast and were VERY hungry! We set out to find a local place because the dinning hall wasn't open yet. We find a pizza/sub joint and go on in. They have a combo, which is 2 pieces of cheese pizza and a drink! Well, I was so hungry that I thought hmm, I'll order the combo and add a slice because I'm that hungry! Well this is what came out!:



Needless to say, I didn't eat the third slice at all! I didn't realize I was ordering a 1/2 of a pizza! haha!!! It was a good laugh for all!


I'll try to update again soon!


Friday, July 9, 2010

Whatcha Doin'?



Look at that little girl!!! Mr. left a bowl on the coffee table and we were sitting at the kitchen table and looked over to find our little girl trying to get to the bowl! It was the cutest thing! She was trying to be so quite too! She never made it to the bowl. But she is a smart girl!!


Happy Friday!


Thursday, July 8, 2010

Such a busy last few days! So fun though!!


Tuesday, my little sister in the sorority came up to see my classroom and catch up because she got her first job teaching 5th grade!!!! YAY! So, I gave her some things that helped me the first couple days of school. :)


Tuesday night I had my three close friends from work over to Cricut, scrapbook, sew, eat yummy food, catch up and drink yummy vino! It was so fun because one of the the girls had just gotten home from her honeymoon, one of the girls had just gotten back from Hawaii, and the other two of us had been busy with summer school! Such a fun night! I'm so thankful that I work with such sweet girls!!


Wednesday, I got my hair cut, ran, lunch with M and then small group! We changed our night for small group to Wednesday night for the summer because alot of times people are leaving Thursday nights to go out of town and such. I'm still really enjoying the book we are reading Forgotten God.


Last week when my bff C came we found some bows for Baby Ethels hair!! I couldn't wait to put them in her hair! Just look how precious she is!!!

I could just eat her up!!!!!

Love my sweet girl!!!


Quick pic before C headed out because she was going on a CRUISE the next day with her husband and parents!!


Like I said in my previous post, we had a really relaxing weekend last weekend I took some pictures on my phone to capture this:


My sweet HANDSOME husband with our Baby Ethel!


Miss Lucy actually shared her bone with her baby sister!!


This picture is kind of dark, but I took this on our way to the fireworks on the 4th...the sky was BEAUTIFUL! Another reminder from God...He makes everything possible! I just love this!!


Excuse Baby Ethel's private parts...but she was so tired after her doggie friends left!!


So look what I've been lusting over for a while, and finally saw it in the store today! I don't do fondant on my cakes but this makes me want to start because I LOVE LOVE LOVE my paper Cricut, so I know I would love cutting fondant with this Cricut!!!

So I started packing for my trip and Athena Jean and Ethel took a nap in my suitcase!!

This was totally the temp today while my sister and I were shopping!

HOT HOT HOT HOT!