eventful fridays...

or maybe not.

I have been sitting in my dinning room and slowly have learned that while wearing shorts my dining room chairs are not so comfty. :/ I decided to make my dining room table my "work" area until further notice. Did you just catch yourself asking the question "what work, it's summer for you!" (haha don't hate). Well, I will answer that one for you simply. My work has consisted of the following.

1.Cityville. My recent game obsession. I have never really been one to play the facebook games but, man on man-- I'm hooked! :) Love it! Anyway, I spent a better part of 2-ish hours rearranging my growing city into the great town it is not.

Summer=lots-o-time!

2. Creating my logo for my photography! Samples to come soon when blogger isn't being LAME and not uploading my photo. grrrr.

Summer Lovin...

So it's been forever since I have written, and I am ashamed! :( Summer came, I got the lazies and have neglected my faithful little blog. Let me update you a little bit on what has happened in the last few weeks... :x

1. School ended- the last day of school is alway

s such a bitter sweet moment for me. For the few days building up to it I get so sad... and proud... and relieved. Sad to see my little babies all grown up and ready for first grade. Proud because they're ready. Every one of them (with the exception of 1...) is ready and moving on to the next grade. And let me tell you, if you asked me in August my thoughts on the matter... I would have probably teared up in fear. I had a little dude who came and when I asked him to tell me letters as I showed him the letters... he tells me numbers, along with the occasional random letter. June 2nd, little dude was reading on level and just shining. Relieved because of all those days I went home crying, or wanted to

scream because... every job is frusterating AND who doesn't just LOVE summer!!!! I wanted to share a cute photo of my kiddos on the last day, but guidelines these days.... probably not the best idea. So...use your imagination. 18 excited, brilliant and adorable kiddos pumped for summer and for new adventures!

2. My 26th Birthday- huge success! Probably my favorite birthday "party" ever. We invited people over and just cooked out and enjoyed e

achother's company. Somehow through out the day on Saturday my Adult Birthday Cookout turned into a Pirate Party, arrrrggggh!!! Long story but it all began with a treasure chest birthday candle! Here are a few shots from the evening...

3. Sweet, Sweet, Summer Time- So, I have absolutely been loving summertime so far!! The best part...we aren't even through the first week! :) There has been lots of reading, r

esearching for my hopeful, up and coming business, laying by the pool, cleaning and tv/movie watching! For my birthday, John registered me for a photography class. To be honest. I am not sure how I feel about it. It is an all day thing, models coming in and all this jazz. I feel like it's my first day of school all over again. EEPA! Anyway, well see how it goes... Im sure I will love it and it will be a great learning experience for me I am just weird/nervous/anxious! Anyhoo- with all this extra time I have been blog hopping and found my new FAV site: www.younghouselove.com. Along with my new found reading obsession came ideas/DIY projects for the summer. My inspiration for my first project is a photo frame collage. I have always wanted to do one, and just fell in love with hers, so I decided... I am doing it!

Inspiration photo below Before Shots....

Well. That's all I've got for now! Were heading to the lovely Jenna Petty's home for some yummy food, drinks and most importantly... to view a ....

Dallas Mavericks VICTORY!

More to come later on! :)

Sex and the City and Summer Resolutions

Happy Saturday/Weekend! I love me some weekends! I have spent my morning watching cheesy lifetime movies, OTH, and not Sex and the city! Love it! As I am sitting here thinking about how much I stinking love this show and want to watch the movies. :) I am sure you can imagine John's excitement!

While watching I began to think of my New year resolutions and how easily we all forget them. Now, to be honest I do not even usually have a "NYR" but, this year I decided to conform...a little. I made a list of things I wished to accomplish this year. Well, one of the things I really wanted to do this year was start my photography venture. So, here we are.... a little under 2 weeks until summer where I will have the most time to really dive deep into this project. I really struggle with how I want to go about it all/how i would like to marke

t it/what type of photography I would REALLY enjoy. To be honest, I really love photographing my pups. I just don't know how successful of a business pet photography can become. I also really enjoy kids. Obviously... it's my job. But I enjoy photographing my kiddos... so it's another possibility. I will just continue praying about it and just see what way God leads me, but until then.. if you want your animals or kids or whatever photographed... I'm your gal! :) Here are some of my favorites of my little guys...

Bachelorette Bracket

Happy Friday!

I love Fridays, and they would be my FAVORITE day if only it was an actual day in the weekend part of the week!

Anyway, I am beginning to really grow and obsession for blogs! I love reading them!!! A friend of mine from college has come up with this Bachelorette Bracket for all those Bachelor/Bachelorette fanatics, like myself!I will confess, guilty pleasure!!!They compared it to fantasy football, but with the bachelorette, hehehe! Anyway, I am pretty excited about this and doing it with a few of my favorite gals! :)

How does this bachelorette bracket have anything to do with blogs you might ask? Well... this friend of mine was mentioned on Ashley S. (last season with Brad) blog! Pretty exciting!! Anyway, just another new person to follow!

LA

You've been DIRK'D

Yes, that's right. Thunder was "Dirk'd" last night for sure!!!

Dirk had 48/121 points last night and made all 24 of his free throw points! Actually breaking the record for most consecutive free throws in a playoff game made!

However, my man Dirk was not the only play maker last night! I am so proud of this entire team!!! You can really feel how badly they want this title while watching them play! I am so excited to watch the rest of this series! I am thinking a 5 game series, but how awesome would it be for another sweep!!! I am going to try to see if i can ebay some tickets for a non-insane price.... wish me luck and....

LETS GO MAVS!!!

In other, possibly equally exciting news... there are only 10 more wake ups with kids until I am kid free for the summer!!! That just sounds so nice! :)

That's all I've got for now... have a beautiful day!

LA

Case of the Monday's

How ironic is it that we watched Office Space last night and I most definately have a case of the mondays this very beautiful yet not so beautiful in my life kind of day. I will just say this: there are parts of my job that not too often, but can really frusterate me. The parts that just aren't exactly what you signed up for and really get to you occasionally. Welp, today is one of those days. I had to actually call my mom for a bit of encouragement because I was so frusterated I was letting it just completly ruin my day. My mother, most of the time is definately someone who can bring me back down to earth and focus on the important things. I got off the phone with her and prayed. Just have to remind myself that there are 12 days of school left, and to just let it go. Some people have a chip on their shoulder and there isn't a thing I can do about it...nothing I say is going to change the situation so I won't even bother.

I really just needed to let out my frusterations on this post. I guess what else is a blog for really, right?? Sharing your thoughts and some days they just aren't fun ones! Untill next time!

LA

Take me out to the ball game!

Sundays. I usually find them quite depressing.... some people view it as the first day of the week, others, myself included, see it as the end of your freedom for another 5 days. I guess you could call me a cup is half empty kinda gal in that department. However, only 13 wake ups until summer freedom and I CAN'T WAIT!

As gloomy as I find Sundays... we had the opportunity to go to our first Rangers game of the season with one of our most favorite couples: Elyse and Bryan! John and I were rather excited for some ballpark hotdogs, and oh boy did we indulge! I am for sure ready to get back on the workout wagon! Anyway, Elyse works for the Dallas convention bureau (or something along those lines) and gets the hook up and we got to be a part of the hook up this time with awesome seats! All in all a very fun day!! Thank you Elyse! :) Here are a few pictures from our little outing.

Other than baseball we had a nice weekend spending time outside! We had a health fair up at school....being the dedicated teachers we are, ofcourse we spent some time up there helping out. John had a flag football game and left pretty early into the event, leaving me the exciting job of directing kids in a fund run. After that was over the lovely Lisa and I were nominated to stand on the corner of a major road nearby with a huge sign....in attempts to bring more people into the event. FAIL. It was windy and didn't go to well for us, but did provide a good memory and a lot of laughs, that's for sure! Notice how "sever" the wind was by the beaten look to our sign... see, DANGEROUS to be out there! As Lisa would say " We were lucky to not have been blown away to Mesquite!"

Anyway, I am in major need of some beauty sleep! I feel like this week will be another FUN one, woohoo! So, until next time--

LA