Christmas

Gasp!!! 2 post in 1 day! Well I said that I would get the Christmas pictures up so I better keep my word!!

Warning: Lots of Pictures!!!

Have to have the pictures in front of the tree before the chaos happens :)

I even managed to get in a picture!

Devin with his guitar that he wanted!

Steve usually gets a car care kit for Christmas, he loves cleaning the car!

Allyson and her super awesome Converse shoes!

These next few shots are of Steve opening his present from me! I love that this year I actually got him something that he was not expecting at all!! A LAPTOP!!!

Him realizing what it is! I love the complete happiness on his face in that picture!

You think he likes it?

Me opening my present from Steve! A beatiful white gold necklace!!! I love it!

It's not all of the pictures but a good amount of them! We had a very nice Christmas at the house. My parents and grandparents came over for a very yummy fried turkey dinner and we got to spend time together!!

New Year New Blog

WOW!!! I can't believe the last time I updated this thing was in May!!!!

Well one of my plans this year is to update this thing more often!!!

Alright really short glimpse of our life since I last updated:

• I graduated from UCF with my bachelors degree in Elementary Education
• I got a job at a brand new school teaching 2nd grade
• Allyson started 3rd grade, and is loving it
• I turned 30!! Not as bad as I thought it would be :)
• I've lost about 30 pounds and would like to loose another 20
• Steve is working midnights again :(, but hopefully not for much longer, I don't like this shift at all!
• Because I've been super duper busy I've really slacked off on taking pictures and well I don't like that too much either!
  

Alright next post will have pictures of Christmas! Just have to get on the computer that has the pictures on it.

1st Communion

This past weekend Allyson made her 1st communion at church. I can't believe she is getting so big! I'm kinda of bummed that we didn't get too many pictures but hey the ones we got I'm happy with!

This one shows her personality so well!

Update!!!

Holy cow it's been a while since I posted on here!!!!! I've been super busy with internship and just life in general!!! Well last time I posted I had like 100 or something days left until I graduate and now that countdown is only 2 days away! I'm so excited to be done with this finally! Tomorrow I have a busy day planned of cleaning the house and decorating for my graduation party that we are having on Saturday after I graduate. Oh yeah I also need to get the food ready too! It's going to be one busy day! Saturday I have to be up at UCF at 7:00 in the morning! That means I have to leave my house by 6:15 to make it! Oy it's going to be an early morning for us! Now I'm on the job hunt...and I don't like that too much! I will be checking the county's website every Monday for new job postings for next school year! Wish me luck!!!

Allyson has been playing softball this spring and she LOVES it!!! She has gotten pretty good at it too! She loves it so much that she decided in the fall instead of cheering she wants to play softball so that she can get better! I love that she loves to play sports, she definetly doesn't get that from me, that is all her daddy in her there!

Well that's it for now... I will try to be better at comming on here!

Home stretch!!!

I only have 121 more DAYS left before I graduate from school!!!!! I went today for my orientation for Internship II and then I went and took my last certification test and I PASSED!!!!! I had to take the last test and it was my subject area test for K-6 and it was on ALL subjects....math, language arts, music, art, P.E, social studies and science.... it had 224 questions on it and it took me about 3 hours to finish the test! I took it on the computer so I could get my results right then and there, otherwise I have to wait like a month to get the results, and well I couldn't wait that long for the results. I was so nervous when the lady handed me the results and had to look at it like 3 times for it to sink in on me that is said PASSED!!! So all I have left to do is finish my internship and I will be be done with my bachelors degree.

I also got my placement for my internship and I will be in a kindergarten room, which is exactly where I want to be! I love working with the young kids! That will start on Monday and I will be at the school five days a week for like 14 weeks! Everything is finally coming to an end!

Realization

Tonight I made cupcakes and was getting ready to frost them and Allyson came in the kitchen asking if she can help. She pulled out a butter knife and got to work. I had to stop and look at her because this is the first time that I did not have to pull the kitchen chair over for her to stand on and make sure she was ok before I could get started on mine. It dawned on me that she was growing up and was able to reach the kitchen counter just fine without the help of the chair! And just a side note, she frosted 3 cupcakes and then went off to play, she had her fill of frosting them for the night!!

2009 Goals

Just a list of some the things I would like to accomplish or at least work at this year.

1. Graduate from school!!!!
2. Get a job!!- I think Steve will be VERY happy when this one happens :)
3. Spend more quality time with Allyson, and try to let her experience more things.
4. Pay off our credit card debt and keep it paid off.
5. Try to be a better wife.
6. Make more time for myself..from spending money on myself to taking better care of myself.
7. Loose some weight---hey it wouldn't be resolutions without this one on it.

So what are some of the goals that you are setting for yourself?