First of all... Happy Birthday Boppa!  We love you!

This is a really old picture, but it's the best one I could find on the computer!

I don't have much to update today.  School started 2 hours late due to the snow yesterday.  It was so nice to sleep in and have a late start!  If only every day could be like that! 

The only interesting thing I have to update today is that one of my French 1 soccer girls gave me this:

The soccer girls had to choose their favorite teacher and Minerva chose me.  If you can't read the note, it basically says that the soccer girls will buy us "favorite teacher" shirts and we will be introduced with our players for their March 9th game again A&M Consolidated High School. Sounds fun!

Tomorrow, I have a half day of school, because I have a training to go to during the second half.  I am participating in a T3 Technology Grant along with about 15 other teachers and as part of the grant each teacher gets a digital camera, a video camera, and COWs. A COW is a Computer On Wheels.  Basically, it is a set of 30 laptops and a printer that we get to have permanently in our classroom. 

Until now, we only had a few sets of COWs for the entire school, but now, since I'm part of the grant, I get to keep a COW!  Yay!

Well, tomorrow Tim and I have an appointment for a couple's massage and the Riviera Day Spa that is down the street from our subdivision.  I'll have to update tomorrow to let you all know how it goes!

And by the way, SFA and A&M played in baseball today. I'll leave the blog today with "Axe 'em Jacks!", as SFA won 7-6!

Here is a video of us going for a walk. There were some highschoolers having a snowball fight and the Mercers (who live 2 doors down) were building a snowman!

Today turned out to be very snowy....for College Station anyways, but before I get to that, I wanted to post a picture for Boppa.  I wore the necklace she got me for Valentine's Day today.  I got many compliments on it also!  Thank you Boppa & Grandfather!

So, we knew we were supposed to be getting some snow today, but the weather channels have said that many times this year and we ended up getting nothing.  So, we weren't too optimistic.

School went on as normal today, even though there were hopes of an early release.  It started out as a rainy, cold day, but by the end of 4th period, beginning of 5th, at around 1 o'clock, we started getting some heavy snow!  The flakes were huge!  My 5th period students all ran in "PLEASE can we go play in the snow?!"  They were writing stories in French, so they all had to finish their rough drafts first, then I promised in the last few minutes of class we would go out.  So, that time comes, and we all bundle up and run outside to play.  We weren't outside more than 30 seconds and they all wanted to go back in!  The snow was very slushy and we were all soaked and cold!

6th and 7th periods go on as normal, and everyone was glued to the windows watching the snow fall.  They made an announcement 7th period that we have a late start tomorrow, so we will start at 10:30!

This is the view I had from my classroom today.

After school, we go out to the car to leave and this is what we see.

All of the cars were covered in snow! 

So, we drove home to change out of our school clothes before we go back out in the snow.

Here is the house with snow. Our house didn't collect as much snow because we have so many trees. 

After we changed, we went for a walk around our neighborhood.  First we walked down to the park.  Here is the snow covered park and us.

After the park, we walked down to the entrance to our subdivision, by the lakes. 

Someone had built a snowman by the lake.

By this time, I was freezing cold, so we went back home to warm up.  We decided not to make something for dinner, instead we drove to Koppe Bridge (partly so we could look at the snow from the warmth of the car and the restaurant). 

We are now back home, and Tim made a fire.  Unfortunately it is getting dark so we can't see the snow falling.  Hopefully it will stick around till the morning!

So this past weekend, Tim and I chaperoned the AVID trip to Stephen F. Austin.  We left Saturday morning at about 8.  On the way, we stopped in Madisonville at the Buc-ees.  I didn't even realize that they had a Buc-ees, but apparently it's about a year old. Sydney would have liked it... She loves Buc-ees!

We got to SFA around lunch time and ate before we started the "Showcase Saturday" tour.  Once we got our information, we headed to the Math and Nursing building to hear about financial aid.  The room below is where that took place, which is also where we had our French play "Cyrano de Bergerac" when I was a junior at SFA.

Next, we headed to the new Rec Center (which is new to me) where there were booths set up for all the different majors.  The students took about 30 minutes to look around.  While they were doing that, Tim and I went to look at one of the dorms they are tearing down to build a new Freshman center.



Afterwards, we toured some of the dorms such as Hall 14 (now co-ed, used to be all male) and Steen (where I lived my 1st year, which is now co-ed).


The pics below are of Steen, East College Cafeteria (where we used to eat all our meals Freshman year), and the Liberal Arts building (where most of my classes were).

After that, we went back to the (new) student center to get our free t-shirts.  Here is Tim (and me) infront of the new part of the building.

Here is a pic of me with my French students.  From the left is Cristina (French 3), Christy (French 1), Ana (French 3), Kenia (French 4), Sofia (French 3), and me.  Melissa should have been in the picture, but she had gone to the bathroom.  Sofia is definitely going to SFA next year, so she was happy to be visiting the campus (again).

Finally, after getting our shirts, we walked by the Old Stone Fort.

Then, we took Sofia to see a couple of the dorms that she applied for and left campus to get dinner.  

We ate at Clear Springs!  

Tim and I shared the chicken strips and friend shrimp with green beans and corn.  It was just as I remembered!  The only thing that would have made it better is if Paige were there!

After dinner, we left for Bryan and got home at about 9:30.  I was exhausted and fell right asleep.  All in all, it was really nice to go back.  So much had changed since 2006!  

So as I was trying to finish typing the previous blog on my laptop, I had a helper...

Last Friday was the last school day before Valentine's day, so Tim sent me flowers that were delivered during 2nd period.  They hadn't bloomed yet, so I didn't get to enjoy them until Sunday.

This past weekend, Tim and I went to Sugarland.  We had bought Austin tickets to see Jim Gaffigan for Christmas and the show was Friday night.  He is hilarious and I highly recommend seeing his show if you get a chance.

Saturday, we planned to possibly go to some museums, but ended up staying home and watching Couple's Retreat.  That night, it was Cole's birthday, so we went over to Fifi's house for cake and presents.  It was nice to see everyone, but the best part was watching the old movies from when my dad and aunt (Fifi) were little kids.  They were so cool!

Sunday, Tim and I went back to College Station, because he had made reservations for Valentine's dinner.  He only told me that "it's somewhere we haven't been in awhile".  I had an idea and was right: Café Excell.  The food was great and we were starving by 8:30, so that made it even more delicious.  I had a chicken, garlic, rosemary pasta and Tim had salmon with asparagus and potatoes.  Yum!

Before we went back to College Station on Sunday, we went to the mall in Sugarland to get each other Valentine presents.  We both picked out something from the Fossil store.  I picked out the red "love" bracelet and Tim picked out the sunglasses he's wearing below. 

Other than that, not much is going on.  Tim has some tennis this week, as it is finally starting back up at the Christmas break. 

I'm excited about Saturday, because I will be a chaperone to SFASU with the AVID students.  AVID is an organization for students who will be first generation college-goers in their family.  I have quite a few AVID students and I was actually awarded "AVID Teacher of the Week" today!  So, I'm very excited to go back to Stephen F. Austin, because I haven't been back since I graduated! 

 I will definitely update the blog after this weekend!