It's a girl!

Well, I haven't updated in a LONG time, but here's a quick update! So, our trip to Europe this summer was great and we came back with a surprise...a baby girl!

School was starting and I just was not feeling great and felt a little off, so I took a pregnancy test and sure enough, it was positive!  So, our little girl is due April 15, but we think she'll be early!  Here is the evolution of the belly so far!

The day we found out it's a girl!  (We wore pink shirts to school.)

Well, I have about 4 more weeks of school until Spring Break and I plan on working the week after Spring Break with my long-term sub to help her get situated and then taking my leave.  Doctor says she could come as early as last week of March but she'll more likely arrive the first week of April.  We can't wait!  Once we have her room set up, i'll post those pictures!

UStream

So, I am going to try out this thing called UStream.  Basically, I can stream live video from my iPhone, computer, etc.

Here is the link to old videos:

Bailey's UStream

Here is the link to the live feed! If I am currently videoing, you can see it here!:

Video clips at Ustream

Last Thursday, Tim and I went to Travis and Calvin's baseball games.  It was a lot of fun to watch and they played great!

Then, over the weekend, Sydney and Natalie came to stay with us.  Friday night I met them at the Houston Premium Outlet mall and we shopped around for awhile, then headed back to College Station.  Saturday, we woke up and went to breakfast at iHop. Then, went over to Bryan High to take pictures.  After that, we went to A&M to see the Century Tree and got snowcones at JJ's. Afterwards, we went to Hobby Lobby and Walmart to get tye-dye stuff and went home to tye-dye shirts.  That night, we ate at Potato Shack and hung out at the mall for awhile.

Then, Sunday morning we had Shipley's.  We went to Target to get hair dye and we dyed Syd and Natalie's hair black... Well, the underneath black!  Then, we got JJ's snowcones again and hit the road to meet dad at the outlet mall at about 5 and then we went back home for a good night's sleep!

By the way, HAPPY (belated) MOTHER'S DAY!!

AND... I wasn't there, but Austin and Shan had their senior prom on Saturday!  Here's a picture!

I've been a horrible blogger lately.  Tim and I have been so busy during the week and on the weekends we've been spending our time cleaning up the yards.  The people who lived in the house before us never did any landscaping or upkeep for the yards, so we have spent the last few weekends removing leaves, pulling weeds, trimming trees/bushes, planting flowers, etc.   It is very slowly but surely getting done.  I will post pics when it is finished!

Tim has also been a little under the weather lately.  It's either a cold or allergies, but he's had a sore throat for about a week now.  I think I had it first and gave it to him, but luckily my sore throat only lasted a few days.

This week is TAKS week at work.  Today, the 10th graders are taking the Math TAKS, which means I have been moved from my classroom to the one right above me, which happens to be right across from Tim... Yay!   That also means we get to have the same lunch for once!

Well, 2nd period is about to start, so I better end this.  I will hopefully update sooner!

So, last Thursday Tim and I went to Riviera Day Spa to use the gift certificate Tim got me for my birthday (way back in August).  We paid a little extra for the couple's massage.  It was the first time either of us had gotten a massage, so we didn't really know what to expect.  When we got there, we had to change into robes, and then we got to hang out in the jacuzzi tub for 30 mins, and we had some strawberries and champagne to go with it.  Then, our masseuses came in and we had an hour-long massage.  It was really relaxing.

Friday afternoon and Saturday, Tim had tennis and I hung out at the house and cleaned up a little.

Sunday morning, Tim and I found a park that's about 5 minutes from our house called "Lick Creek Park"  so we went for about an hour walk through the park and geocached a little.  It was a really nice day out.

Then, on Sunday afternoon, we went with Justin and Courtney to see "Shutter Island" and then went out to eat at Boston's. I knew before seeing the movie what it was about and what would happen, but I still thought it was good.

This school week seemed to go very quickly.  On Wednesday, the kids had ELA TAKS.  I gave the 10th grade test and my kids were great.  The rest of the week was fine.  It was the first week that I had my COW, so the kids really liked using the laptops.

This weekend,  we don't really have plans.  We are just looking forward to Spring Break.  One more week of school.  We are trying to think of something to do for the break, but we can't figure it out.  Any suggestions?

By the way, do you like Tim's new hat?

...OK, so it's not really his hat.  He was just trying on hats at Target.  

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!