A Fresh Start to Summer!

I've decided I needed to do some things different starting today.  My family and I are going to be extremely busy the next month with moving and setting up our house.  I also want to soak up every moment with my little man before he goes to kindergarten this fall.  So I think I'm just going to get off of facebook for the summer and I will decide if I want to get back on it next fall or not.  I did it last August and it was a much needed break.  I'm making a must needed things to do list I need to do with my fellas this summer anyway! For me I'm making a list as well, like reading, swimming, organizing, road trips, picnics, and of course taking lots of pictures. 

 

I found some pictures Jett had taken with my phone camera when we were at the new house, one is of the living room, this will definitely HAVE to be painted... yuck.  haha.  Jared was also wanting to put linoleum down on the floor too.  On the right is a fireplace, it's pretty!  I'm not real thrilled about the ceiling, but that's one of those further down the road jobs.  Right now we are just wanting to get it decent to live it...haha. I will take more pictures later when we REALLY get started.  Next weekend we are painting the outside of it and putting some sheet rock up in the garage.  Hopefully we will all be done with everything and it will pass inspection and we can start on the fun parts like painting the walls and decorating.

I also found this picture of me... ekk! scary!  I just found it funny because Jett took it.  Jared and I were cleaning cracks in the concrete on the front porch so they could pour concrete in them.

I will try and update any pictures about out lovely new adventure on here.

(even if no one reads this...haha)

Busy Busy Busy!!

Ahhhh!!! I thought finally being out of school would make my life a billion times easier but honestly I have been a busy little bee since Sunday! In a few weeks we WiILL be MOVING!!!!!!! First we have to fix a few things the apprasier caught before everything goes though but we can easily get it done in a weekend. My husband is getting soooo excited about fixing everything up his own way and such... Yesterday he was pacing around our house and saying he almost just wants to take the rest of the week off and go work on it. Haha. Well he knows he can't just do that, so instead we are doing a handful of things at a time. I'm going through my entire house and having a yard sale this Saturday which was kind of an upbrupt decision on my part. I had sone extra time this week and decided i could get it done. I needed to get rid of a lot of unnecessary stuff that I had plus make a little extra needed cash while doing it. Let me tell you, this is the third day of going through stuff, pricing things, neatly folding a ton of clothes and putting them in boxes, cleaning several things.... Wow this has worn me out!!! Holy Moly! I cleaned out my closet Sunday and basically kept like 4 shirts. The rest I thought were a bit kid-ish like stuff I wore in my early 20s and I just feel that I've grown up a little since then. I have notice my change in style over the years... It really hasn't been that long ago I used to just wear t-shirts and jeans... That was almost the only thing I ever wore. Now it seems like I have at least upgraded a little to nice shirts, especially the layered look. However, I feel like I've worn that look out a little too. Hopefully I sell most of my clothes and other stuff so I can go shopping... But I think I'm okay on clothes right now... I'm looking for more new house stuff!!! I'm very very excited about!!!

Jared and I are also trying to make the house we live in right now a bit nicer too, just so we don't leave it looking crappy. That is just not us. We are repainting a few walls and fixing odds and ends here and there. Honestly some of these things needed to be done a long time ago but we kind of got in a rut. He starting painting the bathroom last night and I forgot how much I love the smell of paint. I love painting!! I seriously cannot wait to get in our new house and paint and decorate!!!!! Ohhh the possibilities!!!!

Spectacles.

Me with my new glasses!! I know I look like a huge DORKO!! Oh well, I can see so I guess that's really what matters right??? WRONG! I shouldn't be allowed out in public wearing these ginormous spectacles!!! AHHHHH!!!  hehe...

BLEK!

So this is just a small-me-complaining-about-being-big-again rant.  Yesterday, I decided to try on a dress.  Just a small sun dress and a little sweater thing to go over it.  Ugg.  I'm soooooooo big!  I just have the weirdest shape ever right now.  YUCK.  I looked at the dress by itself and I thought okay as long as I have something to go over my mid-section it would look fine.  So I tried this short sleeve sweater thing and I kept contemplating over it.  I thought maybe with a belt this would turn out to be a cute outfit.  So I ask my husband to come and look at it and honestly the guy has style (it sometimes worries me...haha) so I really do trust his judgments, especially because I feel like my style is just out the window most of the time.  Anyway, I asked what he thought and he said the sweater didn't look right with it.  Well I was definitely NOT going to get it without it and I just got all bummed.  I should have tried on more dresses and little things to go over them but my motivation went down the toilet after that.  I just got depressed about being a big girl.  I need to loose another 10lbs before trying anything else on.  If I could at least flatten my tummy area I think I would feel a little more comfortable...but right now not so much.  So I have about 2 weeks until my nieces 8th grade graduation... gotta get moving if I wanna lose it.  I can do this.  I have been walking a lot on my treadmill and keeping tabs on my calorie count.  I won't weigh myself until this coming Tuesday to see if I lost anything.  Hopefully at least a couple.  :)

Creative Crafty Creations for my future Classroom!

These are my lovely little centers I created for my methods course for

teaching elementary language arts.  I seriously LOVEDDD this class!

I honestly wish this teacher could have taught all of my methods courses, I learned so much

from her!! :)

This one is called Rotten Apples.

I thought this would be lots of fun for kids.

The way this one works is two students can take turns picking an apple

from the tree.  The apple will have a sight word on it, if they read it they get to keep it.

There are also worms found in some of these apples, if they find these rotten apples they have to put back all of their apples.  There are also go again cards as well.  There are also several other things I thought would work really good for this center as well and it's pretty easy to gear up or down this center depending on what grade level.

Give a Pig a Pancake!

I love the books like this!

Anyway... this is almost the same concept as the rotten apples game.

They choose a pancake word with the spatula, read it and give it to the hungry pig!

I thought it was funny!

 

I love my journal jar!!!

I may actually have to make myself one as well.

This has pre-made question prompts for journaling for kids.

Ex: What kind of job would you like when you grow up and why?

Just basic questions like that...

Chalkboard Vocab

This one's really simple, but still lots of fun.

They can practice their handwriting, spelling words, vocab... just about anything.

... I love these... I think I may go buy a whole bunch of them, they were super cheap!

This one is called Insect Adjectives.

They pull out a play insect out of the box of bugs, write eight adjectives

describing their insect, then color a picture of the insect.

(I know, I know... I have the artistic skill of a 5 year old... bhaha!)

This one I got pretty exciting about too!

Pack the Suitcase

Each BIG suitcase (that is what that box is pretending to be)

holds the students suitcases, which are the funky colored file folders.

I love my file folders.

The students read aloud the provided book, each student gets a handful

of brightly colored awesome note cards and writes down important facts/event about the book.

Then the students "pack their suitcases" with their note cards.

Then they are suppose to pretend they can't shut their suitcase so they

have to lighten their load and pick out only one... the most important event in each

suitcase.  This could be done several different ways, but I thought the whole concept was

pretty cute.

Some Positive Mojo Please!!

I'm not going to jinx this by saying... anything.  So instead I'm just going to do this....   

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Just trying to not get my hopes up but... I would like to ask anyone that reads this.... please send some good vibes, maybe a few prayers, and some positive MOJO!  ...... eventually I will tell you.  BUT...

until then.   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 :) :)

Motivation!

Well I think I made a really good decision today. It's really dumb. My tredmill has been in my spare room with a plethora of junk. It is not going to be fun going through that room when we start to move. Anyway... Today I moved the tredmill to the living room. That was not an easy task. Jett kept asking me "ummmm Mom .... Are you okay!?!?" I did all this because well... I need to get off my butt and exercise!! I thought seeing it everyday right in front of me would provide a little more motivation to walk on it. It makes me a sad because at one point I was walking 3 miles almost every other day. Uhhh yeah now I couldnt tell you the last time I got on it. Just so everyone knows... I am multi-talented though... Believe it or not I'm typing this post on my phone while I am walking. Ooooo ahhhhh! Haha! Now if I end up publishing this post and you don't hear from me for a while, you should assume that I'm not as talented as I thought I was and I hurt myself trying to do two things at once. :)

Hopefully things (pounds) will start coming off soon. I would really like to look nice for my nieces 8th grade graduation.

Stats: 187... Gahhh!
We will see if this pays off!
I will weigh myself next Tuesday too.
Wish me luck!