Prayer Request

For those of you who don't know, David's father passed away last Thursday. It has been one of the most emotional weeks of our lives. His family is doing amazingly well, but please keep them in your prayers! Thank you for your support and love.

Wall cloud?

This is one of the views David and I saw when we were driving home from Plano to Austin on Sunday. Literally a wall cloud separating dark from light. Creepy, but cool....

Congratulations are in order...

Yay! Zeb graduated! You think we would have remembered to make a sign so it would be easier for Zeb to find us in the stands, but we didn't. After 6 graduations, we STILL did not remember to make one. Luckily, Zeb was the smart one because she decorated her graduation cap with the name of the school where she got a job for next year. It was super cute and in UNT colors. She was always the creative one!!

Lovely Bones

Well it's been one month since David and I got engaged. Even though the wedding is still about a year and a half away, I have already looked at venues, bought plenty of wedding magazines and searched through/joined wedding websites, and I've looked at wedding dresses. I don't think I will mind the long engagement since it's fun being engaged! :)

On another note, we went to go see lovely bones tonight and the movie was great. Very interesting way to film the movie and I thought it stayed pretty true to the book. Mark Wahlberg was surprisingly good in that role being the father. Definitely 2 thumbs up from both of us.

Engaged for real this time

David proposed tonight and of course I said yes! We were able to go to my staff Christmas party so I had the opportunity to show off my beautiful ring. We are both very excited!

School

I haven't really talked about school in a while. This year's class has several more challenges than last year. A lot of times I feel like I'm failing these kids. I hope that is just the perfectionist part of my personality coming out, but I just wish I could do so much more for them. If you're a teacher... do you ever get into those funks where you feel like everything you're doing is boring and there is no possible way you are getting the point across to your students? I feel like I should be giving more enrichment for my high kiddos and more reteach to my low students, but I'm managing as best as I can. They did a lot better on the middle of the year benchmarks than the beginning of the year at least. I think it's funny that all my students last year got commended on the reading TAKS whereas this year I am desperately hoping a couple of my kids even pass... My writing curriculum has been a lot better this year due to that professional development I did this past summer. I am planning on some sort of science professional development this year or summer to help improve my teaching in that area. I feel like it's nice to have goals so now that I've tackled some of what I wanted to work on in writing, I will work on improving my science lessons. If you can tell, I don't discuss school with David all that much and I needed to get some of this out, even if only my parents read it! :)

Rockin around the Christmas tree...

David and I decorated a tree together for the first time with our
ornaments that we have each accumulated over the years. All it's
missing is a tree topper and a tree skirt... I love Christmas time!!