A little piece of land

Trev and I have been looking at buying some land in a community in royse city for over a year now and have found a lot we really like and our offfer has been accepted. It isn't officially ours and probably wont' be for a little while but I thought I would share a few pics of it. It is a 2 acre lot and there is not time limit to build. The pic on the left is looking at the lot from the front.

Here is an aerial shot of the land outlined in red. The quality of google aerial maps decreases greatly the further you get from civilization so excuse the quality. I will try and get a better shot the next time I am up in my helipcopter! ;)

We really like the community because it has a preservation area that is right up our alley (see pics below). In fact we have been "stealing" the amenity for a year now with walks out there and recently took a little canoe ride on the small little lake. We have even seen deer! Anyway, no we are not looking to build right away but will probably look at building in a few years. Come out and visit sometime and we will give you a tour. :)

Baby Bailey in the Womb

We had a 3D sonogram on Saturday and Bailey is for sure a girl! She had her legs spread wide open for the world to see. We will have to work on her more lady like manners once out of the womb. These are a few pics of her. We have ton of pics on a CD and even have the 20 minute DVD of the entire sonogram. She kept putting her hand in front of her face so we had a hard time getting good pics. She also would open up one of her eyes. She is already head down I think waiting to take on this big bad world. :) I am not sure if it is really what to she is going to look like but I guess we will see in about 12 more weeks! Trev of course thought the whole thing was a little creepy! :) Our internet has been down and that is why I am just now getting these posted. I also had my 28 week appointment today and everything is going along well! :)

Childbirth 101 has begun

Trev and I are back in school! Well, in school for childbirth that is. We had our first of 8 classes last night and it was really informative and relaxing We are taking a Bradley Method class (http://www.bradleybirth.com/) and since it's focus is relaxation through birth then you get to practice relaxation exercises! I am hoping that Trev is going to be able to survive the videos that they are going to have us watch. The instructor reminded him that he has eyelids and that he can close them. :)

Crib Shopping!

Finally after shopping all day on Saturday and going from store to store we finally found a crib that we liked. We ended up with something totally different than we orginally thought. We had thought we would get a medium brown color crib, however, everystore that we would go in would have a bedding set similar to ours on a very dark brown or black crib and so I thought hmmmmm...that sure does look good. Anyway, so here it is. The color is called espresso and it is a very deep brown almost black. We got the crib and the Combo Unit which is a dresser and changer in one. We are excited and it should be here in the next week or so. :) I will post some pics once we get it situated in the room and maybe a few of Trev putting it together. They won't be much fun though because he is way to handy for it to look like distressed father trying to put together the crib. :)

Feeling Crafty

I found letters on sale today at Hobby Lobby so decided I would go ahead and start on some decorations for Bailey's room. I had seen these letters at Babies R' Us for $10.00 a piece! Yikes! I got all of the letters for less than $10 and the whole project: paint, letters, and ribbon I did for less than $20. Crazy people preying on pregnant hormonal women. :) Anyway, I painted them pink and attached red gingham ribbon. I am going to paint her walls green so I think it will tie her bed set together nicely. :)

Lake Fun!

We went to the lake with my sister, her family and some of their friends. We had a good time riding in the boat, jet skiing and wakeboarding. Well I say we, but I was mostly a spectator! :) Anyway, below are the pictures that my sister took. If only I could carry her around everywhere to be my photographer! :)

Me and my love

Trev, Parker, and Mace

Trev and Kylie

Mace and Parker

Kels

Kels and Kylie

Davey Boy

D-man jumpin a wave

Group dinner

First week of school.....kickin' it old school

I have almost survived the first week of school despite having a classroom that closely resembles the one above.....seriously. I am not kidding.

A couple of weeks ago the server in our school district crashed. By crashed I mean gone, adios see you later. So, we have been functioning with NO EMAIL, NO FILES, NO ATTENDANCE, NO GRADE BOOK, NO COOL POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS, ......NADA! Trever has informed me that schools should be able to function without all of these modern necessities because they did it for years. This coming from a man who spends at least 10 hours a day in front of a computer. I haven't seen him ditching his computer and drawing out blue prints and doing calculations by hand though. However, I guess he is right in one way. We can function or I guess we have functioned and aren't losing millions of dollars each day like most companies would if faced with our same dilema. So we are now going on 2 weeks in the dark ages. I suppose we will survive until someone figures out how the other 99% of america doesn't have major network problems for weeks at a time.

On top of the the technology issue there is something wrong with my air conditioning. It is wonderful in the morning keeping me and my kids at a comfortable 72 degrees. Then 1:30 hits and BAM! the heat comes on. Yes, you heard me the HEAT! It isn't that the A/C stops working the heater is literally running. It then warms my room up to a comfortable 85 degrees. I literally look across the room and kids faces are turning red and they are getting sweaty hair. I suppose that you can only imagine how I must look running around the classroom 6 months pregnant. :) It isn't pretty. Today I had my hair up with pen and sweat running down my face. They are aware of the problem and working on it I am told.... I hope it isn't the same people that are working on the computer network...

Now that i have your attention and despite all the crap above I do think it is going to be a great year and my students seem like a good bunch this year. I have 5 classes of Pre-AP kids this year and 1 regular class. It is the most Pre-AP kids I have ever had and I hope that they are all up to my challenges. :)

Anyway, sorry for the long crazy post. Hopefully I will get to join the 21st century ASAP!