Wedding Weekend

This weekend was Russell's old college roommate, Jason's, wedding.  Russell was asked to be a groomans and he was honored to do it.  The rehearsal was at 4:45 on Friday afternoon in Sugarland.  I had a TAKS training meeting after school, and the lady forgot until a little bit before 3.  Because she was late she did it in about 3 minutes, and I was greateful for that.  I met Russell at home and changed real quick.  The rehearsal was nice and disorganized, and since it was a Catholic wedding, that didn't seem to be the best combunation in my head. lol.  But at the actual wedding was nice and went smoothly.  The dinner was at Cafe Adobe, so it was a fajita buffet with lots of chips and salsa and queso!  I was happy!

Saturday morning I had my last class of my Master's career.  YAY!!  Luckily we finished before 11, so I had time to come back to the house and ride with Russell back down there.  After I dropped him off, I went and got us some lunch.  It is a Catholic wedding, about an hour and fifteen minutes long, plus pictures and whatnot,until the reception, where I signed up for "tornadoes of beef" and I wasn't sure what that was going to be.  It actually wasn't that bad!  The wedding went well, and the reception was really fun.  Except the power went out for about an hour at the very beginning when we were eating.  So it kinda got a little toasty.  Since Russell was a groomans, we had to stay the whole time, and it was a 5 hour reception, and I had gotten up at 6:30 am.

I got bored a little at the reception and had fun with my camera and Jennifer's bouquet.

Haha so I am watching Julie and Julia right now when I'm blogging.  And she says is anyone reading this.  And she gets a comment and she gets excited that she has a reader.  It turns out it's only her mom.  And Russell goes it's like your blog.  Sad day, so any non relatives out there give a shout out!  Thanks for reading!!

Back by Demand

Sorry it's been awhile, we have been a little busy.   My sister and mom have yelled at me on facebook, so I guess it's about time to update.  Sorry this is going to be long...

So Easter weekend Leslie and Jeremy came down and we went to the Shell Houston Open, its a golf tournament.  They flew down on Saturday morning, their flight was supposed to come in at 8:30 but they ended up being delayed because it was foggy.  That actually worked out well for us, because Russell sold his car that morning.  A guy from San Antonio came in at 8am and bought it so as soon as he left we went to pick them up.  They flew into Hobby airport, and then we had to go to George Bush airport to park- kinda funny.  The golf thing was pretty fun, but it got kinda hot.  We ended up leaving around 3 and headed back to our house for a bit, ate, and then dropped them back off at the airport.  After they left we went over to Cohlby's house to have a crawfish boil.  We had already eaten, but we had a good time hanging out with the Youtseys.

Russell sold his car so we would have some money for a down payment on a new one.  Since I started working, we were able to pay off the debts that we had from our honeymoon, and furniture within just about 2 months.  So now we have no credit card debt, and two incomes, so we have some extra money laying around.  Russells dream has always been to have a fast car.  So he found the perfect one that week.  So the next weekend we up to dallas to pick it up.  This is what we got:

It's a 2002 Corvette, with less than 26000 miles and lots of modifications already done to it.  It's a bit of an up grade from this:

Russell has been having fun showing it off to everybody.  He wanted to go up on Wednesday to get it, but since we both needed to sign for it, and I didn't want to take a sub just to get a car.  So we were able to spend the weekend with my parents.  That weekend my research paper for my Master's was due, so i had to finish that up some.  I was going to go to class that weekend (as opposed to this upcoming weekend) but I didn't, but my friend Cody did.  She called and told me that our social studies cohort that is graduating in May didn't have to present our research in front of several professors.  So that was exciting, especially since I had already taken a sub for that day and so we just hung out and went to lunch instead.  So besides class next weekend, and graduation I am offically done with my Masters!!!!

This weekend I was busy grading projects.  I will never again assign a project on the last week of the six weeks.  I have a tight deadline to grade them, as well as I am still missing quite a few.  I told them that if they didn't turn it in my Friday I wasn't accepting it anymore, so some people will not be happy.  It was due on Wednesday, so they have had plenty of time.  It's crazy to think that there is only 6 weeks left of school.  This next week we will be doing TAKS practice, because the next week is TAKS.  Kinda nervous because the Social Studies TAKS for 10th grade (my students) only has about 17% world history knowledge on it, and a lot of American history stuff that they haven't had since 8th grade. 

It has been saying that it going to rain all weekend, and it didn't until today, which of course is while we are trying to tear down our church and load up in the trailers.  Russell got soaked, and he didn't really get to show off the Corvette.  Oh well.  I guess thats it for now, next time stop being so pushy if i don't update.... I was getting to it.  :)

Yard Work is Hard Work

Not really, but it was cute and it rhymed.  Last weekend we started our yard transformation last weekend and finished this weekend, or I guess technically its not the weekend, but both me and Russell had Friday off.  In the yeard, we dug up the dirt around the trees and replanted flowers and mulch, and then trimmed back the bushes by quite a bit.  It doesn't sound like a lot, and it didn't really take that long (probably 5 hours total, and 2 trips to Lowes). 

Much better than last years attempt.  Now we just need the grass to come in.

  

This is how I feel

check it out! haha

Edmeston

So we had a great time in Edmeston.  If you don't know where that it, it is in the middle of New York state, about ah hour and a half southeast of Syracuse. It takes about a full day of travel to get there.  We left the house around 8 to get to the airport for our flight at 10:50.  We flew to Newark NJ and had baout an hour or so layover.  When we got to Newark we went to the gate that they had said on the ticket, but when we got there the lady told us the had changed it. So we had to go out back through security and into a different part of the terminal.  However, when we went back through security the metal detector did not like Russell.  He went through it about 3 times before they pulled him aside to give him the full pat down.  Apparently it was the little rivets on his jeans.  I was laughing, but it was jsut weird since we had literally been through security twice already and once just 5 minutes before.  Another thing about the Newark airport is apparently it does not have airconditioner- so it was toasty waiting for the plane, which was of course delayed.  We got to Syracuse about 45 minutes late, and then the GPS definitely took us the back way there.  But we made it a little before 9 pm.

Edmeston is about 30 minutes from Cooperstown so we went to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Friday.  Cooperstown isn't much bigger than Edmeston, but has a lot more baseball memorabilia shops. lol.  On Saturday Russell's aunt and uncle came down from Utica (I think) and had lunch.  His grandpa ordered a lasagna and when he brought it home it was enough to feed probably 20 people, it wouldn't even fit in the oven.  So we had to do a little lasagna transplant into smaller pans.  Russell's Grandpa has a 1929 Ford Model T.  So Russell got to drive that around for a bit.  I didn't since I dont' know how to drive a standard (reason number 9283 that Russell should have taught me a long time ago).  Doug, Russell's uncle, has an old Mustang (not sure of the year) and they went out in that, but it wasn't running that well.

Our flight again was at 10, and so we had to leave around 7 to get back to the airport in time.  This time we took the more direct route that we should have used when we came.  We had a great time with his grandparents and can't wait to go back soon.  We had a 4 hour layover in Cleveland, very boring-lol.  But we finally made it home around 6ish, in time to see the Ags lose in over time (heartbreaker). 

our view of NYC from the plane in Newark

View of Edmeston from the front of his grandparents house

his grandparents church (I think it's Second Baptist church- so apparently it's big enough for two baptist churches- go figure lol)

Russ taking down the Yankee cow at the baseball museum- lol

teamwork!

me and the model T

Russell with his grandpa and Uncle Doug

Halfway Over :(

Spring Break is almost half way over :(

My parents come on Saturday morning.  We went to play putt putt on Saturday afternoon.  It was a lot of fun, but I did awful.  Normally, I do my share of 6's but normally at least get one or two hole in ones.  Not this time, i did more than my share of 6's, and no hole in ones.  Dad did well the first 9 but on the back 9 he lost his lead and fell all the way into last place (and yes I know that he appreciates me saying this-lol).  Mom won, slow and steady wins the race!  On Saturday night we had dinner with all our parents, and Tony.

On Sunday we were low on attendance at church, and so mom and dad had to help us tear down.  We appreciated the help.  We went over to Clinta and Tim's, where most all our cousins were there as well as the babies.  Poor Brady didn't want anything to do with it, and cried most the whole time.  Oliva just sat there with this cute smile on my face almost saying "i'm the good twin".  They are so cute!  And Emma is getting so big, and will soon be an older sister.  I didn't take any pictures this weekend, sorry.

On Monday, mom and dad took me out to lunch and then left.  Poor Russell has had to work, spring break for normal people.  Then we had Bible study, normally on Tuesdays, but we changed for some reason that I can't remeber now.  Today was my LOST marathon day.  Because of the Olympics I got behind, and so I watched 6 episodes today.  Tomorrow entails me getting my grading done, and packing to get ready for New York.  More about that next week after we get back!

SPRING BREAK!!!!!!

Need I say more?

I don't, but I will.  Yay so finally after a pretty stressful week at school, it is spring break!!!  I feel bad that I have my kids a quiz today, but let's face it they aren't going to remember it if we did it after spring break.  They don't even remember wht they did five minutes ago.  haha.

At about 2:50 I was out the door- yes I brought stuff home, but I don't mind doing work at home (mainly grading), some people were there trying to get their grading done so they don't have to do it over the break.  Progress report grades are due Monday when we get back at 12:30. When I got home I was excited about the Aggie basketball game, they played Kansas in the semifinals of the Big 12 tournement.  They played a great 30 minutes, leading the whole time, but the last 10 minutes were ugly.  Hopefully they do better in the NCAA tournement. 

I am excited about spring break.  My parents are coming down tomorrow morning and staying until Monday.  During the week I am looking forward to sleeping in, and catching up on LOST.  I have about 5 episodes on the DVR still.  Also, I need to work on my Action Research Project for my Master's program.  April is quickly approaching when I will have to present it.  And on Thursday we will head up to New York to see Russell's grandparents.  Should be a fun week!