Spring Break Woot Woot!

At 2:45 p.m. today, my spring break officially began... and I am super excited! Unfortunately though, I have no real plans for the week (e.g. Florida, Cali, or beyond).... you know I do have a wedding to save for. But none the less.... its spring break and I don't have to get up at 5:10 a.m. for 9 whole days!!

Basically my plans are to lay around, grade papers, shop at Lighthouse Place w/ a friend from school, stop by school to put up a new bulletin board and organize somethings, travel back to L-town for Easter, and get fitted for my wedding dress. Not that exciting of a week, but I'm glad to have it.

As for now, I'm watching the Boilers and hoping for a W.

Happy Spring!

p.s. Rox and El, I totally wish I could have been with you guys tonight in Indy. El, I hope you kept tabs on her.... we know how she gets! "Catsticks!" :)

This One is for you Kels!

So I haven't blogged in awhile... and sadly enough, its because there really is not much going on for us, at least nothing exciting enough to share with the world of bloggers.

I know, I know... not a great way to start off your blog. I teach 2nd grade and we recently learned how to write paragraphs and I taught 7 and 8 year olds that the first sentence of your paragraph should be interesting, an attention grabber, ironic huh? Sorry!

However, I feel compelled to blog since my future sister-in-law told me last weekend... "When are you going to update your blog?" So... as the heading states this ones for you Kels! And again, sorry its so dull.

But since you are here, I'll fill you in on the past few weeks.

We went home last weekend to meet with the pastor that is going to be marrying us. While we were there we were able to enjoy wonderful campus prices at Jake's w/ some friends. We've also been able to spend some time with my parents, brother, his girlfriend, and her two little ones. (Who we recently asked to be our flower girl and ring bearer.. or as Hunter calls it "ring man".) We saw them in L-town and then the weekend before we went over to the Blue Chip Casino... and lost :( Nothing too bad to break the bank or anything, but a loss is a loss!

Really that's all that has been going on around here. We're thinking about heading up to a northern suburb tomorrow to, get this..... go grocery shopping (and maybe see a movie). I told you exciting, exciting!

Maybe that is a desperate cry to all of our friends out there to come and visit us and liven us up a little!! You are always welcome! However, one of Alex's really good friends is moving up here at the beginning April, so we are super excited about that!

I guess no news is good news.

Hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful weather we have been having and hopefully the snow predicted for the weekend makes a sharp turn north. *Here's to hoping!*

♫ "Baby Why Don't We Just Dance..."♫

Last night Alex and I went to the Josh Turner show. It was a great time. The bar it was at only holds about 250 people, we ended up being about 7 rows back. Its a country bar, so next time any of our Indiana friends are in town we should check it out again! We even scored a free signed copy of his new cd because I am an organ donor.

The weather has been cold and snowy, but pretty much everybody in the midwest has been experiencing that. However, good news I have Monday off for President's Day :) wahoo!

In my classroom we had a Valentine's Day party yesterday. Pretty good time, we made the traditional Valentine's bags, and passed out cards and treats. I think they had a ball. One of my student's mothers came in a decorated the table with all of the goodies we were going to put on our bags. Very cute...

I just had a phone date with my old buddy from college, Meredith way out in CT. We have our dates about once a month or so. I can't wait to July when she'll be back in the midwest for the wedding. Speaking of the wedding, my dress is in (still needs alterations) and Brandy and I worked diligently last weekend on sending out the save the dates. Alex and I were also very productive today and booked the limo and went to the post office to apply for our passports. That was an experience!

Shout out to the Standeford's and their offer to buy their first home. We are so excited for them, and we hope we get to come down soon and check it out!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Back in the Swing of Things

So, I've been back to school for about 2 weeks now since winter break. Alex has been taking a 10 day class at school since we have returned to the windy city, and his classes for the semester officially begin on Tuesday.

Last weekend, I went back down to L-town for the annual bridal show. I wanted to try my luck on the Mr. Penguin wheel.... I was really going for the free veil, but I got a $50 gift certificate instead- I'll take it! After that mom and I spent the day picking up a bunch of random things for the big day, plus we went in and ordered my veil.. now $50 off (thank you gift certificate!)

My trip down there last Friday started off a little crazy though. For one, the weather was not looking too good, lots of snow and wind. Thankfully when I took off from school things seemed to clear out.

After getting started on the road I was driving along and listening to my favorite country station up here (I am from Indiana after all) and they do this contest every evening during rush hour. They play 8 songs, and then people call in and recall 4 of the songs and they win something: concert tickets, autographed stuff, etc. So... here I am driving along 65 and they say call in if you know the songs... so..... I called. I ended up trying 3 times because the line was busy, but on the 3rd try..... "ring, ring" I GOT THROUGH! So to make a long story short, I recalled 4 songs on the radio for all of the Chicagoland to hear and I won 2 tickets to go see Josh Turner in February at this super small country bar. I'm super excited! Alex and I both couldn't believe that I got through, during rush hour, when soooo many people live in this area and tried calling. It was pretty neat. Winning tickets on the radio can officially be scratched off of my bucket list. Next, I need to work on getting Brandy and I on Wheel of Fortune for "Friends Week". :)