Bruised Knees...and Egos...

So I was pretty happy yesterday. It was the first day of graduate classes and I was feeling good. I met a couple of my gal pals for lunch at our favorite nearby restaurant. As we're walking, I'm talking and not at all paying attention when I step off a curb and completely fall down! I think the weight of my backpack kept me from catching myself because I fell straight down! It was not my best moment for sure. Although I know it had to have looked amazingly funny! I know I'm getting older because I woke up this morning and my whole body hurt...guess I can't recover like I used to! What a first day...

The Music Teacher Is In...

So today is the first day of school. While coming back to teach part-time has turned into more than I anticipated, I am still glad to be back with all my old kids. So here's a quick story to start out the year...
We are sitting in Adv. Band listening to some movie theme songs which we plan to play this year, when "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail comes on and I say, "oh this was popular when I was a kid, I loved this movie!" to which one of my students replies, "Man, I be the guy who was the voice is dead now then." and I say, "how old do you think I am?" to which he replies, "I don't know...50....40?"

WHAT?!?!?!

It's good to be back...

Baby Quilt

I wanted to show you the quilt I made for my friend Andrea's baby, Isabella. Okay...I mostly wanted to show my mom but you all can look too!

Girls' Weekend

I was long overdue for some fun this summer and all my friends having babies was the perfect excuse to get out of town for a weekend. My best friend Amanda came down from Stillwater, OK to meet me in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area to see the Bartee family as well as Kevin and Andrea Johnson and their new baby girl, Isabella! It was great just to hang out with these wonderful friends and hold beautiful kids!



This is baby Isabella. She was so tiny and beautiful! I held her every second possible!



We took this picture right before we left Kevin and Andrea's Saturday morning. Andrea was an especially tired mama this morning since Bella kept her up most the night so she opted out of the picture, but we understood. We had such a great time catching up with her!



After we left Kevin and Andrea's we headed to Ft. Worth to meet the Bartee's and Charity Harvill, Amanda's old college roommate. We haven't seen Charity in years!! So that was so much fun! The four of us girls all met our freshman year of college and we're still so cute!


We went shopping for some maternity clothes for Amanda...okay, so she's not this big yet but we made her try on the "belly pillow" in the store and just had to take a picture of what Amanda will look like in just a little while longer! She's such a good sport!


This is Alex, the newest addition to the Bartee family! He cuddled with me most the rest of the weekend!



This is the Bartee family getting ready to go to church. Unfortunately, the picture taking interrupted the routine and we ended up forgetting the diaper bags at home! OOPS! I'm going to have to take the blame for that one!



Just us girls! Thanks to Jonny for being our official photographer for the weekend!



Caleb is getting so big and he loved playing with his Aunt April!



And Alex is a big time cuddler. We snuggled on the couch for most of Sunday afternoon.



Mama-to-be practicing her sweet technique!

I had a great time with all you girls (and boys!) and I can't wait to do it again! Next baby on board....Baby Nichols and Baby Everhart!