Family Reunion and Fun

On June 15th I made an impromptu trip home to Louisiana to see family and friends.  It was much needed as this last semester at school has been crazy and hectic!  Thought I would share a little of what I did while I was home.

On Friday during the day, I took my niece and nephew over to my Auntie Carols house to swim with our little cousins.  The really enjoyed swimming with Anna Clair, Eli and Emma, and Mady loved playing with Molly.

On Friday night, my family from Dallas came in town and my dad had a crawfish boil for all of us!  It was so good and we had such a GREAT time!!  I loved it!

Then the next day we all went to Kiroli Park and had a grand time.  Uncle Bruce, Shannon, and Brandon grilled hamburgers and hot dogs for everyone and the kids had a blast playing outside.  It was SUPER DUPER hot and almost unbearable but we had good fans and pavilion with nice shade too.

I finally came home on the 21st of June and I was glad to be home.  I had one more class to finish for the summer and I went on the 22nd.  My summer officially began then and I am glad its finally here!

Have you done any layouts lately?

I have!  I have been scrapping like no ones business!  Here are a few I have done.

eReaders, Kindles, & Nooks oh my!!

So we did it!  We got an eBook.  I am in love!  After much research between the three we went with the eReader.  There were many reasons why though.

1. Kindles & Nooks have proprietary downloads. Meaning you can only get their ebooks from Amazon or Barns & Noble.  With the eReader you have Sony's store, Google Books, and MANY other sites too.

2. Cost!  It was $199.99 for a touch screen one.  Granted this doesn't have WiFi, but thats okay with us.  Our theory was we would know in advance if we were taking a trip or not and just pre-download books.  Also we have a mini laptop with internet so if all else, we could log on there and download.  It saved us a TON of money since the one with WiFi is $349.99!

3. Size.  It is small yet not too small and it has the capability to enlarge your text so you can see it if necessary.  It isn't too heavy either.

4. Some other perks were expandable memory slots, long battery life, and ease of downloading.  It is pretty much self explanatory.

One of the best perks is that you can download books from your library!!!  For Free!!!

Go get yourself an eBook, you won't regret it.  Happy Reading!!

A few recent projects....

Lots of Stuff

There has been so much going on here!  I feel like I have no time for anything myself.  Noel and I have not done anything "fun" in so long so I don't really have any pictures to post.  I have been so involved with school lately and work that it just sucks up all the time I have...lol  Hopefully life will be back to normal soon. 

I have decided to try and make some lifestyle changes and those are going okay.  I eat better than I used to but I still have lots to work on.  It is tough being healthy!  And exercising, well, that is a whole other story!  I HATE it!!  lol  I wish I loved it, I want to love, but so far it just hasn't caught on.  Hopefully this summer things will change and I will come around to it.

I am going to try and upload a ton of pictures and some scrapbook pages I have done lately.  The photos are old, but some of my favorites.  I have also done a few invites to parties and such and I want to get those up.  I am trying to get back into my photography, so we will see!!  That's all for now.  Oh except that the NFL Draft is going on and the Saints chose an FSU player!  Smart they are huh?  hehe

Happy Easter!

It's been quite some time since I have posted, and i really don't have much to say for it except that I feel like I have no life and won't until school is done for the summer!  I stay so busy.  I have lots of projects coming up that have to be completed and then summer session A starts for school.  Then I will be done until I begin my internship in the fall!  I can't wait!

Graduation is December 3rd??  I can't wait!!!

Volunteer day at the ballfield. Then my mom will be here for the weekend! I can't wait! Dinner and movie tonight and much fun for tomorrow!

Day 6-13

Wow! It's been a few days since I updated my 365! I don't have a fun life anymore so I am too busy to do this! lol I have been taking my photos, I just upload and edit in bulk. Here they are.

 

Funniest Video EVER!!!

My mom on our trip to Monroe for Christmas!

New Beginnings and Changes

2010 is starting off with a bang!  I start classes tomorrow night.  Yes, they are at night this semester and I am not happy about that, but the plus side is that I was given an amazing opportunity to work full time as a substitute at Lexington Middle.

Beginning on Friday, I will be subbing for a teacher who is leaving on maternity leave and will be gone for about 8-10 weeks or so.  She should be coming back around the beginning of March.  This is a good thing you see because that gives me about 2-3 weeks to catch up on serious school work and prepare for the next assignment.  Another teacher leaves at the beginning or April or a little before for her maternity leave and I will be in her classroom until the end of the school term.

I am really excited about this opportunity, but I am scared to death and I am most worried that my school work will suffer.  Noel has lectured me on how I am going to have to work harder, which he has no business doing -- he is the king of procrastination, but he is right.  And I HATE when he is right...lol  Working in these positions will give me a little something extra on my resume when it comes to working in the system after graduation.  I am really hopeful that it leads to great job opportunities.    Wish me luck!

Lastly, I am becoming the vice president of KDE.  That's Kappa Delta Epsilon.  It is a national honor society fraternity for education majors.  This is also a neat opportunity and it too will allow me to have that little something extra on my resume.  Hopefully it won't be too demanding.

Day 4 & 5 of 365

So I am a day or two behind.  Big deal.  :-)

On the 4th I forgot to take a picture, so that night Noel came in to give me a kiss and I decided that it was the perfect picture for the day.  It was a sweet, un-prompted gesture and I needed it.

 Yesterday, the 5th, was my first day of practicum for the new (and final) semester for classes.  I was going to take my camera with me and take photos of something while I was out but I forgot it that morning becasue I was in a hurry.  So, last night after we ate dinner (the lasagna) and watched The Hangover (funniest movie EVER), I took a picture of our dinner before I put it away.  It was so yummy and was the beginning to a great night!

Blogger to Facebook

I think I am able to have an RSS feed on my Facebook of my blog!  Sweet  Keep your fingers crossed this works.  Now when I update it, and update my photography, it will show up there too!  :-)

Scrap Happy!!

I have totally enjoyed having off this holiday vacation.  I did a lot of scrapping and I am quite happy!  I have been in the mood for it a great deal lately.  I have so many projects going on though, I need to pick one and get it done.  Here are some pages I have scrapped recently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 3 of 365

So day three I took a picture of Noel's NFL Football.  It is of significance because today was the last day of regular season football.  The Buccs went 3-14, and the Saints went 14-3.  The Saints won the right to a bye-week in the first round of the playoffs and they have home field advantage for their first game.  Good Luck Saints!!  Lets finally win this thing!

ACOT Freebies

Have been intereted in getting started in digital scrapbooking?  Well you have the opportunity to try it out for free you know! Over at ACOT, or otherwise known as A Cherry On Top, there is a whole section of freebies in the digi-store!  All you need is PSE, GIMP, or some other program to do "photoshop" stuff in.  Come check it out!

Day 2 of 365!

Here is the photo from day two.  I promise they will get more exciting.  This is just waht has consumed me lately!  I am trying to "deep clean" my house!  hehe

Project 365!

I have decided to try this once again.  It is tough to remember to take my camera with me everywhere I go, so I am going to really try and stick to it.  Hopefully it will just become second nature to me.  I can't wait to see the end result at the end of the year. 

Here is my photo for today!

This is the book shelf in my office.  It is brand new and has inspired some serious cleaning in our house.  The garbage men will hate us on Monday!

Back from Louisiana

I was very fortunate to take a three week vacation home to Louisiana for winter break.  I left on December 9th and didn't return until the 26th!  It was wonderful, but exhausting.  I got there on the 11th and on the 12th we had my nieces birthday party.  It was so much fun.  She turned three this year and it was the first birthday party I have attended.  It was so much fun and I enjoyed it all.  The night before the party (the day I got in) she and I made cupcakes for the party. Pictures as soon as I remembered where I saved them!  Grr!

Then I visited family!  I had a great time hanging out with my dad, sister, brother, nieces and nephews, and grandparents. 

On the Wednesday after I arrived......I got the dreaded stomach flu!!  YUCKY!  That put me down a few days and it was not fun.

On the 18th my brother arrived in town and on the 19th we all had Christmas.  That night the New Orleans Saints lost their first game of the season.... :-( ...and the next day I left for Dallas.  I was busy, busy, busy! 

Noel was supposed to arrive on the 21st of December at about 5:30.  But wouldn't you know, fate had other plans!  His plane was delayed by 6 HOURS!!!  After spending an ENTIRE day - literally, in an airport, he arrived in Dallas at 9:40 that night.  We hung out in Dallas for two more dats then headed back to Louisiana.
We celebrated Christmas with my aunts family on Christmas Eve Night and then with my family on Christmas Day Morning.  We headed back to Florida that very night around 10:30!!

Great trip but VERY exhausting!  I can't wait to do it all again soon though!  PICTURES COMING SOON!

Thanksgiving Day!

Thanksgiving 2009 was fantastic in our home!  Well actually it was at Noel's grandmothers home, but it was still fantastic!  Ms. Daniele's sister and her partner came from France and it was such a please getting to meet them.  We had a great dynamic group of 14 with all of our friends and family.  Below are some photos.  I will ass more later.

Fancy ham and cheese rolls.

 

Ms. Daniele preparing the silverware.

 

Fruit Basket

 

Ms. Daniele

 

Appatiffs!

 

Noelle & Henry from France

The Spread!