Just wanted to say that I'm going to miss all you ladies until Thursday! It's the high school retreat at school, so I'll be up in the mountains, far away from any technology. So I'll miss everything that goes on in your lives over the next few days!
If you think of it, pray for our kids - that they will be receptive to the message at camp and that their friendships and faith will grow and mature.
And pray for me - I'm still not doing so great. I'm about 99% sure that I actually had/have food poisoning. Which type or what brought it on - who knows!? But, all the symptoms fit, and though I'm feeling much better, my stomach still is not doing well. I still can't really eat much, and even the little I'm able to eat upsets my stomach and often sends me running to the bathroom. So we'll see how a bus ride goes tomorrow!! Oh yeah, and how camp food reacts :(
"See" you ladies later this week!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Sick and tired...
It's been a rough week for me this week.
One of our students was killed this week. She was only in fourth grade. Her older brother, who is one of my students, was driving the vehicle. This family has already gone through so much. Mom died a few years ago from cancer. A very close aunt died last year. And their grandpa is dying. And now they've lost little Emilie. Our little tiny community is very shook up. We've been lucky, and things like this never happen. Please pray for the Millers. The funeral is tomorrow, so school has been cancelled in order to allow the staff, students and their families to attend.
On the bright side (or, less bleak side), I've been amazed at how our students have responded to this tragedy. They started praying for the family Monday, once they found out. Tuesday almost the entire high school met during break around the 'prayer tree' to pray for the family. The students have held a bake sale to raise money for the family, and brought in over $300 just from one bake sale. They're doing another at the football game tomorrow. They have a car wash planned to raise more money. And the junior class is donating all the money raised by their tri-tip dinner fundraiser, which was originally going towards their senior trip, to the family. The students have done this all on their own. It amazes me how much they love and care.
The other reason it's been a rough week is that I'm sick! Like, sick as a dog, sick. Really, really, sick. Almost went to the hospital sick. And it all came on in a matter of hours last night. I had a headache yesterday, but I attributed it to the fact that my classroom smelled like skunk (some of our genius boys thought it would be a good idea to try to shake a skunk out of a tree). I went to worship practice last night with a headache, but otherwise feeling fine. When I got home just before 9, I wasn't feeling great, so I took my temperature, but it was normal. Within two hours, my temperature had gone up to 102.5, and then continued even higher to 102.8. And then the throwing up started. :( Kyle had to come home from work, because we weren't sure if I would need to go in to the hospital. He had to come in and wake me up every half hour or so to make sure my fever hadn't gone any higher. Kyle also had to make calls for me to arrange a sub, and went down to the school bright and early this morning to get everything out for the sub. I am so thankful for my husband! Thankfully, my fever started to come down, and by this morning it was in the mid 101s. After I got up and took a bath, I journeyed out the the couch, and slept there until after 2. By that point, I no longer had a fever! My head is still pounding, though, and I still can't eat much, so it's not over yet. But, at least the fever is gone. I had to be under tons of blankets because I was so cold. My teeth would chatter so much that the thermometer would fall out of my mouth, and every muscle in my body was in extreme pain because I was so tense from shivering so much. Soooo not fun! And now I'm missing high school youth group. Hopefully I'll be better by tomorrow so I can go to the funeral and the football game, but we'll see. And hopefully I don't get anyone else sick!
One of our students was killed this week. She was only in fourth grade. Her older brother, who is one of my students, was driving the vehicle. This family has already gone through so much. Mom died a few years ago from cancer. A very close aunt died last year. And their grandpa is dying. And now they've lost little Emilie. Our little tiny community is very shook up. We've been lucky, and things like this never happen. Please pray for the Millers. The funeral is tomorrow, so school has been cancelled in order to allow the staff, students and their families to attend.
On the bright side (or, less bleak side), I've been amazed at how our students have responded to this tragedy. They started praying for the family Monday, once they found out. Tuesday almost the entire high school met during break around the 'prayer tree' to pray for the family. The students have held a bake sale to raise money for the family, and brought in over $300 just from one bake sale. They're doing another at the football game tomorrow. They have a car wash planned to raise more money. And the junior class is donating all the money raised by their tri-tip dinner fundraiser, which was originally going towards their senior trip, to the family. The students have done this all on their own. It amazes me how much they love and care.
The other reason it's been a rough week is that I'm sick! Like, sick as a dog, sick. Really, really, sick. Almost went to the hospital sick. And it all came on in a matter of hours last night. I had a headache yesterday, but I attributed it to the fact that my classroom smelled like skunk (some of our genius boys thought it would be a good idea to try to shake a skunk out of a tree). I went to worship practice last night with a headache, but otherwise feeling fine. When I got home just before 9, I wasn't feeling great, so I took my temperature, but it was normal. Within two hours, my temperature had gone up to 102.5, and then continued even higher to 102.8. And then the throwing up started. :( Kyle had to come home from work, because we weren't sure if I would need to go in to the hospital. He had to come in and wake me up every half hour or so to make sure my fever hadn't gone any higher. Kyle also had to make calls for me to arrange a sub, and went down to the school bright and early this morning to get everything out for the sub. I am so thankful for my husband! Thankfully, my fever started to come down, and by this morning it was in the mid 101s. After I got up and took a bath, I journeyed out the the couch, and slept there until after 2. By that point, I no longer had a fever! My head is still pounding, though, and I still can't eat much, so it's not over yet. But, at least the fever is gone. I had to be under tons of blankets because I was so cold. My teeth would chatter so much that the thermometer would fall out of my mouth, and every muscle in my body was in extreme pain because I was so tense from shivering so much. Soooo not fun! And now I'm missing high school youth group. Hopefully I'll be better by tomorrow so I can go to the funeral and the football game, but we'll see. And hopefully I don't get anyone else sick!
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Pictures
Before I post pictures of Marley...
I have taken so many pictures lately! My right hand and fingers are literally sore right now because I've been shooting so many frames. Yesterday was the KCHS homecoming, so between the homecoming floats and activities, the powder puff football game, and the JV and Varsity football games I shot over 1,200 pictures! (1200 is what I came home with, after deleting obviously bad ones off the camera, so I have no clue how many I actually took!). My hand hurt so bad last night. It was so cold and windy and I was down on the field taking pictures for the teams, but I got tons of great pictures for them, so I guess it was worth it. And then this morning I took senior pictures for a student, and took over 400 more. My camera needs a vacation!
And now some pictures of our adorable little poop factory!
The first is of her first night with us. She was fixed that day, and was very lethargic and scared. So she hid by the toilet all night! And when I woke up in the morning, our bedroom carpet and bathroom was covered in poop! We got her Wednesday, and we've already gone through 2 cans of carpet cleaner! Ack! (It's getting better now, though).
Her second day with us she was much more herself. I brought her out back, and she played around with tree bark and pine needles. She loves running around, and for some reason loves the spot where our patio meets the grass. No clue why that's fascinating, but she always goes there!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Puppy!
We decided on Marley for a name for the pup. She's just so adorable! I don't have any pictures of her yet, besides ones on my phone, but in the next couple days I'll be snapping away like crazy and will get you some pictures of her.
Right now she's really lethargic, and she has slept almost every minute since I picked her up. She had her shots and surgery today (she was "altered" as the shelter puts it) so she'll be out of it for a couple days. And we can't give her a bath for a week, so we have to put up with SMELLY dog. But, she's cute!
Right now she's really lethargic, and she has slept almost every minute since I picked her up. She had her shots and surgery today (she was "altered" as the shelter puts it) so she'll be out of it for a couple days. And we can't give her a bath for a week, so we have to put up with SMELLY dog. But, she's cute!
Monday, October 6, 2008
A new addition to the family
We bought a puppy!!!
Hopefully I didn't get all your hopes up thinking I was pregnant (no news on that, btw). We picked out a little German Shepherd mix at the shelter on Friday, and I get to pick her up Wednesday after she's been "altered" and microchipped and all that. She's a cute little thing, and I can't wait until I can take pictures of her to show you.
We do need a name, though, so help me out! Any suggestions are welcome!
Hopefully I didn't get all your hopes up thinking I was pregnant (no news on that, btw). We picked out a little German Shepherd mix at the shelter on Friday, and I get to pick her up Wednesday after she's been "altered" and microchipped and all that. She's a cute little thing, and I can't wait until I can take pictures of her to show you.
We do need a name, though, so help me out! Any suggestions are welcome!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
House pictures!
I sure hope you'll excuse me for taking so long to get these up here for your viewing pleasure. See, we didn't have internet for the first week, and then when that was set up, our office was not clean enough to set up the computer. So for a couple days we sat on the floor with our old laptop, but I can't get pictures on to that one anymore because the USB ports are broken. And then (yes, more excuses - but all valid) the laptop died. :( A few more days pass, and we finally get everything out of the office and in to the garage, and Kyle was able to get our computer set up yesterday. So, now I can give you pictures. Of course, I took these a week ago, so the house doesn't look like this at all anymore! The last couple pictures I just took, and those are the big changes. Oh, and please excuse the 'snapshot-esque' picture quality. Definitely not home magazine photos here.
Our bedroom is below. Please excuse the un-made bed. Everything in there is now cleaned up and nice and pretty. No more boxes on the ground, thankfully!
And the first painting we've (actually, I've) done is in the kitchen. I finally have my red wall in my kitchen. All the other walls will be white, and the cabinets will be black. I'm two coats down on the red, and we'll see how many it takes total. At least one more, I know that much.
Below is the living room and dining room. (and the cat being bad and scratching the couch) You'll notice the tan couch, blue recliner, and off to the left is the big banana yellow couch. The banana couch, by the way, fell out of the truck on the way over here because the guys didn't think they needed to tie it down. After all, it's a couch; where's a couch gunna go? Well, it went into the middle of Lemoore and D street, that's where! Anyway, I hated that the furniture didn't match, so now we have slip covers. :)
Kitchen looks pretty much the same as it did before, except for the big, wonderful, expensive fridge.
This is the office. It's now all cleaned up, and our computer is no longer in pieces on the floor. We have an entertainment center across from the desk, and a little work out area in the corner.
The garage still pretty much looks like this! It's all pushed to one side now, but there's still a ton of stuff to go through.
Spare bedroom is all set up and ready to go for visitors!
Our bedroom is below. Please excuse the un-made bed. Everything in there is now cleaned up and nice and pretty. No more boxes on the ground, thankfully!
And now some of the changes since those other pictures were taken. We now have two brown couches and a flax recliner! I love matching furniture. We just got them the other day, and they're a little big, so we're still fighting with them and having to re-tuck them in all the time until we're able to get those things you can slip down between the cushions to hold the cover in place. Whatever those things are called!
And the first painting we've (actually, I've) done is in the kitchen. I finally have my red wall in my kitchen. All the other walls will be white, and the cabinets will be black. I'm two coats down on the red, and we'll see how many it takes total. At least one more, I know that much.
So, there you go! Things are coming along nicely, just slowly. We hardly have any time with work and church obligations and going to my students volleyball and football games.
I hope you all had a great week, and I hope this week will be another good one!
Monday, September 15, 2008
We're Moved!
Well, it's all in. It's a mess, and there are boxes and bags everywhere, but it's all moved over. It's going to take forever to get things in their place, but once things start coming together a little more I will post some pictures for you guys!
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