TDay 2011

Ryan and I drove to Charlotte, NC on Wednesday night to stay with his cousin Justin.  It was just the three of us for Thanksgiving and it was really nice.  We had a pre-cooked turkey, mac and cheese, corn souffle, broccoli casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, apple pie, pecan pie, and whipped cream.

On Thanksgiving Day, Charlotte hosts the 4th largest parade in the nation.  Of course I made the boys go!

Open House is Tomorrow

Open House is tomorrow morning.  School starts Monday.  Here's what the school looks like today:

This is a 3rd grade teacher's room, aka textbook storage.  Meaning = teachers don't even have their textbooks yet.  Math, across all grade levels, hasn't even shown up yet.  No textbooks what so ever have shown up yet for 2nd grade.

Here is the front hallway:

These workers seem to be doing something, yet we still don't have internet or working phones.

BUT the parents threw us a wonderful lunch today, complete with cake!  That is our logo that will be on all of our shirts.

MASS CHAOS!!!!!!

I was enjoying my Saturday morning when...

I kind of have this ritual... on the weekends I get up and go outside on the front porch to check my phone, scan the internet, and drink my coffee to start the day.  Whatever I slept in is what I'm wearing.  We live on top of a hill with a long driveway so cars can't really see me (or so I like to think).  This morning was no exception.

Then I noticed a truck pulled very slowly into the driveway.  "Surely it's just turning around" I thought.  But it continued very slowly up the driveway, and a little boy in the front seat waved at me.  I JUMPED up, ran inside and threw some pants on (as I was pant-less), however did not have time to throw a bra on.  When I returned to the porch the little guy was standing right there.

He was a boyscout selling popcorn.  Really?  Of course I bought some, but now I may need to re-think my weekend morning rituals...

C is for Chef

Ryan is an awesome cook.  It is one of the MANY reasons I love him!  However, it also one of the many reasons I can't fit into my pants anymore!!!!

Here's a typical breakfast he makes me... eggs benedict, blueberry eggo, coffee, hash browns covered in shredded cheese...

Here's a (not so) typical dinner... slamon, pasta with a cream reduction sauce, shrimp, pea pods. 

He does make me eat vegetables, but they are so smothered in butter and/or cheese and/or salt that it's very delicious but not so healthy =)

He also brings me coffee in bed.  Every morning.  He gets up to go to work, but brings me coffee in bed before he leaves.  I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fortunate!!!

Here's the only thing I've ever cooked Ryan...

 

He really doesn't like sweets, but he does like peanut butter cookies with chocolate kisses.  I must have made 9 dozen cookies for just the two of us in the month of December.  By this final batch, you can see we ran out of kisses and had to get creative by using bits and pieces of crunch bars, snickers, and reeses, which were equally as delicious!