Is it really summer?

It looks like summer, and it is sure hot enough to be summer....but teachers aren't suppose to work MORE in the summer!

The past couple of weeks have been pretty busy around here. I have been working on some pretty time consuming stuff for my mom's office....that seems to have no end!

There is a big 3 day Festival on the Concho this weekend. I am also running the talent show(which is almost over. we had prelim's tues and thurs and the finals are tonight...woohoo!) and am part of the riverstage concert crew(there's only about 10 of us!). We have 3 bands for Fri night and 4 for Sat including Reckless Kelly and Robert Earl Keen. We are expecting over 1,000 ppl for Fri night and at least 1,500 for Sat night. Needless to say all of this has been a lot of work! I think it will all be a lot of fun.....but I am honestly ready for it to be over!

Did anyone think about the fact that it's sweaty outside in the middle of June!

I'll write more next week when the circus leaves town!

Random Thoughts (What else do you have the last week of school)

* Apparently my TV remote was tired of being homebound...because it somehow made it to school with me today...instead of my cell phone!

* My belly button ring is officially out, and other than the initial shock of doing it, it hasn't been traumatic (I didn't get instant wrinkles or gray hair or anything).

* I am sooo excited that there are only 2 days of school left (1/2 days at that)....but...why am I that excited since I am coming back to work on computers for the next few weeks...so it's not REALLY the end...

* Tomorrow I will not only be 28 years old, but Reegan will be 24 weeks, which means she has reached viability! Yeah for us!

* It makes me smile to walk into the teacher bathroom and the water still be blue from Sammy cleaning it yesterday afternoon. I'm not sure if it's that I just like a clean toilet, or that I was the first one to use it!

* All of the things about restless uncomfortable nights that my pregnancy books talk about, came true last night! By 1:27 when I was getting up to pee for the 4th time I KNEW it was going to be a long night! Then came Reegan fighting or dancing with her umbilical cord(it's the only explanation I know of!), then came the numb hands, then the leg cramps, then the hot flash....by about 5:20 I deemed my good night of sleep hopeless and just prayed to catch a wink or two. (maybe that explains why the TV remote came to school today...who knows I could write a book about it's adventures....EEEkkk that's the sleeplessness talking!)

* Taking both your grandparents to the Doctor is undeniably comparable to being on the Jerry Springer show. (hmmmm, weeerrrreee there hidden cameras?)

* Only in a small school do you have to hunt a teacher down at their house to come back to school and give their patiently awaiting class a final exam!

* Last but not least please add a friend of mine to your prayer list. 2 weeks ago she had a grapefruit sized mass removed from one of her ovaries...come to find out it was cancer. After further testing she will have a full hysterectomy, and go through chemo (a type that she will certainly loose her long beautiful hair). Not only is the cancer hard for her and her husband to deal with but the extra blow of being 26 years old and not getting the awesome opportunity to bear her own children.

Lot's to say, and little time to say it.

The end of school is always so hectic! I know I've said that before but it really is! Things are wild around here! On top of everything else I have eight seniors in my room scrambling to finish a paper that is apparently due by 3:00!!!!

Let's see...the event of the day yesterday is that my mom achieved one of her life long dreams. That's right ladies and gentlemen she got her tattoo (WARNING: picture below may be inappropriate for small children). The name of the tattoo place was Electric Voodoo...yeah really! One of the guys that works there, Dean, came highly reccomended...yeah really! The darling tattoo is on the inside of her right ankle. At least it isn't on the outside of that ankle since that is her pew ankle...ok long story...she sits on the end of the pew at church and it is her right ankle that faces toward the aisle...it's her pew ankle...and in my educated opinion you should not get a tattoo on your pew ankle! We all know how I feel about tattoos so I of course think it is a little large...but the 55 year old woman loves it...so I guess it's ok.

In other news: My sweet husband always knows how to make me smile! He went to a furniture store in Brady yesterday to look at a round crib for Reegan. I have always LOVED round cribs, I think they are soooooo sweet! They look like little a little princess bed! Koby went and priced it and took pictures of it for me! The best part is that we haven't talked about this in months...and he actually REMEMBERED! Isn't he just so thoughtful! The bad news is that they are so insanely expensive...then the round bedding on top of that(when you can find it) is just as outragious!!!! We're going to do the regular crib and save the $$ for something else. I have no doubt that her room is going to be precious no matter what...especially when she's in it!

In case anyone was wanting another belly picture...here they are!

All work no play? I THINK NOT!!!!

When I came back to school this morning I realized that I hadn't been here since 9:30am on Tuesday the 9th! Yes you heard me right, I haven't been at school in almost a week! It's been great! Back to the grinding board for 2 more weeks. I have to keep telling myself that I CAN do this! It shouldn't be too bad since the last 3 days of school we are out at noon! I think I'm more excited than the kids!

The end of school is always so chaotic! It's even more chaotic this year because I can't concentrate on anything that I should be doing because all I can think about is baby stuff! I'm pretty much just on cloud 9...and it seems that very little work gets done on cloud 9!

Ohhh by the way. Our little bundle of joy's name is Reegan Grace Howell. Isn't that just the sweetest! We are so excited! It is all finally becoming more and more real! Now we're starting to plan out her room. I'll post a pic of the bedding soon. I think that my father in law is going to help out buying the baby furniture. We are VERY grateful for that!!!!! He's coming in town next weekend for us to go shopping! YEAaaahhhh! I feel like things are finally coming together...and only 17 1/2 more weeks until Reegan's here (give or take a little...but not too much!)!!!!!

Guess What.........

She's a Girl, She's a Girl, SHE'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO Doubt about it! She has an innie!

Koby and I are sooooo excited!

More later............

3 more weeks of school!

Prom was so much fun Saturday night! That is one thing I miss is getting to dress up for an event...yes it's a pain having to go find the perfect dress or tux...but it's just so much fun playing dress up! It was neat being able to see some of my kiddo's all dressed up, corsages on, impeccable makeup, and smiling from ear to ear! Oh yeah, Koby and I danced! It was fun!

it is 10:45 and the water is still off at school this morning. It's becoming a real issue with this pregnant girl! I guess it's kind of like an indoor porta-potty! I don't mind peeing on top of my own pee (or even someone in the fam's), but going on top of someone elses or LOTS of someone else's....eeeewwww!!!
UPDATE: it is almost 3:00 and we still don't have water...Buuuuuttttt...our Ag teacher has brought his class over EVERY period with 5 gallon buckets of water(obviously from down the road somewhere) to pour in the toilet tanks so that we could flush them! Noone even asked him to. I thought it was very thoughtful of him and all of his students that were willing to do it! Thanks guys!

The baby is moving around a lot more lately and Koby can even feel it moving now! I was laying in bed the other morning and mashing around on my stomach and I felt a leg! I touched it and it immediately moved and kicked me! It was the weirdest thing!

Okay. I am 21 1/2 weeks now(almost 5 months) and we are still calling this baby an it! We go Wednesday @ 2 for the "Moment of Truth" sonogram and have the Dr.'s appt right after at 3:20. So HOPEFULLY we will be able to find out what 'IT' is!

So the question is what do you think 'IT' is, a boy or a girl?

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I am sooooooooo excited to find out what we are having!!!!! YEAAAAaaaaahhhhh! Spread those legs little darlin' we need to get a good look!

Crawling out of bed is harder than it use to be...

I can't decide why getting out of bed is so difficult....is it because I haven't been able to work out lately so I don't have the energy, is it because it is getting close to the end of school and I'm just getting lazier, or is could it possibly have something to do with my waist going from 27" to ...an undisclosed number?

I am so excited about school being out on the 26th! I guess I am most excited about getting things done this summer. I'll be able to workout every day (if the Dr. releases me), lay out, do lesson plans, swim, work on the babies room, cook....ok...well, yes...to the untrained eye these things don't really look like 'getting things done'...but these are things I enjoy doing and feel a sense of accomplishment after doing!! Therefore, I deem them important!!

I've been selling Prom tickets this week since it is this Saturday night. High school boys just amaze me sometimes! I have told several boys(with a smile!) "I realize that it is the last day to buy tickets and you forgot enough money to buy you AND your date a $4 ticket....borrow some money from a friend...you invited her, don't you think you should buy her ticket too?!?" (Side note: I only said that to students who were so irresponsible not to bring $ today, never to a student who might possibly not have the $). Some of the boys hung their head, a little ashamed that I had to say it(knowing that their mothers would have said the same thing), others it was a light bulb moment...like their brains were saying 'what a great idea'!!!

It is days like this that I question even more than normal(if that's possible) what would EVER possess a teacher to date a student! If anyone has read the San Angelo paper lately, this just happened at a school about 15 miles from town! ...Coming to a town near you, child predators!

Finally a new blog!

I haven't blogged in a week. I think that is a new record for me! The last week has been kind of crazy at school with all the end of the year stuff....regional golf, organizing pictures for the seniors, regional track, ARD's out the waa-zoo, meetings over this and that....I've just been trying to keep it all together.

Within the last week or so we have decided that we are going to have a garage sale Mothers Day weekend. They are always so hard to put together...but I never regret it in the end ($$$$). This means that I have done lots of cleaning out lately. It is amazing the crap that I keep! Most of it was already boxed up and earmarked for a garage sale. But then there is some of it that is still just hanging out around my bedroom like it belongs there! Uuuucccckk, why do I hold on to some things?!?!

My mother would like me to write about her getting a tattoo...but really I don't think she wants to hear what I have to say about it(sorry mom). I guess I'm not with the rest of the fam' on this...tattoo’s just aren't my thing...mainly when they are in a very visible area. Yes I know that I have my eye liner tattooed on (here we go!)...but that decision was made because one way or another I would have worn eyeliner the rest of my life. I won't ever regret that decision, and no one even knows that it is a tattoo. I won't however draw a picture on my bicep or ankle everyday for the rest of my life! I guess that is my REAL issue with it...will there come a day that you would ever regret that decision? Will there come a day when you get all dressed up, but the tattoo (in a visible spot) dresses you down so much that it wasn't worth the effort?

Koby likes the look of the tribal tattoos across the small of a girls back....and yeah I guess they look ok when you are 21...but what happens 10 years, 2 kids, and 30 pounds later....is it still cute(in it's stretched out state) or just a tacky thing you did when you were young? That would be my luck...me at the pool with the kids exposing my tattoo with stretch marks throughout it....claiming that I had to pay extra to get it to look like that!

OFF THE SOAP BOX!

Have you heard the latest news about The View....Rosie O'Donnell was announced to take Meredith's place.........hmmmm......I plead no comment.

Some of our kids have been joking about 2 of our teachers that are out today (who happen to be hispanic) that they are taking advantage of the "Mexican Skip Day"!!! :) They're not....but it IS funny!

Did anyone see Desperate Housewives last night? I'm not sure if it's hormones or what but I bawled when they took Gabrielle's baby away!

Does Size Really Matter?

It's another Monday morning. The only thing that got me going this morning was thinking there are only 4 more weeks of school....WRONG....there are 5 more weeks....grumble, grumble. Oh well, we still have one bad weather day and our last 3 days are only 1/2 days anyway since we have finals!

2 weeks and 2 days until we can find out what this little banana fish is. It gets old calling it an 'IT'.

This whole no exercising thing is making my butt big...ok so maybe it is really the eating part that is making my butt big! I'm just hungry all the time. It is a good thing that I like fruits, vegetables, and yogurt otherwise I'd be a whale already!

I am growing out of some of my smaller maternity clothes so I decided to wear a new skirt today. It's pretty cute-right above the knee length denim with some embroidery on it. I took 2 tags off of the skirt and assumed that I was done (YEP, you see where this is going don't you!). I guess at 6:45 I didn't inspect the garment as properly as I should have because 2nd period (oh yes I had already walked around the school and gone through 1st period) one of my girls said "Mrs. Howell, I think you still have a tag on your skirt!"....OH YES I DID! It couldn't have been just a little price tag hanging out from under my shirt, it was the long stick on tag that boldly tells what size the skirt is about ten times!!! I guess that the up side is that in most maternity clothes I wear a small....at least it wasn't XX-LARGE plastered across my butt!

An Easter to Remember

Ok...my grandmother has never really been the comedian of the family. I'm not sure that she really intended to be this weekend, but she definitely stole the show! We all sat down for a lovely Easter lunch. We ate, talked, ate, laughed, and ate some more. Between dinner and dessert my grandmother proclaimed that she had an announcement!

(PAUSE: let's remember her condition shall we....she's 82 years old, on 24/7 oxygen, not real stable on her feet, incontinent often, and has Alzheimers. About a year ago we took all of her panties away and put depends in her panty drawer so that when she messed all over herself we could just throw them away. At the time she didn't even realize that we had done it, or just didn't care.)

Back to the announcement.... She stood up and declared that while the whole family was at their house over New Years for their anniversary, someone stole her panties and she wanted them back!

(PAUSE: She's told us this before. She has actually called each family member previously and accused them of taking her panties....the scary part is that a couple of us have honestly confessed to her and she doesn't remember that either! We might as well tell her it was Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candle stick!)

As she is making her announcement she stands up and says. "Until someone confesses and brings me my panties, or y'all take up a collection to buy me new panties this is what I am wearing!"

SHE IS WEARING MY GRANDDADS UNDERWEAR! YES....she REALLY is! I'm pretty sure there wasn't a dry eye at the table from laughing so hard! Is this the appropriate time to discuss table etiquette! DON'T DROP TROU AT THE DINNER TABLE GRANNY!

All of this never even phased my granddad. I think he is so use to her....oddness...lately that he doesn't even pay attention! Kind of like when she feeds their birds scrambled eggs. He says nothing, and cleans all of the eggs out of their cage later. Granny, birds don't like to eat eggs, that’s cannibalism!

Getting to see everyone, and the kids is always a highlight. However, this Easter will always be remembered as the one when granny dropped trou!

Strange things...

1. The first and probably strangest is my tongue. no it is not an odd shape and I have no earthly idea how to roll it. When I get stressed my tongue...well...kinda sheds...in patches! It is the weirdest looking thing. It is called geographia. Last week when everything was so nuts around our house...this is what my tongue looked like by the end of the week! Yeah...gross huh....

2. I don't believe in feeding dogs people food. I never have. However, I eat my breakfast on the way to school every morning and I never eat the last bite. Why, you ask? It is because I save it for our superintendent’s dog that greets everyone as they walk in the school doors. Yes I guess that makes me a hypocrite, I would scream if someone fed Annie people food but I give Oreo some everyday! I guess there IS a difference since Oreo is an outside dog...if he gets sick no one has to clean it up!

3. I know that my tummy is growing, and that people think it is cute...but do they have to ask me to lift my shirt up...somehow that seems a little private to me! My mom and I talked about this a couple of months ago because people at her office want to see and feel. I'm too the point that feeling is ok (it wasn't when my pooch was just fat)...but really...can you just look at it through the shirt? For family I don't mind lifting the shirt and giving you a gander, that's ok...but do you have to take a picture? It is just so weird to me. Under MUCH duress do I raise my shirt for my mother to take a picture every week...and if you notice there are few that I smile in. I know, I know I will enjoy looking at them later...but it just bothers me. The pic to the right is @ 16 weeks. Yes my boobs are still bigger than my belly!

4. I don't care what we are having, and I am not really that anxious to find out (yes, I know this is weird). Yes I want to know, don't get me wrong, and I will love whatever it is. But, at this point the biggest reason I want to know is so that I can decorate (my favorite past time!). My sweet husband wants to know tomorrow! Tomorrow would be fine with me, but a few weeks would be too. I guess maybe because it isn't all real to me yet (when does it get real?) even after 2 sonograms. Maybe because I've only gained 6 1/2 pounds, maybe because it isn't kicking me to death yet, maybe because I can't hold it.......I DON'T KNOW...but this whole thing has to get real before the baby gets here right? RIGHT? I certainly hope so!

5. My stomach has literally grown in the last 36 hours! It is the weirdest thing...just poof and it was there! There was just a small little bump....now it is a little larger bump. This pic is 17 1/2 weeks (the color is all screwey when I upload it...) Now maybe I'll actually look pregnant not just over weight! My boobs are still bigger than my belly though....

Aaaaahhhhh.....

It is amazing how much better you feel when you accomplish things! We worked in the yard all day yesterday and it looks sooooo much nicer...15 bags of leaves and grass later...how could it not look better!!! All we have to do now is fertilize and sit back and watch it grow! (I'm not going to mention the fact that once it grows then you have to mow it again! I'm not bursting that bubble today!)Now our yard looks kinda like all the neighbors that hire lawn companies! MY yard guy was pretty tired though...having to do most of the tough stuff by himself!

Ya know it must be hard being the only boy around here in the fam'...you have to do all the guy stuff for the grandparents, parents, and our house all by yourself! Even if we do have a boy, it will be a long time before he's much help!

Please and Thank You!

What are we teaching our children? Are please and thank you that hard to say! Does it just not roll off the tongue as nicely as F#$@ and S#!%! They can apparently say those words REAL well(they are such potty mouths!). What happened to a little bit of manners...common courtesy?

I'm not just talking about students....It goes all the way up to people my age! How hard is this! Their mothers should be ashamed! When you ask someone to do something for you, say PLEASE. When they do something for you say, Thank You! I realize that this day in age chivalry is almost dead... but common courtesy? It makes me not want to do nice things for certain people. It is almost like they EXPECT it when they don't say it....and even if they do, can they not be sweet? It's not that hard to say the words and give a small smile...or even no smile...I could handle that!

I hope that my children are polite and courteous to other people. I know that there will be days that they mess up, but overall they WILL say please and thank you!

WARNING....Kleenax may be needed to read this post

Ok you know I talked about how Alex was on her last leg yesterday....well apparently she really was. She wound up having some kind of seizure or stroke yesterday afternoon. I took her to the vet and he recommended that we put her to sleep, so we did. WE ARE SOOOO SAD.

Ya’ know, I have NEVER in my life been so attached to an animal before. She was such a wonderful, sweet, calm, thoughtful dog. Yes thoughtful....she came and checked on me every morning while I was in the bathroom getting ready (she's done this her whole life)... not expecting to get petted just to check on me...she always let Annie(the other dog) go first...she always knew when we felt bad and needed some attention. Her favorite spot to lay was usually under Koby's feet at our breakfast bar. In our grieving last night we quietly joked at how we were sitting at the bar...both of us had our feet up off the ground out of her way, since that was her spot.

Annie is sad too. She is 11 years old and has been with Alex all her life. Poor girl, doesn't know what's going on. We tried to get her to come and sleep with us last night and she wouldn't. She was laying behind the dinning table this morning and wouldn't come out from there either. I'm going to go get her some bones and treats this afternoon. Eating always makes ME feel better when I'm sad.

She was the best dog EVER. We're gonna miss her a lot.

I think I have learned not to say the phrase "what else can happen this week". HOPEFULLY it will get better!

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I couldn't decide on a title for this entry:

What Tha!
One More Thing...
Who needs a Refrigerator Anyway?
When it Rains it Pours
As Dead as a Doornail
Game Off (PLEASE!)

The three of us (me, Koby, and Mom) have worked our butts off for the past week, and all weekend. REALLY I SWEAR MINE IS SMALLER! The hunters were supposed to leave yesterday morning after the morning hunt. They wound up staying not only through lunch (and eating all the leftovers in the lodge's fridge) but through dinner too! My mom and I took them pizza...we weren't about to cook another meal! We finally get home last night a little before 9:00, Koby was closer to 9:30 (hoping for a little rest) and our refrigerator is dead....and apparently had been for MANY days! Everything on the freezer side especially was not only completely thawed, but warm too. It was nasty and the LAST thing any of us wanted to deal with. (Thanks mom for helping).

Now maybe we can get a little rest after Koby gets home at 8 and after I go to Bunco. I know, I know, I could miss Bunco...but it is REALLY hard to miss! We only get together once a month and I might miss some really good gossip! Important stuff! I am not worried about our group not having enough people to play Bunco....because we don't play anyway and haven't in probably over a year!

Oh- and as if we don't have enough on our plate, time wise and financially. Koby wants another dog! I love dogs, especially golden retriever or lab puppies they are soo sweet! But, we have 2 dogs already and a baby on the way...is that not enough!(love you babe- don't agree on this one) I realize that Alex is on her last leg...but she has been for for2 years! We don't need ANOTHER dog that poops, pees, and pukes on the floor right now! 3 dogs and a baby...YIKES! It sounds like we could have our own sitcom!

And (one more thing) the Dr.'s office called and said that my cervix is on the small side of normal. They will repeat the sonogram in 6 weeks to make sure it is not thinning. If I start having contractions I should call immediately.

The Wild, WILD, West...

Ok...I've always been one of those people that starts in the middle of a story. So, lets go back a bit.

Koby is managing a taxidermy shop now, but he is doing hunts on the side. The ranch that he is hunting on is a 5000 acre high fence ranch about 30 min or less from our house. Koby wasn't going to do turkey hunts this year but about a month ago some hunters call and wanted to book one, so of coarse Koby said yes.(side note: we also have another hunt the weekend after Easter)

The rancher says he is going to build a lodge for the hunters and guides to stay in for next year. For now they are using a fairly nice double wide trailer. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 beds in each room.(there were 6 hunters this trip so Koby, Wayne(guide) and I stayed at our house)

I forgot to mention that this house was NAKED when we got there. ABSOLUTELY nothing in it!! We furnished everything! Soooo since Koby works until 8 every night that means I did A LOT of running around town, worrying, and list making last week trying to make sure everything got done.

Another side note....but a BIG part of the weekend: I took Friday off to help get everything ready for the hunt. At about 11:00 I realized that I was spotting, and soon after started cramping. I called my Dr. and immediately got off my feet. We wound up having to go to the hospital for a sonogram mid afternoon. Thank goodness everything turned out ok. They said that there were no holes in the walls, and that my cervix was not trying to dilate. But that I was putting too much strain on my body and I am not superwoman and to take it easier. ( I was only walking 2 miles at lunch, working out at 4, and running errands until 8!)

On a little bit lighter note it looks like our kiddo is going to be a thumb sucker! It is pretty cool the things you can see with a sonogram! We did try to find out the sex of the baby but it sat there with it's legs crossed the whole time! Having this sonogram means that we probably won't have the 18 week sonogram so the next one will be at 22 or 24 weeks! Which means that we won't find out what the baby is until then. I'm just glad that everything is ok.

On with the hunt: Koby had asked me to cook for this hunt. That means out of bed at 3:30 and back in bed anywhere between 10 and 12. There were 8 men that had to be fed 3 good sized meals a day with dessert! With all that had gone on I was suppose to take it easy for the weekend....This is where I am glad that I live close to my Mom.....SuperMom to the rescue! I cooked breakfast, the guys left by 5ish (that's AM), I cleaned up and then took a little nap! My mom was there by midmorning and helped get lunch together, serve lunch, clean up from lunch, start cooking dinner, and Sunday night she even stayed through dinner to help serve and clean up....even then we didn't get home and in bed until 11 and I couldn't tell you when Koby got home. THANKS MOM!

So, here I am back at school on Monday morning. Koby had to cook breakfast for the hunters this morning (can't cook and get to school) and then they went out one more time to try to kill some turkeys. They had already killed 5, hopefully they got a few more today.

I'll try to post a tummy picture later this week. I thought I would be bigger than this at 4 months....I'M NOT COMPLAINING THOUGH! Soon enough I will be as big as a house!

I Can't Tell Time...

Ok...I was hungry (as usual) and smelling the aroma of food (our cooking class is making lunch for all of the teachers)... looked at my watch and going along with my stomach and my nose thought that my watch said 11:45 instead of 10:45. As I grabbed my keys and drink and proceeded to try to kick students out of my room as quickly as possible...one of them kindly broke the news that we still had an hour until lunch! Grrrrrrrrrrr!

My head is spinning today! First of all I'm trying to finish the last task of a grant that we have received for the past couple of years that is due tomorrow....BUT I am taking the day off tomorrow so I have to do it today. I am also submitting another grant application that has to be finished today, get lesson plans done for a sub for tomorrow, organize and get info out about our school wide April Wellness Challenge(along with handing out their pedometers), and collect the rest of the jewelry $ where people took stuff and said "oh I'll bring you a check later"!

I'm taking off tomorrow to help Koby finish getting stuff ready for his hunt. Granted, we started with a blank slate. The house was completely empty, no beds, no towels, no shower curtains, no kitchen table, some places no blinds, and absolutely nothing in any kitchen cabinet. BUT when you start getting it together 7 days before the hunt starts...things are bound to get a little hairy at the end! So that's where we stand now. Not to mention I am cooking for the entire hunt! Once we are out there and the last minute stuff is done and the last minute groceries (meat, milk, etc.) are bought then it will be fine. Cooking is the easy part.

Almost lunch Gotta run! :)

Hip-Hip Horray!

Happy Birthday to You,

Happy Birthday to You,

Happy Birthday to HEATHER,

Happy Birthday to You!!

My Favorite Recipe....this week!

This recipe is soooo easy and soooo good. It is just different enough to be REALLY good!

Chicken in Wine Sauce

4 chicken breasts
2 can cream of chicken soup (or cream of mushroom)
1 soup can of white wine (the alcohol cooks out! Instead of buying a real bottle of wine you can get the cooking wine over by the vinegar and salad dressing)
Smoked Swiss & Cheddar Cheese (it doesn't have to be out of the deli, Kraft makes it)
Stuffing Mix
You can add mushrooms or big pieces of onion to the sauce if you want

Place chicken in glass dish sprayed with PAM. Mix soup and wine over heat, pour over chicken. Cover each breast with a slice of Smoked Swiss & Cheddar cheese. Top the cheese with 1 heaping tablespoon of dry stuffing mix (right out of the box!). Pour just a little melted butter on the stuffing mix. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

I served it over wheat rice.

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE COOKED IN A LONG TIME!!!!

I knew it was coming...but I'm still not ready!

No this blog is not about the baby...it's about my 10 year class reunion! TEN YEAR....TEN! Koby and I have been talking about our reunions being this summer for about 6 months. It was really ok with me until I got the "E-Mail"....It really IS happening...It really HAS been TEN years. This is so weird. I'm still wondering if I'm old enough to have a baby, and I'm certainly not old enough to have a reunion! That's for old people!

There were over 600 of us that graduated, how many will actually show up for this event? Will this just be a reunion of the football team and the pot heads...WHO KNOWS...this could get interesting!

On a side note, spring is in the air! No I'm not talking about the weather, I'm talking about the strong aroma (or stench!) of cologne that clouds the high school hall way. Bucks rut in the fall and high school boys rut in the spring!

It's fun to stand in the hall between classes and watch their attempt at suaveness! Most of the time it looks like a little puppy trying to get the attention of an older dog (not that I am comparing our students to dogs!). You know how the puppy is always chasing the other dog, biting at it's heals, chewing on it's ears until it gets the attention that it has been begging for.....YEP that's some of our kiddos! Then there are others that actually have the charm and charisma down…we’ll be peeling them off of some unsuspecting girl in the next few weeks!

Oh Yeah, the Dr.'s appt went fine. We got to hear the heart beat again. That was cool. It's kind of reassuring to hear it and know that everything is still going ok in there. We will have the gender sonogram on April 18th. I'll be glad to see the little bugger and know that all of it's parts are in tact and there's not an elbow coming out of it's nose or anything!

I've always heard people say that they really don't care want they were having as long as it was healthy.....I always thought they were full of it. Well I REALLY feel that way. I DON'T care what it is. I'm more excited to see on the sonogram that it is healthy than to know its gender. Yes that part will be nice too....but it isn't my top priority. Hmmmmm maybe all of those other moms to be knew what they were talking about.