holiday decorating!

i'm a little late, i know. i didn't think i was until i went to the store to find fall decorations and there is only christmas decorations! so i got a few things on sale, a couple candles, and now i'm feeling very festive. i should probably get started now on getting stuff for christmas. i still don't have a tree, am trying to figure out what colors i want to go with on the tree, stockings, garland, centerpieces, a wreath, etc. i need some good ideas if anybody has any pictures they would like to post! i love the holidays!! i love being festive!! i love the joy in everyone and everything!! i love the weather!! i love everything about it!!

home sweet home!!!!!

friday was the BIG day!!! my last day in Friona and my long drive home to my sweet and wonderful husband who i missed terribly! i was able to leave school early so i could get on the road and not get home so late. i didn't tell my students that i was leaving early until about 15 minutes before i left. a few girls cried, they begged me not to go, and i laughed...haha! heartless?maybe. ready to be home? definitely!

when i got home, landon had supper ready for me! fetticini with chicken, red potatoes, asparagus, and bread. it was DELICIOUS! i hadn't seen landon in 2 weeks and 1 day! it was such a wonderful welcome home!

we have really enjoyed being back together. i finally feel like his wife again. i have been able to cook dinner, do laundry and hang out with my husband. it has been PHENOMENAL!

i had a great experience in friona. it felt good to be a teacher. i had my mom and my aunt across the hall for help. i had a great group of students. now i'm ready for my own classroom. i turned in all my paperwork to sub here in denton so i'm hoping to at least start doing that asap!

thanks again for all your prayers. we truly are blessed!

felt the prayers

a lot of people have been asking how my sub job has been lately, so i figured i needed to just update my blog. the week before i started, i found out that i would only be subbing 3, maybe 4 weeks, which was great news! on the first day, the kids tested me out, just like any kid would do to a sub, but they quickly realized that i meant business, but we could still have some fun. the first week went by fast, like SUPER fast! that friday was my sister's homecoming and she was on the homecoming court. she asked me to fix her hair for the football game before i flew home to be with landon for the weekend. my flight was at 6:45, and if you have ever flown in amarillo, you know that you can get there 20-30 minutes early and be fine. i got to the southwest counter to get my boarding pass at 6:20 and the lady says to me, "ma'am, your flight is at 6:25. you need to run down there." i ran down to my gate only to see the terminal pulling away from my plane. needless to say, that "fast week" that i was talking about earlier, all of the sudden seemed SO long and i was dying to see landon!! tears + a super nice southwest lady = changing my flight to saturday morning with no charge. the interesting thing about it was that my bags made it on to the plane, so i had to get them on saturday when i got there. i cried all the way back to friona.

saturday morning, i woke up early and drove to the airport and got there with plenty of time to spare. i wasn't going to miss another flight! i finally made it to landon after a missed flight, lost luggage, and a 50 dollar travel voucher for losing my luggage, and we had a great weekend. it was hard to leave on sunday. but once again, the next week went by fast. the second week i had to drive back to denton on wednesday after school to go to a subsitute orientation in denton on thursday and then drive back on thursday when i was done. luckily my sister skipped school to make the trip with me so it wasn't near as bad. i didn't go home that weekend because landon was gone, and frankly, i didn't want to make that drive again.

this week has gone by fast again. the first two days the 5th grade has had field trips and today we had parent/teacher conferences (a little weird as a sub having parent teacher conferences, but i made it through). i'm not sure yet if i will be here again next week. the lady i am subbing for had surgery, but now has the flu. i am ready to go home and be a wife to my husband, have the same schedule, see him every day, and not feel like we are dating again. i'm not a fan of this long distance. the money would be nice, but i now can sub in denton so i'm really ready to go home. i miss landon a lot.

all this being said, thank you for praying for us during the last 3 weeks. we have definitely felt every prayer being lifted up for us! God is good and he always provides.


ps...i applied for a 4th grade position that opened up in the ft worth area yesterday. say a prayer for me that if this is where i need to be, the doors will open. thanks so much!!!