Spring Break?

Ahhh, spring break...brings back memories of family vacations, road trips, leisurely evenings under a blanket with a good book, an entire week of freedom. Freedom to choose whatever I want: books, trips, movies, time spent talking or hanging out with friends, etc etc.

So at what point did this dream week disappear? Hmmm, could have been the day I signed up for a certain chunk of classes, the day I decided to be a teacher, the day I realized my life isn't affected solely by my choices but also by the choices of those around me, all of the above? Who knows...either way, the bottom line is I miss my spring break. I want a dream spring break again.

Dream on, dream on....

New Years

Well, New Years was just incredibly exciting and I had WAY too many pictures to try and post. So, I decided to try and be all cool and technological and post a slideshow...yeah, well I'm having troubles with that. So, right now it's posted as a widget at the very very bottom of my blog, but hopefully I can get it working right and get it as a post instead of a widget. We'll see, hehe. But, for now, I do think you should check out what it looked like New Years day...

So this links you to my flickr where I still can't figure a slideshow out, but you can at least see all the pictures...well, at least I can and hopefully you will all be able to as well because there are some super funny ones :-)

Christmas!

This year was the first white Christmas anyone in my family can remember for a VERY long time. It was a lot of fun watching Ariannah open presents, and I think that by the end of the day, all of us were very happy with our gifts. This year Alaina was in charge of the Christmas tree...I thought it turned out beautiful :-)
Christmas morning Alaina was pretty excited to get to the presents...
So was Ariannah, hehe

Who would have thought that crinkled paper would be more fun than the actual presents?

The only problem was it all stuck to her pajamas and she came out with a little piglet tail :-)

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope yours was as wonderful as mine

Snow!

Well, I know you've all been hit with snow too, but up here it's just crazy! So, of course, I had to take Ariannah out and see what she thought of the wet cold; she loved it! She's never ready to come back in :-) Her favorite is when I throw her in a snowy bush, LOL! She has quite the sense of adventure.
This was a couple days ago so the snow wasn't as deep as it is now, but even then she couldn't quite stay up. She got so frustrated falling down all the time, but it was just so cute I had to laugh at her and take a picture. I know, I'm a fabulous aunt :-)

When we finally came back in, her cheeks were so rosy and cute!

It's so much fun watching her grow up and experience new things!

I think I can....

So, I'm halfway through pretty much the busiest week of my life, only to realize that I had completely forgotten about a final I have TOMORROW! Yes, as in less than 24 hours from now I need to be fully prepared for a comprehensive final. SIGH! So, now here I am, prioritizing, childishly bugging teachers about changing due dates, and then screaming on my blog instead of writing, studying, and preparing. I'm a genius, eh?