Happy Birthday to Me!

December 31st is a very good day to have a birthday, everyone in the world has a party on my birthday!  And Happy Birthday to my new niece, Annie, she was born on the 27th!

Christmas in review

All in all, we had a pretty good Christmas. We had fun spending time with the Serafines, as well as all of the Bradshaws. Santa treated us pretty well, too.

What a day

Have you ever had one of those days where one unexpected, somewhat stressful thing happens and the whole day is shot? Today is one of those days. In my first hour, I have a student that has frequent seizures. I've always lived in fear that he'd have a seizure in my class. Well, today was the day. We were playing a review game, and I looked at him and he was twitching. Now, this student is Samoan, plays football, and is not little. Immediately I had to get him out of the desk and onto the floor. I found myself with superhuman strength (not really) and moved the desk, and pulled the student to the floor. He started seizing pretty bad, and I had one of my students (bless her heart) call the office. Pretty soon we had the school nurse, the head secretary, the student's sister, the paramedics, and the fire department in my classroom. Needless to say, my first hour didn't do much today. In high school, I took a first responder course and learned a bunch (thanks Miss King) of first aid stuff. I also worked as a nurse aid (which stunk) so I knew what to do. Whew. What a day.

Gingerbread Houses!

It's been a while since I've posted anything; we haven't had much going on and haven't had much time to sit and put things online. I'll try to catch up on some of the things we've done. This last Monday, we got together with the Sommerfeldts and made gingerbread houses. I'd never made real gingerbread before by myself, and that was an adventure. When the recipe says 6 1/2 cups of cake flour, you probably don't really need that much real flour. Be careful. It makes your KitchenAid make funny noises.

This is my best friend, Claire. She didn't make a gingerbread house, but did sample all of the candy to make sure it was safe to eat. : )

Laurel's house was much more artistic than ours.

See our little Santas on top? They even have sleighs. The Sommerfeldts have reindeer. We aren't as cool so we just copied their Santa and Laurel made us a sleigh. Ours is the one on the left.

Stinkin' Jazz

A few weeks ago we got to go to a Jazz game courtesy of one of Matt's patients. It was my first Jazz game, and not suprisingly, the Jazz lost at the last second to the Bulls.

Thanks, Matt

I just wanted to do one quick post and publicly tell the best husband in the world thanks. Thanks, Matt, for being the best person in the world, for being extreemly supportive, for being the one who always knows what's best, and who always knows what to say at just the right time. I appreciate your kindness and love for me even on the hard days. I love you and am so grateful that I was lucky enough to be your girl. Thanks!