Thankful Thursday ( 1 day late is ok)

1.) We are thankful for our new baseboards and wood floors...they look amazing!!! I love you Troy! ( pictures to come tomorrow)

2.) We are thankful we both have jobs. Although we may complain about them sometimes...we are lucky to get paychecks.

3.) We are thankful for our new home teachers. We just met them last night and they are super cool and easy to talk to. If you dont know, home teachers are guys from our church that are assigned to visit us once a month and kind of get to know our family and our needs. They are also there to help us if we happen to be in need of help. Troy is a home teacher as well. ( Darci we decided last night that we are going to be seeing a lot of each other during baseball season.---i think the guys will either be over here or over there... but your husband definitely motivated us to follow the news during off season)

4.) I am thankful that my parent conferences are OVER! Well I have one more on Monday but I have 33 done. It feels great but my body and vocal chords are EXHAUSTED! They are very fun to do but to teach and do them and have fires and drama and a sick baby ( will she ever be healthy? i feel so bad for her) it makes it soo much harder!

5.) We are thankful for Cox cable. They sent us a DVR box and hooked us up to all the cable channels for 3 months for free! YAHOOO for tivo again!

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the north 57 opened....so i have to go in....but there will be no students so i dont know exactly what we will be doing....

south 57 is closed though so i have no clue how i am getting home !!!!

grhhh so sad to have a tease like that!

Fire day!!! ( no snow day here )

Sooo the big diamond bar fire is causing tons of trouble right by my school....including shutting down of the freeway I take....and evacuations of a ton of teachers. They cancelled school for tomorrow! yahoo!!! teachers are actually supposed to go in but only if they can come safely. Well the freeway being shut down causes quite a problem for me. SO, tomorrow you will find Lucy and I at home.....enjoying our new wood floors! ( thanks to my WONDERFUL husband and his family they are done!!)
Have a great Monday!

Thankful Thursday

I got this idea from my friend Abby to post things I am thankful for on Thursdays...kinda cute!! Sorry I havent written in a long time, things have been very busy. A little update...we officially have complete walls again, walls are repainted the same color, ( kitchen, bathroom and living room) we have new wainscoating in the kitchen ( although I liked what we did better because it reminded me of all our hard work), and Troy is putting wood floors in tomorrow. We will have newbaseboards in the whole downstairs right after Troy finishes the floors.
I am done with report cards but parent teacher conferences start next week. Wish me luck. It makes for a LONG week, but well worth it!
We have been hanging out at Disneyland A LOT lately..its been really fun. I had a four day weekend so we went twice. Once with the three of us and once just Lucy and I. She seriously loves it! And I love her!
So lets get on with the thankful stuff!!!
- I am thankful for a wonderful husband that supports me in all my craziness ( rigidity) and my freaky-out-ness that happens quite often. I love you Troy :)
Now I am writing with Troy........
-We are thankful for our daughter, Lucy, who constantly brings joy to our home and shows us the importance of the little things in life.
-We are thankful for having a great puppy who does act like a puppy, but is so DANG cute.
-We are thankful to have a home that we own, even if it has been in construction most of the time we have lived here.
- We are thankful to have jobs that allow us to keep food on the table and enjoy some of the luxuries of life!

What are YOU thankful for? join in on the fun!! ( you can post it later than a thursday!) stay tuned for next Thursdays bunch!

Lucy's First Halloween!

We loved the "backdrop!" RIP signs, green lights...fog...Braden and Lucy were so enthralled!

The two eager daddies and their babies!

I loved how her tail went down his back!

LOVE the mohawk!

One of the houses we trick or treated at had a little movie going on for the kids out in front of their house.

I guess they drive around in Ladera with golf carts?!? They were allll decorated for the holiday!

SCARY!

Dipping into the bowl for candy! Look below the silver bowl and you will see Ellie's head! yep she came with us there too!

The two proud dads!

We went trick or treating last night with our friends Matt and Christine Smith and their son Braden. ( who is about two months younger than Lucy). We had SO MUCH FUN! I was a little aprehensive because of Lucy and how she gets fussy at night time towards 7pm...and just how people would look at us carrying babies around collecting candy. Boy was I wrong in all areas! We went to Ladera Ranch and it was perfect! Seriously every house was decorated, and EVERYONE loved to see the babies! Neither baby got fussy, they were soo into it! I am so happy that we did it, and that we went with the Smith's. The dads ( Troy and Matt) were all smiles as they went up to the doors with their new babies. What a special memory! Thanks Matt and Christine!

Trunk or Treat

From Left---Korey and her daughter Lauren, Lucy and I, and Andrea and her son Luke!
Lucy and Lauren liked to just stare at each other in amazement!

We even took Ellie with us! ( she seems to go everywhere with us lately)

Pumpkin carving contest! I had to get a picture of the Mickey Mouse pumpkin! how cool?!?!

Lucy totally went with their theme so we had to get a picture!

I love my little giraffe!!!

Thursday night we went to Trunk or Treat at our church. Basically this was the parking lot filled with cars. and people decorated their trunks or the back of their cars, and handed out candy from them. It was really fun! The best part was to get to socialize!

Pumpkin Patch!!

This is the picture that is photoshopped to look cool above in our header.

Trying to be artistic! Troy is really doing good!

An attempt at a family picture. Too bad we didn't dress the part!