Beauty in the Common Things: Time. I have none as of late. I am behind at home, at school, and I feel behind in sleep. Daniel has been a great help with easing some of it though :)

Dinner Plans: breakfast for dinner

View From the Kitchen Window: He's not out there now, but the other morning I had fun watching a woodpecker go after our telephone pole. I just kept wondering how that doesn't hurt him! I want to get a big birdhouse this spring like my grandmother had. I remember finding eggs underneath it one time and taking the eggs home. I tried to hatch them by putting them in a left-over Jack In the Box egg roll container and having Smurfette sit on it. I now find it odd no one mentioned how Smurfette just doesn't have that kind of heating capacity.

Listen In: Go, Diego, Go!

Last week I spent 4 days in Austin at the Texas Computer Educators Association Convention. This was my first year to attend. I was excited to go, but nervous about leaving my boys.

I'm glad I went because I had a great time. I learned some things, had a few laughs, and met a new man:
Ok, its just a dude in a robot costume, but I thought it was funny! I got to room with one of my best friends, saw my brother and his family, got a bunch of free junk, and won a $3500 piece of educational hardware. Good week all in all.

When I got back, I came home to a house full of Valentines Day surprises from Daniel. I also saw he and my son made it just fine without me. :) But then again, I already knew that. Skype was our friend!

Speaking of Valentines Day, I spent the evening with my 2 Valentines. Below is the picture I sent to family for this holiday. Red hair and dimples? Seriously...cupid who?

He didn't sleep the entire 3 hours, but didn't begin to get crabby when were 20 minutes away from our destination. He claimed the bus was "too little" for him and he needed to get out of his car seat.

We went on the official tour of the school and showed them some of the ropes. They are only sophomores, but it was nice to see them get excited about the future.
While in town, we visited with some college friends of ours who have a daughter six months older than Grant. I found he is a little gentleman with the ladies. Right before this picture was taken, he opened the Jeep door and said, "Hey, you want to go for a ride?" Miss Avery jumped in a looked back with this adorable face.





Thank you Suttles family for letting us stay with you and enjoy your home and family! I can't wait to see Miss Maitland arriving in a month!

This week has been so, un-Texas-like. We went to school Monday, then an arctic blast came in. Temperatures were in the teens and you could ice skate on our side walk. The ice was at least 2.5 inches thick. School was canceled for 3 days due to the ice and bitter cold. Our district, and surrounding schools, knew they may not be able to handle the single digit wind chills. I know that people up north laugh at us for such things, but this is so rare, everyone freaks out. Last night we had snow come in. We woke up to some beautiful powder.