tears...rolling down my cheeks!

I've just got to say, if you haven't seen this blog yet, you should really check it out. There's a link to it over on the right, but it's called "Cake Wrecks".

I have known about this site since Marie mentioned it on Facebook a while ago, but one evening while I was chuckling about one of the INSANE creations, my laughing peaked my husband's interest and he leaned over to find out what was amusing me so much. He then proceded to check out the blog on his own computer and after a few minutes he found the entry from September 16. He laughed. And laughed. And laughed REALLY hard. Harder than I've ever seen or heard him laugh in the 4 years I've known him. I love it when he laughes hard. His eyes get all squinty and his intense laughing will have me laughing so hard I have tears rolling down my cheeks. This went on for about 5 minutes after he looked at the 'what it's supposed to look like' vs. 'what they got' picture. It took him a while to calm down from that...

Then today as I was again giggling about something related to interesting balloons, he decided to visit the blog again. He checked out September 16 one more time, and here I am, again, wiping tears off my cheeks because I was laughing so hard at him laughing so hard. Anyway, if you haven't checked it out, you should. You just might laugh until you cry!

I don't believe he did it...

Friday at school was a little interesting. The schedule was insane, tons of kids were absent and I had an extra 78 minutes with one of my classes (due to the schedule) - and it was my favorite class! It was incredibly laid back and a ton of fun. I did, however, make the kids do some work. They had an activity where they had to write commands and then give those commands to a partner. The partner had to do what was told to him or her. I was sitting in a chair observing this whole process when one of my favorite students (who is a guy) walked over to me, got down on one knee and kissed my hand! His command was that he had to kiss me! I don't believe he actually did it! I laughed so hard - as did the rest of the class!

Brian loved the story too - but he couldn't let someone get away with kissing his wife - so we took a little field trip to DQ last night (where this student works) so Brian could finally meet him. It was a ton of fun - and our blizzards were a little bigger than normal!

I truly feel as though I have gotten sucked into the world of school recently. I kinda feel like I live there. Things are going well this year - I'm feeling like I finally have a good handle of some good practices and ideas and that the kids can't get to me anymore when they ask me questions about the language that I can't answer. It's just a little more relaxing. One of my favorite parts is lunch - we have an awesome lunch group and I have enjoyed getting to know people from other content areas. I love the ladies I work with too! Enjoying the people I work with has made going to work every day so much easier.

I'm also taking Razor's Edge 2 this year (a class through church). It's been a parallel with what we've been discussing in church on Sunday and has made me look at my job a little differently. I guess in some ways I always thought and assumed that the main point of my work was so that I could be show/share Jesus with and to other people who don't know Him. That is a large part of my purpose in my job, but I hadn't really thought that my actual work is of extreme value as well. The quote that has been seen often on the big screen on Sunday is by Dorthy Sayers which reads, "The only Christian work is work is good work, done well." It's been something to chew over during the frustrating days or when all I want to do is have a baby and be a stay at home mom. It's also been good to debunk the thought that if I really loved God that I would go be a missionary somewhere far away. I still see extreme value in that and some day would LOVE the opportunity to do just that! However, now just doesn't feel like the time. It's good to know that what I am doing right now has value to the Kingdom of God.

Next weekend is the 5th Annual Pumpkin Carving Party. I met my husband at the 1st party before it was know that it would be an annual event. I was sitting on the porch steps at Emily's parents house when he walked up the driveway and I knew. I knew I wanted to marry him. It's crazy to think about all of the things that have happened in the last 4 years. It makes me wonder what insane changes will occur in the next 4!

Pregnant...

Pregnant????

We had some friends over on Saturday evening. Just a little get together, no reason, we just wanted to hang out and welcome people into our home. After about 20 minutes my friend Rachel told me that she thoughtBrian and I were having people over to make a big announcement and tell all of our friends that we're pregnant. Even my best friend Emily admitted that the thought had also crossed her mind. Nevermind the fact that I told her on Tuesday that I wasn't. She then reminded me of what a good liar I was. About two years ago I told one of the best lies ever. She was wondering when Mark would propose and thinking that every weekend might be the weekend. The morning she got engaged I told her that I was so glad that I didn't know anything because I thought it would be too hard to keep that secret from her...even though Mark had told me weeks before when the big day would be!

I was utterly amused that they both thought that's why we were having people over.

Oh, but yeah. Not pregnant...as far as I know. :)