I need to brag a bit

I love my husband. He is so amazing to me. First of all, he takes such good care of me. Loves me unconditionally, even when I am emotional or stressed out. When I was sick, he made sure I was comfortable and had everything I needed.

So, today I come home and there is a present sitting on the coffee table, wrapped and everything. He had bought me a "prize". And if you know me, I LOVE prizes. Call it my love language, I don't know. I just love them. I opened my prize and he had bought me Anne of Green Gables on DVD! Oh my gosh I was so excited. Judge me if you like but I think Anne is my favorite movie. My parents used to rent it for me all the time. I only had Anne on VHS and I don't have a VHS player anymore. Now, I have it on DVD! Yay!

Isn't he the best, most thoughtful guy every!? What is really special about this is that he listens. I had briefly mentioned at one point that I wanted it and then didn't think about it again...I love him and I am spoiled. :)

~N

Associate Pastor?

It's not 100% solidified but it looks like Matt is now the newest paid employee at Westbridge Christian Church! It's so exciting for him that he has the opportunity to serve in the way that God has called him. He will still be working at PF Changs because the money isn't enough but he can drop a shift or two! We are very excited and I am a little nervous. Matt says he's not, but I think he is a bit.

Praise God!

~N

Bridal Showers

My friend Laura is getting married in December and I am a bridesmaid in her wedding. The bridesmaids threw her a shower on Saturday. (I'll post pictures when I get some!) Her main wedding color is purple so the shower was purple explosion everywhere! The shower turned out really nice and Laura seemed really happy, which is what matters most! Everyone I tell about the showers I am in constantly say, "Oh, it's your age." I think that is so funny because I had never thought of it that way. There were so many people in my life that were married a few years ago that I feel like I am on the end of it.

Next up, baby showers! hehe

~N

Date Night #7

This week for date night we stayed home. I didn't go to work so I stayed in my pajamas. We had really spent a lot of time together that week as I didn't go to work on Monday so we hung out then. But I made a point that we DO something on our date night. So we made dinner together. Stuffed mushrooms with ground turkey, grilled onions, and cheese. Matt was starting to feel pretty miserable at this point. And, I think we discovered he has some sort of reaction to cooking or raw onions. He didn't feel good at all, his throat hurt, his stomach hurt, he was dizzy. I had to run to the gas station for Peptobismal. So date night was...a night full of snotty noses, and stomach aches. Hopefully this week will be better.

Substitutes

It's been awhile since I have updated. I ended up being SO sick last week. I took Monday off, went back Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On Thursday our language arts coach came in and told me, basically, I needed to call in sick on Friday. I had no voice, I was exhausted and obviously I looked terrible. My principal and coach found a sub for me, and she was AMAZING. I never thought I would be so pleased with sub. Honestly, she told me not to make lesson plans and just tell her the page numbers. I was so thankful and feeling so miserable by that point I had just decided that I would make up for what they missed on Monday. I didn't have too! I came in on Monday and my classroom was clean. The dates were changed. I mean, it was pretty amazing and such a relief. And don't worry, I feel better. :)

~N

So Sick...

I have such a bad cold. I have hardly moved from the couch all day. My chest hurts, my neck is so swollen and sore. Matt has taken good care of me all day. It was wonderful. He's so good to me. Now he is at work and I miss him, even though we said two words to each other all day (simply because it hurt too much to talk). I think I have watched every possible show on Food Network and HGTV. My mom is supposed to be coming over with some soup. I still have quite a few report cards to finish...and I have to go back tomorrow! I just got a call from a parent who said her son did not have any homework today. I forgot to put that in the sub plans! Stink... ~N

What did I do?

Matt's idea and I went with it. He was inspired by our niece Madalyn, "It will grow back!" What do you think? ~N

Nothing

This is the first Saturday in quite a while that I have had nothing to do. I didn't have to get up and do whatever. I had no commitments, no appointments, nothing! I needed this! Especially since the next 3 weekends are jam packed! 2 bridal showers and a wedding...I am so excited about the showers and the weddings for these women too!

So today, I woke up at 7 and laid on the couch. (I don't think I can sleep in anymore.) Matt woke up a few minutes later and played guitar. He had worship practice this morning. I tried to make some muffins but they were so nasty! I ordered some pictures from our wedding and I put those in a photo album. I took a long nap. I didn't even clean...well, I did just do the dishes.

Good thing because I think I have a cold. My throat has been on fire all day long, my nose is at that beginning stage of running and my eyes feel heavy and my body is achy. I told Matt I wanted to call in sick. I never want to call in sick. Too much work to make sub plans, but I have report cards due soon and a burning throat! What should I do?

~N

Date Night #7

For date night this week we planned to walk through Old Sacramento. It's about a 5 minute drive from my school. We left after I cleaned up the classroom a bit and walked around for a little bit. Matt was starving and so we searched for a fun but different place to eat. I think originally we wanted to go somewhere locally owned or something but we ended up going to Joe's Crab Shack and shared an appetizer of crabbed stuffed mushrooms covered in cheese and a giant bucket of crab, shrimp, corn, and potatoes. It was soooo yummy, I love crab. Joe's is a fun place to go. Definitely not romantic but it is fun to laugh at your waiter as they have to dance. Matt was thankful that he does not have to work there!

After dinner we walked around some more and sampled salt water taffy (so good!) and people watched. We also bought a caramel apple that is currently sitting in the refrigerator waiting for me to eat it. We only spent about 2 hours total out there because we were both EXHAUSTED! We ended up coming home and putting on pajamas until my parent's called and wanted to take us out to frozen yogurt. We hadn't seen them in a while so we went a hung out with them for a few minutes.

It was really a nice night but man was I tired and my throat was feeling really strange. Needless to say I was in bed early and probably asleep by 10. :)

~N

Give him a break?

I love my husband, he does so much for me. He drives all the way to my school just to bring me my lunch. He works in my classroom stamping kids stinky feet. He works at PF Chang's even though he doesn't like it! He is so patient, so loving towards me. He does the days dishes and makes the bed everyday! Now, the latter two he does with a little heckling but yesterday when I got home and teased him about playing video games all day, he laughed and thought it was pretty funny that he completely forgot about making the bed and doing the sink full of cereal bowls. Needless to say, I don't need to give him a break, I just need to give him a hard time every once in awhile! :) I love him too much not to!

~N

*Auntie Meme, you are totally right, they just aren't born with the idea to make the beds! I guess that is why they need us and we need them!*

Preach it Babe!

On Sunday Matt preached to the church about worship. He did so amazing! I was so very proud of him. It was really the first time I had heard him preach for real. I heard him preach for the youth group but that was definitely different. He did so good and I was so nervous. Thank you LORD!

~N

Productive Weekend...

This was really a productive weekend. I was complaining about the messiness and the laundry but everything is dusted, put away, and it feels great! We even cleaned up that special room a bit! I was so so happy to have everything put in it's place and good. I got home tonight and the bed was not made (Matt was the last one out!) and the days dishes were sitting in the sink...I was so bummed! Come on Matt!

~N

Date Night #6

So, on date night was actually really great! See, we had a dessert to go to with the church elders. So, Matt and I went to dinner at Mikuni's. Mmmm, so good! Sushi is my favorite, thanks to my in-laws. :) We had a nice dinner hanging out and relaxing with each other. After that we went to Target. Some of you may laugh but I love Target and Matt actually has fun looking around. So we just walked around Target and chatted and goofed around. It was just fun!

After that we went to the dessert. Funny story, we went to the pastor's house where he told Matt the dessert was going to be and when we got there we found a babysitter! He forgot to send us the email that told us he had changed the location. When we finally made it to the house where everyone was we hang out and chatted. We got to know some great people. It was just really nice to be able to be around church family.

After the dessert Matt and I came home and watched a movie that we had bought from the $5 section at Target. Actually, Matt watched it and I fell asleep!

It was a nice night!

Kristin's Shower

My friend Kristin is getting married in November and today I went to her bridal shower. It was a great bridal shower. I honestly don't like shower games at all but these were pretty good. I didn't throw the shower at all but we played some pretty great games that I suggested! :) I think that I could professionally throw showers now. Anyway, Kristin is the girl that I went to the State Fair to see her get engaged at the hypnotist show. So, today was her shower and it was really fun. It was great to honor Kristin in that way. I am so excited for her. She met her husband-to-be in Romania, they were/are missionaries there and are hoping to go back in the future. The picture is of Kristin and I a few years ago at a Brooks and Dunn concert. We had some good times.

Laundry

I love laundry, I really love laundry. I love the smell of laundry. I love crawling into freshly washed and dried clothes. I love folding laundry. I HATE putting laundry away. I don't know why. I just hate it. I think part of it is because we don't have enough space. Matt doesn't really have dresser. Our room is kind of perma-messy. Our closet is so tiny. We took of the doors to our closet so it is just hanging out. We want to put a curtain type thing over our closet so that the stuff is hidden put nicely hidden. I think one of these days I am going to go out and find a curtain rod and some curtains have Matt hang it. Maybe if it was hidden I would feel better. Haha, I got way off topic. So, the laundry sits on the floor, folded and not put away because I hate it. I tried to make it Matt's job but he doesn't care if it is put away. I think he is still shocked that I fold his underwear! :) ~N
*sorry the pictures are a little strange. I have to use my computer because I don't have my camera back yet from my mom*

Kitchen Table and Preaching!

So we are going to a really great church. Currently, we are praying Matt gets hired on to lead worship among other things. We really enjoy the people and the pastor. Matt somehow mentioned that we needed a kitchen table and Rick, the pastor said that they have one in their garage they don't need. We checked it out and it was perfect! Perfect and free! It is so great because we are able to eat inside and not be eaten alive by mosquitoes. Also, it offers more space to cook! AND, Matt has a place to study and get ready for the sermon he is preaching tomorrow for church! That is why the table is messy. Honestly, the kitchen is super clean because I spent all morning scrubbing...it feels so good to have clean kitchen, with clean floors, and clean ovens, and clean everything. But this is our table and Matt is preaching tomorrow about worship! Please pray, we are excited and nervous...(okay, maybe that is just me...) ~N

Messiness

We had our first guests spend the night last weekend! Super fun to see some old friends. They are from the East Coast and flew out here to visit some friends at Bethel in Redding, CA and stopped by to hang out here too. I spent the summer of 2006 with Bekah at The Inn in North Carolina and Janeen is Jackie's sister. (Jackie is a good friend of mine that I met at The Inn too, she was one of my bridesmaids!) It was fun to see their faces, in person. :) But, because we had guests we had to clean out the ridiculous room that is what we call our spare room. Really it is a junk storage room. I mean look at it! Gosh, so embarrassing. So, we spent Sunday afternoon "cleaning" the room. What really happened is we pushed everything aside so that the girls would have a place to sleep. Combining two people's things are so tricky. We have a lot of crap! I'm hoping my sister-in-law and her family come up to visit. This will encourage us to organize ourselves. There just isn't enough time in the day! Any suggestions on where to start? Anyone, unbias with our crap want to help? ~N

My camera

Okay, so I have some things to post but all the pictures are on my camera that is with my mom. She forgot to bring on Sunday when I asked her. I need to go get it and then I will update about our kitchen table :) and my nephew's baby shower! N

Date Night #5

Well, it wasn't really a date night. I mean...we were both exhausted and the Angels were playing in the playoffs.

We went out to dinner at Lucilles and it was fun. Then we went to RC Willey to check out some furniture. We still have a gift card that Matt's dad gave us for our wedding. We want to buy something perfect. Then, we came home and watched baseball. I actually fell asleep on the couch. And Matt watched, frustrated. They lost and I was in tears because he was so upset. Sports are dumb.

Date nights are going to be hard in the next few weeks. It is busy, busy, busy. Lots of bridal showers and weddings coming up. Plus, we are going to a dessert thing at the church next Friday night. Oh, busyness. Yuck.

Exhaustion

I am so tired all the time. I come home from work tired. I wake up tired. I try to go to bed early but I am still tired. I eat better foods and I am still tired. We even took a walk last night to get some exercise. Work is swallowing me a alive this year. I think I liked it last year because I never realized how MUCH I was drowning. This year I know more and expect more. Plus, first grade is extremely hard! People have always said that and I completely understand now.

So, this is why posts are few and far between. I am tired.