A Week On My Own

So Justin left Thursday to go to Oregon for some training. So I get the whole house for a week. But really I've been working on a paper and doing laundry and I have plans on cleaning. It's been nice because I can catch up on house work and hopefully next weekend everything will be done and I can spend some time with my husband. But now it's back to the teacher work sample...

Happy Valentine's Day!

Well I hope you all had a great day. Justin was able to sneak out of the house this morning and brought me back some beautiful flowers. It was kinda funny because he called me downstairs and was giving me a hug at the bottom of the stairs and kinda pulling me into the living room. He finally said "I think I broke the TV" When I looked at the TV there was a bouquet of flowers and a card. The cats managed to knock the flowers off the TV in about 15 minutes but I think I've managed to save them. And yesterday while I was out I got Justin his card and an electric shaver he's been wanting.
Our friend Trista's husband is at WLC (Warriors Leader Course) so he doesn't get to come home for right now. So Justin and I went to the Olive Garden with Trista and our other friend we met through Trista, Aaron. After the Olive Garden the four of us went to a hockey game (Justin's a big fan of the Seattle Thunderbirds a minor league hockey team). It was nice getting to hang out with friends and we really enjoyed the day.
But it is now 11:15 and I think it's way past my bedtime!

The Case of the Missing hair ties

Every night before I fall asleep I put my hair tie on the window sill by my bed and every morning I wake up and it's gone. When I come back from work and I find it on the floor or somewhere in the house.
And this morning I finally figured it out. And I'm sure all of you have too. Jack climbs up on the window sill and steals my hair tie. And right now he is chasing it around the floor. So I guess it's one of his favorite toys!!

Well another week has flown by. Tomorrow is a half day at school and we also don't have school on Friday or Monday so that makes for a short week. Even though tomorrow is a half day the teachers have to be at the school for the full day. But it snowed here today so I'm hoping for a snow day! There's not much snow, but it's a lot to people in this area of Washington I guess.
I am hoping this weekend to work on my Teacher Work Sample (TWS), the big paper that is due in a few weeks. My TWS score determines whether or not I get my teaching license so I tend to get a little stressed about it.
But I think it's time for bed. Oh yea, hey uncle Matt I wanted to tell you that the first day we moved in Justin wanted to make the spare bedroom into his wrestling/workout room, since you said something about wrestling in your comment. I don't think I'm going to let him do that. I'm sure that when Mom, Dad, and Abby come out they'd like a room to sleep in.
I also took a picture of the snow on the trees. It's the view I see looking out my office window.

The House

Here's some pics of the cats and house for you Annie

Jack and Sawyer being lazy. They're brothers

Sawyer (the gray cat) and Jack (the orange cat)

The front door/yard

The carport and outside storage

The corner of the backyard

The deck off the back door...I'm excited that I have room to plant some veggies and flowers.

The backyard

The living room

My messy Kitchen table and dining room

The laundry room off the end of the kitchen

My kitchen...to me it looks like a hallway

Downstairs bathroom

Downstairs view from front door.

Upstairs bathroom

Spare bedroom...nothing's in there right now except boxes.

upstairs hallway


Bedroom from the corner with Jack in the picture

bedroom from the door way

The office

First Post

Well I am starting this blog to hopefully keep in touch with my cousins and aunt who have a blog. This is a way to let them know what is going on with me while I am 1900 miles away. So here goes.
During my first week of student teaching our apartment flooded (I'm sure you've heard this from mom). We moved into a 3 bedroom house on post. The nice thing about living here is they will mow our yard for me :-).
So that's what I've been up to...unpacking. We had some friends over for cake on my birthday, and Justin had a super bowl party. On another note Justin wanted a cat and he found one, that came with a brother so we now have two cats. I was kind of hoping for a dog, but maybe down the road that will happen.
Well I have lesson plans to work on and it's getting late so
~night