Aunty Kara!!!!

A NEW BABY!!!! Our brother and sister-in-law, Isaac and Jennifer, just told us they are expecting a baby at the end of April!! Dallas and I get to be an uncle and aunt for the first time! They live in Tennessee, so we won't get to see the baby as much as we want, but we're still really excited! It's the first grandchild for Dallas's mom, too! Congrats Isaac & Jennifer!!!! :)

Here's a pic of me and Jennifer from last Thanksgiving:

So, on a different note.....I have decided to go back to school to get my Specialist's. And then I'll be completely DONE with school!!!! I just graduated at the beginning of August with my Master's in Special Education, and I really want to have my Specialist's out of the way before we start having kids. There's not a lot of choices of schools that are convenient to where we live, so I've narrowed it down to UGA, Ga State, Brenau (where I got my Master's), Piedmont, and Lincoln Memorial. Hopefully I'll be able to start in the Spring/Summer of 2009, and most programs are only 1 year long! It's so worth going back when you work in education...automatic pay raise!

Here's some pictures of graduation:

We worked HARD on that hood!!

Gas

So every single one of the gas stations near us are out of gas....thank goodness we filled up both cars Friday night! Dallas's store is one of the only QT's in the area that still have gas, and even more in reserve, so he'll be driving my car later this week to top it off again. I don't know how everyone else is filling up around here!

Maybe we'll get a day off from school this week if the busses can't fill up their tanks :)

Weekend Cleaning...

So this is what was staring at me in the face on Sunday when I decided to clean out our flower bed by the house...I think it's called a writing spider and it's absolutely terrifying, even though Dallas thought I should have just killed it. Yeah right, I can't even step on a roach, let alone a spider the size of my palm!!! I just let Moe out, looked over by the corner of the house, and yep....it's still there! yuck. Maybe Moe will do me a favor and eat it, since he likes to eat everything else in our trash cans.

We're eventually going to put some fresh mulch in the front and then plastic sheathing/mulch in the back so that grass won't grow in the beds. Our little trees we got from my friend Janet (thanks!) are still growing, even though the biggest one died...probably since the root was humongous!

First Posting!

Hello everyone! Well I have decided to start up a blog for Dallas and me. I have a lot of friends that have blogs and it's a really neat way to stay in touch with family and to keep everyone updated with new things! I'll be adding more pictures and stuff on the website frequently- my class, Dallas's job, church, school, etc.