Superbowl Sunday

(Only 3 weeks late!)

Just a little about our Superbowl. We were all for the Saints, so of course cooked accordingly.

Janet made Jambalaya
The DeBarrs brought Hurricanes. Complete with Hurricane glasses from New Orleans!

And I made hamburger cupcakes. Which aren't really Saints, but the manliest cupcakes I could think of.


And of course Jackson taking a look at the Jambalaya and sneaking a piece of French bread before halftime.

My laptop is killing me lately. I edited these on it and they did not look so abnormally bright on it, only once I transferred them to our other computer to post. I can't believe I might actually need another new computer in the near future.

Lunches

I haven't been making Jackson's lunches since we've moved. So, I haven't updated my other blog recently, although I have taken pictures of a few bentos I've packed him since that last post in October (whoops, that's a long time!).

But, I happened upon this blog, Fed Up With School Lunch, which shows exactly why I will always make his lunch! For some reason I feel like it's even grosser to me, since I've been seeing school lunches for 7 years. Yuck.

The things kids say.

Today as I was walking out my class at the end of the day, there was a dog running around the school with no owner. So my kids started to scream,

"Scary dog in a sweater! Scary dog in a sweater!"

It was about the littlest dog you've ever seen in a sweater, oh I was dying!

Girl Scout Cookies

You know you've got to have them!

When Donnie came home with a couple boxes, including these Lemonades, I thought, "Why did you waste your money on those? Really who ventures out of the normal comfort of Thin Mints, Samoas, and Peanut Butter Patties that you know and love?"

I was wrong, keep them away from me, they are the BEST!! A perfect mix of sweet & sour with shortbread & lemon. Donnie did well, again.

Fundraisers

I cannot wait to be free for a couple years from class fundraisers. We have to promote them to the kids, and they seem like there's one every month lately. As if people need 5 lb tubs of cookie dough!

Each time, I get a different kid brave enough to ask the teacher to buy something. And I feel so badly, I can't say no when we're supposed to be encouraging them! I ordered Donnie some silicone basting brushes (for our new BBQ!) and was almost going to order myself a subscription of Real Simple Magazine. But, I better wait in case the word spreads that the teacher will buy something :)

Jackson VDay

With his little bouda belly.

Valentine's Day!

To say I love Valentine's Day is an understatement. I just adore it! I've loved it ever since grade school and now is the one holiday I still love as a teacher. This year one of my shyest student's winked when he gave me his Valentine. Oh so hard to keep it contained, I can't forget that!

Donnie and I did Valentine's Day on Saturday the 13th because he works Sundays. We were able to drop Jackson off at Nana's (Thank you!) and go to see Valentine's Day the movie. So cute. Afterwards, we went to Yountville and tried out Hill Family Estate. It's always so funny to be the only people not from out of town, and sometimes we get the stink eye when we don't have to pay for our tasting. It was excellent & we bought 2 bottles, one for dinner. We walked around V Marketplace before dinner at Hurleys. Great day!

Sunday for actual Valentine's Day, we made cookies to take to Donnie. Jackson and I made cards and brought everything to the station. He just loves little trucks, cars, and trains, and the real fire engine is no different. He literally would've sat playing with the steering wheel for hours!

My funny Valentine, taken at V Marketplace where Donnie also bought me Razzles. (13 Going on 30!)

Some Moving Pictures

The first part of moving is done. Packing. Which, I think is the hard part. Packing stinks, unpacking and organizing in a new house is fun!

Donnie is the expert packer and got most of our house into this 16 by 8 foot Pod. Which is a little scary thinking that all of your possessions are in this wooden box. Which they pick up and store who-knows-where while you're figuring out where you're moving. Scary.


My 3 week Winter Vacation turned into 3 weeks of packing, yuck. Jackson was a disaster during the whole thing, since you know how kids love to unpack what you've just packed.

Juice became one of my biggest friends to distract Jackson while I was packing. And I hate juice. Oh well, you gotta do what you've gotta do sometimes.



Jackson in his working clothes. Ha.

More to come...

...I just love Valentine's Day!

February

Is it really February already?!? And I only posted four times in January?! Just from that clue you know we must have been busy! Well, today is Superbowl Sunday and we're having a little party, so I will be sure to post pictures after. And, I'm on my way to the hospital to visit our friend's Mitchell & Amanda's new little one Logan, so I will be sure to post pictures after I take his newborn pics next week! I was able to take Amanda's maternity pictures and it was so much fun, always learning something new.

Plus, we've started escrow on our new home in Chico, and hopefully that will close Feb 26th! Hopefully. When we sold our house, the bank took forever for our buyers, so fingers crossed the same thing doesn't happen for us. Pictures to come, beautiful house, but we will have a tiny bit of work to do on it to make it our home.