Goodbye 2008!

I know, I know, I know - it has been entirely too long since my last post and y'all don't know what to do with yourselves do you?

Just wanted to write one last post in 2008 before my big update post will come after the new year. Sorry for the hiatus - we had a wonderful Christmas in London with Matt's family and are now headed down to Austin for a belated Christmas celebration with my family! It's never too late to celebrate the birth of our Savior though, right? :) I hope you all had a restful, blessed holiday! I'll be back soon with pictures and a more detailed update of what's been going on lately!

Happy New Year!

Overheard in my classroom...

"But Mrs. Coleman... I jus' did not get enough sweep wast night!" - One of my 4 year olds explaining why she was taking so long to finish her project

"Ok - who knows why we are bringing in canned food?"
"For people who don't have money!!"
"Yeah like my mom- she always tells me she doesn't have any money."

"Oh my goodness - what am I doing?!" - Another one of my 4 year olds who decided what he was coloring was not what he meant to color

"Mrs. Coleman! I I I - I decided I am going to change my name..."
"Really? To what?"
"Umm... probably Picachu I think"
"Oh ok - should I call you Picachu then?"
"Nah... just call me Neal"

"What would you give Jesus for His birthday?"

• A skateboard
  
• Seashells!
• A race car
• Socks
• Love

"Colin - there's enough of those for you both to help!"
"Well THAT'S convenient isn't it?"

"Who knows what a pilgrim is?"
"OOOH! I know! Ummmmm...... an elephant?"

After practicing our sign language to the song Silent Night for our Christmas "show" -
Rhett: "Cooper - I am SOOO sick of this song, aren't you??"

A big update!

Finally I have some good pictures of the framing that's up for our house! They started on the framing before Thanksgiving, but we haven't had time to get out there when it's still light out until this weekend. Enjoy!

Taken from the top of our street - we're the little house on the right at the end. There's only 3 houses on our street so far.

Finally we have a roof!

Taken from the hallway looking back towards the front door.

This is where the kitchen will be! - I love the round end to our breakfast bar.

Matt standing in our family room (texting his dad) =)

Our bathtub in the middle of the master bedroom.

At this point I think things "stall" for awhile because the gas, AC and plumbing all has to be finished and inspected, and then we have a pre-sheetrock meeting with the builder that won't happen until after the 1st of the year before we will actually get walls. In case you want to start putting these pictures in order of the layout of the house - here's a link again (you might have to click on the "show floorplan" button) to the floorplan (just remember that our house is flipped from what is shown online).

On another note - only 2 more weeks until Christmas break for me! The kids get more and more hyper every day - so by the time our Christmas party rolls around, I will be so ready for a vacation! We are headed to London this year for Christmas with Matt's parents on the 20th for a little over a week, so I'm really excited about that! Then we'll head down to Austin on New Year's Eve to have Christmas with my family :) I love this time of year!

If Love Was Enough

Contrary to the title of this - I am not about to write about some sad relationship story - it's just the name of a song! Keep reading...

I wish I could say I was cool enough to get another blog "tag", but I'm not - I stole this from my roommate from freshman year at Baylor after she posted it on facebook. I thought it might be fun - and it gives me something to blog about until I can get some more pictures of the house taken. Thanks Laura!

1. Put Your iTunes on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds!
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Tag at least 10 friends.
6. Anyone tagged has to do the same, because fun pointlessness spreads like a virus.

If someone says, “Is this okay?” You say?
"Glory Defined" - Building 429

How would you describe yourself?
"Best Days" - Matt White

What do you like in a guy/girl?
"Follow You Down" - Gin Blossoms

How do you feel today?
"Settlin" - Sugarland

What is your life’s purpose?
"Take Me Out to a Dancehall" - Pat Green

What is your motto?
"Country Grammar" - Nelly

What do your friends think of you?
"Waking Up" - Graham Colton

What do you think of your parents?
"Hold on to Me" - John Michael Montgomery

What do you think about very often?
"Faster Car" - Keith Urban

What is 2 + 2?
"Cry Me a River" - Justin Timberlake (that's what I'll do if you ask me to do math)

What do you think of your best friend?
"You Drive Me Crazy" - Britney Spears (haha!)

What do you think of the person you like?
"Won't Let You Down" - Keith Urban

What is your life story?
"You Found Me" - Kelly Clarkson

What do you want to be when you grow up?
"I Will Not Be Silent" - David Crowder Band

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
"Your Body is a Wonderland" - John Mayer

What will you dance to at your wedding?
"Simon" - Lifehouse

What will they play at your funeral?
“"The Christmas Waltz" - Frank Sinatra (I guess there could be worse songs, everyone loves Christmas music, right?)

What is your hobby/interest?
"When it Comes" - Tyler Hilton

What is your biggest fear?
"Alabama" - Cross Canadian Ragweed (apologies to anyone who lives in Alabama :)

What is your biggest secret?
"Bent" - Matt Nathanson

What do you think of your friends?
“The Mix Tape" - Jack's Mannequin

What will you put as the title?
"If Love Was Enough" - Graham Colton

Even though I wasn't actually tagged for this - if you're reading this, I tag YOU!

Fabulous

I finally have solid proof that someone reads my blog! (well, other than my parents). My friend Allison has given me a "fabulous blog" award and seeing as how I'll most likely never get a blog award again, I can't let my loyal fan(s) down!

For this award, I must list 5 things that I find "fabulously addictive" - and I'm going to steel Allison's idea of posting a picture with each :)

In no particular order...

1. Our new house - I guess the "addictive" part of this would be constantly checking the progress! I'll use this spot to update you on the house progress - here's a quick picture or two of the slab (once I can get out during the daytime I'll post some more pictures of the framing that they've done!)
2. Hula Hut chips & queso - I couldn't find a picture of just chips and queso, so the chips and salsa pic below will have to do.
3. Photography: I'm not great at it myself, but I love that you can see someone else's point of view with just a simple photo, not to mention the memories that you can capture!

*photo taken by Lauren Clark - one of my fav photographers from Lubbock*

4. Diet Dr. Pepper - although I've been sick for the past month and really haven't indulged in this addiction, I don't think I could ever kiss this goodbye for good!

5. Target - it's hard for me to go more than a week without checking out each and every section in Target - I've started grocery shopping at the Super Target near our house, which gives me a great excuse to check out everything else they have!
Now I'm supposed to tag 5 more people with Fabulous blogs, but I really don't know 5 people with blogs that haven't already been tagged, so I'll settle for...
Katie because she's my sister so she must be fabulous
Jill because she just found out they're having a boy!
and Davi because she just had a baby boy!

Another vote... and a romance

I've been trying to decide if we are going to send out Christmas cards this year - and in looking around online I couldn't find any that I really liked. So I decided to try my hand at designing a few - although I still haven't decided if I like any of them enough to use them. The picture in the first one is not the picture we would use - I just needed a place-holder, and the big empty spaces on the other 3 are where the picture would go! I also would probably make some tweaks to whichever one we decided to send out, but anyways vote for which one you like! You can click on them to make them bigger - leave a comment if you want to be on the list of recipients!

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On another note - I just had to share the cutest thing from my class today. Jack and Ava are both little flirts, but I guess Jack decided to make it official and commit himself to Ava - by bringing her a flower! I had to take some pictures to document the moment :)

A vote

Which header do you like better for the top of the blog? You can vote to the right or leave a comment!