Hi Friends!
My blog posts are few and far between now a days. Russ is keeping busy with student teaching and I am keeping busy with teaching and my Mary Kay business. We have been busy in an exciting way. We both had a nice 3 day week end together. We spent time with friends today and had an amazing Country Italian dinner. We've been on a book splurge lately with cook books... Christian fiction... and a wonderful Joyce Meyer book. She is a wonderful woman of God, and I feel like she is a lot like me just from reading one little paragraph. God is using Ken Davis and Joyce Meyer... well, and among many other people who have been telling me this for a couple years now to.... LIGHTEN UP! We are not meant to have guilt in our lives and it seems like that is normal... you're not normal if you don't have the guilt... NOT TRUE!!! I read a chapter of her book and then I indulged in a novel (the whole time reading I was drinking sweet tea, while Russ worked on his Sudoko...) Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. The prologue is 44 pages long... longest prologue I've ever heard of!
The best thing about this was it was the first time since... well.... the first time that we just sat down in our living room with no tv... no distracting sounds... other than our oblivious-to-their-noise-level-neighbors and read or worked on a puzzle. Our apartment has become quite the little home. We got a hold of a couch that was about to go on the curb, from a friend who moved out of his apartment. We put a slip cover on it, added a couple pillows and it fits nicely in our living room.
It is approaching 12:30... I should go to bed... yeah...
Just thought I would post a little something. Not very exciting... but it's something. Hopefully I will have more insightful words later.
God Bless,
R&J
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Happy Belated New Year
Hi Friends... or who ever reads this blog... :-)
Just thought I would fill in the gaps from my last post over a month ago. Football for the Griz is over by a long shot. We, like everyone is Missoula, wanted them to go to the championship game. However, it is so cool that NDSU won the championship game!! We had a lot of fun watching the game at the Montana club with friends and other Griz fans. Russ passed his piano test and is now free to student teach!! PRAISE JESUS!! He starts in Victor on January 23rd. I am so excited for him! One more semester and he will have his Music Education degree!! So proud of you, my amazing hubby!!
We made it to Nashua for New Years and my brothers birthday. It was so much fun! Thanks to my Dad my Ford Focus got it's oil changed, and is still going strong, despite it's external injuries. We cleaned it and got it ready for the soon to be daily commute to school. Russ has been taking me to school in his car, but when he is commuting to Victor then the trips will be daily. I'm going to miss having him take me to school everyday, but I have enjoyed our morning trips together. I panic about being late, but he gets me to school right on time. The school holiday program with great! It was very smooth and not as hectic as I thought it would be.
We spent Christmas with the Johnsons and it was a lovely day! Christmas Eve service at MAC was so great! To see the entire sanctuary lit up by over 100 candles was a breath taking sight to see. It reminded me of the candle light services at Grain. So, my first Christmas in Missoula was a good one for sure. :)
I returned to work on the 3rd and started the year off with a four day week. A four day week... not too bad right? Wrong. Most craziest week ever! I hate it when four day week feel like an eight day week.
Today Russ helped his folks put up their new microwave and I scrapbooked our weeding album. I thought that my Mary Kay conference was this week, but that was just the registration dead line, with the actual conference being next week. So, since I was up I drove over to Scrapbook Hideaway and stayed until about 3. Didn't eat lunch... not that I meant to, but I just kept working on the album and before I knew it half of the afternoon went by. I ran out of photos to scrapbook and page protectors. I was missing some photos to make the last couple of pages that I needed. We had lunch at Wendy's with Richard and went shopping at TJ Max, Ross and Shop Ko. We only bought socks for Russ, but we got some great ideas to spruce up our bland white walls in our apartment. Thanks to Pinterest (not only another addiction, but a pretty cool way to keep track of ideas and such on the web) I have found some great ways to make stunning wall hangings out of recycled materials.
We hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Love,
R&J
Just thought I would fill in the gaps from my last post over a month ago. Football for the Griz is over by a long shot. We, like everyone is Missoula, wanted them to go to the championship game. However, it is so cool that NDSU won the championship game!! We had a lot of fun watching the game at the Montana club with friends and other Griz fans. Russ passed his piano test and is now free to student teach!! PRAISE JESUS!! He starts in Victor on January 23rd. I am so excited for him! One more semester and he will have his Music Education degree!! So proud of you, my amazing hubby!!
We made it to Nashua for New Years and my brothers birthday. It was so much fun! Thanks to my Dad my Ford Focus got it's oil changed, and is still going strong, despite it's external injuries. We cleaned it and got it ready for the soon to be daily commute to school. Russ has been taking me to school in his car, but when he is commuting to Victor then the trips will be daily. I'm going to miss having him take me to school everyday, but I have enjoyed our morning trips together. I panic about being late, but he gets me to school right on time. The school holiday program with great! It was very smooth and not as hectic as I thought it would be.
We spent Christmas with the Johnsons and it was a lovely day! Christmas Eve service at MAC was so great! To see the entire sanctuary lit up by over 100 candles was a breath taking sight to see. It reminded me of the candle light services at Grain. So, my first Christmas in Missoula was a good one for sure. :)
I returned to work on the 3rd and started the year off with a four day week. A four day week... not too bad right? Wrong. Most craziest week ever! I hate it when four day week feel like an eight day week.
Today Russ helped his folks put up their new microwave and I scrapbooked our weeding album. I thought that my Mary Kay conference was this week, but that was just the registration dead line, with the actual conference being next week. So, since I was up I drove over to Scrapbook Hideaway and stayed until about 3. Didn't eat lunch... not that I meant to, but I just kept working on the album and before I knew it half of the afternoon went by. I ran out of photos to scrapbook and page protectors. I was missing some photos to make the last couple of pages that I needed. We had lunch at Wendy's with Richard and went shopping at TJ Max, Ross and Shop Ko. We only bought socks for Russ, but we got some great ideas to spruce up our bland white walls in our apartment. Thanks to Pinterest (not only another addiction, but a pretty cool way to keep track of ideas and such on the web) I have found some great ways to make stunning wall hangings out of recycled materials.
We hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Love,
R&J
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Griz Morning!
Griz Morning... well... afternoon! I just love saying Griz morning. While Russ is freezing in the stadium I am snuggled up at home watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets... with a cup of coffee... and blogging. Love it! As I teacher, I have really come to appreciate my Saturdays. I love sleeping in and getting out of bed at about 11/noon and lounging around in my pj's until I feel like getting ready for the day. I am really going to take advantage of it because this upcoming week is Holiday Program Practice week.... for all grades! Yow-sa!! It will be the typical hectic-ness off ALL school holiday programs, so let the pre-pampering begin! To top that off, I made $41 in sales in my Mary Kay business... with hardly doing any thing at all!
Today is my Aunt Nanci's birthday! Happy birthday, Nanci! Love you!!! I talked to my Mom on facebook a little while ago and she was off to Nanci's birthday celebration. I wish I could be there! We are hoping to make it home for my brother's birthday/New Years. We are so excited, and really really wanting it to work out. A nice country New Years sounds so relaxing and well needed.
Just recently I started a website for my photography. I've always had what I like to call a small passion for photography, and it has been growing little by little over time. Google has great web site layouts for this. I know I have talked about her a lot, but one of my friends has inspired me with her photography, Krysty Kay Whisman. She taken portraits for me off and on through out college. She also did our engagement photos and did a fantastic job on our wedding photos. I posted a couple of our engagement photos earlier in this blog, and all of them are on facebook. So, if you are looking for a photographer for a special event, she is your girl!!
I feel that I really noticed this passion was when I took pictures for my cousin Cassie's wedding last summer. She got married in a beautiful park in Pullman WA on a nice summer day in August. I have always loved taking pictures, but never really trying to catch any thing, it was just fun to have a small point-and-shoot digital camera with photos that you could see instantly. I up loaded them on to a photo editing website and once I did just a little bit of editing, just to enhance them, I loved how they came to life. It was really neat to see how my random shots came out great and captured the memories better than I expected. As soon as the web site is ready I will post the link on here so you can check it out.
Have a Griz day!
R&J
Today is my Aunt Nanci's birthday! Happy birthday, Nanci! Love you!!! I talked to my Mom on facebook a little while ago and she was off to Nanci's birthday celebration. I wish I could be there! We are hoping to make it home for my brother's birthday/New Years. We are so excited, and really really wanting it to work out. A nice country New Years sounds so relaxing and well needed.
Just recently I started a website for my photography. I've always had what I like to call a small passion for photography, and it has been growing little by little over time. Google has great web site layouts for this. I know I have talked about her a lot, but one of my friends has inspired me with her photography, Krysty Kay Whisman. She taken portraits for me off and on through out college. She also did our engagement photos and did a fantastic job on our wedding photos. I posted a couple of our engagement photos earlier in this blog, and all of them are on facebook. So, if you are looking for a photographer for a special event, she is your girl!!
I feel that I really noticed this passion was when I took pictures for my cousin Cassie's wedding last summer. She got married in a beautiful park in Pullman WA on a nice summer day in August. I have always loved taking pictures, but never really trying to catch any thing, it was just fun to have a small point-and-shoot digital camera with photos that you could see instantly. I up loaded them on to a photo editing website and once I did just a little bit of editing, just to enhance them, I loved how they came to life. It was really neat to see how my random shots came out great and captured the memories better than I expected. As soon as the web site is ready I will post the link on here so you can check it out.
Have a Griz day!
R&J
Friday, December 2, 2011
This week was crazy! I am just so thankful that it is Friday. I'm looking forward to the week end of getting caught up and relaxing... or would the two together be an oxymoron? Hmmmm.... Well, to end the week, after Russ gets off work we will be going out with some friends for a very late dinner. He got called in for a three hour shift, so I thought it would be a fun way to end a long week. We have a photo session this weekend so we can add some photos in with our Christmas letter. Yup, I'm writing a Christmas letter. :-) It should be good!
I am really excited to get photos taken again, after our wedding. I know wedding pictures will make great Christmas cards, but I wanted something extra. The same wonderful photographer, Krysty Kay Whisman will be taking the photos this Sunday. :-) I'm so excited!! In case you haven't had the wonderful opportunity to look at her photography, here is a taste!
Krysty Kay Photography:
She is fantastic!! I will post the photos soon. :-) Enjoy your week end, everyone!
~R&J
I am really excited to get photos taken again, after our wedding. I know wedding pictures will make great Christmas cards, but I wanted something extra. The same wonderful photographer, Krysty Kay Whisman will be taking the photos this Sunday. :-) I'm so excited!! In case you haven't had the wonderful opportunity to look at her photography, here is a taste!
Krysty Kay Photography:
She is fantastic!! I will post the photos soon. :-) Enjoy your week end, everyone!
~R&J
Monday, November 28, 2011
Brick Wall....
Hello blog readers....
Today kind of felt like a brick wall hit me... in a way. I hate that feeling after a long break, and you get back to school thinking in your head that everything was going to be smooth, but it wasn't. Yes sir, it was not. Thankfully my music class went well.... I hope am getting through to my students.... am I? That is another uncomfortable feeling felt by many 1st year teachers. Am I really getting through to them?
The break was nice, but I am already ready for Christmas! October and November flew by... I'm still trying to figure out where they went...
To say that it is almost December, 2011 is a little weird.
I am so excited to get things rolling for the holiday season! My Mary Kay business will take off with the amazing offers that I have going on. Just to give a little glimpse into my business... I sold make up over facebook just by mentioning to a friend about the amazing mascara we have... and once again the amazing deal of get $100 in free product from my Sales Director by sharing your facial with 3 people I don't know and who do not have a consultant. You will get your free product once I see 30 faces in a month. Cool huh? I will put up the whole spiel soon. :) Yes, super excited!
The Griz are in full swing for the play offs. They had their buy week last week and this week end is their first play off game. Russ doesn't have marching band rehearsal any more, so his evenings are more free! He gets off work at 2 today, so it will be nice to have him home, and he doesn't have to go anywhere! :)
Well, that is all for today friends. Enjoy the rest of your day!
Love & Blessings,
R&J
Today kind of felt like a brick wall hit me... in a way. I hate that feeling after a long break, and you get back to school thinking in your head that everything was going to be smooth, but it wasn't. Yes sir, it was not. Thankfully my music class went well.... I hope am getting through to my students.... am I? That is another uncomfortable feeling felt by many 1st year teachers. Am I really getting through to them?
The break was nice, but I am already ready for Christmas! October and November flew by... I'm still trying to figure out where they went...
To say that it is almost December, 2011 is a little weird.
I am so excited to get things rolling for the holiday season! My Mary Kay business will take off with the amazing offers that I have going on. Just to give a little glimpse into my business... I sold make up over facebook just by mentioning to a friend about the amazing mascara we have... and once again the amazing deal of get $100 in free product from my Sales Director by sharing your facial with 3 people I don't know and who do not have a consultant. You will get your free product once I see 30 faces in a month. Cool huh? I will put up the whole spiel soon. :) Yes, super excited!
The Griz are in full swing for the play offs. They had their buy week last week and this week end is their first play off game. Russ doesn't have marching band rehearsal any more, so his evenings are more free! He gets off work at 2 today, so it will be nice to have him home, and he doesn't have to go anywhere! :)
Well, that is all for today friends. Enjoy the rest of your day!
Love & Blessings,
R&J
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Sunday
Good Sunday to you all!
I don't really have a lot to say today.... I said a lot of it in my Black/Pink Friday post. Oh, yeah! The winner of my Pink Friday sale drawing is Beth Bennett! So, congrats to Miss Bennett! :-) Thanks to everyone who helped me out in the Pink Friday sale as well! My customers are fabulous! I have a new customer as well as a result of the sale, so thanks again!
Yesterday Russ & I had lunch at the Montana Club with Ryan and my sister consultant Sharayah. She made fun of me for having my camera with me everywhere I go, so just for you Sharayah.... :)
I didn't do anything for school at all over the break.... and it was nice! That is what today is going to be for. I do have to say, as much as I never saw myself teaching anything but music, I am enjoying reading! You just never know where God will take you. Well, on that note, time to get ready for the day and get some work done! Have a great Sunday & what is left of the Thanksgiving break.
Love & Blessings,
R&J
I don't really have a lot to say today.... I said a lot of it in my Black/Pink Friday post. Oh, yeah! The winner of my Pink Friday sale drawing is Beth Bennett! So, congrats to Miss Bennett! :-) Thanks to everyone who helped me out in the Pink Friday sale as well! My customers are fabulous! I have a new customer as well as a result of the sale, so thanks again!
Yesterday Russ & I had lunch at the Montana Club with Ryan and my sister consultant Sharayah. She made fun of me for having my camera with me everywhere I go, so just for you Sharayah.... :)
I didn't do anything for school at all over the break.... and it was nice! That is what today is going to be for. I do have to say, as much as I never saw myself teaching anything but music, I am enjoying reading! You just never know where God will take you. Well, on that note, time to get ready for the day and get some work done! Have a great Sunday & what is left of the Thanksgiving break.
Love & Blessings,
R&J
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Good morning, blogger world!
This morning Russ made me breakfast in bed... cinnamon rolls & coffee. I talked to my uncle this morning about his hunting trip. We got a package from my parents this morning with our first Christmas ornament, a mini calendar & the new Jars of Clay cd.
It's supposed to be turned the right way, but for some reason my lap top won't let me save it. Oh well, you get the idea. I'm so excited to hang it on our tree, that is at Wal-mart waiting for us to purchase it :-) That is all for today, just had to share that with you.
Love & Blessings,
R&J
This morning Russ made me breakfast in bed... cinnamon rolls & coffee. I talked to my uncle this morning about his hunting trip. We got a package from my parents this morning with our first Christmas ornament, a mini calendar & the new Jars of Clay cd.
Love & Blessings,
R&J
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