Sara the Cook

That's right folks, yours truly cooked dinner tonight. And everyone survived, ate it and said I could make it again!

Projects

We have only been home since yesterday afternoon and I completed three of my pinterest projects.  The first one is covering old clipboards from my classroom that the kids have written all over. Cohen and I went to Hobby Lobby and picked up scrapbook paper and Mod Podge. 

Next, I made a prayer board.

And lastly, I picked up some lanterns at Hobby Lobby also and hung them in Carlie's room.  She loves them and calls them balls and tries to reach them by standing on her bed.  Such a sweet girl!

I've already got my list started for the next projects!!  Stay tuned!



Summer Vacation

The past few years, we have made the trip to Iowa more towards the end of summer. This year we headed up there not even a week after finishing up with school. I had my high school 10 year reunion scheduled for June 16, so we planned accordingly. We had a great trip driving there and back. We went a different way then we normally did and we really liked it better then the other way we have gone. It is more of a straight shot and not crazy interstate driving, but instead nice 4 lane highway driving. The kids did wonderfully! We had DVD players for them, books, snacks and they rode like champs. This is the first time in many trips that no one got sick in Iowa, hoorah!! We ate at Pizza Ranch as soon as we rolled into town and ate there 2 more times after that. Had to get my fix! We went to Sioux City one day, Le Mars to the Blue Bunny Ice Cream Shop, Okoboji to Arnold's Park and then of course, my reunion. Jerimiah and I have often tossed around the idea of moving back to Iowa sometime. After this trip, with no offense to anyone, but I have felt a peace about where we are right now, here in Texas. I don't know what it was and nothing really happened, but I just really felt God telling me that I am where I need to be right now and not to worry about it anymore. Not that we never will think about it again, just probably not right now. My reunion was great and I'm glad I had the chance to reconnect with people. About half our class was there and it was a fun night for everyone. We took off Monday morning and got back into Katy about 4 PM yesterday afternoon.

 

School's Out!

Yeah, we made it! Another year under my belt and I'm so excited for summer! Next week we will take off for Iowa. While there we will attending my 10 year high school reunion. It will be fun to catch up with people. I've already decided I need to get some things planned for the weeks to keep everyone busy. We will need to establish some kind of routine with naps also because so far, that is not going so well. Cohen is starting to fight taking a nap a lot. He is only 3 and to be honest, I'm not quite ready to give up that quiet time just yet. One thing though we will be working on is Carlie's B (binkie). She had done really well until she was sick awhile back and we let her have it. Why is it when you are trying to do something like this or potty training or whatever, so much of it depends on your mood or time, crazy I tell ya! I have no pictures ready, sorry people. I will work on downloading some this week to be able to use.