Spring Break!!!!!!

Ok, so I've tried to upload some pictures twice but it keeps giving me an error. So I'll just tell you about Spring Break so far. Let's see. It all started Friday when we got out of school at 11:00. April and I decided to leave early and spend the night in Little Rock because we were afraid that if we waited until Saturday morning we wouldn't make our flight because of the ice and snow. We left at about 3:30 and did not get to Little Rock until 11pm! Now, if you've never driven from Memphis to Little Rock then let me tell you, it only takes two and a half hours normally! But in the snow and ice and all the wrecks, it takes 7! We were so tired when we got there!!!!!!
Needless to say, we were greatful that we went Friday night! We made our flight and got to Texas on time! Kaden was so funny on the plane! It was his first time to fly and he was so excited! He kept jumping and squealing and clapping. That was the first flight. On the second plane, he colored the whole time so it went by a little bit faster! He got a certificate that said it was his first flight. The boys also got a coloring book, a post card they could color, colored pencils, and wings to wear on their shirts! They were so special...at least they thought so!
So, we get to Texas and go downtown to eat at the Rainforest Cafe! Kaden loved the Red Eyed Tree Frog! He didn't like when the monkeys would start making noise!
Then we had Jim's family over for dinner and the kids played with their cousins.
Yesterday we went to Festa Texas. Brady was big enough to ride some of the big rides! Of course that was awesome for him!!!! Kaden loved riding rides and acutally fell asleep in the stroller which he never does! We got picutres with all the characters and Kaden had to hug them all! It was so funny! I'll try to post some pictures later today if the computer will let me!
I'm not sure what we're doing today! I'll keep you posted on our adventure!

I'm 33!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, here I am. I'm 33. I'm officially "mid-thrities." Wow! Where has the time gone. My birthday week has been a pretty busy one! As a matter of fact this is the first night I've been home since last Thursday. Man, 33 is tiring. Last Friday, Kim and I celebrated out birthdays together at the paint pottery place in Southaven. It was so much fun hanging out with the girls and so relaxing just sitting there for three hours painting!
April and I at the pottery place painting out polka dotted pottery!

Here's Kim and I in out matching shirts! I just love this design on my machine! It's so cute. I wore the shirt today to school and everyone loved it!
This is Amber and I! I love this girl! We work together, go to church together and have small group together! We've grown so close and I just thank God everyday for her friendship!

So, now on to the actual birthday! Can I just say being a teacher is awesome! My kids have been counting down for a month until my birthday! It's so funny how excited they all were that today was my birthday! The day started out with lots of hugs and kisses from Tony, Brady and Kaden. Who could ask for anything more, right? I get to school and kids start heading straight for my room! Here's a picture of all the loot I got today!

The flowers are from Tony and the boys plus I put the cards they gave me on my desk. I got a single rose from Brenda. Sammi gave me a "be mine" iced cookie. Jasmine gave me the rose and teddy bear and Casey gave me the cute heart bag full of candy.

This is my in my classroom with all my goodies! As you can see behind me everyone had to write me a note on the board! And of course, to go along with Valentine's Day we were watching Romeo and Juliet!

Then I came home to this! Two cuties and lots of candy. Kaden is the candy monster. From the time I picked him up he has eaten two hershey's kisses, two chocolate hearts, some of those candy hearts with the love notes on them, a blow pop, and he just ate dinner! We gave the boys these cute balloons. Kaden is kissing his frog right now as I'm typing! He's obsessed with the balloon. And of course no birthday would be complete without some silly faces!
So, here I am....33 years old. This has probably been the best birthday yet and I'm blessed to have gotten this far!

Happy Valentine's Day

I just wanted to post a Happy Valentine's Day and Happy Birthday to me blog! I'm at school but I will post some pictures tonight of me and the boys from my birthday!!!!

1/13/08

Well, it's Sunday night and I'm actually sitting at home! Usually we have small group but they changed the time and now we'll start getting home around 6:30. I'm pretty excited about that because it won't have to be such a big deal getting the kids ready for bed and getting up early the next day.

Tony just got called into work. That stinks because I will have work out alone. And yes, I will be working out tonight. At least after I get Kaden into the bed!!!!!

I went scrapbooking last night so instead of just pictures I thought I'd post my layouts for you to enjoy!

Here's Brady on the first day of school. I love this paper. All I had to do was matte the pic and put it on the page.

Here, Brady and I are just being silly and making funny faces. I thought the monkey paper was so cute especially with us goofing off like we were.Kaden's First birthday. He was super cute that day. He was all about eating the cupcake. I just couldn't resist this sweet sticky face.

Sweet baby at his party. I love this layout. I've been dying to use this big "K" forever. I love the swim trunk paper and I love his innocent face!This is my "SON" shine. I'm not done with the layout yet. I have to put the words on it. Mom is going to make them on her diecut machine.

I had the best time with my girlfriends last night. It's so relaxing to just sit with the girls and scrap!

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1/1/08

Happy New Year!!!! I've been so bad at keeping my blog updated but so much has been going on since we went on Christmas Break. I mean, tomorrow I go back to school and I didn't get 1/2 of the things accomplished that I had planned. So, I'm attaching lots of pics to make up for my lack of anything!

My dad came to town the first week of December. We had a blast. He and Brady made their traditional ginger bread house. It was so much fun hanging out with him.

Here's a picture of a big day in the life of Brady P. His "girlfriend" Macayla called him on my cell phone. He was so funny to watch while he was talking to her. I wish I could of heard them both talk because he was acting so silly about the whole thing. I made the cutest scrapbook page about it! Check it out at http://www.tallyscrapper.com/ just search newsygirl.Of course the month was full of traveling and visits from family. Santa came and brought the boys great gifts. But the greatest of all was the Wii that Gamma got for us!And the big boy got a four wheeler and he loves it! He will ride it all over the house but seems to be scared of it outside! I don't get it!

In all we've had a great break and I'm so excited about heading back to school tomorrow. I hope you have a Happy New year and I look forward to so many more funny and crazy stories to post this year!

12/19/07

Ok....I'm a copy cat! I love Kim's new "Pimped" Blog so I had to make some changes of my own. However, I don't have the money to have someone to take care of it for me so I had to "Pimp" it myself! Hope it's not too girly for a person with two boys. I just need a little pink in my life sometimes!
I'll be posting Christmas pics very soon...well after Christmas! Now it's time for bed!

12/10/07

Well, I think this one speaks for itself! This weekend we took a trip to the mall to check Old St. Nick out at his second job! How else am I supposed to explain how he's at the Enchanted Forrest and the mall on the same day? Hello? He works one in the morning and the other in the afternoon! How else could he pay for all those elves? Ok...so, here we are. About 45 minutes of super fun waiting in line. And as you can see, Kaden couldn't wait to talk to his new friend! I couldn't resist this picture. Nothing says happy holidays like a screaming kid. I'm so going to use this for my late Christmas cards.

Prayer Request

So, Kaden had surgery a couple of weeks ago on his ears right? Well, anyway he's been really sick this past week. He's had a fever and now his ears are draining which is a good thing. But I'm starting to really worry about him just because he's been sick for so long. Please pray for him and that God will heal him and we won't have to keep going to the doctor and medicine and all that great stuff!
I have a great pic of the boys with santa that I will post as soon as I can scan it on Monday at school!

12/2/07

December is finally here! Other than the usual holiday blah blah...not much has been going on around the Pillstrom house. The tree is decorated...and the bottom half is already undecorated. The children are nestled all snug in their beds. Nope...Brady just got up again. We'll get back to that later.
Oh...speaking of Brady, he's decided that he wants to be called Braden now. He doesn't like having a nick name anymore. However, he never answers when you call him that.
Kaden goes for his two week check up tomorrow on his ears. I'm so excited to see how well he's doing. I can totally tell he's doing better because he's started talking a lot latily! Let's see, he says...mama, dada, bubba, brady, adam, touch down, hot dog, pizza (the last three all sound the same), he says awe man...and what? That kid is so cute! I'm posting pics and then going to bed! Have a great day!!!!!!!!

11/20/07

A much needed break is on its way! I can't believe for the first time ever I have a job that I don't have to "request" off for the holidays! I love it!!!!!
So, we've had a rough week. Kaden had his surgery on Wednesday last week. For about 5 days he felt horrible and made sure to let us know. I stayed home with him Wed and Thursday. Tony stayed home on Friday. Poor baby! He just wanted to be held those day s and all weekend. So, that's what we did...we held him!
He went back to the sitter on Monday and played outside for the first time in 6 days. He seems to be feeling better! I'm tired though and ready for my holiday break!
I will post some pics from Thanksgiving soon!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

11/10/07

Boy, am I tired! Between myself and Kaden both being sick this week, I'm pretty worn out! Where do I start? As you are well aware, crazy weather means sick for those of us who suffer from allergies! So, this week I successfully lose my voice by Friday. It's really hard to teach talkitive students when you can't be louder then they are! However, I did have a few nice students who tried to teach for me! Funny how when I'm teaching they don't have a problem talking but when it's them at the front of the class, they get so mad when everyone is acting up!
Next, on to Kaden. Well, we all know that he has been sick since he was born. So, last night he woke up coughing and threw up all over the place. Nice! So, we get him cleaned up...aka bath number 2... and put him in the bed with Brady. An hour later, he wakes up coughing again....and yep...throw up! Bath number 3! Tony and I traded off all night who got to sleep holdinghim! Not fun! He was pretty under the weather today and didn't eat much!
Oh....I do have great news...Kaden used the big potty today to "Tee Tee"!!!!!!!! He loves to sit on the big potty but never goes! Tonight he went and we made a huge deal about it! Hopefully he'll do it again tomorrow! I'll keep you posted!!!!

11/3/07

The Halloween post has finally arrived! Halloween lasted almost a week here at the Pillstrom house. Saturday, after attending 2 birthday parties...see April's blog for info on one of them...we went to a Halloween party with the college kids. Brady wanted to wear his costume so it was a trial run on the mummy. Ok...needless to say...I had a lot of work ahead of me. So, Sunday we went to a party with our small group! The kids looked great. Kaden was a clown and Brady wore the mummy again. Ok...try two was a bust. But he had fun.

This costume that Kaden's wearing is one that I made for Brady when he was one. I love it and Kaden looked so cute! He was so proud of himself!
This was the first pic of Brady in the mummy. He looked a lot better by the time we made it to Halloween night!


Look at my sweet baby boy! He loves suckers and of course he is super excited about all the candy he got Halloween.

Ok...so this is Halloween day. The boys wore their shirts that Gamma had bought them. Brady got to wear his pirate wig because it was pirate day at school. It matched his shirt really well!At school on Wednesday, the preschool kids came trick or treating to the class rooms. I totally had to post a pic of this little girl! She is Dora the Explorer and I thought she was too cute!Halloween night we went to Whit Bright's house. There were several of our friends there. Teresa and Sean brought a trailer with hay bails. We had the best time.
Kaden loved trick or treating. He was so cute sticking out his bucket to get candy! He racked up and had a blast.Brady cracked us up all night. He was the first kid off the trailer and the first to the door each time. Here's a cute pic of all the kids that went trick or treating with us. I have to say this was probably the most fun we've ever had on Halloween. Thanks to Whit for having us over that night!