Spirit Week

This week at work is Spirit Week!! Today was "Wear Your Pajamas to Work/School Day!"

This is what I wore to work today!!

Have I mentioned how much I love my job???

 

Be looking for tomorrow's post...It is CRAZY HAT day!!

Recent Happenings!

We have had some interesting things happen in our lives over the last couple of weeks!

First off...I GOT A NEW JOB!! I am now officially a teacher at the St Thomas Aquinas Child Development Center in College Station. I absolutely love my job. My sister Sarah also works there. We go to lunch almost everyday. It is wonderful to be able to spend more time with her. I also get to work with kids all day and see their innocence and also their excitement about learning new things! Kids really do speak their minds about anything and everything. I have lots and lots of good stories to tell when I get home from work everyday, which on a side note is ALWAYS at 5:30. That's right, I have a set schedule, I work M-F from 8:30 - 5:30. What a blessing from the Lord that I was able to get this fantastic job that not only relieves some financial stress and but also makes me so HAPPY!

Second...we found out this week that Chris has been chosen as a finalist for the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation Scholarship to Oklahoma City Law School!! This is a huge honor. This scholarship is a full ride scholarship to Oklahoma City, PLUS a book stipend, PLUS a living stipend. There are only 20 finalists chosen out of all applicants that apply. Those 20 finalist are then flown back to Oklahoma City to go through an interview process. The interview will determine with applicants are then chosen to receive the scholarship. There are between 4 and 6 scholarships awarded each year. It would be a huge deal to be awarded the scholarship, but it is also huge to be chosen to be in the 20 because the 16-14 applicants who are not chosen to receive this scholarship are awarded  supplemental funding.

I am so proud of all the hard work that Chris has put into Law School. This decision will just help us become closer to figuring out where we are going to be! (Just in case anyone is wondering, there is no way we would turn down a full ride! So if he gets this scholarship, then we are going to be living in Oklahoma City!!) 

In case you want more info on the scholarship you can click here!

And finally..last night Bryan and Meredith and Davanee stopped by for a surprise visit to show me Davanee's new sunglasses because there are just like Aunt Rebecca's! Davanee had decided she wanted to watch a movie, The Jungle Book,  in our bedroom and was snuggled underneath my favorite blanket! I just love this girl. She is so darn Cute!

Valentines Day!

I love Valentines day! Not only because it is a guarantee that I will receive flowers, but also because it is a day specifically set aside for you to share your love with the person you love! This valentines day Chris and I decided not to spend a bunch of money on each other but decided to give simple gifts instead!

Chris gave me...

and

and a new hand mixer b/c the one I had broke!

I gave Chris

(These are Naked Mohawk-Baby Carrot Jokeys...for more info check out the cool blog Cake Wrecks at

This Link!)

and some coupons (not pictured b/c they are personal!)

Chris also got some other stuff...wink wink!

Also to celebrate Valentines Day  and as a gift to the both of us Chris came up with the idea to frame our Sealing License along with a picture of the Dallas Temple! So we went to Hobby Lobby and picked out a frame and had a custom mat cut to frame our stuff. We are still waiting for the mat to come in, so I will post a pic of that when it comes!

I hope everyone had as great of valentines day as we did!

Thanks and Gig'em