26 October 2009

depressing blog...beware!

Once again...we don't have anything interesting to blog about. We are both just trying to not drown in school work. I'm trying to be positive, but this is seriously one of the busiest/craziest points in our lives. Dan spends 1/3 of his time riding the train back and forth from Wilsonville and Portland, 1/3 in class and the other 1/3 working on art projects. If you don't have a phobia of fractions, you can see that there is hardly enough time for sleeping and eating or anything else entertaining (yes, at this point sleeping and eating are a luxury!)

I don't even want to go into the details of my crazy life as a 1st year teacher. Just trying to describe what I do on a daily basis gives me a headache. How do teachers stay sane? It's a struggle every day. I love working at my small high school....science is fantastic....I love my students. But I am stressed. I am almost wishing H1N1 on myself, just so I can stay home for a day or two...

So here is what we do when we are 1) Avoiding our work or 2) Celebrating our minuscule minutes of free time.
  • watch The Office (we're finally caught up!)
  • shop online for the things we wish we could have (Goorin Bros. hats for dan, vacations for Carlie)
  • edit photos
  • watch any of our recorded tv shows on DVR (heroes, greys anatomy, private practice, project runway, HBO movies, jon and kate plus 8, top model, etc...)
  • take naps
  • pretend like we have time and motivation to work out
  • facebook (carlie has an addiction)
  • try to make dinner/game plans with friends
We hope you all are staying A LOT less busy, but we know many of you are in the same boat. We miss everyone who we've been neglecting lately....call us! We'll get better at our hectic lives!

20 October 2009

Birthday Month Festivities

Well Birthday month is pretty much over :( , but here are a few pics of this years celebrations. Since I've joined Dan's family and since the birth of our niece and nephew, our family gets to celebrate 5 birthdays all within about 5 weeks. So I've started calling it Birthday Month!

To start off we have Dan's birthday on September 28th
Then it was my birthday exactly one week later, October 5th.

This year, Dan's parents came up to celebrate our birthdays together. We made a trip to the Portland Art Museum, ate at California Pizza Kitchen, ate delicious chocolate cake from Costco and enjoyed each others company just the 4 of us. As you can see, Dan acquired the always needed art supplies, and other art related gifts. My gifts included The Office Season 5 (hilarious!), Fossil jewelry, a new satiny robe from VS and an amazing new hair dryer. Dan and I also celebrated our birthdays some more by going out for CPK again on my actual birthday.

One week after my birthday, is Dans moms birthday. So we headed to Eagle Point for the
weekend, to celebrate her birthday as well as our nephews (which is this week) and our niece's which is two weeks after. We also celebrated with a faux Thanksgiving dinner because Dan's brother was home on leave from Iraq and won't be here for all the festivities. I also had a delicious breakfast that same morning with my sister, nana and Dad. So we had a pretty busy weekend!

And now birthday month is over..... :( But the holidays will be here soon...

Here are a few pictures of the kids last weekend.

This picture reminds me of the book, Where the Wild Things Are! :)

07 October 2009