Little Max Sperry!

Here is sweet little Max. Monday night after Family Home Evening, Dan and I snapped a few of him....they turned out really adorable. Emily and Kris....now you can enter him into the Cutest Baby contest! :) Emily - I'm getting getting some photos printed this week, so let me know if you want copies...or if these pictures don't save right on your computer.

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My sister

It's always pretty hilarious when my sister is around

This is went the dog farted and interrupted our photo session....

Jetta: Our pretty, but mean looking dog that is actually really sweet (to people) 

:)

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Longest post ever

Happy New Year!

You would not believe how many pictures I have to post from the past few weeks! Thanks to the snow storm we had in salem and portland, I had an ENTIRE week off of school!! It was a great way to start off winter break!  

So here's a list of the great things Dan and I's winter break included:

• I finally cut my hair! It was so long...too long! I probably cut off about 7 inches...I didn't want to measure and be sad about it, so I just did it! I loved it for awhile, but it was slowly starting to drive me insane. So here's one of the last pictures taken with my long hair:

• Visiting with my favorite friend from the Dirty South, ASHLEY! We basically played scrabble, blink (to be mentioned later), listened to Dan's 'rymes' music and watched The Hills (don't even say anything...) the entire time. Good Stuff! Now she's back in Mississippi being an awesome Teach for America teacher. 
  

• Hanging out with our adorable niece and nephew. They are the cutest kids ever. I have a trillion pictures of them (Attn: Anita!!). Eddie is talking and saying all sorts of crazy funny things now too.

Leila

Eddie

• Finally we got to spend Christmas with our family!! It was great to spend time with our family after being so far away in Florida for over a year. We visited with both of our families, saw grandparents, hung out with the kids, watched movies, played games, etc. We ate ridiculous amounts of food, baklava (courtesy of Dan!), and Dan's mom made us breakfast (with bacon!) every morning! We definitely enjoyed ourselves. 

I got to go skiing at Mt. Ashland with my dad and brother, Sam. It was pretty cool. Sam and I hung out and cruised down the slopes. Hopefully, we'll get a chance to go again in the spring. 

Here is Chester, the new addition to my dad's family. He's pretty cute, I'd say the cutest of the 6 dogs (yes, 6! it's ridiculous)

• I also got to spend some time with my sister, which I'm going to post those pictures on another post, because there are a fair amount of pictures!

• For New Years we went out in downtown Portland. I'm pretty sure Dan and I hold the record for having the most boring new year's eve's (always falling asleep at home) and one absolutely amazing new year's eve (2006 in London!). So this year we tried to even it out some! 

We went to the Cheesecake Factory with Ashley for dinner and ordered WAY TOO MUCH food!

Here we are playing Blink (the fastest game in the world!) waiting to be seated. Basically it was a fair game between Ash and I, but Dan...well he put in good effort.  :)

Miranda joined us downtown and we ended up walking all around downtown Portland looking for a decent place to go. After $60, a couple of hours of dancing, a new years countdown, getting lost a few times and 5 huge blisters later we headed home exhausted! 

Here I am trying to seduce Dan onto the Dan floor....haha! It worked, he's a good dancer!

• New Years Day I had to pull myself outta bed at 630am (after being out until 3am!) to head to Eastern Oregon to visit my best friend Natalie! I'm also going to post more pictures of that on another post, because I had too much of an amazing time to not talk about it more. :)

So that was basically our winter break in a nutshell! Now, I am enjoying a couple more days of partial freedom (I'm working at my student teaching site a little bit, getting ready for next semester) until the MAT program starts back up on Monday. Dan is getting back to painting. He also is getting into working out and made a little isometric workout station in our house (it's pretty nifty!). We're waiting to hear about getting into Art school still. 

Thanks for those that updated us on how their holiday's went! 

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2 snow days...going on 3? 4? 5???

So 2 SNOW DAYS in a row!!!

It's great! I'm really getting a good start to this whole relaxing winter break thing. I love it.

At the same time, it's so much funner (not a word) being an actual student and having snow days. As a teacher, it's just frustrating. I am supposed to be in my classes getting to know the students, learning how they learn best, etc before I start teaching them in January.  And now they are going to be so behind in lesson plans....Oh well!

It's supposed to snow again tonight and all tomorrow, so we're guessing no school tomorrow, and probably not on Thursday either...and why would we go just on Friday??? Looks like early winter break for me! :)

We hope everyone is staying warm and cozy and enjoying the holidays wherever you are!!!

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Baklava!

Dan made the best baklava last week. It was so delicious! It was far better than any store bought baklava we've ever tasted...he's such a great chef! I'm so lucky! :)

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worst snow day ever

i hate the stupid snow....

okay, that's not true! :)

BUT - because of the snow and crazy oregon drivers who can't drive in 3in's of snow i couldn't go to the sara bareilles concert that i got tickets to go to tonight. 

what a waste of $40. i'm so upset! i was sooo excited to go to her concert with a few friends. i never spend my money on concerts either, even when I really want to go!!! but we had to call it off last minute because the roads were just too snowy and icy. how annoying. they were requiring chains in downtown portland...lame!!! i'm sure we would have made it just fine...but it's supposed to be about 15 degrees tonight and it would be scary driving back at midnight or whatever time the concert got out! i know there is going to be a ton of ice!! 

but on a happier note... IT SNOWED A WHOLE LOT! I was pretty disappointed this morning to wake up and not have very much snow, but then this afternoon is just started falling on down. We've probably got around 4 inches??? that's a lot for salem!! :) 

And SCHOOL IS PROBABLY CANCELLED TOMORROW!!! How fantastic is that??? WAHOO!

But no Sara Bareilles.....man, it just sucks!!!! 

I'm going to go watch a chick flick and drink apple cider to cheer me up...

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snow?

it's supposed to snow this weekend!!

i can't stop looking out the window to check to see if it's started yet...

dan won't stop making fun of me, but it's been awhile since i've seen snow (we were living in florida for nearly 1.5 years, sheesh!!!)

although, i love snow and the possibility of being stuck inside all day, having snowball fights in the 2 inches of snow that we get :) and having school delayed (not cancelled, because then we have to stay extra in June)...I am supposed to go to the Sara Bareilles concert tomorrow night with friends...and I don't want travelling to be a hassel!

so everyone wish for snow, but not too too much so we can drive safely to portland (okay, we have snow tires, but still....other people are stupid)

thanks!

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Way Overdue

Well, we are way over due on some updates!

Biggest news: Carlie has survived her first work sample! It was rough...but I don't want to think about it anymore. It's done. Enough said. 

We had a great Thanksgiving break. We drove down to EP with our good/"old" friend Misty and had 3.5hrs of

 catching up on the way down there and 3.5hrs of more catching up on the drive back. It was great!

We ate 3 different thanksgiving dinners. One at my nana's, one at my dad's and another one with Dan's family. Our stomachs were pretty stretched, but it was good good food! 

We also did some quality Black Friday shopping with Miranda. Coupons lulled us in, and we bought a new wonderfully warm and cozy quilt for our bed. Now we are looking for the perfect duvet....

The best part of our weekend back in EP was playing with our niece and nephew...they are sooo 

adorable! They are just too much fun! But Dan says, not enough fun to convince us to move to that next step in our lives quite yet :) Maybe soon.... ;)

Moving on.....now, that I'll probably be banished from blogging ever again if Dan ever sees that I'm discussing this online.... jk!! HAHA!

Here are some pics from our weekend!

Here is Eddie hamming it up for the camera. We were trying to get him to smile earlier and he wouldn't, then out of the blue he looks at me, smiles and says cheeese. Too cute!

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