Our newest addition!

As many of you know James and I got a new puppy this weekend!  He is a sweet goldendoodle and we have decided to name him Kaiden...which means "loyal friend and companion"!  Over the last few days he has been wonderful and has not (knock on wood) had any accidents in the house!  His puppy personality is definitely coming out though and we are looking forward to him getting out of the chewing stage!  So far him and AJ get along OK for the most part though they definitely have their moments where AJ wants to be an only dog again!  Hopefully time will make it better though :)

Happy Valentine's Day...and a few other things!

James started off my Valentine's day weekend by having flowers sent to me at work on Friday...he is such a sweetheart and knows how to make me feel loved when i'm at work!  We didn't have much money to go out and celebrate v-day this year so we decided to stay in and we cooked together...I made James a special pizza (his favorite food) for dinner and he made me some yummy chocolate covered strawberries for dessert!  That is probably my FAVORITE treat and he makes them for me every year!

The heart shaped pizza I made...we ordered a heart shaped pizza from papa john's a few years ago but this one was made with much more love!!

We also got some snow this weekend on Friday night...it was very fun we got a few inches that came quickly and unfortunately it melted just as quickly as it came.  Before it melted we got up Saturday morning and went out and enjoyed it with a snowball fight and a little fun!

Last but definitely not least I thought I would put up a few pictures from when my parents came out to visit last weekend.  They came for four days and came into school to visit both mine and James's classes and they helped us out a lot around the house too!  We definitely enjoyed our visit with them!

Dad helped me hang up lots of things around the house!

Mom & Dad also brought the newest member of the family, Oliver, to visit our house!  He is definitely a sweetie!

We had our first official family gathering at our house too when Shelly and Gary and the boys came over for dinner.  It was a lot of fun for James and I to be able to entertain family in our new house!

Well guess that's about all for now...I will try to do better this month with updates...if anyone is still out there reading!

A Long Overdue Update

Well as Melissa has pointed out to me SEVERAL times it has been over a month since we last updated and I guess it is finally time to put one up!  So much has happened over the last month and I was not in a place where I could update so I guess I just let it all pass by!  I think I am just going to let the pictures tell you the story so that I don't leave anything major out so here goes...

Just after we got out of school we had the Kindergarten team over for a Christmas gathering...we drank lots of great wine and exchanged gift cards...a good time was had by all!

James and I also decided to bake Christmas cookies this year and deliver them to our neighbors.  I think he got a little more then he bargained for when he signed up to bake cookies but it was fun delivering them to our neighbors and getting to meet more of them!

Then we headed to Tennessee to have Christmas with our families!

Mom got us all "poppers" that had little flutes inside for us to play a song together...it didn't sound very good at all...we definitely need more practice before we go on the road!

A nice picture in front of the tree of the Bogusky side of the family...guess our side doesn't like to have a picture taken!!

After Tennessee we headed to Michigan and Illinois (there and back in 3 days) to visit Eric and Grandpa.

Yep...we saw LOTS of snow and even some deer in Grandpa's yard which was pretty cool!

And THAT my friends just about sums up the month of December for us!  We started back at work this past weekend after 3 weeks off and are currently enjoying our 3 day weekend since we have Monday off for MLK day!  James and I are right back at it with our graduate and doctorate work and are also trying to do a reading with our church...the new testament in 30 days...so needless to say we are doing a LOT of reading between all of that!  We are going to also be getting our house painted and a new fence this week so I will take pictures of those and that will probably be our next post! 

This weekend my cousin Tyler is staying with us and we got to take him to his pinewood derby for boyscouts yesterday.  I had never experienced anything like it but thought I would post a few pics from that too!

These are the cars that the boys made...I was VERY impressed by how creative the are!

Tyler (on the right) took 3rd place once, 2nd place once, and 1st place in three of his races so needless to say he was very excited and we were very proud of him too!

OK I think that is all for now...hope that satisfies you Melissa (haha) and we will hopefully post more soon!

Holiday Fun!

Well we sure have been busy around here getting ready for the holidays!  I think that we can finally say that we have all of our shopping done and we have been very excited to decorate our new house and put up our Christmas tree.  Here are a few pictures of our decorations!

Our mantle with the nativity scene that my grandmother made and our Christmas tree!

AJ's Christmas picture!

Last night we also had our staff Christmas party for school.  We all went to a local golf club and had dinner and did some dancing.  It was a lot of fun to get to see everyone outside of work and spend time together!

The kindergarten team...well those of us that were at the party atleast!

"The guidance girls!"

Our principal...a.k.a Santa!

James with Mr. Wright our custodian...Mr. Wright was lookin good and his "pimp hat" was a hot item at the party!

James and I have had a really great start to the holidays so far and we are excited to get to spend one more week at school and then have three weeks off to spend with our families!

Final Project

I had my final level 1 cake decorating class yesterday so thought I would post a picture of my final cake for the class!  Let me know what you think!

My Newest Hobby!

Well that's right about a month and a half ago I was walking around in Hobby Lobby with James and just as we were going out the door I saw a sign for an upcoming Wilton cake decorating class...so what did I do?  I signed up of course!  I mean I did have two free nights during the week so why not fill up one of them with something fun!  I am taking the class with my friend Jeanne that I work with and we have had a lot of fun doing it together so far!  Here are some pictures of the cakes that I have made.  My last class for this session will be this coming Tuesday so stay tuned for pictures of my "final project"!!  Oh boy!

This was the first cake that I made...we were pretty much able to choose our creation and it was definitely fun!  I was very proud of having a filling in the cake which I had never done before!

This was the second cake that we made in class when we learned how to make clowns.  I thought they were super cute and fun to make, I really enjoyed this one! 

Keep me in mind as your official cake decorator for the next clown party at your house!!

This guy was my favorite with his legs hanging off the side!

Finally I just finished up a cake this evening for a friend of ours on James's grade level who will be celebrating her 60th birthday next week!  We are having a few people over tomorrow to celebrate with her so James thought it would be a good time for my cake debut!

I had fun getting creative with this cake and making the roses...James insisted on having black roses for the cake!  I think it turned out pretty good though I will definitely be working on my cake writing skills!

This was the first rose that I made in our class...it's supposed to be the hardest thing to make for cakes!  If anyone has a sweet tooth just stop on by our house because after these last few weeks I think I am done eating cake for a while!

Sunset Beach

Last weekend my wonderful hubby surprised me with a trip to the beach for the weekend!  I came home from class on Thursday and was told to pack my bags and that we were leaving the next day!  We went to Sunset Beach which is about 3 1/2 hours from our house and just relaxed and walked around the beach and enjoyed spending time together...it was FABULOUS!  We had both been really busy with work and classes lately and it was nice to just get away and leave all of that behind!  I'm one of those people that the sound of the waves crashing is instantly calming for me so it was great to just walk and talk with the man I love and have been married to for 16 months (he said the trip was for our 16month anniversary)!! 

I thought it was pretty cool looking at our footprints in the sand...so I took a picture of course!

We both tested out the water and didn't get much farther then our toes...it was COLD!

Beautiful scenery and crashing waves...a perfect combo!