I'm So Excited...

And I just can't hide it!
So yesterday was my birthday and my merm got me a Cricut! It is the coolest machine that is like a dye-cutter on crack. I use my friends machines when we are all together to scrapbook, and then I come home and work on my books and think, oh I need a Cricut for this title, or something...So then I put that page to the side to be finished later...ask me if this is progressing the completion of the scrabooks? (Yes, plural.) So my plan is to get a couple more font cartidges in the next few weeks and have two books finished and one other caught up to current times by the time school starts. (Our Italy book will neither be finished or caught up-due to the ginormousness of it!) Anyways, if you want to come over and play with my Cricut you are so welcome to! But I have to warn you-you will want one.

On other birthday business-
I had a great time being with my family. I got some great gifts, and there are more to come today because today is dad's day. =) We had a nice relaxing morning yesterday while opening gifts, and then it was on to cousin Emma's 5th birthday party (her b-day is Tues. with her Aunt Sarah)-nothing like 5 year old girls squealing at every package that was opened. Then we went to shoot a round of sporting clays...love it! Get this I shot a 57 out of 100, but that's hitting over half the clays people and I don't do this often. (only when we are in edmond) And the best part is Jeremy scored a 52...that's right I beat him-on my birthday! I am telling you it was a great birthday. Last night, we went to dinner at an Italian place in the city and then had ice cream cake with my cousin Sarah to celebrate our birthdays. (hers is Tues.-same age as me-twin cousins) One last fabulous part- Jerm's getting me an iPhone for my birthday tomorrow. So I will official be one of "the cool people." =)

Hawaii

Well it's been a week or so since getting back from Hawaii, and I just realized I hadn't said or posted anything about it. We of course had a fantastic time as we usually do. Glad to be home though, we missed our Guinness terribly! And he of course missed us, and my sister was done being "tortured" by him. hehe I am having Jeremy pull all of our pictures from the camera onto flickr, so go visit flickr.com/jeremydcase if you want to see them all soon. I will post a couple of my favs on here in the next fews days. Oh and I have to mention I was like 10 feet from real live wild bottlenose dolphins...it was soooooo awesome! Dolphins are the coolest; they were swimming along the edges of the boat so they could get a free ride and not have to do the work lol. Anyways, I will post more about Hawaii later with pics of the dolphins among other things!

Farming

So I have taken up farming...
and before you say "what not teaching anymore...!" Let me stop you and say I am farming on farmtown on facebook...lol. I am so addicted and so is the rest of my family, mom, aunt, cousins, husband...someone has to stop us! I mean we are calling each other and having people check our farms to see if crops are ready to harvest, or we are planning ahead like, "oh i can't plant grapes...I won't be online to harvest them in 4 hours better plant potatoes." And to make matters worse it has chat on it, so the fam will get online and go to one persons farm and harvest and chat. (which i love because i get to talk to my fam from far away all together like we're in the same room rather than eachof them 1 at a time) Well got to get back to my farm... chatting with my bubba...stop the maddness

Too Busy...

So apparently I am too busy to blog anymore...not sure what it is I have been doing, but whatever. Why I didn't blog about my excitement of our upcoming trip earlier I don't know. We are leaving for Hawaii in two days, and we are super excited to go! It's been a whopping 4 years since we were there last, and it's always great for us to return to the paradise where we got engaged. Especially this year, since it's our 5 year wedding anniversary, it will be nice to spend time where we got engaged. We are excited to surf and snorkel again as well as lay around and do nothing in our cabana! The only bad part is leaving Guinness dog at home...I tried to convince Jeremy that we should buy him a ticket and bring him with us but I was shot down. Can't imagine why...;-)! I will have to get on and post some pics from the beach...and of course more photos after we get back.

The best Indy 500 to date

So we are having a blast on our Indy weekend.
Cousin Matt + wife Tricia + sister Caitlin + her roomate Amy + Jeremy & I = a buttload of laughs.
Also, our driver (our favorite) won today! How sweet is that! It was absolutely perfect weather, 89 partly cloudy, cold beer, great company, and as I mentioned Helio drove an awesome race. Pictures to come later...off to dinner!

Maundy Thursday

Tonite we went to dinner with our some people from our Lent group. We had a really good time, and enjoy their company. Then we went to church for Maundy Thursday service where Steph and Danny came in late and attempted to scoot down the pew to sit with us but were blocked by older people. So they sat with Jackson at the end , and he (Jackson) began to make friends with everyone around him. Funny parts of the evening included: him grabbing the glasses off the face of the guy next to him, no they did not know him, then he laughed. =) & grunting and making noises so that Jeremy asked me if there was a goat over there...he said "there was a donkey on sunday, thought maybe a goat today ;-)" But no just Jackson being silly...he was taken to the nursery shortly after that...lol...too bad I was enjoying watching him. The rest of the service was wonderful though, and we really enjoyed it. Hope you're having a good Holy week too.

So here I am...

Writing on my blog instead of on my paper...the questions are in my lap and the document is open on the laptop, does that count? Procrastination how I love thee...let me count the ways! So giving up fried food for Lent hasn't been hard except when going to Mexican restaurants or burger night, which happens often with my friends. Ordered a salad last week at burger night, not bad- just had another beer to take my mind off the sweet potato fries. Same with margaritas at Senor's when the chips keep being refilled. Other than that I've been doing great...now that I have updated you I really must write more of my paper. *Jeremy just caught me procrastinating, so I really MUST go.* oops!

The Videotaping Saga Continues

So I finally videotaped my kiddos again on friday, was all ready to take stuff home. Packed up the laptop, papers, record sheets, the power pack to the video camera- grabbed all my crap and was ready to make like a baby and head out. Because of the crappiness of the weather, I was a little overloaded with coat and whatnot, driving home feeling great about the video then I realize...left the video camera at school with the tape in it, have the power pack-no camera-no tape. There goes lots of planning to be productive right out the window seeing as there was nothing for me to work on except picking my 15 mins. of video and writing about it. Great Job Jessie! So I lug the crap back to school today minus the camera of course...can't find a single stinkin' moment today to watch the video or edit grammatical stuff Rebecca and Missy found. So here I am at home with all the crap again, yes I lugged it all home tonite, yes I remembered the camera. I have since getting home around 4:30 edited the first 7 pages of the 11 page paper, eating three cookies-some trail mix, watched toddlers & tiaras, watched part of days, (not in that order-there was multitasking involved of course) and I am now blogging rather than watching the stinkin' camera I forgot and have now lugged home. So alas, I must go eat some dinner and try to find my 15 mins. of video-fame-whatever...lol. Oh yeah, and don't get blown away by the crazy frickin' wind, I of course won't with all the crap I am lugging to and from school these days!

LOVING SPRING BREAK!

Title says it all...I have had time to get laundry caught up, clean the house, run errands, be crafty, excercise, play with my doggness, write 7 pages of my 11 page NBC paper, and more! I got to see my mom and step-dad for St. Pat's Day, got to go to Elton and Billy Joel (awesome!), spend evenings with Jeremy....it's been the best!

Videotaping Take Two

So, videotaping before was successful however...I need more conversating among my students apparently. Which I agree somewhat, and I know I should video again but I really don't want to! Oh well...will be videotaping again this week probably otherwise I risk my students being crazy after spring break. So wish me luck with the conversating...they talk all the time the rest of the day...

And yes I said spring break...t-minus 4 days and counting. I LOVE SPRING BREAK! Hopefully it will be nice weather, so I can be out in the yard doing stuff and being productive. NO traveling that I know of other than probably to Edmond, which I love cause I love my fam.