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I got a new job

 

Sooooooooo.... I went on an interview, and this is what I wore, anyways- I hadn't been on a interview since I got hired at the middle school 8 years ago. I have to say I was a bit nervous. It did go well, they offered me a job................not the one I wanted..................

To make a very long story short, I went in politely stated that I have a good gig where I'm at and I don't want to leave for what you are offering. (I wanted something a bit less stressful...had a rough last year, kind of burnt out.) They said they would get back to me. 

Well they did.......while I was in the library bathroom trying to convince Olena to pee......over text message!

 

Have to say that is pretty much a first for me. And honestly, I dont really care how the message was delivered. I liked what it said ;)

Basically I am going to be a Deaf and Hard of Hearing teacher that travels and see kids, one on one, in different schools around the county for half of the day. The other half I will be in the classroom teaching DHH students at the high school and American Sign Language to hearing high schoolers. And that is the easy part!! Moving was the hard part. Beside crying because I really honestly never thought I would actually leave where I was, no matter how many times I threaten, I had more stuff then seamed humanly possible! Moving was defiantly interesting....

A couple pictures of the load

Here's a picture of my beautiful huge room I left...

And the tiny, itsy bitsy, one I came to....

Well after a couple of long days and some elbow grease, and a helping had of an awesome file cabinet mover, this is what it looks like now.

Yeah, at the moment I am still not sure where everything went! There is a bit more to do, but my physical space is now workable. And that lowers my stress level ALOT! Now it is on to trying to figure out how exactly I am going to get to work by 6:50 am every morning!!

PS: I do want to say a big THANK YOU to my man Derick and my brother Brannon for helping move all the stuff from one place to the other. I don't believe I would have actually accomplished that if it weren't for them!

My new favorite picture!!

 

This is a picture of Derick and his sister after he came home from drill a couple of weeks ago. This is great picture of both of them. Yep....pretty much my two favorite people...

Seriously...the third time trying to get these pictures on here

 

We were super excited to have the cousin come and visit us!!! Derick's mom and two sisters were here too. We all had a blast! The kids just swam and swam. It felt so good having the house full. One night I walked out into the kitchen, when everyone had gone to bed and the lights were low, and the house felt full and warm. It doesnt normally feel like that when it is just the three of us. I am not sure why. Anyways, the kids played and the adults goals were to keep the kids entertained and fed. Here are some pictures from the weekend

Tiggy Tighe being a proud solderer

And the girls being Snow Whites

Can you tell it was dress up day?

So it was VBS at my parents church and Mom and Jimmylee graciously took all kids 4 kids (that were old enough) and a two extra (my friend Charleen's kids) with them on the first night....alone...and lived...I actually think they enjoyed it. I know the kids did.

TANK, awe poor TANK. At one point I wasn't sure if he was tired, mopy, or over stimulated because there was so much chaos happening all at one time. He has the hardest time watching people swim. Where there are 5 or 6 people swimming, he about had a heart attack.  I think he thinks the water is hurting them so he barks and runs around telling them to get out of the pool.

 

Well everyone is gone now and the house is quite again, but we can't wait to see them again. I know I can't. For some reason I really love when Derick's family is around.

My Revelation

I know I have been absent from the blogging world for a while now. I can tell you all the reasons but I kind of don't want to hash it out now. And I keep telling myself I need to catch up. I will catch up. Well I figured out that I will never catch up. There is just too much and I kind of don't want to. So I am just going to go. Just start where we are at, it is a much better place than where we were before anyways. I am not guaranteeing great success but just starting out slow and see where it goes from there.
I know, pretty deep for just talking about updating our blog....
~Whitney

Weekend With Grandma

This past weekend Derick, O'lena, and I headed to Jacksonville to visit his mom who is watching her grand-kids while their parents are in Italy...Yes, Italy! So jelly! Derick had drill so after dropping us off he headed to Camp Blanding and O'lena and I stayed to help grandma. (Though I think we might have been more of a hindrance than help. You know how cousins get when they get together.) It was also first trip back for TANK. (We got him from Jessica and the family, I will post more on him later.) This is a picture of the happy puppy in the car on the ride up. I know he doesn't look it, but he really is enjoying himself.

 This is my nephew Vance. He has gotten so big since I last saw him at the beginning of the year. TANK and him were best of buds by the end of the weekend. TANK would lick all the food off his face and Vance would poke and pull on him. It was cute....until TANK wouldn't leave him alone. 

 So it was Tighe's birthday a little while back, and Grandma wanted to party. He is into Ninja Turtles right now, so Grandma and Natalie made him a Ninja Turtle cake, from scratch! It was awesome. Yes, Natale did the decorating. She is awesome! It was yummy!

Soooo, somehow Natalie got green dye on the underside of her nose from her master piece. I was teasing her about it and asked how in the world did she get dye on her nose. She replies, as serious as someone can be, "I don't know. My mom calls me a 'hot mess.' " I about died!! I laughed so hard. I am still giggling about it as I am writing!

Last, are the pictures of the party. The cousins ate turtle cake off turtle plates, opening turtle presents, all while dressed like a turtle! TURTLE POWER!!

So beside trying to kill one person, losing a baby, a couple of times (sorry Jess, we found him, each time...he's just so fast!,) and being inside the house the whole time because of the rain, all in all we had a great time. I am excited because they are all heading down this way very soon!!

Olena Learned to Swim

O'lena leaned how to swim this summer! I am super proud of her. She swims like a fish now! This video is from the beach week at FMBeach in June. She was kind of scooting around in the beginning of the week, but by the end this is what she was doing!