The Girls with Glasses

I usually wake up a couple hours before Adam on the weekends and make this my "Amy time"... This time is usually spent turning on the Food Network (praying that watching people cook will inspire me to do so) or surfing random blogs online. This was my find today and I am in love with it! It is a online variety/talk show, The Girls with Glasses, that is super cute! So here are a couple quick videos, check it!

 

The Water Project

Last summer I felt like I wanted to do some sort of a service project for our school. I looked up different options and organizations, tossed around ideas that I thought would be neat for my school to raise money and awareness for. I came up with The Water Project! A lot of students in Elkhorn...Nebraska...and even the US, are unaware of how blessed we are here in this nation. I wanted to show them what was going on across the world. Quick stat: Every 15 seconds a child dies from unclean water. When approaching my principal this fall about it I was unsure of how if would pan out...lucky for me, my principal is amazing and was all for it! Oh yeah Anne Doerr! So, we thought we'd wait until after the busy fall and wedding until we put this into motion. 

This last Monday, we had an assembly presenting this service project to all of the 500+ Fire Ridge kids and staff. I was veryyyy nervous about heading up this assembly...Long story short, it went pretty well (aside from the part of the assembly when Ms. Sara was describing the difference between the clean water we have here and the dirty water they have in third world countries, following up by asking what kids would want to drink some of this water with animal poop, pee, bacteria, and dirt in it...of course three students threw up their hands...TWO OF THEM IN MY VERY OWN CLASS! Ugh! After I was JUST giving my own class the inside scoop about this service project and how important it was...You have GOT to be kidding me!).

At the assembly we presented the students with "The 2 Week Challenge" (Shout out to Britt Hardin for speaking)... Basically, they are to drink ONLY water for the next two weeks. Then, take the money you would have spent on soda, juice, sports drinks, bottled water etc., and put it aside to give clean water. They would collect their savings and put it in a cup that were handed out last Monday. The money would then be totaled up and donated to The Water Project Organization to help build wells for small villages in Africa and India! So great!


We are halfway through the project (It ends April 15) and I'm so unsure on what the results will be. It's TOTALLY up in the air! Kids could be saving money daily or they could have thrown the idea out right after the assembly on Monday. So, it will be interesting. I've really been praying about it and know that if whether we raise $100 or $2,000 it will help those in need!

The kids will carry gallons of water around on Monday to get a little little glimpse of what girls have to do daily in Africa. This is one gallon. Sometimes they carry 5 gallons (which is 40 lbs) 6-7 hours a day!

Student Council made some posters to put around the school:)

Students have wristbands to remind them of the "2 Week Water Challenge".

I will keep you updated with the results! 


http://thewaterproject.org/

and I said yes...to a bulldog!

As many of you know I am not what you would call an "animal lover"...I don't know why, I wish I could be, I think I should be, but I'm just not. I usually get the response "but you teach little kids...", ha. I may teach the little ones, but having cats walk in between my legs with their tail out and about gives me the creeps, and doggie drool....just not a fan. There have been countless times where my friends will take over to "protect" me when it comes to the animal creatures. Whether Jen and I are at a friend's house with animals (immediately there is eye contact made between the two of us...she knows that I know a dog is quickly approaching my area, usually I try to secretly move behind her, and let her take over the petting approach) or when Breezer and I used to go on walks around different neighborhoods. As soon as I would hear a dog bark I would dash around her to the opposite side of street the dog was, I would freak out and nervously think about how big the dog would be or how fast it could catch us, all the while she is laughing and making fun of me. So yeah, animals...don't want one, not ever getting one...

Adam and I will be picking up our bulldog in a few weeks...I gave in! Ever since I knew Adam, he has ALWAYS wanted a bulldog.  He strategically has been sending me pictures, photos, videos, anything he could about bulldogs for the last two years. I think he had a plan that getting me used to the idea of "awww the puppy is kinda cute" would make it easier in the long run to get my "okay"...which it did, so props to him (and anybody else in this situation you could learn from this sly little planner-ha).

Yesterday Adam and I decided to paint the food and water bowls for our little "Bruce the Bulldog". Note: I have recently found that little Bruce might come in very handy for me as well...(It would have taken a lot more talking for Adam to go to "That Pottery Place" if I just wanted to go paint frames, plates, and vases:) but since it was for Bruce, he was in in a heartbeat)!
 

Here's a look into our painting! We will go back next week once they have been glazed & fired to pick 'em up!

And here is a quick preview of little Bruce. Born February 21:) We will go get him the day before Easter if everything goes as scheduled...This will be interesting!

Colors, Words, and Shelves.

So...three things I want to share and three things that have nothing to do with each other. Bear with me here...

1) Cards. For anyone who knows me, they know not to send me into Hallmark quick to grab "a card". Minimum time spent in there will probably be 30 minutes, give or take. I have multiple boxes stacked up in the closet at home designated for my "cards" (yes, it may be pathetic, this I understand, however, am choosing to ignore it). Some, of course, are for "certain events" that happen with friends and family (duh Amy, right.)... aka , my last minute "Thank God I bought this card 4 months ago" cards to grab as I am throwing on my long, gold Jcrew necklace and rummaging through my bins of shoes to head to a wedding that we should have been heading to fifteen minutes prior! A lot of the cards that I buy are displayed around wherever. School, my room, the bathroom, anywhere...(This is now a little trickier to pull off since Adam thinks it is not super necessary to have twenty cards stuck on our fridge, the bathroom mirror, etc.). I love to send random cards though! Cards in the mail, to someone, just because it's "March 20" (which means nothing at all). I will say I have been slacking in this area since the wedding and whatnot (and I don't even want to think about all the thank yous I have yet to start..!!!), but I think I will make it my "summer goal" to do this better. Before Adam and I were even engaged we talked about starting our own card company! Perfect! There are more times then I can count when having your husband be a creative little son-of-a-gun comes in veryyyy handy:) Here are just some random cards that make me smile (the best one, of course, being one my lil bro made for me for my 22nd bday, let's just say...he forgot about my birthday, I made him feel supperrr guilty, and that sparked him to do something a little more personal that would get him outta the doghouse with his older sister- ha)!

My friend Rachyl moved out to Cali and sent me this one. I'm a sucker for the sparkles and bright colors!

From the Boss himself (aka Austin)

2) I don't think many people got to see how Adam proposed to me, so here is a little booklet that he made and shared with me on June 10, 2010! Hooray, he is so dang cute!

One day when we were out for dinner he drew two stick people on a napkin holding hands and I was obsessed with it! Hence, the stick people:) 

3) Shelves....So, I didn't know that practically every small piece of furniture you buy you basically have to put together! What?! Adam and I used some of our gift cards from good ol' Target to buy a shelf for our room...needless to say, what we thought would be a 45 minute project turned into a 4 hour and 50 minute project! Ahh! We would proudly screwed in bolts, humbly unscrewed them (figured out how the piece was really suppose to go), and screwed it in the correct way. This was what we did. and did. and did.  Let's hope we have lots of time to get better at this....ha. 

Snugglefest 2011

As cheesy as it is, one of my favorite things to do is snuggle! Ha. The other day before I left for work I told Adam I just wanted to snuggle the whole day and not go to work. He responded by saying..."so like a snugglefest?"...This caught my attention quick, but I knew there wasn't such a thing obviously. I laughed, thought about how much fun that would be if there was one, and left to go spend the day with 20 nine-year olds.  A couple days later I got the mail and this is what I found:

Hahaa...I loved it...and just so happened it was on our big "1 month" anniversary:) Adam is so good.

Mexico or Bust!

Honeymoon time! Adam and I went to to a resort called El Dorado Royale in Riviera Maya for our honeymoon... and LOVED it! Due to my teaching schedule we decided to go a couple weeks after the wedding. It worked out perfect...gave us some time to get the house together, relax, and anticipate our trip! 

This was our view as soon as we checked in...beautiful, gorgeous...and a little more beautiful!

It was funny because as we were driving up to the resort I mentioned to Adam (with my best puppy dog face) that "maybe on an anniversary we could stay in a casita (these little adorable individual huts that are more spacious, personal, romantic, etc.)...". He looked at me and just said "Amy, let's be content with what we have...our room in the hotel will be fine"... I was a little disappointed in that answer (in my heart I wanted him to say "Of course honey, anything for my sweet little bride") but I thought that he made a good point, we were in MEXICO! Warm weather, sandy beaches, all inclusive, with my new husband...praise God! So, as we checked in we were told that our room wasn't ready....and YOU GUESSED IT...CASITAS! So Adam and I got to enjoy the casitas for two nights before making out transfer over the our original hotel room...and they were nothing short of perfect!

We spent countless hours on the beach, ate, drank, and were "marr-ied". Found some little island creatures, went snorkeling, read the bible poolside, and enjoyed the wonders that God has made. Here is a little glimpse into our trip!

Here We Are!

Hi friends! Welcome to our blog! Adam and I are excited to get to share some of our fun moments through life with you. I'm not exactly sure how my new "hobby (as my friend Britt from school calls it)" will go...but that's okay! We will give it a whirl! 

So as most of you know, Adam and I just got MARRIED this month and are continuing to take it all in! Ah, so much...it seems surreal that the months of planning, creating, deciding, and excitement for this one day has already come and gone. We are so happy with how everything turned out and continue to talk about all of our friends and family that were there and how much it meant to us. God has truly blessed us in more ways then you can count! 

Our photographer Khara, kabloomstudios.com, was AMAZING! We loved her! So great!

 I was so happy that all of our envisioning of the colors worked out! Yes! We had so much help from friends and family it was ridiculous! From anything to my mom and I staying up late on "school nights" making the centerpieces, to my dad welding doors together for the entryway, to Adam's grandma making the ties for the guys, my grandma making the shawls for the ladies, my cousin Ali finding the perfect necklaces, my cousin Abs making the most adorable hairpieces, a teacher friend making her famous whoopie pies, and of course my "better half (truly)" designing countless items (assigned seating, the guest book poster, etc). I'm surprised he didn't want to strangle me by the time February got here!

We had our reception at the SAC Museum in Ashland, my hometown. It was quite fun to meander around with all the planes and aircraft!  

Our big day was definitely a day to remember....Adam kept saying to me throughout the night, "Am, remember this"...it practically would bring tears to my eyes...I was ACTUALLY walking through my wedding day... something that I had gone over so many times in my head before. Words can't express how thankful I am for my new husband and I am excited to see what the Lord has planned for our future...:)