Please pray for The Tuley Family and sweet baby Jacob. His life so far has been an answered prayer, but he needs many more prayers on his behalf as he goes into surgery in the next day or so. Julie, his mom is a teacher in my district.
And finally, this is sweet baby Reed who had been waiting for a heart transplant for a while. His family's blog is here. He has his brand new heart and is almost ready to go home!!
I've sort of organized things by categories, it could be a bit better but I was working in the cold today and didn't want to take the time to literally pull everything off the shelves. As you can see we have an assortment of dishes, kitchen supplies, serving pieces, decor, basically whatever you need for a home we have it!
3. Kids coming to meet you...
You can read more information about Chinese New Year here. We are celebrating in my third grade classroom today by compiling a Chinese New Year folder with a map of 
so I could relax my sore muscles! We had SO MUCH junk in the attic and I've been waiting to get my hands on it for years. You may know from reading other posts that my mom, I love her, but she is a major hoarder of goods! We took one full truck load to Goodwill and one full truck load to the dump and we still have more to go! We had to get get through the attic before we could fit (or re-fit) our Christmas Tree and Decorations back in the attic. (Yes, our Christmas tree is still up:)) We do have the ornaments off and packed away, though! We're making progress! We cleaned out things like all of my dad's textbooks from Pharmacy school in the 1960's, all of my brother's work from college and law school (three full boxes of textbooks and work), old magazines saved for no reason????, newspapers from when Kennedy was shot, Elvis died, and Princess Diana got married. They were all dry rotted because they've been in the attic not in a box or anything for 30+ years. In the treasures we found...
and also original Cabbage Patch Kid clothes, and an adorable Snoopy and Belle dress up dolls with a clothes closet from the late 1970's/early 1980's as well. I had forgotten these were in the attic.
Some other fun treasured items were a school book of my mom's when she was in 'Beauty School' after high school and before she and my dad married she had 'doodled' her name with my dad's last name in the front cover of it! She wrote what her full name would be...Mrs... haven't we all done that at some point? Report Cards and school work for both Eddie and me and even my dad! So it was a productive, fun, but sore weekend!
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are teaming up for a fabulous giveaway! You can go here to enter: Monogrammed Teacher's . And you can click on both headers above to go each of their blogs. The prize is a super cute monogrammed tote! I for one love anything monogrammed! 
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Thanks Danielle at Well, that's just fabulous for the Honest Scrap award! Thanks so much! You need to check out her blog and Blog Design site if you haven't already, by the way!
4. I have no savings:( Which is why I shouldn't do #3.
2. Sunscreen. I try my best to use sunscreen everyday, even in the winter months. I love the Peter Thomas Roth line because it is light and doesn't clog your pores. The body spray is wonderful for your arms and neck areas. The little sunscreen brush is instant mineral sunscreen powder and I use it in the afternoons at recess and dismissal at school. My 'duty' is car rider dismissal and so I'm directly in the afternoon sun for 40-50 minutes with both recess and dismissal. I don't want to smear sunscreen lotion on at those times so I just use this brush and I'm ready.
3. Water, I drink lots of it every. single. day. I crave it actually. I like to think it helps my skin.4. Moisturize, because my skin is very dry I use a very creamy moisturizer at night (Cetaphil) and a lighter one for day (Oil of Olay). This can be tricky because I don't want to use too much to clog my pores, but yet I need to feel moisturized. I also am allergic to most smells so I have to have a strictly fragrance free moisturizer and they are hard to find!
5. Glycolic Acid Hydrating Gel I did't want to leave out my nightly use of this product. It clarifies the skin and helps to even out rough textures. It moisturizes without greasiness. Their are many different brands of gycolic acid, but this is the only one I've used.
These sweet little twin boys were born on November 12th to a sweet couple I know through friends. Little Reed needs a heart transplant and is in the NICU at Vanderbilt. The wait for a healthy heart seems to be taking a while and so I thought I'd post this request to all my readers out there to lift him up in your prayers. Pray that he continues to stay healthy between now and when a heart becomes available. Of course to receive a healthy heart means another family has to experience a tragic loss. So let's lift them up also, wherever and whomever they may be. Little Reed seems like a fighter and I know he will make it home to his twin brother soon! You can read more about them here.
We went to the Dixie Stampede for the final night of their Christmas Spectacular! It was a live Nativity among other things. Good fun and great show!
Santa even was there!
The scene outside our window
Aunt Shelby and mom
My second cousin, Taylor
Aunt Shelby
Aunt Judy
Santa comes to the hotel on Saturday nights with his guitar and sings to the kids. It was so cute!
Faye, my aunt Shelby's friend and me. We love it when she joins us! She is a professional photographer and I wish I had about a month to learn from her about taking pictures and camera setting and everything! It is so interesting to me...but still I keep my camera on the automatic setting most of the time:(
