Wednesday, February 17

Happy Ash Wednesday! Don't forget to go to church!

Tuesday, February 16

Lauren and the terrible, no good, very bad day.

I've had "one of those days" today. I'm not going to go into it publicly, but I sure am glad it's about over!

Monday, February 15

Happy Birthday, Stacy!
Tonight we joined some friends (both new and old) from Restoration for a dinner to celebrate Stacy's birthday. It was a fun time with great friends and gourmet food. We went to Villa O in Uptown, which features a free two course meal on Mondays and an extensive wine list.


I also had a PDH (Professional Development Hours) day, with no students and several sessions to attend. It was interesting and included seminars on new technology ideas and how to help cut back on plagiarism. Overall, it was a good Monday!

Sunday, February 14

Happy Valentine's Day!
David planned a very sweet, two-part Valentine's surprise by cooking me dinner Saturday night and then taking me to a nice, upscale dinner Sunday night. Both were wonderful!!! David made us Cajun chicken with fettuccine in an Alfredo sauce, with cheesy garlic biscuits and a salad. It was wonderful and he really is a great chef!

Sunday night we unfortunately were not able to get All-Star tickets, but we had a lovely meal at Rathbun's Blue Plate Kitchen. Kent Rathbun is a renowned chef with several restaurants in the Dallas area, one of our favorites being Jasper's.Jasper's is pretty pricey, so we thought we'd try the 'new' eatery with a lower price point. We are SO glad we did! The BPK was just as good as Jasper's, and a lot less! We highly recommend it!

I hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day and are ready to start the new week!

Saturday, February 13

This morning, AT&T was supposed to come and install the mythical, wonderful, amazing thing known as U-Verse while I met some old friends from HS and A&M for breakfast at Spoons in Old Downtown McKinney. Well, of course the UVerse couldn't be installed (this has been ongoing drama in David's life) so he joined us! And I think he's glad he did, because now there's a SLIGHT SLIGHT chance we could get to go to the small basketball gathering going on at Cowboys Stadium tomorrow night. This is because my friend from HS and college, Shane, and his wife Cassandra, both work for the Boston Celtics and might have some extra tickets. Stay tuned to see if we get to go! And all I'm asking is.....

Will The Big Guy be there? :)

Friday, February 12

SNOW DAY!!!!
David and I both have the day off today because of the record snow we received yesterday. What did we do on our surprise day off? We slept in (David), watched a movie (Lauren), threw snowballs at the doggies (fun! you should try it!), AND made a snowman!

We think he's pretty cute! We're having a nice, relaxing day. We hope you are too!

Thursday, February 12

Happy New Year!!! I haven't blogged since Christmas! YIKES!

Today we are having a record snow- the most the DFW area has ever seen in one day! AMAZING! Here's what my students were looking at today instead of listening to me talk about the Prologue of Invisible Man:

After my last class 5th period, I decided to head home during my conference to avoid the rush hour traffic and worsening conditions. Here's what it looked like coming home:

Now, I know some of you who read this remember the decision we were facing this time last yearand the weather seriously reminded me of our trip to Michigan last year! CRAZY!!! We are loving it though, and praying for a snow day tomorrow!

Here's our cute house in the snow. I took this picture when I got home from work, around 3:30pm, and we still received steady snowfall until around midnight that night.