November Photo Dump!

Squish has been making it incredibly difficult for me to sleep lately.  I started looking on Craigslist for a "Snoogle" pillow, which retails for about $60 - yikes!  I found one for $40, and offered the person $20 for it.  I was pretty surprised when the reply email came from someone I worked with last year, who had a baby over the summer!  Now Addy and I get sleep all wrapped up with pillow! 

Eric took me car shopping a few weekends ago, and I was pretty amused by this mirror. 

On Veteran's Day, Old Chicago gave everyone $5 of Foamer bucks on our World Beer Tour cards, so we asked Paul and Deb to come to dinner with us.  Along with that, they had a cardboard standup that you scan with your phone and it gives you a chance to win free food or drink.  Deb, Eric, and I all won something - I got cheesy garlic breadsticks, Deb got a big cookie, and Eric won a large pizza!  We could only use one, so we treated everyone to a Thai Pie pizza.  Nine beers, a pizza, and a fries basket ended up only costing us $14 - and (quite possibly for the first time ever) they let us pay for dinner! 

Brian and Jen hosted a Crock Pot Pot Luck party last weekend.  There were many interesting conversations, lots of great music, occasional dancing, and drunk people everywhere!  These parties are a lot more fun when I'm sober watching everyone else get silly! 

While we were at Mom and Alan's house last weekend, Chaos decided that the snickerdoodle cookies belong to him! 

Addy has been an extra large bum lately, cue "awwwwww" sound bit. 

I just about died laughing in the grocery store when I picked out the avocado for this weeks "Baby Green" picture, and then put it in the baby seat of the cart.  Seriously, I was beside myself. 

This is the countdown that I keep posted at work!  I accidentally mixed up weeks 16 and 17 (avocado and onion), but seeing as the foods relate to the length of baby, I think it makes sense that an avocado would come after the onion instead of before.  Oh well, I'm probably the only one who noticed my error :) 

 Last night, I decided that I wanted to have cinnamon rolls for dinner.  As the oven heats up, Eric decides he is craving pizza...so we made both!  This is what dinner looks like in the Green household!

Finally, a funny school story!  A few weeks ago, one of our paras was working in a third grade classroom.  The kids were told to cut out pictures of facial expressions and then to write about it in their journal.  The para noticed a kid cutting frantically, stuffing something in his desk, and then looking around the room suspiciously.  She asked him to give it to her and he tried to play dumb and give her the scissors, as she gave him "the look" he pulled the picture out of his desk and handed this gem to her.  Hilarious!

Halloween 2011 - Part 2

We wrapped up Saturday by hanging out at home for most of the night.  Steven and Grant went to see Thrice at the Granada, and we watched Netflix!  Yay for getting old and boring!  After they were finished at the show, Eric brought them home along with a friend of Stevens, and then we all headed back out to walk around Mass Street to ogle the costumes.  

Sunday, once we had eaten some breakfast, Eric told everyone to get ready for some golf!  We spent the afternoon at the driving range near Eudora, and then said our goodbyes so Eric and I could head to Overland Park for our Dave Ramsey class.  

It's lucky Steven has a key to our apartment!  Yesterday, he found a present for his dad - but Eric and I were already on our way to Overland Park when he realized that he had left it in our house.

Look at those golfing boys!

Steven with his trick ball. 

And I golfed too!

Halloween 2011 - Part 1

We had a great time on Friday night at a house party with our Lawrence friends.  I slacked and missed pictures of most of the people - oops!

Our costume! 

 Eric as The Stig - the driver from Top Gear

 Me with Sara Mae - she's the one who owns Moonshine, the crazy cat the Eric and I have cat-sat a few times.

Eric drinking with his helmet on. 

NBC's The Cape.  They can choke you from a midrange distance! 

Shannon and Taylor. 

 Steven and Grant

Brian and Eric shot gunning.

I was washing my makeup off in the car...the eye makeup took quite a bit of convincing.  Eric just about died laughing at how serious my face looked.

On Saturday, we all woke up for a cinnamon roll and egg breakfast, and then went back to sleep for a 4 hour nap!

Another Family Weekend!

Another picture post... because it is easier to caption photos than it is to tell a story!

Mom drove Andrew and i out to Topeka for breakfast with Kris, Ashley drove in from Hays and met us there.

Andrew enjoyed playing on the iPad on the way to Union Station, he covered it with finger prints.

Andrew LOVES trains, he was in heaven.

Ashley and I on the hand car.

Ashley and Andrew sword fighting, he was pretty good!

Uncle Eric watching TV with Andrew.

Sarah, Andrew, and me at the "Fire-Water" event on the plaza.

Mom, Alan, and Deb at Fire-Water.

Paul and Eric made it down to the creek after about an hour looking for a parking spot.

Andrew loves his strobe stick - and cried when I had to take it from him to fix the strap (so he wouldn't drop it in the creek).

The fire pits floating on Brush Creek.

Andrew was really intrigued by all of the people and the fire.

Not especially impressive, but pretty cool.

Andrew was SO sad about the sun coming in the window on the way to church.

Uncle Eric and Andrew with his "Sadie" balloon.

Andrew visiting Grammy's tree.

Phew, I'm glad our Squish is only the size of a peach right now!  Pumpkins are huge!

Just a priceless facial expression.

Andrew LOVED throwing the straw in the air.

Nana and her grandmonster.

Eric rode his bike to and from the pumpkin patch because we didn't have enough seats in the car for him.  He didn't mind.

A Rough Week

I've had a rough week at work - two IEP meetings, two students being referred to special education, and a few major behavior episodes.  With all of that, I kept my cool and was able to handle all of that stress.  Thursday afternoon was the straw that broke the camel's back... Read on.

This is one of the behavior episodes mentioned above... This is what a frustrated kindergartner can do in 5 minutes!   

Thursday afternoon, I received my teaching license in the mail.  Do you see what's wrong with this picture?!  I just about lost it - that poor mail carrier is so lucky I didn't get home until after 5pm.

St. Thomas Ground Breaking

It seems like we are spending a lot of time at church lately, but there has been a lot going on!  Tonight, Bishop Wolfe came to St. Thomas to bless the ground for their expansion project.  It was pretty special to be part of that ceremony.

 Bishop Wolfe speaking to us.

Gar with the members who have been part of the congregation since the Sock Hop. 

The congregation creating the walls of our new building, along with their shovels to start the work. 

Ahhh, the perfect way to end this day... with a killer migraine!

Mom's Half Marathon

Mom has been training like a crazy woman, and had her mind set that she was going to run a half marathon today!  She started with the 2 hour 45 minute pacer, truly hoped to finish in less than 3 hours, and would be satisfied if she finished in less than 3 hours and 30 minutes.

I woke up this morning and picked up Alison and Papa - we drove around Kansas City and cheered on the marathon runners at the 1 mile, 6, 9, and 13 mile marks.  Mom stayed with the 2:45 pacer for the entire race and finished in 2 hours and 43 minutes.  It was so amazing!

I did the "peanut butter jelly time" dance at Target when Mom was doing some last minute shopping for marathon gear. 

Signs Eric and I made for Mom!

 Mom ran with one of Alan's coworkers, Travis.  They did awesome!

I brought Ashley along to help cheer for Mom.