Back to the Swing of Things

2010 has begun and it's going to be a great year!! We are coming up on being in our house for a year and wow we have been blessed and amazed!! We can't believe a year ago we were looking for houses and happened upon ours. As far as my friends, Erica has had her sweet baby boy, Wyatt and he is a doll. We can't wait to watch him grow.
We are now back into the routine of our everyday busy lives. We are back to teaching everyday and ready for May to arrive. We have started back our one night a week night classes for our Masters in Adminstration and Supervision. We have this semester of classes left and 100 hours of observation with our principals in the fall and we will be done, FINALLY!! Charlie is back to playing ball every Saturday now. He is playing basketball on our church team again this year and we have recruited some of our friends to play as well. We are excited that DA, Johnny, and Matt are all playing this year. Hopefully we will have a great season.
We are looking forward to a great 2010 year filled with many blessings!!

What a Wonderful Year!!

We have had a wonderful 2009 year. Charlie and I have been very blessed. We have had several things occur this year. A few key highlights of the year have been when:
* We moved to Munford
* We bought and remodeled our new house
* We started our Masters (will graduate in Dec.)
* Hosted parties at our house
* Hosted our 1st Thanksgiving at our house
* Many more that I can't think of right now.
During 2009, we are very thankful for our families, friends, health, and our jobs. We are looking forward to a great 2010 year!!
Happy New Year!!!!

Ready For Christmas!!!

We started off our Christmas Break last Friday. Friday night we went to Julia's Tacky Christmas Party and had a great time. We had fun getting our outfits together. I will post a picture on here if I can figure out how to. If not, check them out on facebook.
Charlie and I bought our last three gifts for people yesterday. Everything is wrapped and ready to go for Christmas!!! We are enjoying our Christmas break with the exception of me being on 5 mediciations. It is a blessing to enjoy the Christmas break with Charlie. We have enjoyed sleeping in, cleaning, staying in PJ's for however long, and doing whatever we want to do.
Charlie has started playing ball again but this time it's basketball. Charlie plays on our church basketball and has gotten some of our friends to join him this year. Da, Johnny, Matt and Charlie will all be playing this year along with some other guys from our school. The season begins in January. We are praying that Charlie doesnt blow out both ankles again this year like last year. Ill keep you filled in.
We hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Enjoy being with your family and friends. Most of all do not forget the reason for the season.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

4 1/2 Days and Counting...

We have 4 1/2 days of school left before Christmas Break! Believe me we are counting down the days until our break. We have been very busy since Thanksgiving. We were busy with family here, decorating the house, shopping, and finishing our 2 semester classes. We have completed everything and are enjoying being done with night class for the semester. Last week, Charlie's roommate from college stayed with us for the week and we enjoyed catching up with him. We visited Christmas city and loved all the lights and the scenes from the Bible. Last Friday night we all enjoyed dinner at the Rendevous and hanging out with Jimmy, Daniel and his girlfriend. Saturday we spent the day and night in Jackson for Emma's 3rd birthday. The birthday party was fun and we met the addition to the Smith family, Jingle. That's right my mom and dad now have another puppy. What a great weekend we had!!
This weekend Charlie and I are busy gathering items for our child we adopted this Christmas. We are very thankful that the Lord has blessed us to be able to help a child in need this Christmas from my school. Charlie and I have had fun gathering little girl toys and clothes.
We hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Remember Jesus is the reason for the season.

Turkey Day Tradition

We had a great time having the Smith Thanksgiving at our house this year.Charlie and I talked about what all we are thankful for. We are very blessed to have wonderful families, friends, great jobs, and our relationships with the Lord. On Thursday, we had fun visiting with our family and eating some good food. After eating Mom and I decorated the house for Christmas. We did our annual trip to the movies on Thanksgiving night. We all went to see The Blind Side. If you haven't seen it, go see it. It is an awesome movie. Mom, Dad and Andy spent the night with us on Thanksgiving. We had been discussing it all week and we had our alarms set for Black Friday. Mom, Charlie and I ventured out at 4:00 am to Wal-Mart. Andy and Dad sold out on us. We made it to W-Mart and got some great bargains. Mom was lucky enough to get the last flat screen TV. We spent the morning at 2 Wal-Marts, Home Depot and Lowe's. Black Friday was a success for us.
This week we have gotten a lot accomplished. Our Christmas decorations are up, Christmas cards will be mailed this week, and we have 2 people left to buy on our Christmas list. We have enjoyed our Thanksgiving break but it's back to reality on Monday. We have 3 weeks until Christmas Break. We will be counting down the days!!

We Are Ready for a Break

Finally, we are getting closer to Thanksgiving Break. We have been busy at school and had some long weeks. We have one more week of work then we are off work a week. We've had a busy past two weeks.
I had my tee-shirt party and there was a great turnout. We had company from Jackson, Medina, Brownsville, Memphis, and of course Munford. There were between 45-50 people that came! Needless to say, we had a full house! It was great to see everyone and for everyone to finally get to see our house.
This past week we also got to see two of my aunts and uncle from Knoxville. They drove down last Tuesday night for dinner with mom and to see our house. We enjoyed spending time with them, its been way to long. The other nights last week we spent at the ball park cheering on Charlie's ball team. He's doing pretty good if I say so myself. He is averaging 2 homeruns per game.
On Friday we will be packing up and heading to Knoxville to cheer on the Vols!! I can't wait to sing some Rocky Top. Charlie has never been to a UT game at Neyland so I'm pretty excited to take him. We are going with my mom, dad, and Andy. We will spend the weekend in Knoxville and on Sunday we will be making a stop at Opryland Hotel to see the Christmas lights. This is my favorite time of the year. I know some of you are wondering is the tree up? Yes we do have one tree up but the rest of the decorations and our main tree will be up on Thanksgiving night. We have several plans during our Thanksgiving break to visit family, Christmas shopping and enjoying the week off. Pictures and updates to come.

Have a great week!!!!

RECIPE

Smothered Chicken

Orginal Recipe:
2-3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 cans of cream of chicken
1 8 oz. sour cream
refried onions
garlic salt
stick of butter
For my recipe I added a few things:
1 can of mushrooms
1 cup of bacon bits (real bacon)


Preheat the oven to 375
Layer pyrex dish with chicken breasts
Mix soups, sour cream, mushrooms, bacon and garlic salt - Pour on top of chicken
Layer with refried onions
Put butter slices on top of onions

Bake for 45 min - 1 hr.

Next time I am going to add shredded cheese to the recipe as well.

It's very good and very easy recipe!!!