Coffee CubBuster

I am SO blessed to have so many people love on me. Matthew and I enjoyed the warm and sunny St. Simons Island this past weekend as we visited his mother for a wedding shower. I'm so glad my future mother in-law is 1. Amazing and 2. Not residing in North Dakota! What a great place to visit, and what wonderful friends and family members she has. I was not only showered with love, but also with loot! These women were loving, godly, and generous. I am more blessed than I deserve! Thank you Marsha, the six beautiful hostesses, and all the guests for listening to me chat about life and spend an afternoon lifting up the Lord. You are all such a blessing! This is me with just some of the party. I'm the crazy tall one in the back! The beautiful hostesses! God bless you Marsha. I love my mother in-law to be! Matthew was a hit once he showed his second cousin how to make paper airplanes! Who new the concept was still mind boggling! We had so much fun. Thank you to all ...

I love even after seven years, all I need to get excited about seein my man is that it be on a week night! For the big V-day, Matthew and I grabbed a quick meal at CPK (california pizza kitchen--in case you aren't cool), and attended the Picture Show dollar theater, which we ended up walking out of (bad choice of movie---  How do you know? with Reece Witherspoon you probably haven't heard of it, for a reason.) However, the evening was recovered with a sweet Disney flick- The Secretariat on DVD. I love being an old almost-married couple! Simple and sweet.... my two favorite things. Hope you felt the love on Valentine's regardless of your marital status. It's all about loving anyone and everyone! ~Loving CubBuster

Come on Punxsutawney Phil.... where's my spring!?!?! How how sweet the sounds of warmth. In case you missed the glistening, majestic, unfamiliar, diamond-like dusting of salt this morning, I'll be Katie Couric for you:   Last night in the beautiful North Georgia and Metro Atlanta region, residents experienced a quick-moving storm that dropped less than an inch of snow on the ground. For a recent change, the roads remained warm enough to melt any and all accumulation. Instead, Atlantans woke up to find a perfectly white beauty in their neighborhoods. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your profession, few schools and businesses needed to shut their doors today. All of the white glitter is expected to melt by the end of the day because of the bright shining star beaming on the area today and warming the rest of the Earth. Enjoy this rare treat southerners!

So, I've been lacking in my posting due to the crazy life of a high school English teacher also posing as a graduate student, who would like to also star as the leading lady in her very own wedding in three months! Thus, the Coffee CubBuster has been in serious need of coffee lately. It was such a breath of fresh air to go from the crazy barnyard-esque, seventh grade, public middle  school kids, to the less hormonal personalities of my private,  high school kids. What a difference! Each one certainly has its own positives and negatives, but I am SO blessed to experience them both. I also feel significantly blessed to recognize the amazing gift of attending chapel. Although many of these students have been around church-life since they came out of the womb and do not understand the gift it is to sing praises to our Heavenly Father during a school day, I, on the other hand, certainly appreciate the weekly moment of contemplation and peace during such a crazy season of my lif...

blairandsmith.ourwedding.com That's right. We are in the double digits people! Let the count down begin! I cannot wait!!! P.S.  um..... it's like we live in the north. I was loving this! Pics beow from my neighborhood  8 days after SNOWTOPIA (shout out to Mr. Morecraft for the awesome term) 2011 hit greater atlanta. 8  days people.  This white house looked great with the snow. You could barely see it! Chloe had to face this to get to her bathroom. Thank the Lord for indoor plumbing! Site from our back door-- a week later remember! Such a beautiful site from our front door! Stay warm Atlantans! ~CubBuster

After my friend Lindsey rang in the new year in Atlanta, she was gracious enough to accompany me to a "make-up lesson." As many of you know, I haven't quite found a close relationship with any possible mainstream misses like Mary Kay, Loreal, or Cover Girl. My closest relationship has occurred with a funny contraption that hugs my eyelashes together to make them salute you proper. So... I was excited to get a lesson for my potential wedding makeup. Needless to say, I feel like I'm a real woman now. I bought a couple staples, and my skin seems to like this organic line--Aveda. I wear significantly less than was brushed onto me during the lesson, but hey, I'm a naaturraalll woooooooman. Aretha knows what I'm talkin bout! Um... is she trying to glue that foam to her eye? This was one the first coat of paint yall Wait, I'm suppose to "line" my eyes and lips?? Who has time for that when you eat like me? Lindsey was so serene. It was l...

God must have been sick of me whining about missing out on the Christmas snow that took place without me, so He just showed me how much he loves me with LOTS of snow the past couple of days. We got about 6-8 inches here in Atlanta Sunday night into Monday night. Unfortunately, a layer of ice made it a little tough to make snow angels and snow(o)men, but Matthew, his brother Kevin and his friend Helen and I all had fun trekking around in the snowing beautiful park. Come to find out, my mother, sister and Steven have all been battling a 24 hour stomach bug during the snow days, and Matthew also spent the night in the bathroom feeling miserable. I guess if we are all going to be cooped up in various homes we might as well take our sick days with our snow days. I'm just praying my immune system can hold out so that I feel okay my first week teaching. Here's to Flintstone vitamins, Airborne, and echinacea!  Hope you are feeling good and enjoying God's white gift. What is it abo...