365 Project

Once Arie got here,

Her mommy and I decided that we wanted to take a photo of her every day for the first year.

On her first birthday I am planning on doing something special with the photos,

any ideas? :)

At the end of each month, I will post the entire months worth to reflect on!

Better late than never

She's here!

Arianna Nicole-Eleanor

made her appearance on October 9, 2012.

I would give you all the wonderful details, but that's for another post ;)

 Mommy, and Arie.

Beautiful girls!

 Baby X and Baby A

<3

Ignore our appearances, her having a baby affects my looks too okay!?

;)

Won't Back Down

Over the weekend Ashlee and I went to see a movie.

We saw Won't Back Down,

and boy oh boy do I have some things to talk about!

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You see, lately I had been thinking of giving up on my dream to become a teacher.

Things weren't falling into place as they should,

it was one thing after another.

I had begun to think this was my sign to start heading a different way.

And then,

this movie.

This movie made me feel the passion I have for teaching like I have never felt it before.

This movie put the love back in me.

I know why I want to be a teacher,

I remember the reason this is worth it.

No matter the hardships,

  my students will make up for it.

Always.

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I am constantly telling myself that I'm not good enough.

I have a nonstop battle in my mind.

But I am working on it.

Right now I want to say,

I am good enough.

You are good enough.

Never give up on your dreams.

Ever.

They are your dreams for a reason.

I know I have been a bad blogger lately, 

but I'm trying to change.

I'm trying to change many things in my life,

and I am excited to share them with you :)

Canvas Nursery Art!

About a month ago we had a craft party!

We all brought snacks, made punch, and ordered pizza.

Each one of us brought the supplies for a craft to share with the others.

This one was our canvas art project, 

we decided to use paint&glitter and come up with something awesome :)

 My canvas is the black one in the bottom right.

You know, the one sopping wet with paint.

Oops.

But the Nursery one I made is the gray one above mine.

I used masking tape to put the letters

X + A

on it.

[Xavier and Arianna]

Then I covered the entire thing with mod podge,

dumped a TON of glitter on it and waited a few minutes.

Once I peeled the tape off this is what we saw. 

[For the glitter part we did it inside a cookie sheet so we could save extra and not make a huge mess]

Here is the final product!

All cleaned up and sealed on.

What was the verdict with mommy?

She loved it!