Kids say the darndest things

Mostly this year at school has been super mellow. I lost half of my students last year! I had like 23 kids, four in wheel chairs. It was a bit hectic. My life has slown down alot at school since now I only have 12 students and two in wheel chairs. I tend to get a bit bored sometimes at school. The energy and dynamics of my class this year is just BLAH. I really try and pep them up and act enthusiastic, but it doesn't seem to work some days. I manage to still have a few laughs. My student Neil is hilarious. He has autism, so he is very repetitive. He will say the same thing some days over and over. My favorites lately have been, "But Barney, we are not dressed for the North Poo," or "Ted don't eat my gardenias, they are yuck." He will procede to tickle me and say, "I love you Becca." then the next minute he will say, "I hate you Becca, you shut up." He uses different pitches in his voice when he talks, so he will have a really high pitched voice then a low pitched voice on some things. His favorie that he ALWAYS has said is, "Becca look at me." He will seriously say this until I look at him or say, "good job Neil." Ya, it's a little exausting to say the least. I am just used to it as back ground noise. He never stops talking, EVER. He is always muttering and talking to himself. It's a bit distracting to other students in the class, but everyone just accepts it and deals with it. That is just a bit about my day if you all were curious!
PS..I am aware I have typos alot, I really just don't want to go back and fix them..:-)

I am lazy..

Ok, so I really have all intentions to post pictures up, but I am to lazy, or more forgetful to bring the camera and down load them here at school. Valentines was great. I have pics (coming soon). Nick got me a fondue pot, and I got him and espresso machine! I told him NO flowers, that it was a waste of money. He got me something better. We did exchange gifts two days before Valentines because we were to excited! Well, we tried the fondue the friday before. We took Nick's little sister out for pizza and then we all had fondue. I have pics of this too. We decided to stay in and make dinner (shushi). It was a pain! I have never made sushi before. I do know how to cook, but sushi is an unfamiliar. I got a bit stressed out over it all, and poor Nick was patient with it all. Valentines was not super romantic, but we got through it, and cranked out so pretty good sushi rolls. I have pics of those too! Yes, I know it's far past Valentines, but I forgot to write about it!

AN update..

Wedding plans are coming along very nice. Nick and have chosen a photographer, but a deposit down,and also put a deposit down on the place. We are moving right along..yea! I am getting really excited to get married. I have all the big stuff figured out. It gets me all emotional to think about getting married to Nick. I sure do love that man. He is so amazing in every way. He makes me feel like a million bucks. He supports me in every way. I hope that I give the same back to him that he gives to me every day. I have been working so hard to get my holiday weight off, and I had a complete melt down on Tuesday. He put me on a low/high calorie diet. My low days are only 1000 calories, and my high day is between 1200-1500. I usually stay on the lower range. This is supposed to help shake it up a bit. Anyway, there is no way I get through the 1000 calorie days without at least one diet coke. I ran out last week. I didn't make my meals for the week, and I was just having a bad day. Yesterday he bought me a pack of diet cook and made some stuff for my meal plan. I got home to turkey burgers and veggies cooking. It was so sweet of him! Shout out to Nick! Love love love him!

We decided on that place!

SO Nick and I have picked a place to hold the ceremony and reception! Yea! Putting the deposit down today

The Wrath of the Wedding Plans

So all of you who know me best understand that I don't work well under pressure. Starting to plan this wedding has been stressing me out a bit. The original plan was to find a yard and do it cheap. Make the food, rent the tables and chairs, do all the decorations. Yes, this would save money however, it would create so much un neccesary stress to my life. I already work over full time teaching then have a part time job on top of that. Nick and I's schedule is seriously opposite and it's impossible to get things done during the day. I work 7-3 every day and nights 6-11 two days a week. He works a split shift 7-11 or 12 then back to work at 4-9 most days. It's pathetic that we only maybe get to see each other an hour before we both want to crash out at night. Anyway, with that said trying to plan all the little details is getting to my nerves. Over the weekend I started searching on the internet for places and come to find out they are affordable. They take care of most the work. Nick and I are going to check out a place today that really stuck out to me. If we like it we will book it! Thats a ton of stress over with. We are also meeting with a photographer on Sat, so wish us luck with that too! This is all supposed to be FUNN right??? ha ha. The only fun thing I have experience thus far is trying on wedding dresses. I actually enjoyed my day with the girls. I will update everyone on what happens with the place today!