Making great Progress!

Well, it took a long time for this to happen and with all the bad weather we had I never dreamed it would come along so fast. Hope it continues!

Fun things happening....

So it took a while, but we have FINALLY gotten the approval for our septic permit, apparently you have to have that before anything can really start happening. So that means that the footer guys can now get started. Fingers crossed we will be smooth sailing! Now we just need this weather to cooperate!! This week we have been in an ICE storm! We are on day 3 of being in the house. We are not suppose to get above freezing until Saturday. Guess we will see...

Silly on this snowy/icy day.

My cute surprise from the window! :)

Craig and Sarah got engaged!!! Yay! They will be getting married June 20, 2015, so lots of things going on with building a house, wedding things, finishing the second half of the school year and moving in our new HOUSE! Craig asked me to hide in the closest and try and get some pics from the proposal. It was fun! He proposed at the Frist and everything went beautifully. She said YES!

"I had the fun pleasure of being the photographer, hidden in the closest, while my brother, Craig Parnell, PROPOSED, to the amazing Sarah Martin tonight! and she said YES!! Looks like I am getting another fabulous sister-in-law. smile emoticonCongrats!"

This is the first year Cole has been able to help me with his Valentines! Getting to be so big :)

New House!

Things are happening!! Of course everything takes a while and with the holidays it has taken a little longer to actually get started, but we are in the process! We have an ADDRESS!! :) We have our builders risk insurance, something about sewage lines have been done, pulling permits, staking out where the house will be and a gravel driveway!! It is getting to be very real! Hopefully I will have mini short post of the progress! :)

Christmas 2014

Well we had a wonderful Christmas! We got to see a lot of our family and we celebrated for about 4 days straight. Unfortunately we also go the flu, well Cole did! It was Wednesday before Christmas and it was such a busy and fun time. Casey was closing on two houses, I was suppose to start exams (new middle school fun), have a work Christmas party and Cole was suppose to have his PJ party that day and then breakfast with Santa and Mrs Claus and we missed it all :( although I do have to say he did not have a bad case of the flu so I guess that is the plus side. Casey was a little puny but never ran a fever, but by Christmas everyone was on the mend.
Christmas Eve morning was spent making cookies for Santa...

Then that afternoon we went to my parents house...

Karen and Brad brought marshmallow shooters...

Uncle Craig brought everything SUPERHEROS

KK hit the jackpot with a soft blanket!

Our little elf

Christmas Morning! He did come....or as Cole told us "See, I told you I was on the Nice list!" :) We had a lot of discussions about being on the naughty and nice list. Being 3 is hard! :) Lots of naughty behavior, but he can be so sweet and nice. A little jekyl and hyde. hahahaha...

I didn't take any pictures but we also went to my cousin Emily's house on Friday night to visit with the Hardaway side of the family. We have not seen them in years. It was good to get together.

Then as a last minute surprise the Herren crew came up Saturday and we spent all day over at Lincoln and Pams. It was a nice surprise. We even got to see Caroline! :)

We had a great break! Casey had a lot of time off as well. It was a great Christmas and New Years! I am ready for 2015! Bring it on....

SOLD!!!

Well, I am late in posting this, since it happened on Halloween!!! We had lots of sweet memories in this house. It was our first home, the home we brought Cole home too! It also had a lot of negativity in it as well. We will not go there. We are glad to have it sold and to be moving on to our next home to start new memories in. Casey is saying right now that we should be in by April, I will be happy with summer.
I think we finally have a plan. I thought we had one for years, then Casey kept looking at different ones and then of course the ones I loved were not in our price range. I think we have it now, which is very exciting! Of course with Casey as the builder there will be some changes, but this is basically it! :)

More Info and hopefully progress on the house coming soon!!!

In full swing....

So our house has STILL NOT SOLD, but crossing our fingers for soon. We have seen to have more interested people in the last week! I have been a 7th grade teacher for 6 weeks now and I am really enjoying it. I have a great group of kiddos. Who knew I would like middle school? not me! :)
Cole is getting so big, literally. Growing like a weed. Skinny little thing. Who knew our little chuck would be a skinny kid?
Seth is a junior this year and getting a good amount of playing time. So we have been enjoying some football games. It is really nice to be so close to family and be able to see and support them. Yesterday the Herren's were here for about 16 hrs. It was nice getting to see them even if it was short lived.

Cousins. No Cole, he was asleep.
Zane(10th), Emma(College Sophmore), Seth(11th), Maggie(9th) and Hannah(12th)

I can't believe we did not get a group picture on Saturday with everyone, but we are hoping to se them Thanksgiving. We are also going to see Emma play basketball Thanksgiving when they head this way to play Martin Methodist.

Mess! This is his favorite outfit these days.

Watching Seth one Friday night.

Sweetness...Told me he wasn't tired, then fell asleep talking to me

Talk Like a Pirate Day, Sept 19th. Krispy Kreme gives free donuts!

 The second weekend in August the girls from college came into town to celebrate Mac getting married and Katie having a baby! It was so fun to get everyone together. Everyone came to Nashville. Such a fun time.

Baby shower on Sunday morning

Bachlorette Party Saturday night for Mac

School is in session....2014-15 Bring it!

This has been a BUSY week...
It started Sunday with doing a trunk show with my friends from Simple and Sassy. We had a good time and sold a few things. They sale this adorable t-shirts. I had more friends buy these. I had enough for a personal order. I think I sold close to 20 of these T's. :)

 I have started back to school. Which is a new school district so I actually have been working lots and having to go to lots of extra stuff-Ugh! I had to go back July 28-July 31 for new teacher orientation and new hire induction, then august 1st was teachers forst day back. It was great meeting my new staff.
Then on Monday August 4th we had a district wide PD with our dept. The day was almost over and I got a call saying that Cole seemed to have an ear infection...double ugh! So I left and called the dr. We were able to get in and it was in fact a BAD ear infection. I was just blessed that it happened at 2:30 instead of 7:30 that way we were able to get to the dr and get some medicine. Poor guy is just so pitiful with these ear infections. It just kills me. Hopeful we will not have to get another set of tubes...guess we will see.

Waiting at the Dr all Pitiful to feeling better with donut holes!

Then Tues and Wed were PD days, Thursday was a work day in our rooms, then this past Friday was our first day with students. I am in a new role this year as a 7th grade teacher...MIDDLE SCHOOL! I know I can barely believe it myself. Like I have been telling everyone that ask me...I am awkwardly excited about it. Which I guess is a good way to feel since middle school is such an awkward time for kids. Friday I felt great and got a really good feeling about this school year. I am ready for the new experience and challenge. One thing that will take some adjusting is getting up so early. School starts at 7:30 and I have to be there at 7:15, but with traffic I have been told I need to be there by 6:50 am! although I am hoping it will be nice to be done at 2:37 pm too! I am hoping I can beat traffic with those times.

Me on the first day with kids-Bring it!

We had a great day! Looking forward to next week of our first full week! So then Saturday my girls from college came in as we celebrated Mac's bachlorette party Saturday night. We went to Cabana's for dinner. It was so great to see everyone, but too short. We were an interesting looking group with 3 very pregnant girls. This is Katie's first baby, bay girl Jordan Lee. Then Nneka with her second girl, Karmyn and Jennifer with her 3rd, Bo. How fun! They are all 3 due within 10 days of each other. Now I am just waiting for the phone call that they are all in labor together. :) I have not been up so late in a LONG time. I am too old, but we had to take advantage of our short time together.

The whole group at Cabana's

My college roomies

A few of us on the elevator at 3am coming home! Hot, sweaty and tired :)

This was Cole telling me Friday night how his week went...LOVE THIS KID! He makes me smile and makes me feel so loved everyday. He is truly the best. I also got things ready for my first consignment sale. So I am excited about that and to see how I do. Whew! What a week. Hoping this one coming up can be a little slower. Guess we will see!

Thank you Lord for these wonderful blessing in my life!

Ready for consignment

Friday night discussion before bed with this kid! :)

SUMMER!!!

Well, it has been a fun and bust summer for sure. How does it always seem to go SO FAST? We have one more week, then back to school for us! That is something that will be a little different for me. I will be going to a new district and new job. I will be teaching 7th grade special ed at Brentwood Middle School. Don't worry I was shocked too! I am actually very excited!! I am looking forward to the new experience.
The last day this year was June 2nd. On June 3rd-7th I left for Boston and did some work up there (they go to school until June 23rd). I came home for a few days to only have a 2 day state training, then off again for the beach! June 13-21 We went with a whole group of friends. It was a lot of fun. I loved seeing all the kiddos together, which was 7 under the age of 4 and Cole was the only boy. :)
We have had a few zoo dates, swimming and lots of outside time. This summer we have had some pretty great weather. So today is July 19th and it is high 81...I know right, crazy! but I will take it any day over our typical 95-100 degree heat stroke humidity weather.
Our house is still on the market, which is stressing me, but hopefully it will sale soon. Its only been like 54 days, but as much as I didn't want to get to hopefully I was really hoping for a crazy 5 day sale! I was hoping to catch a break on something.

Here's to enjoying our last week of summer break!