Cassidy is an AMERICAN GIRL

When we moved into our Texas house Cassidy decided she wanted a puppy dog room. I was not thrilled with the idea so I put it off. Good thing I did!! She changed her mind about what style of room she wanted at least three times. When we were in Utah at Christmastime we found some really cute bedding and I talked Cass into an American Girl room. She loves American Girl and has several dolls. She always wants a place for all her dolls so we brought in a corner curio type unit that we had in my bedroom. She can fit two dolls on each shelf. (I told her that means she can't get anymore dolls, cause there is no more room.) Each doll also has a bed, although most dolls have to share their bed with another doll. We painted stars and used vinyl lettering to put each of the dolls names on a star. She was very happy with the way her room turned out and I was thrilled. It didn't take long to paint. I used that Home Depot paint with the primer already in it and even the red turned out great. I asked Cassidy if I could trade rooms with her because I loved her room so much. She just gave me "the look". ( I still need to paint the curio red) Seriously, how much do you LOVE the bedding!!!

Guilt Ridden

At the beginning of this year I decided to set a goal to blog at least once a month but ideally every week. I thought I'd just pop online and leave a few random thoughts I had had during the week. Well, Here it is almost May and I've yet to blog even once this year. It's not for a lack of thinking about it. I think about blogging quite often, in fact, I usually put it on my list of things to do but I never seem to get around it it. My biggest issue is that I don't have pictures. I caught up on all my scrapbooking and so I am very hesitant to take pictures of anything! I don't know how some of you do it. It seems you have a camera with you everywhere. I'm just not that kind of girl. I'm more the kind of girl that sees you with your camera and thinks, "oh, I should have brought my camera."

Anyway, the guilt has caught up to me and so let me catch you up on our lives as well. I am going to post several blog postings, which I know is really cheating but I like short blog posts, so if you don't like the way I blog go somewhere else. Just kidding.

A Picture Year in Review 2009

I was putting together some pictures for a Christmas gift and I felt like this was a pretty good review of our year.  Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

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ICE

We went to an ICE exhibit at the Gaylord Texan (a fancy schmancy hotel and resort.) We had about an hour to kill before we could enter the exhibit so we walked around the resort. The whole place was decorated with Christmas trees, lights, trains and even a life size gingerbread house.

The theme of the Ice Exhibit was “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”. We were each given a a big warm coat because the exhibit is kept at a balmy 9 degrees, however, when we went into the exhibit they told us it was only 2 degrees. The entire exhibit was made of ice. It was absolutely amazing. It was hard not to touch the sculptures. We spent an hour in the exhibit walking from room to room and we each went down the ice slide. It was really cool !!(no pun intended)

Thanksgiving in San Diego

It has been years since we’ve visited Nathan’s parents in San Diego.  Since we live SO much closer now we decided to spend Thanksgiving with them. It was a two day drive  - 11 hours each day.  The kids did awesome.  On the way we saw lots of cotton fields and got to see the cotton plants up close when we stopped for gas.  Several of Nathan’s siblings came to San Diego as well.  Nathan’s dad, with the help of his brothers, deep fried a Turkey and his brother, Jamie, Barbequed some Turkey.  Each of the sisters and sister in laws helped with the dinner and many hands made light work.

Some of the Teuscher’s spent the morning playing soccer.  We were shocked when Ryan wanted to go and even more shocked that he scored a goal. On the way home Ryan said “That was surprisingly  fun!” Cassidy (the only girl) kept up with the boy cousins and gave them a run for their money. 

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On our way home we stopped at my brother Scott’s house in Queen Creek, AZ.  They were kind enough to let us stay there on short notice. We were so excited when we saw a baby scorpion on the wall.  It was really fun to visit with Scott and Heavenly and their kids.  Their house is so cute and Scott’s artist talents are thoughout the whole house. We are excited to see them again at Christmas time.