We hope everyone enjoyed a safe happy new year celebration!! I can't believe it is TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN! It is already starting out to be a fast paced full new year *grins* Here are a few things that we've been up to recently....
-Kenny spent a dust filled weekend ripping out these parquet wood floors in our living room while I was having a fun trip with my sisters to Missouri to visit Julie. We are going to put these hardwood floors throughout the house, so he was prepping everything for the new floors. What a hardworking sweetie he is!
-We busted out sheet rock and 2'x4's, installed a new header beam and transformed a small doorway between our living rooms into a huge arched opening. It really opens up the flow and makes things feel grand.
-Kenny smashed up and busted out all the tile on our kitchen floor. We're planning to replace it with a natural stone.
can you tell we've been doing a lot of demolition lately *laughs* I'll try to have pictures up of the craziness soon!
-Kenny was nominated for teacher of the year!!!! I am so very proud of him! He works so hard and cares so much about his students and soccer players. He wants them to learn and do well not only in the classroom or on the soccer field, but in LIFE. You can see the sparkle in his eye when he talks about a new idea he's going to implement into his teaching, or shares a story about a discussion that really came through to the students in one of his lessons.
-We've set the usual "be healthier" new years goals....I've been using my elliptical for thirty minutes a day, six days a week. It feels good to be active. It's especially nice to have a place to workout and not have to be outside in the dark or cold or wind! Kenny has even used the elliptical a time or two when the weather is too yucky to run outside.
We're trying to stick to the no tv after 9:00pm, we try to do something productive at that time like house demolition (ha ha) or Kenny has been working on learning more Spanish using the Rosetta Stone computer software. That program is really amazing! Maybe I can even learn some Spanish *winks*
-Along with the "being healthy" plan, I've been eating a lot of soup and salad and more veggies in general. I even hard boiled some eggs to add to my salad a few days ago and it was super yummy!
-We've been reading a new fiction series together called "The Hunger Games". It's a series of three books that Kenny bought me for Christmas. The story is unique and so addictive! It is hard to put down!! We're in the middle of book two and can hardly stop reading to get some sleep at night *laughs*
Well, I hope you enjoyed my random, picture-less, bulletined update of the life of the Schells. I'll be back with some better posts before you know it! Happy New Year!
-Kenny spent a dust filled weekend ripping out these parquet wood floors in our living room while I was having a fun trip with my sisters to Missouri to visit Julie. We are going to put these hardwood floors throughout the house, so he was prepping everything for the new floors. What a hardworking sweetie he is!
-We busted out sheet rock and 2'x4's, installed a new header beam and transformed a small doorway between our living rooms into a huge arched opening. It really opens up the flow and makes things feel grand.
-Kenny smashed up and busted out all the tile on our kitchen floor. We're planning to replace it with a natural stone.
can you tell we've been doing a lot of demolition lately *laughs* I'll try to have pictures up of the craziness soon!
-Kenny was nominated for teacher of the year!!!! I am so very proud of him! He works so hard and cares so much about his students and soccer players. He wants them to learn and do well not only in the classroom or on the soccer field, but in LIFE. You can see the sparkle in his eye when he talks about a new idea he's going to implement into his teaching, or shares a story about a discussion that really came through to the students in one of his lessons.
-We've set the usual "be healthier" new years goals....I've been using my elliptical for thirty minutes a day, six days a week. It feels good to be active. It's especially nice to have a place to workout and not have to be outside in the dark or cold or wind! Kenny has even used the elliptical a time or two when the weather is too yucky to run outside.
We're trying to stick to the no tv after 9:00pm, we try to do something productive at that time like house demolition (ha ha) or Kenny has been working on learning more Spanish using the Rosetta Stone computer software. That program is really amazing! Maybe I can even learn some Spanish *winks*
-Along with the "being healthy" plan, I've been eating a lot of soup and salad and more veggies in general. I even hard boiled some eggs to add to my salad a few days ago and it was super yummy!
-We've been reading a new fiction series together called "The Hunger Games". It's a series of three books that Kenny bought me for Christmas. The story is unique and so addictive! It is hard to put down!! We're in the middle of book two and can hardly stop reading to get some sleep at night *laughs*
Well, I hope you enjoyed my random, picture-less, bulletined update of the life of the Schells. I'll be back with some better posts before you know it! Happy New Year!
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