Party in the USA

We had such a great time in Nashville this year. The pictures can speak for themselves!!!

Felt, owls, chairs, and chalkboards...

So I am crazy about Anna Maria Horner I think she has the most unique style and unbelievable ideas and fabric. I stalk her. Anyways I am wanting to make my own Christmas decorations this year (well some of them). I have sweet memories of my mom and dad's first Christmas decorations that my mom handmade. I think it would be so fun to do that as well. So I borrowed Anna Maria's patterns and have gotten to work...I am crazy and am trying to make the garland pictured above. Josh thinks I have lost my mind b/c it has taken ALL week just to make 40 of those circles....I need atleast 90 maybe more. They are sooo cute though who wouldn't want that on their Christmas Tree. I will get them done it's not a problem.

I want my Christmas decorations to be all colors and sort of vintage, so I got the 12 Days of Chirstmas ornaments from C & B and the felt ones. They are adorable! I'm trying to make my own version mixed with Anna Maria's pattern of the owls b/c I can not afford a whole tree of C&B's.

I'm also wanting to hang that cute door over my couch. I love the chalkboard. It will be so fun to change what it says depending on what is going on or what season it is.

Now I am starting to have a love hate relationship with craigslist. You can find some of the most wonderful things but it is so difficult, too. I want 6 old wooden chairs that I can recover the seats. I have the perfect material but no chairs. Hopefully some pop up soon b/c I have a total of two chairs in my house and we are about to have a house full of family and friends. These projects are all I can think about right now...

wish me luck...

Boom Boom Pow!

Ok I'm back but I'm a bit rusty... here is our summer in Europe backwards ....I'm not fixing it...this took hours as is... forgive the slide with a black spot...that is Oxford...I guess I didn't finish that one.. grace please

















Here are some of my bests when we all meet up in Houston to spend some good quality girl time!!!




More to come... New house, Nashville Trip, and Holiday/House projects...

Why was I born in 1983...I would so have loved to dress like this...

Well it's the week before Spring Break and all of us teachers thought...we could either jump out the 2nd floor windows at our school or dress up each day of the week according to different themes...the windows were locked so here we are....Wednesday was 80's and we were loving our lives!

Winter

Well we ended our Fall semester with our 2nd Annual Faculty Follies...
"Let's go to to Hollywood!"

All my fun friends at school...dressed in our old prom dresses...haha..

My grade level did "Mama Bee-ya" we had so much fun!!!

My sweet friend Nikki got engaged at the end of the show! We were the directors of the show so we had spent a ton of time together leading up to the show and I had to keep it a secret for so long!!! I'm a good secret keeper!
Here is Josh and his little brother Zac...he was his freshman coach this year!
Oh my...who remembers these? I always wondered how my teachers made this ....it's applesauce and cinnamon...who knew...they smell so good....these were our gifts for our parents!
All my kids made gingerbread houses....how fun are these!!! Tey kept trying to eat them.

All the Haug men at a Ranger basketball game ...we actually won!
That made our Holiday season bright!

Sweet baby cousin Anna!

Haug kid annual Christmas stair pic.

Josh and his buddies on New Years ...loving Rock Band! I'm actually really good at the drums!

My sweet friend Rach!!! I was so glad to see her and Drew over the break!

(For some reason I do not have pics of the rest of the family Christmas...I'll have to find those)

The Fall

That's a little glimpse into my late summer early fall. The next season to come...

Jen's Wedding Events

Way over due!..... Such a fun few days!!!

UT vs A&M Annual Softball Game (July 4th)

For the past 5 years or so the Haug's and their friends have been playing softball every 4th of July. All the people playing have either gone to A&M or UT or are just a die hard fan of one or the other. It was a good thing that the UT team won this year! We were a bit worried about the evening event taking place ... Josh takes this game very seriously! It worked out just fine!!!

Flower Party (July 3rd)

This was the day before the wedding. We meet at Dee's house and put together all our bouquets along with put together the yellow puff balls! It was so much fun! I loved the flowers! It was so neat for all the bouquets to be unique to each person that made them! I loved the flowers! My favorite were the Billy Balls! They are so fun!

Just for your information...

One thing I love about blogging is that it helps me keep record of all the things that have been going on in my life. I always want to post things in order and I get stressed out when I can't document it all. So all that to say I will be back tracking for a few blogs so I can put up stuff from this summer till now!

Living is right...

Well I guess I have done a lot of LIVING and forgot to blog about it!!!

Let's see 6 months later I've...

* worn a white dress and danced the night away
* flown on a plane and become a beach bum
* decided it would be a good idea to teach 7 year olds instead of 9year olds???
* am learning how to love someone more than myself
* started throwing ingredients together to make something called a meal
* have figured out throwing a ball made out of pigskin is a very time consuming sport
* and decided I will never celebrate another fall without a fairytale pumpkin or a pumpkin tree

I am loving life and loving living it! What a whirlwind the last 6 months have been. I feel overwhelmed at the thought of catching up so I think I will just post a few pics and let them do the talking. (I can never get them in the order I want :( and I don't have my computer so these are the only ones I can post off Josh's computer...I'll post more once I get my comp back)









I also need to give a shout out to Moriah!! She volunteered to redo my blog to give me a boost to get blogging again! Thanks MoMo! I'll post "girl weekend" pics soon!!

I'm back!!!

Here we go...

Here is a brief summary of pics and captions to catch you up on my semester...not in the right order...
Trip to Virginia and DC
Here is B, Josh and Drew while we were in DC on our Trip to visit Rach and Drew!!!

The A Team listening to some jams!

School Shower
Here is my WONDERFUL team throwing my 1st shower!!!
The got me cute little "HAUG"letters to replace my "PERRY" letters outstide my door.

All my teacher friends were so nice to come and shower Josh and I with gifts!


Jen's Fiesta Girl Weekend



We had a blast chilling by the lake and relaxing for a weekend!!

CINCO DE MAYO
We celebrated at school and made pinatas and then headed to Emily's house that night...

It's a boy!! We found out at the party that Emily and Ryan are expecting a little boy!!

7th Annual Crawfish Boil
This was our first time to come and it was a blast! This is Carrie and I chilling in the heat
There were millions of people in this one backyard livin' it up with some shrimp, potatoes and all the works..
My Girl Weekend!!!



We went to float the river and got to stay in this cute little log cottage! It was so fun to be with so many friends and celebrate my fun upcoming event!!!

What the O'?
Omaha

Josh and I were asked to help take a trip to Omaha from our church. Us along with 18 college students treked up to Omaha and learned from a church up there. Josh's brother Kendal works with that church up there so we got to spend some time with him and his new friend!!
Josh and I infront of some awesome jellyfish at the Omaha Zoo
Kendal and his new friend Ally who we love!!

Well that is a very brief summary of what has been going on this past few months. Life is OOC with wedding planning and wrapping up the school year! We have 3 1/2 more days and I could not be more excited for the summer!