The insides of Vanessas mind!

This is an example of the teacher toolbox I used while I was a teacher. It helped to keep me organized and was really convenient. Labeling is the way to go, it makes the classroom function better. You can find this one here . Just looking for the labels, you can find them here .

A little over 6 months ago, my husband I bought a house. Before we moved into the house we scrapped the popcorn ceiling and painted all the rooms in the house. That took about a week. We've done a couple little projects in house like new light fixtures, etc. Our kitchen cabinets were a dark brown color with door knobs in the middle of the cabinet. Picture taken before we moved in. We dealt with the color, until I could no longer deal with the color and awkward positioning of the door knobs. My husband were at Lowe's one day, getting a weed wacker when I told him, "hey, let's look at a color of the cabinets". We decided to get a quart of grey (paint made for cabinets). I said we'll only paint two doors to see if we like it. Well we liked it! I decided I was going to work on the kitchen that week. It took about 6 days from when we painted the first two cabinets. I worked on about 2 to 3 cabinet doors a day and painted the cabinet while in between coats...

I haven't written in awhile! A lot has gone on since I last wrote. I'll definitely have to write about everything but not today. I still have an assignment that I have to finish, so that I'll update in another post :). Today I decided to listen to KLove, if you don't know KLove is a christian music station. I haven't listened to them in LONG time, I don't know what made me change it this station but this song came on the radio, it's called "Forgiveness" by Matthew West. I don't know why but it caught my attention so much that I felt like blogging about. I'm not sure if I necessarily to forgive anyone in particular but the song itself brought me to realizing that without forgiveness there is no moving forward in my life. Also I think the song touched me is because I have felt so far from God that I feel like I need forgiveness for being gone from him....

"No matter how hard times get, always keep your head high and continue to be strong because there are people who would kill to see you fall." "Music is the best way to convey what the heart and soul so dearly want to say." "Each of us has our own unique love story,  never compare yours..." ""Wipe away those tears and keep your head up, because people can't see your beautiful smile when your face is towards the ground." ~unknown" "Finish what you start... No matter how tough life gets."

A lot has happened since I last wrote on here. I'm not really sure where to start, I guess I'll start out with little things (sorry for the randomness) My hubby turned 23 and I turned 25, we didn't do much for our birthdays just dinner and spent time together. A lot has been on my mind! My hubby got moved to a new unit last week and while getting moved to the new unit he was informed that he'll be deploying soon. It took me off guard because his last unit deployed but wasn't chosen to go with them. So, I guess I had let my guard down when it came to him being deployed because I knew he wouldn't be. Then this came up and I feel like I cry every night (I've been getting better!) and the date keeps getting pushed up, which makes it harder and harder. I don't want my husband to leave. I then think, I'm not the only one going through this so I need to suck it up and just be supportive for my husband. Which is my new out look on this whole situatio...

Interesting fact of the Day: today is National Pie Day so go out and have some pie :) I had another good week. During the week I was busy with school work. This semester is keeping me busy and I haven't even started the papers that go with each class. I'm sure when I start working on those I'm going to be even more busy, which of course I don't mind :) This weekend was good I spent it with my husband and doggy. Saturday was kind of boring we just hung out at home. In the evening a lady doing a health survey for the state of Oklahoma came over and had me do a survey. I didn't mind doing it for free but I got paid 30 bucks for doing it! After then I ordered pizza and we ended the night watching a movie. On Sunday I went grocery shopping nothing big just the little stuff to keep us full till next payday. Then came home and we watched football. I was so nervous watching the first game since it was my patriots! They played good but not great but it was a win and that...

This week was great! My husband had a 4 day weekend, I love when he has them :). We didn't really do anything on Friday. Saturday he went golfing with a friend and while I cleaned the house since we were having some people over. We had people over to watch football. My hubby's team (49ers) played first and they won :). The next game was my team (the patriots) played and they kicked butt! :). I <3 this pic ^  On Sunday my husband and I went to play golf with a couple of his friends. It was my first 18 hole course and first time actually using my driver. At first I wasn't doing too good but I got the hang of it toward the 6th hole. I was proud of myself :). It did take awhile but I think it took so long because there were 4 of us. After golf my husband and I went to dinner at Applebees our favorite restaurant lol not really but we always seem to go there. So it was definitely a good day :) On Monday we just watched movies together and then around 5ish my hubby got a ...

Your quest for radical self-love and self-knowledge continues in 2012. Never has the impetus to know yourself, own your core values (even if it means going against the grain) and possess your truth been more essential. No longer can you deny all that is rare and sensational about you. This is truly your breakout year in which your myriad talents will shine! And get ready to work your horns off this year, Ram. Although your ruling planet, Mars, will spend the first quarter retrograde in Virgo, it will also push you to focus and finish like never before. The devil is definitely in the details this year. Mars retrogrades less frequently than the other planets, but when it does, you surely feel like someone has slammed on the brakes! But don't panic. Rather, consider this a chance to finally catch up on every loose end and unfinished project that's piled up over the past few years. With Uranus upping the ante in your stars for another round, the status quo of pre-...

This year has been one of the best years of my 24 years! There were a lot of lfe changing milestones that took place this year. January-March: My husband graduated Army basic camp and his family and I went to see him graduate. I was beyond proud of him and SO happy I was able to be there to see him graduate :). I also turned 24 (the years keep flying by lol). April-June: In April my boyfriend (now husband) asked me to marry him. He asked me in the cutest way! I'll never forget that day :). After that it was nothing but preparation for the wedding. July-Sep: July 23rd I married my best friend, I know it's cliche to say "I married my best friend" since everyone says but he truly knows me like no one else does!) Another day I will NEVER forget! :). Then in August I moved from California to Oklahoma to live with my husband. I'm not going to lie that was a big change for me. Living away from my family and then living together, it took time to adjust but we got ov...

A couple weeks ago my furry daughter, husband and I went to California. We got back this week. It was nice being able to go home for the holidays. We hadn't seen our families in a couple months so it was nice seeing every one! We got to spend time with both our families and spend Christmas with them at the same time. Ever since we started dating our families have shared Christmas together. It's a nice tradition, although this year seemed be a bit different but it was still nice. My husband and I were able to go to some of our favorite restaurants that we hadn't been to since we lived there, it was nice being able to go on mini dates just the two of us and getting to go out with our families :). Libby (our doggie) got to meet our families dogs. Everyone said what a nice dog she was, which made us proud of her :). My hubby surprised me and bought me a Lenovo tablet. I wasn't expecting anything so it was cute that he bought me that. We also got a table (yes, we've li...

This week I had finals, I'm so glad I'm done with this semester. This is the first semester back since 2009 so it was a little bit of an adjustment. Over all I think it was a good semester back :). I only took 2 classes this semester so it wasn't too hard. Next semester I'm going to take 5 classes so that'll be the big test! This month has been way busy! I have been busy buying things for people for Christmas! I love shopping for others and of course a couple things for myself :). I can't wait for Sunday night, my husband, my doggy and I will start our 20 hour trek to California. My hubby has 2 weeks off so we're going home for Christmas! I'm definitely going to enjoy ALL my time there! I've missed everyone over there! I'm VERRRRRYYYYY excited! :)

Our Thanksgiving Dinner turned out great! It was nice spending it with my husband last Thanksgiving we didn't get to spend together since he was at bootcamp. It was my first Thanksgiving without out my family, kind of weird not having them to share the meal with but it was still a good dinner non the less. The day after my hubby and I decorated for Christmas. We put up our tree and our stockings. We're driving home for Christmas! I can't wait to see our families! Even though we aren't staying here for Christmas we both thought it would be great to put our tree to get in the holiday spirit :). It's our first tree together! This past year my hubby and I have had a lot of first's and I love it! :)

I'm thankful for my little family (my husband and Libby), they're my world! I'm also thankful for my wonderful family and friends. This is the first Thanksgiving without my family but I'm so thankful I get to spend it with my husband. Last year we didn't get to spend Thanksgiving together because he was in boot camp and for the first time him and I are spending Thanksgiving as Husband and Wife. Well it's my first time cooking Thanksgiving Dinner. I'll post pictures and the results of my cooking either later today or this weekend :) Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving :)

Since my husband and dog went to bed I guess I'll blog :). There really hasn't been much going on over here. I started my 9 week class this past week, the first week went pretty good considering the teacher didn't even show up the first day so we went home early :) and our second day of class we didn't have class because it was fall break :). This weekend I spent a lot of my time studying because I have a test in my psych class in a couple weeks but I want to stay on top of everything. I took a test not too long ago and I didn't do so well, the only good thing about that test was that the teacher dropped some questions, which brought me up by 10 pts and then my teacher offered us 10 extra pts if we completed an assignment as a class so that really helped! But I know I have to do much better this next test. I've been really creative lately with creating flowers and headbands :). I've actually sold a couple which makes me happy because it would make me super...

Lately I've been really scattered brain. There is so much going through my head that I get distracted from what I'm doing. It's starting to get on my nerves. I feel like there I want to do so much but when I go to start on something I want to do I just get distracted and either put it off. I think staying home all the time is starting to get to me, I feel like I need to start some sort of business but I don't know what kind of business. I want something that will keep be busy and make some money, it doesn't even have to be a lot of money it just has to be enough to keep the business going. I want to do something that is unique that someone hasn't done. I think this is what has me so scattered brain because I have so many ideas but I don't want what I do to be the same as everyone else. So all the ideas that come to mind, that I get started on I just give up on because they remind me of what others have done. The thing is that my scattered brain about comin...

 Today has been such a lovely day outside, it's fresh and over cast. I love days like these! It reminds of California weather. I miss lots of things from back home and one of them is the weather. I remember when I would complain to my husband (then bf) about how I hated where we lived but moving out of California you realize you had the perfect weather and lord knows I took it for granted. Although the weather since I moved here hasn't been all that bad just always windy.  Lately I've been doing all my crafts and school work downstairs in our living room and today I decided I'd actually use our desk that we have in our spare room. Usually this room is warm and it doesn't have a fan so I didn't like spending time in it but since today is such a nice day I opened the window and it feels great in here. It feels good using the desk, using a hard surface instead of the floor or my notebook lol. The first couple weeks that I moved here my hubby bought me the desk, so...

Several friends from high school are pregnant and it gets met to thinking about wanting a baby. My hubby and I talk about it. We both really want one but we both know this isn't the time for one. He'll be deploying next year so if we were to get pregnant he wouldn't be here for the birth, which isn't fair to him. I think that is such a special moment for both him and I that it's better that we know he'll be here when we do have a baby. At the same time that brings up the whole if he decides to be a liver (be in the army till he retires), in May is half way till his contract is up and he's thinking of reuping. I'm 80% sure he'll reenlist, which I'm 100% behind him with whatever he chooses. So to get back to the whole baby matter, if he does decide to reenlist and does want to make this his carrier that brings up he may be gone whenever we do decide to have a baby. But that's down the line for now I'm perfectly happy with my Libby, she keep...

I was browsing through youtube looking for music to listen to and I came across these songs that I really like. I've never heard of them but I thought they sounded pretty good :) Hope you enjoyed ((:

I can't believe it's already October 1st. This year has gone by SO fast! There has been so many changes in my life and I'm loving new change that has come my way this year! :) I haven't written in awhile so I thought I'd update what's been going on. Two weeks from yesterday my husband and I added an addition to our family. We liked the name Liberty but wanted something original so we named her Libby :). She has been such an awesome furry daughter! We got her at the pound on base, she's a year old. She caught our eye by jumping so high that she was hitting the top of the kennel. At first I thought wow she's going to be a handful but really she's super sweet and yes she has her excited crazy moments (but that's what caught our eye). So other than getting Libby there really hasn't been much that has gone with me. I did have my first test this past Monday. I find out this coming Monday what I got. For some reason I don't feel all that c...