Sale Pending Preview...

We're official! Sale pending on our first home! Monday marks the official inspection date. More information will be posted shortly. Ray and I are so excited and are blessed for all the new adventures in homeownership! Lots of prayers and fingers crossed for a good review on Monday!

She's About to Pop!

Sunday afternoon, the ladies of our ABF celebrated Kristin and her sweet baby girl Myla with a themed baby shower.



The decorations were absolutely adorable. From various types of popcorn, hand-made pink containers, blow pops, and a delicious buffet of tasty treats, the hostesses did an amazing job!





I am so thankful for all the wonderful women in our ABF! We are so blessed to share in such special moments. We also have many new mamas and babies on the way. Myla will be the first little girl with lots of little friends to play with. Here are some pictures of the great ladies we get to share and celebrate our lives with. (Thanks to Katy and Anna for taking lots of pictures during the party:)


Carissa (baby Landry), Me, Andrea, and Denise

Cheryl, Sam, Tammy, and Amy

Jennie (baby Beckett), Katy, Pearson, and Jenny

Anna (baby Westin), Michelle, and Courtney

Denise and Pearson

Happy Baby Shower from the Purpose Ladies! Sending all the wonderful blessings and love that life has to offer!

2 Corinthians 12:9 at Cowtown!

This morning, the husband and I woke up at 4:00AM to travel to Fort Worth, Texas to attend our 4th year of Cowtown Half Marathon.

HIS power is made PERFECT in our weaknesses.
Corinthians 12:9...
the perfect words of encouragement!

This year, with Michael and Kristin vacationing in Belize, Ray was looking at running the first Cowtown race of four years by himself. However, a good friend and previous co-worker of Michael's ran in his place.

A great finish by both Johnathon and Ray (a new PR at 1:54 for the husband). Of course a picture in honor of Michael had to be taken. While we absolutely missed our Fant friends, I am so thankful for both Johnathon and Gretchen... Gretchen being my race day partner. We had a blast and I look forward to many more races in our futures!

I am very proud of you Ray! Here is to great parking, 39 degree race start temperature, a picture perfect spot at mile 9, delicious IHop lunch, and perfect words of encouragement!

February Facts

The month of February is passing quicker than the last. In this month we have shared in so many random activities. So here is to the good, the bad, and the random all in the month of February.

1. We lost a house but found a better one in it's place.
2. We celebrated our 9th Valentine's together. Sadly Ray had to work on Valentine's day itself, but we celebrated later that Saturday with dinner and a movie.
3. I celebrated my first Valentine's as a teacher with 19 pretty amazing kiddos :)
4. Toby had another seizure this month.
5. The husband and I have spent countless weekends looking at houses and signing contracts this month. :)
6. We babysat our Superhero, little B-rice as his mommy and daddy spent a date night out.
7. Ray and I double dated with our Duke friends to Casa Ritas.
8. Toby turned 5 years old this month.
9. Our school celebrated its 100th day!
10. Both Ray and I have sadly been sick with a not so fun sinus infection this month.
11. We are looking to close on our house on March 29th once inspection has been passed.
12. We have found a Rosas near our new home and work out center. This could get me in a lot of trouble for the future.
13. This month we continue to work out at Texas Family Fitness on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridday AMs. Sadly I have missed several mornings as has been so hard to get this lazy body out of bed as well as feeling under the weather has not been conducive to waking up 2 hours earlier than usual. I do love how accomplished I feel after a great work out... as well as spending extra hours with two of my favorite people and work out partners.
14. Ray participated in his fourth year for the Cowtown Half/Full Marathon. Can't wait for the boys to complete their STAR!
15. Enjoying LEAP YEAR!
16. The groundhog determined that we would have six more weeks of winter. This year has been crazy with extreme degrees of 30 to 80 plus degrees.
17. We love spending our Wednesday nights with our bible study small group.

Hope you've enjoyed some of our February monthly Facts. What have you been up to this month?

LNO!

I am so thankful for hours of great conversation, for laughs as well as advice, for relaxation and kicking back, for tasty food and delicious drinks... I am so thankful for ladies night out. Enjoying a Friday night with the Duke ladies at Casa Ritas.

Family Friend and Dinner at Papasitos!

Yesterday I received a text from Ray asking if I wanted to join him and our good family friend for dinner at Papasitos! After the craziness of the week and seeing Joyce, a close family friend from back home, who was in town for the weekend, I was so excited to go! But the craziness didn't stop there. On my way home, I was rear ended at the light off Bethany. While I nor my car were injured :) I would say that this was about enough excitement for one week. I was done! Ha! So there is nothing better than a night out with the husband, Mexican food, and fun with family friends.




It was definitely a great night to relax, enjoy delicious food, and spend time with great company. Happy Friday night!

Love Week Celebrations!

Our Love Week of Celebrations started on a Sunday after church with a trip to Kroger for a few essentials. It also included a sample of chocolate covered strawberries and a Carmel Apple Spice at Starbucks. Look at this super cute heart day cup!



On Monday, one of my sweet kiddos celebrated her 6th birthday and brought these adorable cupcakes to school. The boys enjoyed a sports inspired football cupcake and the girls a sweet flower. It was delicious white cake with butter cream frosting. YUM!



This Valentine's Day came on a Tuesday. We had created fun heart day activities for our Kindergarteners. Each room held a different station including Valentine's stories, heart shaped animals, a love bug picture, and in my room... an "I Love" book. After lunch and specials the parents were invited to attend our Kindergarten Friendship Party. From Valentine's boxes, friendship wands and crafts, an "I love"... inspired hot potato game, and cupcake treats, our party was a blast. Here are some cute pictures from our party.

Kindergarteners are sweet,
Candy is too,
Learning is FUN...
And I am thankful for you!

Love Mrs. Zellner

Ray and my Valentine's this year will be held on Saturday. Ray and I will be spending the whole day together and enjoying all the sappiness that Heart Day brings! On Tuesday the husband was on call and had to work. So may this Saturday be a fun day to celebrate each other and almost a decade of LOVE:)

SOLD

When I first pictured this post in my head it would read the word... SOLD in big bold print with a huge smiley face followed by thousands of exclamation marks. But this is not the case or at least it isn't the case for us. For the past few weeks, Ray and I have been eagerly house searching... until we found this home! It was absolutely perfect! After our first open house, we did several double takes, and found ourselves telling our realtor that we wanted to move forward within minutes of opening the front door. Sunday at 4:30 we finished the open house. Monday night at 9:00PM, we met at Starbucks to formulate a bid. Tuesday the bid was sent and countered. Wednesday we found out that we lost. Now as I write this post I am honestly fine. (This may have not been the case on Wednesday night:) We found out that we were in a bidding war with five other couples and the couple that got the contract paid well above asking price. Yes I heard from many others that this is typical and not to get attached but of course that was not going to happen to us... right?!?! I just knew that this was OUR house. But I know that God is in control and has such an amazing plan for our lives and OUR house. I know it's out there and cannot wait to find it. So for those who may have been reading Facebook, I do apologize for my attitude as of late and have had some time to realize what's really important. I 100% know that we will find our house and it will be PERFECT for our little family!

Double Dinner Date at Casa Ritas!

Saturday night we had a double dinner date with our friends, the Dukes, at Casa Ritas in Frisco. I absolutely LOVE Casa Ritas as I do love my Mexican food and of course... look at the size of this burrito!

The food was AMAZING...but so was our company. :) I love spending time with Duckee and Adam. It was a great night of catch up with great friends and the food was delicious. I look forward to another night with our sweet friends and of course their little man.

Babysitting B-Rice, Our Super Hero!

Last night, Ray and I had the opportunity to watch this adorable cutie while his parents enjoyed a fun date night out. From basketball, yoga, tickle fights, flying through the air, tasty pizza with a side of Bubble Guppies and UmiZoomi, as well as puzzles, trains, Superhero jammies, and story time, we had an absolute blast! Here are some fun pictures of our night with our favorite little Fant. But where is our little super hero? Where is Bryson?

House Hunting, Babysitting B-Rice, and Fun Days in February!

While we are only a few weeks into the month of February, that doesn't stop us from enjoying every moment of it... From house hunting, to Gellner ladies hair salon days, lunch dates, lazy nights at home with our furbabes, and hanging out with our favorite little Fant, we sure are having a blast.

First Day of House Hunting

Starbucks Drinks and Hair day with my Gellner

Sunday Lunch Date at Rosas. YUM!

Our little boy and girl

Babysitting B-Rice

Here is to more enjoyable, high-energy, and even lazy nights with the ones I love!