99 Questions

Someone posted this list and I thought it was fun! The things in bold are things I've

done/accomplished/experienced. 

Have you ever?...

1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii


5. Watched a meteor shower


6. Given more than you can afford to charity


7. Been to Disneyland
/world

8. Climbed a mountain


9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo


11. Bungee jumped


12. Visited Paris


13. Watched a lightning storm


14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child

16. Had food poisoning


17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty


18. Grown your own vegetables


19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France


  20. Slept on an overnight train


21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill

24. Built a snow fort


25. Held a lamb


26. Missed a flight...Yes, it was even an international flight!  Hah.

27. Run a Marathon


28. Taken a gondola ride in Venice


  29. Seen a total eclipse


30. Watched a sunrise or sunset


  31. Hit a home run


32. Been on a cruise


  33. Seen Niagara Falls in person


34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
...I've been to Germany, does that count?

35. Seen an Amish community


36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person


  39. Gone rock climbing 


40. Seen Michelangelo’s David

41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt


  43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant


44. Visited Africa


45. Walked on a beach by moonlight


46. Been transported in an ambulance


47. Had your portrait painted
...Do cartoon ones count?  Heh.

48. Gone deep sea fishing

 
 49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person


  50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling


  52. Kissed in the rain


  53. Played in the mud


54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie

 
 56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business


58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen


61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies


62. Gone whale watching


63. Gotten flowers for no reason


64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma


65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy


  70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten Caviar

72. Pieced a quilt


73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades


75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person


80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican


  82. Bought a brand new car


83. Walked in Jerusalem


84. Had your picture in the newspaper

  85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve

86. Visited the White House


  87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating


88. Had chickenpox


  89. Saved someone’s life


90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Gotten a tattoo

94. Had a baby


95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit


98. Owned a cell phone


99. Been stung by a bee

a sneak peak into a much needed facelift!

adam and i are giving a much needed facelift to one of the rooms in our house. here's a sneak peak! heh.

from bland to...

beautiful! well, at least i like it.

i added some pazzaz to these 2 twin lamps that i got "free" with a side table i bought a few years ago.

this 'lil project took me 'lil time. all it took: self-adhesive string of pearls for the top, a decorative charcoal colored pin for the middle, and a string of beads that i hot-glued to the bottom.

ta-da! i was thinking that i could switch out the pin throughout the year to match the season.

A Session at Leander ISD's February Conference

this past summer, i spent most of my summer in training which is one of the requirements to become a texas state-certified master reading teacher. i had a little bump in the road. i got rear-ended (actually on a lunch break from one of the last days of the training) which caused further damage to my neck. it was quite a pain in the neck! no pun intended, hah! luckily, despite the neck pain, i was still able to pass my mrt certification test.

so, when my school district had its annual continuous learning conference, i thought i'd take a chance to contribute. i did 2 sessions at the conference on "creating a reading group routine." it was such a good experience!
thanks to my school's instructional coach, my powerpoint had video clips of my reading groups in action throughout the week.

thanks to one of my students' parents, i had a poster illustrating my students using motions to remember what to do to "solve" an unknown word. you can kind of see it in the picture. the poster is to the left of the powerpoint.

i {heart} banners oh so much! i made a banner that reads "resources i love." sidenote: my sessions took place in a high school art room/studio, so there are other posters and such that i couldn't take down.

and another banner! these banners were the easiest to make. i just cut 2 sides out of a big yellow rectangle-shaped paper. then, i glued blue sticky notes down. i found the letters at wally world and they are sticky notes, too.

christmas, austin style

adam's parents with their 5 grandkids
santa visited summer at her grandparents' house and look what he left her!

the doctor kit was quite the hit...future doctors in the house?

it's never to early to start preparing for your career, right?

cheezin' it in front of adam's parents' house.

such a festive table setting.

complete with name tags. i love this how adam's mom used gift tags to make the place settings.

even the minnies had their lil table set

summer's place setting was an angel gift tag.

playing a guess who i am game. you can't quite see but the card that was on my forehead said, "i am money."

the next day the celebration continued with the 'lil doctors getting back to work.

4 generations of unnasch boys.

summer, mandy and adam's grandma.

the boys before they went back to houston.

christmas, seguin style

this year, the raetzsches met at my aunt and uncle's newly remodeled house. it used to be our grandparents' house.

nice to have a new addition to the christmas crew. welcome, thad!

love how they remodeled it and kept the house in the family. i just heart this chandelier!

tommy (my dad's brother), beth (tommy's wife), kathy (my dad's sister), john (kathy's husband), my dad and my mom

the eggnog was EGGcellent.

los tamales y queso, muy deliciouso.

the former aggie gets a pig.

the pig was quite the popular pick in the chinese gift exchange.

the poor lil pig lost his sunglasses. i spy the culprit!

christmas morning.

looks like nancy will be ready to "toast" in the new year.

Happy Birthday Jesus...and Adam, too!

first, we all took christmas card pics in the greenbelt area of our hood.

i wonder if i'll actually get these developed before christmas. maybe. and, bless his heart...adam had a bad cold and allergies that day.
adam's sister's clan.

'lil logen explorin'

the parental-in-law's

once a christmas baby, now a wise 31 year-old.

such a gift from God. oh, and you, too, adam!

i feel so privedged that santa's 'lil reindeer decided to stop by our tree!

summer's quite the 'lil dancer. summer now takes ballet/dance lessons. i said, "now, summer, do your ballerina pose" and this is what she did. so sweet.

we decided to start a holiday new hair trend. who needs bows, right, summer?

don't worry logen. of course we want you in the pic with us!

neighborhood pics with santa. summer even made a gift for santa but she forgot it at our house.

you can't have a visit from santa without a visit from the goats and...

pigs, of course! logen seemed to bond well with the piglet. he got right down to the piggie's level. so cute!

Kelly's Korner SHOW US YOUR LIFE: Holiday Home Tour

Welcome to my home, fellow bloggers!

I love to decorate, as I am sure you are, too. However, I don't like to spend money on decorating! Fortunately, my husband and I were able to decorate most of our house with gifts from our wedding and gift cards from our wedding. Also, I am a teacher so I also use gift cards that I get from students. When I do shop for decor, I mostly get things from Hobby Lobby and TJ Maxx.

The Tree. The only decor I bought this year was the "netting ribbon" (I have no idea what it's called) half off at Hobby Lobby. We bought our tree after Christmas last year on clearance using a gift card.
I added glitter to the wreath and garland a few days ago, although you can't really tell in the pic! Glitter makes it all better.

Ah, love my jars and filling them with ornaments and glittery pine cones.

I decided to take a few pics of my wrapping this year! I got fake berries from the Dollar Tree, aka a cheap girl's toyland, to put on top of gifts.

It's all about the polka dots, stripes and checkers this year.

Dining Room Decor. I love having names on place settings.

I found this centerpiece at my parent's house and asked my mom if I could use it because they never do. It works just fine!

I put our hand-me-down tree that was in our living room before in the dining room. It looks kind of plain but there was no reason to spend money on it expecially since it's not a main room.

Love switching out my ribbons seasonally! It's so fun.

The Kitchen. More polka dots and I think I may be going a little U overboard!

I just love decorating with little birds. The red tree with the button on the top is another find from the beloved Dollar Tree.

A little nitch with a Dollar Tree candle and of course a U and a little birdie!

I decided to put something festive in the bathroom.

Just put glitter inside a clear ornament (leftovers from a school craft) and silver ribbon inside a vase.

Decorating with what I've been given. A candle and some holiday soap from students in my class.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas with friends and family!