Happy New Year!

Joanna's Holiday Entertainment

She's not ours, but we gladly play and hold little Aubie all she'll let us :).

The Picture it Produced...

This is for Pastor Kent because he asked and our grandparents because they weren't sure what the last post meant. We'll have more pictures from this shoot on the TSP website soon! We miss you pastor Kent and Grandparents :)

Taylor...at work!

Christmas in October

As we are putting our apartment together in hopes of making it a home, one thing we wanted was some new pillows for our couch. Fancy Throw Pillow = $50
Cheap Throw Pillow = $20
Custom Made Throw Pillow = Priceless The talented Christine and Kelly Armstrong took our ideas and the fabric of our choice and made us these amazing pillows as our Christmas gift. They were kind enough to let us enjoy them now! We LOVE them. They came out so good! Thanks Mom and Sister!

So Tasty

Tonight, we along with our good buddy Brady, made some Delicious beer battered fish tacos! We had never attempted anything like it, but it wasn't too complicated and the result was muy bueno! Got the recipe from Our Best Bites... I like what they're cookin!

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Let's just say advertising works. On my drive home from work there is a billboard for Dunkin Donuts. I have been seriously craving donuts for three months. This morning, Taylor finally gave in. We made iced coffee and chai at home. We picked up a 1/2 dozen dunkin donuts and then sat outside a Starbucks to enjoy our Saturday morning treat. We will be eating salad for lunch and dinner.

Fire and Ice

Two days ago it was 100 degrees and today large chunks of ice fell from the sky! We are SOOO grateful for the temperature to be under 90! When Joanna got home from work we talked about how we both had smiles on our faces the whole day just because it was cool out. Pretty funny :)

Picture 1: driving home, I realize I'm about to hit some serious down pouring.

Video 1: The rain quickly turned to hail which was hitting so hard I pulled into an apartment complex for cover.

Video 2: More hail. I have at least 2 friends whose car windows were shattered.

Picture 2: the ground looked like snow in some places. But after it passed, our apartment windows stayed open the whole day! And we may even have had hot drinks at Starbucks tonight. Crazy!

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My Younger Nephew

My Nephew

Just have to brag:)

Evening Walk

A Little Bit More Like Home

It's been nearly two months and we have finally gotten around to putting something on the wall :)! This sign used to be on Grandpa Sprague's citrus property. Grandma and he lived right on the edge of it and I spent quite a bit of time in those groves as a kid. It's fun to have a piece of that here.

$ugar Mama

Joanna has now taken on a 2nd job at Culvers to help fund my chai addiction. Ok, that's not true... She is helping out tonight at a fundraiser for her school. She's pretty cute in that blue apron though ;)

One thing we do have...

... is plenty of sunshine. Happy Sunday everyone!

Great Teaching Moment

Got called a "dumba**" by one of my students...yep a kindergartner. He
was mad I would not let him eat the little plastic bear. He went
straight to the "thinking chair" He then proceeded to say, "Come on
Mrs. Sprague! Give me a break!". Oh, the joys:)

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Cooler Days

It's overcast today. It even rained a little bit! Between that and the air conditioning, I am pretending that it's not in the hundreds outside and that a hot drink is ok. We're looking forward to "Fall".

Happy Man

Why can't all grocery stores around the world be like this? Seriously,
that is a lot of tortillas!

Taylor helping me get my class ready:)

Baby Clara!

Why stop?

We have been constantly moving all summer, so we decided to just keep
going. We are in CO for a short Lorenzen family get together (and a
chance for me to meet Clara...one of my best friends little girl). Oh,
I start work on Monday, no big deal:)