The First Day…

Well here I am, my first day of school  Work, I was so excited! I couldn’t wait to get up and get dressed and meet new friends.  

Brad surprised me with these fun desk necessities

and I couldn’t wait to use them!

The first day was filling out a bunch of personal paper work, and HR stuff.  But the next day I got to spend some time with the kids and I loved it!!!!  I still cannot believe how great God is! I know He is, but it still surprises me every time! Will I ever learn that He really is in control.  Geez!!!! I am now fully submerged in my new job and I am loving it.  The first week was a little rough because I had to work on file after file after file for all of our students.  But this past Thursday, I finally got to really do my job! I love working with the kids so much! The best part of my day is when one of them will pass me in the hall and say “Hi Mrs. Remy” or when they give me a hug! So rewarding!  God is so good!

Fall has come to the Webb House!!!!

Fall has been at our house for a little over a week now, and I am absolutely loving it.  I haven’t always been real big on decorating for the holidays, but with help from my friend Brittney, I was inspired.    

Last year Brittney made me this cornucopia (sp?) So cute! So last Monday when I came home from the store with candy corns,  my heart was ready for fall!  I pulled Brittney’s creation out of my “fall” box and started decorating.  Brad was actually excited that our house was decorated for fall and loves the candy corns. I have made some additions this year such as

The turkeys and the flower arrangement

This pumpkin, so cute in person!

This pumpkin and napkins!

and this little pumpkin showcase!

You just can’t beat Hobby Lobby and their 50% off sales! 

Sidenote Story:  The first picture with the word “FALL” was a fun little project that Brittney and I did with our sweet friend Margie!  Margie was admitted to the hospital on Friday, because she went into pre-term labor with her twin baby girls! Through the power of prayer the labor was stopped and those babies will hopefully stay in her belly for the next two months.  But, that means Margie is on hospital bed rest until then.  So we had to have a “Fall” intervention last night!  Brittney and I arrived at the hospital around 8:30 ( i had to work ) and three hours later our masterpieces were finished!  Margie is doing really well and the babies are great, Dad is a little tired with late nights and early mornings but he is hanging in there! Please keep praying for this sweet family! Kendall and Emery we are all so excited to meet you but we CAN wait til your done cookin in your Momma! So stay in there!  Here are some pictures that Brittney took last night, they are on her blog too!

you have to have “snacks”

Margie and me, mid way through!

Margie with her finished product!

All three of us! Christmas decor here we come!!!

My New Job!!!!!!!!!

So for those of you I have not been able to tell personally here is the biggest update of our lives!!! I got a new job! I am sooooooo super excited about this position and I am incredibly Thankful that God works all things together for the good of those he loves!  So here is how it all came together…

Early this past summer my friend Margie told me about this position at her school that she thought would be great for me… I said great, and she told me she would get me more information as she figured it out.  The week before school started she finally figured out what everything was and got me connected with CIS (Community in Schools).  I applied right away and couldn’t believe the greatness of this organization!!! Unfortunately, they didn’t have any positions available, but they were going to save my application and resume.  So i had given up on it.  But God totally had a plan… 2 weeks ago Margie called me from school and said that there was a position available and I needed to make sure all my stuff was in… I ended up having to resend my resume and everything because apparently it got lost?  But a few days later I was called for an Interview! I was shocked and nervous! But after faithful friends and family praying for me , the interview went great! and as of Thursday last week I was officially offered the Job!!!!! 

 

My position is called Case Manager,  I am at one of the local elementary schools, and I start Oct. 1, 2009!!!! I will be working school hours, and will still be coaching gymnastics for a little extra income!

Here is more information from the website: www.cisdallas.org

The mission of Communities In Schools Dallas Region, Inc. is to help students at risk of failure stay in school, achieve academically and graduate, to become productive and contributing members of our communities.

Each year thousands of at-risk children drop out without ever graduating from high school. Faced with poverty, lack of parental guidance, drug abuse, illiteracy and other crises, these children struggle to reach their full academic potential.

Since 1985, Communities In Schools Dallas Region, Inc. (CISDR) has provided programs and services on the school campus to best meet the physical and emotional needs of at-risk students and empower them to remain in school.

The Job Description:

Position Summary
Delivers services through the CISDR case management system. Has an assigned caseload and also
provides services to the other students upon the request of the Campus Manager.

Accountabilities
• Assess the needs of the student assigned through use of assessment tools and other mean.
Guides in the formulation of individual plans of service with specific goals.

• Makes appropriate referrals for students and/ or their family members to community agencies,
with continuous follow-up on student and agency.

• Maintains a caseload of students and provides individual and group counseling and/or
supportive guidance.

• Makes home visits, always paired with another professional adult.

• Act as court advocate for caseload students as appropriate.

• Assist in arranging academic tutoring, through volunteers and peer tutors. Provide tutoring
directly as required.

• Maintain accurate/ timely records of student services provided using CISDR forms.

Double Date

We went to a concert with these guys

a couple of weekends ago and we 

had a great time singing along with 

and

We all

were very impressed by Dierks

and Brad

Thanks for taking us on a Double Date! We are still talking about how much fun we had!!!!

I feel whitty o so whitty, I feel....

I am trying to inspire myself to write a new post... and this song has been running through my head all morning long. I changed the words a little bit, but it always reminds me of the movie Anger Management, When Adam Sandler is forced to sing it! Haha! Anyways, sorry I haven't posted about life in a while but here are a few blogs that will tell you what I did over labor day... Emily and Kolby, Tricia and Jeff, and Debby and Dan. I feel that my inspirational song will pay off soon! Be patient with me!

Busy Life = Lack of Blogging!

Life has been super busy around here. And my camera was in the hands of one of our friends until a few days ago and so I have no pictures... sorry! But I will give you an update anyways!

2 weeks ago Brad and I headed up a VBS at Ana's Apartments. It was a lot of work... I had just finished volunteering at our church's VBS and I had no idea how much planning and hard work really goes into these things. I definitely had my hands full. But with help from some of our awesome youth and Bilingual parents we were able to pull it off. Sandra, was a huge help/life saver. She told the Bible story every day, in spanish, while here 3 yr old and 1 yr old ran around and acted like the big kids. She was such a blessing. We also had crafts and Rec which I let the youth head up and they did a great job. The kids loved it... and then I got to play a special part as well. I got to lead the music, consisting of Father Abraham (Padre Abraham), I have the Joy (Yo Tengo Gozo), Lord's Army ( O' Si ), and Waves of Mercy (Olas de Gracias y Micericordia). I have been blessed with the ability to remember these songs in Spanish from my seven mission trips to Mexico in High School and College. I love how God uses things! Anyways as the week came to a close, we presented the plan of salvation to the Kids and were shocked with the outcome! Some of the Mom's of the kids stayed around and would listen to the story and help with the craft, on this particular day there were 7 of them there. As the Kids repeated the prayer and accepted Christ into their hearts, The Mom's all did too! We were so excited! We knew God had us there for the Kids but to know that he had a bigger plan for some of there Mom's brought us all so much Joy. In the Hispanic Culture if you can get the Mom you can get the family. Our Prayer is now that those Moms will tell their families and their families will also become believers! It was the Perfect ending to VBS! Praise the Lord!!!

That weekend my Brothers and Sister in law came in town. Chris (the youngest) came up on Friday and had all of us cracking up as he is known to do! We tried out Amazing Jakes which we thought would be a fun place for adults as well... not so much, but o well we laughed alot. Just to give you a visual... Brad and his childhood friend Chase road together in a two seater Go-Kart, not only were we laughing histaricly but the kids watching them were pointing and laughing too, o and I forgot to mention the size of the Go-Kart Track, picture a small cul-de-sac, put a median in the middle with Bumpers for sides and you have the size of the track... Enough said. Vince and Autumn came over later that evening to play video games (at least thats what the boys did). Autumn and I love to do random house projects and this time it included acidently breaking two plates off of my plate wall and then decided to make a mosaic plate out of it! Which is beautiful! And then after that we decorated above my cabinets in my kitchen... Thanks Autumn for all your help! I love how it turned out! On Saturday we took the boat out and Vince and Autumn came along again.... We are really going to miss them when they move, but congrats on finding a house... hope yall get it!!!!.... anyways, after some extreme tubing and maybe a little rough tubing we decided to head home and shower... V and A brought over pizza and it was another fun filled night of Wii, this time A and I participated! Alex (older brother) and Lane (sister-in-law) arrived around 10pm. They were at a wedding and were exhausted from lots of driving and wedding activities! but we chatted with them for a while before heading to bed. We all went to church the next morning and then went to Babe's after for lunch... So delicious! Everyone had to head back after lunch but it was really great to see my brothers and sister in law.

Last week was just as busy... Margaret (Brad's mom) turned 50 on Saturday and we had a huge surprise party planned out for her. Emily was in charge of most of the planning and I was in charge of getting decorations, birthday cake, and distractions. Since the surprise party was going to be at the newly just about completed Ranch, we had a lot of things to work through. All of us were to meet Brian and Margaret at the Ranch on Friday night for the weekend. "unfortunately" none of us would be able to stay past Saturday "morning". We all "left" after breakfast to "head home", and Brian was taking Margaret out to a late birthday lunch. We obvioulsy never left town and went back to the Ranch to set up for the party while Margaret was gone. So here is how it all panned out.... a couple of weeks ago I had to call the mattress place where we got the beds and mattresses and push up the delivery date. After talking the sales rep into scheming with me in order to make Margaret believe that I had no involvement... we accomplished our goal. Margaret called after getting off the phone with the mattress guy to tell me the date had been pushed up, and I acted completely shocked... We also managed to get all the curtains ordered and ready for pick up. I endured two long shopping days with Margaret at Sam's and then Bed Bath and Beyond... I say endured because I was so excited about the surprise party that it was really hard to be around the person we were surprising. In fact on day two of shopping I had to call Emily for a pep talk. I had just told Margaret what time we were going to be "leaving" on Saturday and her face hosted the most disappointed look.... SO HARD, not to crack! Emily helped me through...I am such a softy.... Anyways, Brian and Margaret went to the Ranch on Thursday and we were finally in the clear for the most part. I made the birthday cake on friday which crumbled to pieces by the time it came to reveal it on Saturday... another funny story.... and we loaded up Brad's truck with tables and chairs and other items we needed for the party from Margaret's house. We "picked up" Emily from work and headed down to the ranch, really her and Kolby were following us. Once we got to the ranch we unloaded everything into the barn which conviently sits out of sight of the house. We parked Emily and Kolby's car inside and they "rode" with Brad and I to the house. Margaret still had no idea... We made it all the way through Friday night, frantically getting things set up, making Margaret believe we were just so excited to be there (which we were) that we wanted to get as much done as possible.... After all of that Saturday went perfectly... and when Brian and Margaret returned to the ranch, she had a huge surprise waiting for her. Bonus part of the party for me was that my Mom came and actually helped set up for the party. She made an appetizer, that was a huge hit, and helped us finish up the flower decorations. Thanks mom, we couldn't have done it with out you! It was really great to see you!!!!! The party was great and so much fun!!!

Sunday night Brad and I joined up with Emily's friends to take her out to a surprise Birthday dinner, since her birthday was consumed with her Mom's 50th (yes they have the same birthday). It was a great time of fun and fellowship and after all of Emily's hard work she deserved to be celebrated.

So that has been a recap, sorry so long, of life here at the Webb's. More entries to come more often now I hope!

The Dog Days of Summer…Literally Speaking

This morning Brad went and helped his parents move some things into a storage shed while I spent some time with our pups.  Nala (rhodesian) loves to run and fast I might add.  My mom calls her our horse, which in a way she does have similar mannerism.  For instance, she runs like a horse, all four legs come off the ground together, its really neat to watch.  Bentley (Mutt) is our little explorer and our “alcoholic” as Brittney’s dad would say, because he can’t hold his “licker”… haha!  He will lick you spotless.  Anyways, I started off the morning by taking the dogs across the street to the park.  They love getting to run and explore, Nala is pretty good about staying in our eyesight, where as Bentley likes to wander behind fences and trees to where we can’t see him… crazy guy.  But when it is time to go they are both pretty good about coming and getting back on their leashes.  This morning our time at the park got cut a little short because of a decapitated animal whose guts were spilling out everywhere.  Obviously, both dogs were overly intrigued by the smell of fresh blood and… need i say more?  Nala is really strong and at one point she got over to the deceased before I could get her to stop, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to pull her off, I ran at her full speed hoping that she would move out of the way… instead she laid down on her back and surrendered, waiving her white flag.  I laughed and home we went.  I decided that it was so hot outside that the dogs needed to be cooled off in the sprinklers and below is how it all went down…