Alumni Band

Okay so you really cannot see me BUT I still think the old farts did amazing. Enjoy!

My new playtoy for my Classroom Blog

Get a Voki now!



These are so neat!

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Anybody wanna buy my Wii?

welllllll I've got the Wii, Wii Fit with the pilates mat, Guitar Hero with guitar, Legend of Zelda, and two or three other kids games..... I would say $400 for all of that and we could arrange prices for less than everything if you would like.

New Enterprise High School (finished Aug 2010 hopefully)

My newest purchase:

Those of you that know me, know that I am VERY picky with ummmm almost every aspect of my life. When Jacob totaled his car 2 weeks ago (yes he is fine) we began the hunt for another 'ride'. We looked at used car after used car, read Car & Driver magazine for safety info, crunched numbers of what we could afford, etc. etc.... After much prayer and consideration, we decided this purchase would be a more future-minded one so that we could have a very reliable family car that could hold more than one child safely. With getting a new car, my biggest concern was getting a sexy, safe, car that we could drive until the wheels fall off or we have 3 toddlers at the same time (Heaven help if that happens). Needless to say I have driven everything from a Ford to a Land Cruiser and have finally made my choice. I am now the proud new owner of a 2009 Nissan Rogue in Wicked Black (love it Stace?)!!! It is fully-loaded with every possible option including the dummy proof key that will not allow you to lock it inside. Praise be to the man! The dealership is currently in route to get my precious new baby from Pensacola so I will have it tomorrow after it is properly detailed. I will add actual pictures of the car/crossover/SUV/whatever as soon as I get it home tomorrow. And, as always, sorry for being a lame blogger.

Love,
Me

I've been married for a year?!

************SATURDAY************
6	Pack the car, Get gas
7 8 9 10 11	Depart Enterprise DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE
12 noon 1	Eat Lunch at Vortex Bar and Grill	438 Moreland Ave Ne, Atlanta, GA 30307, US	404-875-1667
2	Check in at Hyatt Regency	265 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30303	404-577-1234 404-588-4137
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 midnight	Stone Mountain	PO Box 778 Stone Mountain Park, GA 30086	800-401-2407
************SUNDAY ************
6 7 8	Breakfast at Marketplace Café	Next door	Next door
9 10 11 12 noon 1	Georgia Aquarium Titanic Exhibit	225 Baker St. NW Atlanta, GA 30313	404-581-4000
2
3
345- 4 5 6	Transformers in IMAX	Regal Mall of Georgia 3333 Buford Dr Suite 3000 Buford, GA 30518	678-482-9263
7
8 9 10	Dinner at Melting Pot	3610 Satellite Blvd Duluth, GA 30096	770-623-1290
11

sounds fun eh?!

Round 2- DING!

My babypuppy Mylee-Ann is back in the Dog Hospital with another bowel obstruction. Pray for her to get better and pray for my sanity. =-/

What's New With The Krausz Hausz

Hello bloggers! I realize that I have been a very bad little blogess the last week and, for that, I do apoligize. Things in the Krausz Hausz have been rather busy for a mommy that is on summer break. It seems as though each year I have all these plans for my summer vacation and then life hits. Surprise! =-)

Mylee-Ann:
My little missy DID get to come home from the hospital last Wednesday. She was given instructions to lay low with very little physical activity for a week. These people had my dog for a week so should have known this would be rather impossible. I will say, however, that she did quite better than I had imagined. Yesterday she went back for her check-up and had gained a total of 10lbs since she first went to that Vet. Wow! Her little ribs are starting to disappear and she even went for a run around the neighborhood with me yesterday.

Aiden-Michael:
Big brother Aiden was quite the sad panda while sissy was away at the hospital. He would literally mope around all day and even went on a 3-day hunger strike. For those of you that know my 1st doggychild, you know that he rarely goes an hour without food! I was worried about him being so excited about sissy being home, that he might hurt her or pull out stitches by trying to play BUT he was her little protector the entire week. It was so stinking cute that I should have videoed it.

Daddy:
Jake is still in summer classes at EOCC and really loves getting up at the crack of dawn for school *sarcasm*. Verizon has announced that all the Reps in Enterprise will be let go at the end of the year. Not good. So I am working hard-core on his resume and looking for new positions in the local area. If any of you know of positions for Spanish translators, feel free to pass that info along.

Mommy:
Minus spending 100% of my time watching and caring for my baby girl, I have been pretty good. Last weekend I snuck away and got to attend my 10yr high school reunion. WHAT?! It was awesome getting to see all of my girl squad from childhood. They all look amazing. We did decide though that all the boys must had drank and ate far too much in the last 10yrs because most of them are rather large. teeheee.... Now the rest of my summer is going to be spent focusing on that enormous to-do list that I created at the start of summer and preparing for a new and fun year at EHS.

Mylee-Ann's Visit: Monday

Visit with Mylee- Wednesday

I am so fortunate that I took Mylee-Ann to a Vet that would allow me to come and visit her everyday. I was nervously awaiting the visit all stinking day. I know I might have just been overly-excited, but she looks sooo great considering what all she went through yesterday. I took pics and a video so that you all could fall in love with my baby too. They said she still needs lots of prayers b/c her wounds have to heal before we are 'out of the woods'.

My precious Mylee-Ann Montana..

I really need as many prayers as possible to go up in the sky for my baby girl today. For the last week, Mylee-Ann has been having stomach issues and would vomit once a day. I was concerned about her lack of weight gain 2 weeks ago and took her to the Vet here in town. Instead of checking her, they simply gave me the Inquisition about what, when, and how I feed her. Otherwise stated they blamed me for her size. Since she has been her natural bubbly self, I really did not suspect anything major.

Two days ago I had the breeder, Jeremy, come and check her out. He said "she is kinda small but looks awesome overall". Just to be safe he said to take her over to Ozark to the Vet where his dogs go. I called and made an appointment having absolutely no earthly idea what would happen next.

We took her back to see Dr. Deloney and he palpated her tummy for about 10 seconds. Next were the words that I hadn't expected... "Okay we need to rush her to the surgery table if we even have a shot at saving her." What?! Twenty minutes earlier she had been running around the house with Aiden playing?!

I knew that Weimerainers were prone to tummy issues, but I was told it started when they were 6 months. Mylee-Ann is only 4 months this week. So they found out that her entire small intestine had looped over top of itsself a total of 3 times. They had to remove 12 inches of her bowels before closing her back up. The Vet said that she had this problem quite a while ago which frustrates me that the other Vet just questioned me instead of checking out my precious girl.

As of this morning, they said that she still had the I.V. in her arm and that she kept down a smidge of wet food. The Vet said "she looks good but do know that she could go downhill fast at any time". I never knew how much a dog would affect my life until she is not here and I picture her lying in a kennel chewing her I.V. out (which they said she's done 3 times).

PLEASE send up as many prayers as possible for my beloved little baby this week. I am miserable. Aiden and myself are lying on the couch missing our best friend.

Twilight Party Part Two?!

How many of you are in for this Saturday?

My goals for the summer:

As you all know, I am incredibly OCD. Fact. Since I entered high school in 1997, I have NEVER had a summer off from schooling. I went to summer school each summer at EHS then straight into college where I also attended every semester possible. Now that I have finally achieved the Masters, I need a stinkin' break. But, wait, what shall I do?! Multitasking is a specialty of mine. To cure my quandry, I am making a goals list. I am going to post it and everything. (Those of you that know how flippant Jake is are probably laughing now)...

My Goals:
* Read 25 books including The Book of Mormon


* Get the new house organized so that I can have friends over

* Throw at least 3 "Girls Nights" to redeem my sanity (yours too)

* Finish my Wedding Scrapbook

* Make 2 Baby Scrapbooks

* Make my cousin's Wedding Scrapbook (can you tell I like my Cricut?)

* Learn how to use my sewing machine

* Plant a garden

* Use my Wii Fit to get me (and Jake) in shape

* Be proactive and get all my school stuff in order for the fall before it gets here

* Go to the Georgia Aquarium

* Attend a wedding (Zach Tanner)

Hmmmm I have probably missed something here. None the less I know my list might sound insane to most of you, but I need lists that are almost impossible to help me survive. Perhaps I should add "make a baby" in there to make the stakes even higher. It should be interesting to see how many of these I actually get done with.

Swine Flu?....

Okay. So....

There is a case of swine flu reported in our school system. Any child who fears for their safety may stay home without penalty this week and next week for finals. Until today I had never heard children jumping for joy saying "Yay swine flu!". Awkward?! Yes I think so. My only other question would be "am I a child that can fear for my safety?'....hahahhahahahah

My Papa and Jake's Birthdays

My 4th Graduation in 10 YEARS!!!!!!

I'm Ed-u-ma-cated!

Hello to all of you out in the Blog World. I am VERRRRY happy to tell you that I graduated Friday with my Masters Degree in Biology Education. It has been a very long and tedious road to say the least. Through all of the bumps and bruises, I have been confident that Heavenly Father would see me through them. Examples of those lovely bumps include: (1) having a gimp arm after the tornado (2) having class at 3:30 but being in school at EHS til 5:20 after the tornado (3) having another gimp arm the next Jan (3) them telling me that there was NO WAY for me to finish on time (4) the day before graduation telling me that I could not graduate b/c I had not taken some stupid test after they already gave me documentation in writing that I was done.... Yay for Troy University! *insert sarcasm here* But I am beyond proud that I am now more educated on paper and can earn more dough for our growing family. There are more degrees that exist over and above mine, however, it would take a miracle and a half for me to attempt to go back again.

Now graduation itsself was an interesting extravaganza for sure. There were a total of 678 graduates all total that walked. They lined us up by first= associates second= bachelors THENNNN masters. So roughly estimating I graduated 600th in that ginormous line of people. Had it not been for the fact that there were hall monitor-type people, it is incredibly feasible that I would have started blogging during the ceremony about how long it was. But seriously though I was impressed that it started at 10:30 and was over by 1:00. They pretty much told us to run across the stage. I have more pictures but these will have to suffice you for now.

My new playtoy

After finishing a rather rough and tedious week at Casa de' Krausz, I came home ready for a long nap. Much to my surprise, my new playtoy came in the mail and my husband had already opened it for me. What is it you say? Well to not keep you in too much suspense, I will tell you that it is (BY FAR) the neatest invention since the Ziploc bag. It's a Cricut! I must confess that I have had a sick addiction with these things for some time now. The commercials that come on at 3am are mighty convincing as to the awesome-ness of this little gadget. I have honestly found myself watching HSN on purpose just to see what other nifty things the little Cricut could do.

Last week I was talking with a colleaugue that has a scrapbooking business and I confessed my addiction. She assured me that it WAS in fact the neatest little machine and that she bought hers on Ebay for a mere $80. Hmmm. The Shopping Network says they are much more than that. I felt it was a challenge of sorts. Game on... So I created an account with Ebay and began my search. I would watch and watch to see what buyers were good and how people did their bidding (most of them dirty bidders I must say).

I randomly saw this one that said 'used' and the starting bid was a mere $39. I of course jumped in head first and honestly forgot about it. "No way this sucker will stay at that price, right?" Well much to my surprise, two days later I received an email telling me that I had one the dream of all dreams for less than $40 shipped. Thank you Heavenly Father.

I must admit though that I was leary about the 'used' part since there must ALWAYS be a catch. However I just opened the sucker up and she is brrrraaaannnnnddddd new. Could life on a Friday afternoon get much better? (I'm lame so don't laugh that a Cricut makes my week..) Now I am scattering around the house looking for scrapbook paper and testing it out. Once Jake gets home, the entire house will have nifty little notes saying "I love you" and "Cool" and "Inspiration" on them.

I think my weekend is set!

FACEinHOLE

Create your own FACEinHOLE

Katie's Baby Shower

"Peanut Girlz" and Beckett

Katie & myself

A few weeks ago, I had a reunion of sorts with a ton of girlfriends from high school. It was AMAZING getting to catch up with them and see where they are now. We all met at our friend Katie Rutland Nelson's baby shower. I just love, love, love her cute large belly (she's having twins). The second best was getting to reunite the 3 "Peanut Girlz". Katie, myself, and Kristy Burgess Sutton all went to the Miss Peanut Pageant the same year. I also got to see Kristy's little girl Evie (who was my flower girl) and her precious bot Beckett (aka- my boyfriend). It seems as though all of my friends are preggers right now. I mean literally all. Should I jump on the boat?.............

I need.....

a girls' night out for reals...............

Grad School Blues

I have got a case of the Grad School Blues today b/c I just realized that all 19863598165086 things for my graduate work is due in 3.5 weeks. Ergh! As most of you know, I am by no means a procrastinator buuuut this is just so much stinking work to get done that it requires every ounce of my attention. Perhaps I should not have waited until Friday of my break to hit it hard-core. Word to the wise: never ever ever move during the last semester of your Masters! =-)

101 Candlewood Drive

Photo Journal

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Lazy Spring Break Days with my Babies

Hello to all of you out there in my blog-o-sphere!!!!

As you can tell from my incredibly clever title, this week is the Heaven known as "spring break" for us down here in Enterprise, Al. Teaching definitely has its perks let me tell you what. So I have tons and tons of pics, stories, etc to add onto here that (hopefully) will get done before my awesome week is over. Jake and I have moved into our new house (that's another whole story) and are beginning to settle in. Easter was amazingly uneventful minus the 27 chocolate bunnies that we have received from all of our parents/grandparents/etc. Normally an excess such as that would rock, but I do not like chocolate all that much. Perhaps they will turn into prizes given next week for my students doing something nifty such as making an A on my test. Until then I am cleaning, rearranging, unpacking, cuddling with my babies, and working on the last few things for my Masters. May cannot come soon enough because I am certainly ready to be done and over with my schooling forever and ever, amen!