OKAY!!!! I am so Flippin' excited for tomorrow, I think that I am just going to go crazy before I found out what the baby is, and I really can't even believe that it is already here!!! CRAZY!!!! So for math today, First graders have to learn about graphs. I asked them "Has anyone noticed that my belly is starting to get bigger?" And of course they are so honest and were shaking their head yes! I said " I have noticed because hardly any of my pants fit me anymore." And so I asked them "Why would my belly be growing?" and only a couple of the kids in my class already knew the reason, so I told the class that I was pregnant and the tomorrow I am going to go to the doctor and find out if I am going to have a baby boy, or a baby girl. So I gave them all a sticky note and asked them "If your mom was going to have another baby, would you want to have a baby sister, or a baby brother?" then I explained that if they wanted a baby brother that they should vote for a boy, and if they wanted a baby sister then they should vote for a girl. They then wrote their vote on the sticky note and got to come and put it up on the board, so that it looked like a bar graph.

So the Result........ 17 voted for Boy and 10 voted for Girl! So we will have to see what happens.

Funny things that kids say: The one boy in my class "Teacher will you bring the baby tomorrow to class and let us see it?" So then I had to tell them that I would have the baby AFTER Easter. We then had to go through all of the holidays in order from today, until Easter, and I told them that my belly would just keep growing and growing. So it was a really fun math lesson today, and I thought that you guys would enjoy hearing it!

P.S. I have decided not to tell anybody what we are going to have, only Rusty and I are going to know. That way it will be a fun suprise for somebody!

Guess the Sex of the Baby!!!

Happy Halloween! Lula got to go trick-or-treating around town, she was Raggety Ann! Ain't she cute?
O.K. so this is so dumb, it will not let me put these pictures in the order that I want, so like I tell my first graders "You get what ya get, and ya don't throw a fit;)"

This is Ty jumping over Tyre. I think that the picture turned out pretty cool. So these pictures of our motorcycle / campout trip are picture that I took.

This is Lula on Rusty and My birthdays, August 5th & 6th... She was 10 weeks old... she was so little, I can't beleive how much she is growing. Lula is now 23 weeks old!!! she is getting so big!

I LOVE this picture. This is Rusty whipping his bike on this jump, he is almost horizontal to the ground.

O.K. so no, I was NOT alright with Lula up on the back of my couch...

We do have rules in our house you know, but when she got up there, she looked so cute.

I was just a yellin at her telling her to get down, and look at that face. I have to deal with this face all the time.

This is how Lula sleeps... You might have the visual now, but you just can't hear her snoring. Wish there was sound!

ALSO, we will find out the sex of the baby on November 18th, I will be 18 weeks. So don't forget to vote on the blog, what sex you think that it will be!!!

So we just recently went on a Riding / Camping trip to the beautiful Blue Clay Hills of Cainesville (I have no Idea how to spell it right). It was lots of fun to get out and go together, especially since the bad weather hit us just this week. Now in this next picture you really have to look close, but you will soon realize that Lula is in Mid-Air and looks like SUPER DOG!!!

LOOK AT ME!!! I can fly!!!
I am Queen of this Rock!!!

This is the Crew (Left to Right) Tyre, Rusty, and Ty (Dirty McCurdy). Us women became the official Photographers! Thats alright, I quite enjoy the photo taking if I am allowed to tag along.

This is Rusty hitting a pretty big jump, that would shoot him really far. I call this one "Goin' Big".

Well every teacher has to do one, and so I guess that it was my turn. I was panicked... this was such a big task for me and I am really not very crafty. So I started to search on Google, October Bulletin Board Ideas. And I LOVE GOOGLE!

There was a photo there that said "Spinning a web of our favorite Internet web sites." But I wanted to go more with a reading theme and I wanted the board to be teachers recommending books to their students. So mine says "Spinning a Book Web of your Teachers Favorite Books." Ok. I can breath, I have an idea, but wait.... Do you see the size of this board??? It is Humungo! Not only that, but it is the first thing that you see when you walk into our school!!! PANIC hits again.

I tell myself "Calm down Trista Rich, your mother-in-law is totally like the queen of craftiness." So what does one do in their time of need, they call in the troops,,, my mother-in-law!

Ethel always makes the prettiest bows!

So each spider says the teachers name, the Title of the book that they would recommend students to read, and the author of the book.

It turned out so cute. I love Ethel with all of my heart. I might have had the idea, but the cutsyness of my board is all CUDOS to Ethel Rich! Thanks Ethel!

HEARTBEAT!!!

Well a week ago Rusty and I went to Cedar to the doc. He was supposed to do the whole exam but he was called out to delivery. So he hurried up and said well lets hurry and hear the heart beat. So they put the gel on (which was really hot for some reason) and they started searching, and it was silent for a long time, then all of a sudden.................................there it was, the smallest sounding little heart beat you could ever hear. Rusty and I are so excited, I guess its OffIcIaL!!! Yeah!!! P.S. I already had my secretary at the school tell me how excited she was to see my belly start growing, I felt like going home and crying, but I didn't.

What a BULLY!!!

This is our newest Addition to our Family...! Her name is Lula and no she is not an Iams dog but yes she is an English Bulldog. We got to pick her up on July 15th...this is a funny story because the day that we picked her up is the first day of my pregnancy. I think that that is TOTALLY CRAZY!!! When we got Lula everybody was like " I wish that Rusty and Trista would get over this fetish of dogs and start having a family"...I felt like screaming " We are trying to..." ;) So four weeks after we brought Lula home, I found out that I was Pregnant.

Lula could see herself in our fireplace and was just about ready to attack the invading dog in our house.

OH!!! she looks so fat!!! Which one?
This is Lula chilling out on the dash board!

When we had just barely got her she was no bigger than my shoe!


She looks innocent, but watch out she'll fool ya!

Guess What???

So most of you probably know, but I wanted to post it on the blog anyway!!! I am 9 weeks prego...and this picture was taken at 8 weeks when we found a heartbeat. I miscarried my first pregnancy almost a year ago, and the doctor said that once you have a documented heartbeat, then I only have like a 1% chance of miscarrying. So all is well and Rusty and I are smiles from Ear to Ear...no matter how sick I am. I will be due April 21st, 2010. This is perfect, so that I can have the baby and take Maternity leave for the rest of the school year.