I am now officially a "Mustador" (Mustang & Commador)

So the only real update going on in the Samuels household is where I am teaching. At the end of last school year, June 5th to be exact, I found out that my teaching position at Langley had been reduced to part-time. After a long summer of wondering, interviewing, and lots of worrying, I found out this past week that I will be working the other part of my day at Perry Traditional Academy.

This is kind of interesting. Obviously I'm not thrilled about having to travel between two schools everyday for the entire school year... but, if I have to do it, I'm thankful that it's with Perry. It's the closest high school to our house and most of the high school students from The Pittsburgh Project attend Perry.

I started this past Thursday, and well.... lets just say that I will need some prayer for the beginning of the year. I'm coming into a position that's not exactly ideal, but I'm sure that the time that I am there will be good in time. They have an awesome pool that I've been teaching my lifeguarding courses in for a couple of years, and I am super excited about that. This summer's olympics has inspired me to get back into a pool.

That's all for now... more pictures of the girls soon!

Go Steelers!

What?

She was really this small? No way... it's got to be some fancy camera trick!

Cell Phone Part II

Still finding pictures off of my camera... so these are kind of old, but I thought they were blog worthy.  This first one of NegleyAnne was the day that we bought her dance outfit for dance class with AnnaKate.  She was soooo excited to wear it around the house.  I hope someday to get her back into those classes, it was so much fun!

Last November our family took a quick vacation down to Williamsburg VA.  I left with the girls a few days early and was able to find lots of fun things to do at the resort.  The very first event was tattoos.  Too much fun.

Ahhhh, life with a mac.  We try not to let the girls watch too much TV or videos, but this was such a cute picture.  I'm surprised that Rhys was even able to hold herself up that long for me to get a picture of them.  Now I can't keep up with her she's so fast crawling around... I image that walking is coming soon!

I'm hoping to have new(er) pictures up on the blog next week sometime after the Davis' go home and school has started.  Stay tuned.

Pictures off of the cell phone

So, I went today and got a new cell phone. I didn't think that my pictures would transfer to the new one, so for the past couple of days I have been emailing myself all sorts of pictures off of my phone. Lots of time spent doing the same thing over and over... got to verizon and all of them transferred with no cost. ughhhh. oh well it was fun looking at all of the pictures again.

This is a picture of Rhys' first plane trip last summer for Uncle Justin and Aunt Maria's wedding. She was so sweet and good on the trip, and on one leg she was able to get her own seat. I was very very thankful for that. If there are any flight attendants out there reading my blog - be nice and help out moms getting empty seats for their babies. You will make their trip, without a doubt.

Funny, my sister's family are all in town this week, so this picture could have been taken today and you probably wouldn't have noticed. This is waiting for a table at Eat n' Park last summer... Negley Anne and Isiah. We go all out when they come to town...


Last summer at Idlewild... we were sitting on the train and I happened to catch a picture right when the whistle was blowing. Pretty sure I just posted something like this a few weeks ago. I guess things never change. I'm sure there will be more pictures to come in a few days from our visit with the Davis'... if I ever get my camera out and take pictures. What would I do without my cell phone...

Back from surf city

You would think with a title like that that there would be some pictures of camp, but no... sorry. I did not take a single picture the entire time that we were gone on vacation. I am a horrible mother. Maybe they will forgive me when they are older. On the trip, my cell phone started to slowly die. The battery is only staying charged for a few minutes and on top of that the phone has cracked from both of my girls playing with it. So, for the past couple of days I have been emailing myself the pictures from my phone so that I can go out and get a new one. Here are some cute ones of Rhys. This was the first time that I gave her a pony tail. She cried and cried and cried, but then somehow I got her to smile. It didn't last long though, Negley Anne likes taking out her pony tails, and not so gently. She's learning how to be a "caring" big sister.


I remember taking this in the doctor's office one week after she was born. She was asleep in my arms and I was completely overwhelmed with love. I still have this as the screen saver on my phone. Negley keeps asking me to change it, but I can't...


A few weeks ago, I broke into my brother's house to help him out with some cleaning... yes I know you all wish that I was your sister. While I was cleaning I gave Rhys a snack and let her stay in the high chair so that she was contained. While doing laundry I could hear her cry, but didn't think much of it... she fell asleep in the chair. So cute.... and once again I'm a horrible mother... a good sister though.