back to work

Spring break was wonderful! The in-laws were here and we had a lot of fun. They brought their dog (Aaron still claims Tyson is his dog, but whatever) and they stayed Friday through Tuesday morning. Belle fell in love with Tyson and wouldn't stop kissing him. Apollo just wanted to play with him and Tyson just wanted to be left alone. We went to to the Rodeo on Monday and saw Darius Rucker, he put on a great show! The rest of Spring Break I slept in and cleaned house and tried to cook dinner for Aaron every night. Cooking is definitely not my thing, but he never got sick so I guess I did ok! I really needed the time to rest up and get myself back together so it was a much needed and great break. I dreaded going to work on Monday, but it was nice to be on a schedule again.

We did a countdown at school and its officially 11 1/2 days until Easter break and 45 days until Summer!! woohoo! I really do love my job, but I understand why we get summers off. :)

Update: My first round of medicine worked and on Thursday I will start taking Chlomid. Then I will go in around the middle of April to have my blood tested again. Hopefully my hormone levels will be fine and we won't have to go any further then just the chlomid. Keeping our fingers crossed!

Now that it is really baby "trying" time I need to work on getting my body as healthy as can be and the ramon noodles and Dr.Pepper I had for dinner is far from healthy! So starting tomorrow I am going to watch my diet and start working out again. I have loved being the pajama and lay on the couch girl, but I need to start taking better care of myself. I think I'll start easy and use the Wii fit Aaron got me for Christmas and work up to the actual running outside part. :)

Love you and praying for you!
Aaron, Amy, Rocky, Belle and Apollo

spring break!

Tomorrow is half a day with my kiddos...I mean I love them, but what teacher doesn't look forward to Spring Break?!

My in-laws will be in town starting late Friday night through Tuesday morning. We are having a barbecue on Sunday with our parents and then Monday we are taking the in-laws to the rodeo! I am very excited. I can truly say that I do love my in-laws and look forward to seeing them. Hopefully they will love Apollo as well...he's the one they haven't meet yet and he can definitely be a handful!

A lot of you have been asking about our Doctors visit and it went good. We did some preliminary blood work and they started me on chlomid so I guess we will just have to wait and see. I know that in Gods timing His plan will show itself...its the Patience and worrying that I am not so good at! Everything else we know will work itself out. Thank you for your prayers!

Off to finish the laundry and cuddle up on the couch...its freezing outside!!

Ames

just a little of me

Instead of giving the normal Kidd family update I am going to write about whats been on my heart lately. A few of our family memebers already know and those are pretty much the only ones who read this so it won't be anything new.
Aaron and I have been talking a lot lately about having children. I have felt very stongly from a young age that I am called not only to be a teacher, wife, and Christian, but also to be a mommy. I know babies don't stay small forever and that they are expensive and blah blah blah.....but truly I feel God has always been calling me to be a parent. Having children should be an easy thing for most people, but for me it won't be. I already know I will have a hard time having kids and these past few months have proved that. For the past few months we have been thinking "if it happens it happens if it doesnt then well it doesnt" but even more so lately I feel that I need to go a step further and see the doctor about it. So on March 10th we head to to the doctor to see if I am just a worrier as I tend to be or if my concerns are a reality.
I write this only to ask for prayer as we lead into our first official doctors visit. I am not writing to expose our lives or anyhting of the sorts, but for those couple of you who actually read this to please pray for us. Pray for me that I can give it ALL to God and not worry about it. Please pray for me that I can stay strong and know that in God's timing everything is made perfect for His glory. In reality any child that I may be blessed to be a mommy to is God's child and just a gift to me while we are here.
Please also pray for Aaron who is such a wonderful husband. He is patient with me and the sweetest man I could have ever been blessed with. Please pray that through whatever it is the road we go down that Aaron will sense God's direction upon our family and I follow his lead.

Thank you and we love you,
Aaron and Amy

We're back!

3 months since we last posted? SORRY!!

Life has been a little crazy. So for now I will give you a little update with many promises to keep this blog rolling along in the future. We don't get to see those we love and care about as much as we would like and I apologize for not doing a better job with this thing.

First I will start with Aaron. He is still hot as ever and the love of my life. I am the luckiest girl in the world to see my best friend everyday and be able to kiss him goodbye every morning before work. His job is going great and we love the kids and their families dearly. Aaron has started drawing again and drew a very cute picture of our puppies last night.

My job is rolling along great as well. I have a couple more tests to take for my certification so please keep praying for me about those. They are very difficult and I can't wait to have them behind me!

Belle is just a doll. She is the sweetest puppy and very loving. She loves to play and run in our backyard and every once in a while dig! I think she heard a while back you could get to China by digging to other side...she is convinced she can do it!

Apollo is a constant blur of a dog running around the house. We have resorted to using a shock collar to train him now that he has learned to climb over the fence. He definitely keeps us on our toes. He is starting to calm down and thank goodness is finally potty trained!

We have also started to finally decorate our house and try to make it into a home..as much is allowed without painting. I can't wait to own a house one day and be able to decorate how we want, but for now we know we are blessed to finally be in a house even though we are renting.

I promise to write more later...really I promise! But i hear Nascar on the TV and I have more papers to grade for my kiddos.

Love you all,
Aaron, Amy, Rocky, Belle, and Apollo.

Big week!!

Tomorrow I go sign the papers for our new house...no we didn't buy one but renting one is just as exciting for us as if we bought it!

Things we are excited about:
1. Not having to tip toe around bc we have neighbors underneath us
2. Not having to stumble around at 3am looking for clothes because one of the dogs has to go to the bathroom.
3. Not having to walk the dogs to go to the bathroom...we have a backyard!
4. Parking my car in the garage
5. Having a third bedroom so Aaron can have a office and I get a guest room
6. Having a fireplace for Christmas stockings!
7. Having a separate tub and shower in the master bath
8. Not having to walk a mile to throw out the trash or check the mail
9. Having a place to actually use our grill
10. Use our surround sound as much and as late as we want
11. Cooking without the fire alarm going off every time the stove is turned on
12. Being only a block away from the lake
13. Having a wal-mart less then a mile away...and a sonic!
14. Being somewhat in a small town...never thought I would say that....

I could name a million more reasons why we are so excited, but I think you get the point!

Also this weekend is the Follow Me Disciple weekend with our youth group. Aaron has been working really hard on this so please pray for the youth who come that it is a fulfilling and fun weekend for them.

And to close just a small story: Exactly a week ago today our innocent little puppy, Apollo, ate 2 lbs of butter.... No worries he is fine, but I just wanted to celebrate that its been a week and surprisingly he hasn't gotten into any more trouble. :)

Love,
Aaron, Amy, Belle and Apollo

weekend

This weekend's plans

Friday

• set up for Seasons Greetings weekend at church

Saturday

• 5k run (walk for me)
• blessing of the animals (sounds weird but might as well let the dogs go to get out of the house)
• family fall festival
• go see our house to measure for a refrigerator
• craft show with my mom
• carve a pumpkin

Sunday

• work in church nursery
• grade papers
• grade more papers
• pumpkin carving contest with youth group

NEW!

Just a little update...

1. We are officially moving into a house on Nov. 15. Its out in Montgomery, TX in a neighborhood thats on the lake. We are SOOO excited!!
2. I started working in the church nursery.
3. Aaron will be 26 soon!
4. My cousins baby is a boy and due Jan 6th
5. Our niece Ella is now all better.
6. Rocky temporarily has moved in with my parents

Thats it!

Love you,
Aaron, Amy, Belle, and Apollo