Shouldn't have left you, without a dope beat to step to.

For Easter my mom sent me pictures of my baptism.

I had never seen these pictures before.

It was my favorite Easter gift.

(I'm on the far left with the awesome wannabe Zack Morris bangs.

Which battle Tresa's bangs for worst ever.)

Preston has been touring a lot and i've been loving Kindergarten a lot. I've also been loving Survivor a lot. How have there been 22 seasons of Survivor and this is the first one i've ever watched? It's so good. like scream at the t.v. and geek out alone in the living room good. And I'm still not sure if I love Boston Rob or hate him.

He's one of those people.

Also, this happened...

Its a key. IN my tire

Which is so so weird. How do you run over a key in such a way that it impales the tire completely?

I have just 4 weeks of Kindergarten left this year. Preston has 1 week of shows left. Then we are vacationing fools all summer. We really do deserve it. So far we have a Caribbean Cruise booked. Havsupai permits reserved. A Kentucky trip, a Tahoe trip and a lot of real lazy summer days planned.

Oh, I dream of summer. Or even Spring. We're not feeling any of it here.

It snowed today. really. I don't mind cozy winter, but i'm over it.

Except I do love this winter picture.

We went to the Midway ice castle with Matt and Jules. Preston decided a shirtless photo shoot would be the best decision for him. Turns out he was right.

The end.

Be my

Can you even think of a better Valentine's Day gift? Its a blow dryer with a

Ferrari designed engine in it!

It seriously dries my thick frizzy hair in less than 10 min.

whoa. usually takes me like 30.

Plus it has a turbo button that'll blow your face off.

really. I feel like a billionaire.

A Ferrari blow dryer? whaaat!

Real cool. Good job, Press.

Plus I got a whole lot of these.

Which kind of makes me very happy.

It was most of the kids' first real Valentines.

They were so excited to hand out and get their little treats from each other.

Kindergarten is maybe one of my favorite things.

100

Today was the 100th day of school.

Its kind of a big deal. We celebrated hard.

I gave each student a lime green $100

and asked what they would buy.

Which one of these 5 year olds

do you think will be a millionaire?

A Zebra

A Volcano

Jelly Beans

I would put it in my savings account.

A water park, A shark, and a ninja

were some of the other choice answers.

Oah I love you Mooah

Happy Valentine's Day. I love Love. And i love love this.

All of it.

And I can't stop singing it.

Don't don't play with your food.

Preston just bought this for his friend Olive.

Ms. Food Face -Dinner Meets Dress-up Plate.

I'm insanely jealous.

I feel like i'm not too old for a present like that.

So what if Olive is 6 and i'm 26.

I'm just saying.

How much cooler would any meal be eating off one of these?

My birthday. I want one.

He seriously loves her.

He gets to see her and her fam when he goes to

New York which, the last couple months,

has been more often than he's been in Idaho.

Press + Olive= BFF.

Especially after she receives that plate in the mail.

Olive got a plate, but I did just get to spend the best weekend maybe in ever with Press. Next post.

It was so fun to be together after a couple weeks apart.

So fun.

what's cooler than being cool...ice cold

NEGATIVE 20 degrees this morning. -32 with wind chill. For real. 15+ districts in SE Idaho closed school. not mine. Ridiculous. Just picture those tiny little kids walking to the bus stop. Freeeeezing. My ears almost fell off my head just walking from the car to the building.

The good news is: Punxsutawney Phil
did NOT see his his shadow - predicting an early spring. Which I love the idea of.

Today in kindergarten a boy told me that he was sad about

Phil seeing his shadow cause he loves winter.

Not because of sledding and hot cocoa and snowmen.

...Because he can see where his dog pees so he knows where not to walk.

A few things I love

-Grey's Anatomy. So so so much. Everything about it. Every week.

-My new glasses. I had no idea I was seeing everything blurry until them.

I seriously spend a good chunk of each day staring at things with, then with out the glasses. It blows my mind every time.

-That Preston gets to record a new record

because his kickstarter project got fully funded!

like whoa. Thank you, Thank you generous people.

-Trips to Tahoe to see the family

-Preston's brother lives in China and brought this back.

Yep buy two Snickers Chocolate bars...get a free battery!

And on the battery itself is a little reminder that says: Do Not Eat.

-Julie's hair. ugh its only so so cute. I die.

-This youtube video

-Kindergarten. Its real funny.

Yesterday a little boy got to miss recess because he called a girl a 'butt jerk'.

It was real hard for me not to laugh.

-Shauna and p.s. I really miss you more than a lot.

xoxo

OOOOHH I can hardly wait.

I feel so Christmasy this year.

Maybe its all the kindergarten crafts

Or that we've been ripping links off our paper

Christmas countdown chain every day since

Thanksgiving.

Or that we have a Holly Madison bobble head doll

instead of an angel on our tree.

I loooove it.

I'm still not into Christmas music.

But i'm into everything else Christmas.

Let it Snow

Woke up this morning to this. And it still hasn't stopped.

Perfect cozy sunday.

Church, Taco Soup, Wrapping Christmas presents,

Arrested Development and cuddling with Press.

It won't be long

We have a good life. We both get to do exactly what we have always wanted to do. Since I can remember, I have wanted to be a teacher. i love love my job. My Kindergardeners inspire me and remind me of everything lovely in life. Preston is so good at everything he does. He is brilliantly smart and so handy. His passion is music and he gets to do it as a profession and support our little family by traveling the country and playing songs from his heart. How cool is that. This means that our life lately consists of Press being out of town at least a couple days a week. This last trip he has been gone for a week. We are both pretty independent people and I do fine by myself, But of course we are so much better together and sometimes, a lot of times I miss him. bad. So we go on skype dates and talk a bajillion times a day and I tell him about kindergarten and Grey's and he tells me about New York and Vermont and Wisconsin and airports and shows that went real well and ones where he accidentally dedicated 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' to the only Jewish girl in the room.

So Thank you technology. because seriously, how did life even exist without cell phones and Skype and youtube and texting and Modern Family? Thank you technology. Cause you make Preston feel a little less far away even when he is miles of air and road and land away.

One thing that is nice about having time to myself is that I am extremely productive. Like just last night I watched at least 3 episodes of Greys Anatomy while cutting out 40 giant paper candy canes, separating 20 boxes of crayons by color, and water proofing all my snow boots. Oh, and I shaved my legs. Happy Saturday night.

Thanksgiving

We flew to Tahoe. It was real snowy.

Then We road tripped to San Jose

To See Aunt Babe and Uncle Tony:

Babe

Tony

It was so nice to just be with my family.

I love love them.

Mostly we were real lazy. Ate a lot, lounged a lot.

We got Lou Lou a Lady Gaga hair piece.

Looks very nice. Can you believe she is 11 years old?

So pretty. She's my oldest niece.

Then theres Kes who is the cutest 3 year old ever.

I think I'm obsessed with her. Good job Tresa. She is real perfect.

I can't wait to see everyone again at Christmas.

Dear family can you please all move to Idaho?

Immediately?

Our Kindergarten Thanksgiving was awesome. We partied hard, then watched Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and ate popcorn. I wish I could post more pictures but I feel like its maybe not ok to put pictures of the kiddies on my blog. But this one's just the back of their cute heads loving Charlie Brown, so I think its ok.

Yesterday

Yesterday in kindergarten...

Little girl motions me to lean in real close then whispers in my ear:

"Mrs. Pugmire did you know there are two kinds of P? One is like the letter P.

P says 'puh'. The other one is like I have to go pee really bad."

Me (laughing): you're right

Little girl: "and I really do have to go pee.

thats what made me think of it."

______________________________________________

-Then the other day at recess another girl

in my class came up to me tapping her chin & said:

"Mrs. Pugmire right? I remembered you!!

Want to know how I remembered it was you?...

(I think: um...because I'm your teacher and have been every day for the last 3 months? Or because I JUST saw you in class 2 minutes ago?)

...I remember your earrings.

And I remember your voice."

Perferct.

And I really do wear the same earrings like everyday,

but its a good thing, huh?

Cause how else would my students know it was me when

they saw me on the playground?

ALSO.. We made these turkeys for art the other day. They turned out so funny looking, more like deranged big birds than thanksgiving turkeys. But my favorite part is that without any provocation from me, all the boys cut the eyelashes off their turkey eyes. I noticed it and asked one of the boys if it was an accident.

He said: no, you accidentally gave us girl eyes.

Girl Turkey

Boy Turkey

Its been a while

I was looking through my pictures today. These made me happy...

First: Preston's little brother, Kason is so into art. He draws constantly. We took him to a local art show a few months ago. He fell in Love with Makana's style.

So Makana offered to come over and teach him some things.

They cut up magazines and drew tattoos all over pretty girls.

Second: Double Rainbow! Right over our house!

What does it mean?

Look at Preston geeking out.

Third: Belly Dancers opened for Preston when he played in Tacoma.

How funny is that?

Fourth: We got to go to SUU last weekend. Preston played with We Shot The Moon. Jonathan is launching his solo career and just raised over $13,000.00 in a month on kick starter to record his album. So cool. People are amazing and generous.

Preston loves Jonathan a lot.

Like enough to dry kiss him.

Last: These little faces.

It was crazy hair day so we took a crazy class picture.

For Real Last: Preston's mom got these aprons

when she married his dad 29 years ago.

We recently inherited them.

mine says To- For- Preston gets -Gether -Ever

And yes, they're denim.

Saved By The Bell

Why, yes that is Preston and Mr. Belding

They met at a conference this week in Tennessee.

He sent me this picture probably to make me extremely jealous,

and it worked.

but one time I did meet Uncle Joey from

Full House.

Except I can't find the picture so does it even count?

boom

Preston made cheesy potatoes. He put them in the 350 degree oven to bake for 45 minutes cause thats what the recipe said to do. At 4o minutes the entire Pyrex pan exploded. Like a nice new heavy duty Pyrex. Weirdest thing i've ever seen.

And way sad, cause the potatoes looked way good.

No big deal, just scooping glass out of the bottom of our oven.

This is a more accurate brown hair picture,

cause the last one looked like black hair.