Showering of gifts among other things

As Maria would say, I have been too "perky" this week. Que es?...I think this is my 3rd blog entry for one week! Impressive! Actually I am blogging instead of doing stuff in the nursery and writing thank you notes.

My school shower was on Thursday afternoon. We had a great time. We received some great gifts to get us started with the new baby! Thank you to all!! I've included some pictures of me and my crazy team. We are one strong group of women. We don't like to take no for an answer, we want to do what is best for our kids and we love to laugh! I have to say this is the best group of girls I have ever been blessed to work with. We just have so much fun together. It saddens me to think that Jennifer will be leaving us due to number cuts next year. It will be very different without her there! I am truly thankful for the opportunity to teach with these 5 bright and beautiful girls.

After the shower I went home to a cool house and thought we were good with the AC. But by 9 pm, it was bad news bears all over again. It wasn't cooling anymore and we just turned it off for fear of burning something up. Then, Friday afternoon a tech came back over to the house. This time I was there and once he checked it all out, the compressor unit had gone out. All I wanted to know was "does this mean another night of no AC?" sadly the answer was yes. I am just thankful that it is not July or August and 100 degrees outside. We were forced with a big decision...replace the compressor for a small grand or replace the whole shebang for 3 small grand--give or take a few hundred. I had to jet off to my hair appointment and left Chris to make the decision. Funny--we were just in these shoes in March with our refrigerator. Which we had to replace the entire thing! So, for other reasons we decided to go ahead and replace the entire AC unit. The past 4 years we've had trouble with it during the summer and why not upgrade now to try and save a little more on our electricity bills? Another bonus with replacing it was that it was installed today!!! I am happy to report that it is now running and cooling down the house. I don't have to sleep with a wet head to stay cool tonight!