Mrs. Band Teacher

As you all have read, I am married to a band teacher. My husband is a pretty amazing man. His love has and will always be band. I have come to love this about him even more, but it tends to be very annoying. I support my husband 100% in his job. So today's blog is about the pros and cons of being Mrs. Band Teacher. And yes, I have been called this more then once. I do have a name people!

Pro: As a football fan, I love getting to watch football games every friday. And most of all I love getting into the games for FREE!!
Con: I literally go to every football game, every Friday. Do you guys know how hard it is to have a nice date night when your husband constantly has to be at football games?! It's hard!! Some Fridays I don't want to give my husband up, I want to keep him and make him buy me dinner!

Pro: I'm always guaranteed to have Tuesday and Thursday nights to myself, and to have girl time. I use this time to catch up on my shows and to go get a mani/pedi.
Con: These are the nights Stewart has practice. Meaning we won't eat dinner till 8 or 9. By this point neither of us want to cook and so most of the time we eat cereal. Now you're probably wondering why I don't make dinner and have it waiting for him. Well, sometimes I do and sometimes I just don't want to have to make dinner that late. And I'm not always sure when he will get home. Judge all you want, but you would feel the same way EVERY Tuesday and Thursday.

Pro: My husband's mind is usually preoccupied during marching season, so I can get away with a lot. Such as, when I tell him he "promised to take me to dinner", but really he didn't. Bad of me I know, but sometimes a girl has to do what a girl has to do to get a nice date night. (P.S. Stewart I know you're reading this. I love you!)
Con: My husband is preoccupied!!! Meaning he isn't listening and I'm going to have to repeat myself a lot. Most of the time that doesn't bother me but sometimes it just gets under my skin.

Pro: The end of the year band trips are awesome!!! This year we went to six flags with the kids and I was a "chaperone". But hey, it was a free trip to six flags!
Con: I had to chaperone like 30 kids and they were crazy! It's hard to have fun when you are constantly on edge about where the heck the kids are and if someone has taken them. Luckily, no one was taken and I was able to have some fun. I'm not sure you would classify me as a good chaperone, but none of my kids got into trouble so I call that a success!

Pro: I love to bake for people so I am constantly volunteering to bake for the band. I like to bake brownies, cakes, cupcakes, etc. And the kids really seem to love them, so I guess that means I'm pretty good at it.
Con: Ugh!! I'm gaining so much weight from the constant eating of sweets! I know what you are thinking, "just have discipline Hannah". Well guess what, I don't know what that is, so I'm just going to blame this on Stewart's job.

That's all I have for right now about this subject, but trust me as soon as marching season is back, you guys will have another update for sure. But in all seriousness, I love my husband and that means loving his job no matter what. So I love being Mrs. Band Teacher-sometimes!

I'm A Bad Blogger

Friends, family members, and internet world I apologize for my lack of writing these last several months. Between school, student teaching, and finding a job I slacked off from updating. I am so sorry. But that is going to change I promise! Be patient with me and I promise you won't regret it.

So here we are less than a month away from our 1 year anniversary. The time has flown by. We have been through many ups and downs these past several months, and I will later talk about them. But for now I am going to update you on our lives from the past several months. Here are some pictures for you guys to look at so you can see what we have been up to. And mainly, to prove that I haven't killed my husband.

We went skiing for Christmas. We had an amazing time!! Stewart was playing with real snow for the first time. It was a lot of fun to watch. What was even more fun was watching him try to learn and ski. I asked him if he wanted me to go to ski school with him and he said not no, but hell no. Haha. So that was a fun adventure that we were able to share together and to share with my family.

Here is a picture of us at Easter. Please ignore the fridge that has a keg built into it behind us. That's just how my family rolls and it makes every holiday an even better one. : )

So here's the story behind this tent. This is the second tent that we purchased. The first one, that my husband just had to have (it was not the one I wanted), turned out to have a broken pole with it. The one I wanted (shown above) turned out to be perfect. It was fun having it in the house for oh, 2 weeks. Now you're probably wondering why in the world we needed a tent. And you're looking ahead to see if there are any camping pictures. Yeah, there's not any. We didn't go camping and we didn't plan to go camping. He just had to have a tent. And I was that amazing of a wife to let him get one. : )

And now my greatest achievement. I graduated from college!!!!!! It only took my 4 1/2 years but I did it. It took a ton of hard work and it was even harder being married. But it was so worth it!! I have a great husband who was super patient with me as I worked on school and completely let the house fall apart. He was my rock through all of this.

And now to close this up. I am now employed. I have an amazing job and it has helped out so much financially, but it has also made me feel important and that I'm able to help my husband. He still has 3 jobs and we hope to one day not have so many. Please forgive me for the lack of blogs. I have a long list of things I plan on writing about. Trust me, you're not going to want to miss it. Keep on the look out to the second edition of Sleepless in Louisiana.