Snow Days!

We Heart Snow Days!

I really never thought that we would be taking a picture like this of our house. The snow was beautiful and just what I needed as I was getting homesick for Michigan. A couple of my coworkers called and asked me if I was happy because I kept saying... "Oh, I wish we could just have one good snow, I miss it so much!" Well, as you can see from the picture, it arrived!!!

Matt worked from home yesterday and I had yesterday and today off from work. It has been a wonderful very long weekend. Yesterday we were able to watch the inauguration and enjoy a relaxing day. After Matt's work day was over, we went outside to play in the snow. It would have been beatutiful skiing snow, but we were not able to pack it into a snow man... trust me we tried!

I hope that if you live in NC that you took a few minutes to enjoy the beauty and fun of the snow too! Enjoy it while it lasts!!! Crazy weather... its supposed to be 60 degrees by Friday!

Dilbert loved the snow too!

Christmas in Phoenix

Merry Christmas... a little after the fact!

Matt and I ventured to Phoenix to spend Christmas with his parents, his brother, and his brother's wife. We had a good time with everyone. Our picture is in front of his parents house in Arizona. Their house was beautiful, but the weather was not really. It was actually warmer in Raleigh than it was in Phoenix the week of Christmas.

After we got back from Phoenix, Matt and I had most of last week to spend together because neither of us were working. We went to see the Nutcracker in Raleigh. We went to a New Year's Eve party at my friend Heather's house.

We had a very fun and relaxing vacation. Back to work tomorrow though! I am actually looking forward into getting back into my routine and seeing my students again. This week we will be dissecting cow eyes. The idea of it grosses me out but I wouldn't want to be the only one in my department not doing it. Yuck! Haha...but I'm sure it will be fun.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years.

Much love from the DeJong's!

our busy life...

I know it's been a while since our first post! We have been so busy with me going back to school and keeping up with the house.

The beginning of this school year has been fantastic. I am now teaching sixth grade math and science at Wendell Middle School. Both of my classes are fantastically wonderful kids. It's a fun experience because I have a few kids that really demand a lot of my time because of their homelife, etc. but I really feel like I can truly make a difference because the rest of the kids have very involved parents and it's been great so far!

Matt has started planning for grad school. He plans on attending NC State next fall. We are going to begin Wednesday night study dates at Panera for him to study for the GMAT and for me to grade papers. We hope to make these sometimes boring things become more exciting:)

Well we are off to do our Saturday yardwork and grocery shopping.

new to this...

Hello everyone!



Matt and I are new to blogging, but are excited about joining in on the fun. We recently bought our first house. We closed on May 30th and have been living here for just about 2 months officially now. I will be posting some pictures of it soon.



Last weekend we spent 4 days visiting the Robinsons at their new home in DC. We were excited to see the way that they are working in their new ministries in their new church home. They have so many exciting things happening.



I am excited to begin my new school year as a sixth grade math and science teacher. The kids first day is August 25th, but I have my first work day on August 14th. It is exciting to get to know all my new coworkers as well as transition to teaching middle school kids. I can't wait for it all. Matt has been busy with work projects and keeping up with all of our new house projects now that we have a yard to take care of watering, mowing, and my personal favorite weeding...haha!



With love,

The DeJongs







We were pink waved by Element on Wednesday. We came home to a yard full of flamingos. It was quite entertaining!