Watson Southern Days.....Justin, Ash, Lucy Jane, and Tate

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Watson Homestead

So welcome to the Watson home! This is our lovely first apartment. I know its not anything much but I love it because it is our home! I pretty much took a pic of everything, so for those of you who cant come see it...well here is a visual for ya. Maybe it might inspire you to come visit us here! :) WE LOVE IT!

Stove side of our kitchen

sink side

Of course my aprons! :)

Part of the kitchen

Our signed wedding frames

Shelf Wall

Kitchen table and clock

Our fall table decoration

The Kitchen

Our couch

One part of the family room...love my chair!

Part of the family room

My piece of furniture originally from pottery barn...but got it on a killer deal at a warehouse for a heck of a lot cheaper! Its beautiful and new! LOVE IT!

TV set

Our Bedroom

The Bathroom

Shelf in the hallway

Primary Secretary in Espanol

So as many of you know me and Justin are in the Charlotte Spanish Branch here in our Stake. Justin got called to be the Branch Clerk about 8 months ago when we were engaged. Justin speaks fluent Spanish because he served his mission in Argentina and graduated with his Bachelors in Spanish. He started going and I finished my time in the Hilliard Singles Ward. Once we got married that meant it was my time to go to the Espanol Branch. I won't lie, I wasn't to stoked about it because I don't speak a lick of Spanish, but was going to have a great attitude about the whole thing! Well I have to admit that I really do love the Branch now! The reason for my picture up top is well....I got called to be the Primary Secretary. I absolutely love primary! I'm not quite sure what people are talking about when they complain about being called to primary...well I guess I technically don't have to teach every week, so maybe thats why :) Pretty much all the kids are bi-lingual and most of them do just speak English. Kids are so darn funny! Every week I laugh about something that goes down in the Espanol Primary. Can't wait for this Sunday to get here :)

Being a kid again...

Remember when you were a kid and you saw a carousel? You would usually get soo excited and beg your parents to ride it. Well in this case my niece Addison got to have that moment, and lucky for me I got to ride it with her! Oh the joy on her face as she got to ride around in circle's on a horse that went up and down. It makes you want to be a kid again and have something as simple as that make you so happy and excited. But I have to admit, I was pretty excited to ride it myself! There is nothing better then riding a plastic horse with music :)

Around we go!

Addie and me on the carousel

Adorable Addie

My Darling Plates

So these are some of my plates from my wedding. Well they are my everyday plates that we use. I absolutely love them!!! Again I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THEM! We do have green and chocolate brown one's too that match them. I call those "the manly plates" for Justin's sake :) Gotta please them some how right?! I am one of those girls that loves to set the table as cute and decorated as possible :) When the Elder's come over they always comment on my girl plates, what can I say, their cute! Therefore I wanted to share them with yall!

Justin's first day of teaching

So Justin started teaching at Mt. Pleasant High School in Mt. Pleasant, NC. He did end up getting the job for the whole year! So thats great for us! Here is a picture of him at 6:00am in the morning when he was leaving for school. We are soo proud of him and so far he loves the school and the kids! Horay! Let's hope it stays that way :)

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Spanish class...here comes Mr. Watson!

Yes it's true! Justin just landed a job as a Spanish school teacher at Mt. Pleasant High School here in North Carolina! We are so excited for him and us to get his career moving a little faster! Teaching jobs have not been the easiest to find in the past year and now one has finally opened up. Now he is closer to getting his masters finished too! The contract is only for a semester as of right now but we are thinking it will be probably be the whole year. But he has his foot in the door at least and we are excited! He will be teaching Spanish because well thats what he graduated in and thats what he loves. Justin served his mission in Argentina and so is very fluent in Spanish, so thats a few bonus points too :) Anyways we are excited for him. He starts August 25th, so therefore I'm excited to go decorate his classroom!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Youth Pioneer Trek 2010

So this past weekend was our Stake's Youth Pioneer Trek. Me and Justin were going as grandparents for one of the Pioneer Families that traveled across the plains. Our family was named the Richard Ballantyne Family. We seriously had the best family ever! Our kids were awesome and never complained and worked their little guts out the entire way. It was an eventful trek. After walking 8 miles the first day, when we returned Justin drank to much Gatorade too fast. He wasn't feeling really well after that and looked really pale in his face. The Trek Doctor told him to go lay down on one of the benches, drink a little bit of water and eat some bread. Well I went to go get him one of our towels to lay his head on. When I returned I found a nice surprise waiting for me. Justin has thrown up all over the floor, in a cooking pan, and it was all over his face from the top of his head to the bottom of his chin. It was a beautiful site to say the least. Then on top of that I had gotten major horrible blisters on both of my feet to the point where I could barely walk. Needless to say people were saying that our Newly Wed status had went to a whole new level. They said we really must love each other for coming on trek on our 3rd week of Marriage and dealing with throw up and horrible blisters. So we fear nothing now! :) We really enjoyed this experience and how grateful we are for the pioneers! What awesome people they were! What I was most grateful for when we got back was air conditioning, a shower, and most of all my comfortable bed. I will never complain again about sleeping crappy! :)

We had to take some of the kids from the Spanish Branch to Trek. They didnt eat breakfast so we made a quick stop to Micky-D's before they had to "suffer" trek...so they said.