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It has been a while since there has been a post.  We battled a “cough” for about two weeks.  I’m definitely glad that we are all feeling better.  It seems as though I have been going non-stop at school and haven’t had time to think.  Being in a new grade level is wonderful but I’m having to learn lots of new stuff.   Each week I feel a little more prepared to tackle the next week.  Soon I will feel like an old pro… at least that’s what I’m hoping for.

We have had lots of wonderful family time with our little family.  Brynlee has become quite the ham lately.  She is too funny and we love the little sassy personality that is non-stop laughter and entertainment.  We are only a few days away from her first birthday.  I can’t believe how the past year has flown by.  We are so lucky that God picked us to be Brynlee’s parents.  We could not imagine our lives without her.

Two weekends ago we stopped to visit At’ll Do Farms before the football game.  We had so much fun and it was such a neat little place.  Brynlee enjoyed playing at the farm and of course loved the football game. 

We have been blessed with some rain lately, which means our road turns into a fun experience.  I haven’t gotten my car stuck before but my luck ran out two weeks ago.  I was headed home from school and next thing I know I am in the ditch and can’t seem to get out.  Shay has given me quite a hard time about it until Thursday morning.  Karma came around and shared the experience with Shay.  His truck slid into the ditch Thursday morning.  Good thing his sweet wife pulled him out Thursday night!

We are starting to get all of our fall decorations out.  Shay brought home a truckload of pumpkins for my classroom and for me to decorate inside and outside of the house.  I was in Heaven with all the pumpkins.  I have seen so many cute ideas on Pinterest so I am ready to try out all my pumpkin projects!

Back to work we go...

We had a wonderful day off from work Monday.  It was nice to be a little lazy and catch up on some rest.  We went to town and got some paint for our bathroom we are remodeling and stopped by Wal-Mart to print some pictures out for school.  While we were there we picked up some necessities… Dr. Pepper and Water of course!  Brynlee had been trying to climb into the basket so after we checked out I let her ride in the basket on top of the drinks.  She loved it and looked like such a big girl.  

I finally took the time to take the last of the pictures of my classroom.  I love how the wall outside my door turned out.  I owe lots of thinks to Christy for helping me finish it!  She was amazing.  The display wall turned out perfect as well.  I made the photo frame to go along with our theme for the district so we could take each child’s picture on the first day of school.  The pictures turned out precious.  I love the idea Kelley gave me for pom poms.  They jazzed up the area around my sink/window.  

This weekend we are excited that we will get to see the Baker family and hopefully we will get to meet Mr. Grady as well (Mark and Lydia’s new baby)!  We have a busy weekend planned celebrating Shay’s 30^th birthday and getting Brynlee’s pictures taken for her first birthday invitation.  I can’t believe we are already planning a first birthday party!  Hope everyone has a great rest of the week.

Football and Relaxing

I am so excited that it is a holiday weekend.  That means no school tomorrow!  I have enjoyed having kids back in the classroom but a day off is always nice too.  This weekend we drove to Lubbock to watch Tech’s first game.  We were excited but also nervous since Brynlee has become quite the busy body.  Luckily my parents have tickets as well so we were able to shift Brynlee around so she didn’t get bored.  There was so much for her to watch that she was so excited from start to finish of the game.

When we got to the hotel we thought she would crash since she missed her afternoon nap.  It was right in the middle of getting ready and she was too excited about her new tutu to sleep!  We were wrong about the crashing part.  She was still very wound up from the game.  A hot, exhausted, wound up, teething baby is not the best combination in a hotel room when you have no medicine to help the teething.  We tried everything we could think and finally daddy came to the rescue after some very restless attempts at sleeping.  Daddy drove Brynlee around town for 2 hours at 4:45 in the morning and then went to Wal-Mart for some teething medicine.  That was just the trick for her to go back to sleep and for us to get some sleep. 

By the end of the game we were hot!  

The headband, bow, tutu, shoes, and socks all had to come off so I could get wild and crazy cheering!

We had a super yummy brunch at Blue Mesa Grill and visited with family before heading back home.  Tomorrow we have really big plans of…. Relaxing and hanging out at the house!  Have a wonderful Labor Day Holiday!

Here are some pictures of my classroom.  

I love my outside display walls but will have to remember to take pics of those next week!