It's been awhile...

Wow, so apparently I haven't blogged since August! Quick catch up. My brother got married, I started student teaching, my best friend got married, had a fun girls weekend up in Dallas and now I'm less than a month away from being certified to teach! I got a small taste of how much work goes into wedding planning for my brother's rehearsal dinner. I was basically in charge of decorating and I made the nametags, drink tokens, menus and favor tags and I think everything turned out really nice. Student teaching has been going really well. I was in a second grade English class for a month and loved the kids and my mentor teacher was so sweet. Now for November and December I have moved down to a kindergarten math and science class. I have to say so far I prefer second grade, but I still have a month to go so maybe these little ones will grown on me some more. I really miss the second grade kiddos and the work was just more creative and interesting and obviously the pace was faster. Kindergartners are so cute and we have some really sweet kids, but I don't know how much of the crying and whining and tattling I would be able to take and when you have to work so hard just to get them to sit down and pay attention for five mintues, whew. Also we've been working on the same math concept for the past two weeks, so I'm kind of bored. But on the bright side, my principal has already mentioned my coming in as a long term substitute for one of the teachers who is due in March. I'm definitely going to keep my options open, but at least my name popped in her head! Other job has been the same old same old drama and I am looking forward to not working retail anymore. I miss my weekends and holidays was too much. I also miss spending time with Matt and Mollie. Last weekend we went for our annual Renaissance Festival visit. We always end up going on the lamest theme weekends though, this year was Roman Bacchanal, so I think next year I want to either go for Oktoberfest, Halloween, or the Christmas themed weekend. We had gorgeous weather and had a really nice time though. We've also been trying to resume our geocaching and have gone twice in the last few weeks so that's fun. In October, Matt and I were up in Tyler for Chelsea and Thiago's wedding and it was so much fun and so beautiful and boy did they go all out! There were fireworks and a camera crew and we all had a great time. And now I'll conclude with some random photos because I have some new favorites!

the bride and me

siblings

my girls!


Matt and Me <3