August Blossom: August 2010

Monday, August 16, 2010

2010-2011 School Year

This school year I will be teaching 5th grade!!! Finally, after 6 years of waiting, a teaching position comes my way. Of course I have paid my dues (3 years as a tutor/substitute at the school). See, sometimes good things come to those who wait...I've just waited a LONG time! Below are some pics of what I have been working on today for my classroom. More pictures of my actually classroom will come as the weeks progress! In picture order: Positive Behavior chart, classroom jobs (not labeled yet), and stars for my Welcome to 5th grade bulletin board.

The Weekend with very sleepy puppies and the fam

Monday, August 9, 2010

Riley (and Lucia) Pic of the Day!

Happy 1st Anniversary!

08.08.10: Our first anniversary was a very low key day since we celebrated the day before with a big cookout. We had good intentions of spending the day at the beach, but that didn't happen. Instead we cleaned up a bit from the party, spent time outside (bc it was beautiful), and had dinner at my parents' house. Then we came home and followed the tradition of having a piece of our wedding cake...

...it actually tasted really good! My mom preserved it really well, even the frosting held up! We were quite surprised :-)!

Here's to our first anniversary and many, many more to come!

First Anniversary Cookout

On Saturday, August 7th, we celebrated out first anniversary early by having our family and friends over for a cookout. We had a gorgeous day and a ton of good food to aid the celebration!

All you can eat tacos!

Strawberry Shortcake (just like our wedding cake) from Luigi's

Cutting the cake

Yes, we fed each other again!

...and had some fun with it!

Us with some of my Villa friends and their significant others

Overall the cookout was a success! Thank you to everyone who joined in us in celebrating our first year of being a married couple. Here is to many, many more happy and healthy years ahead!