One Long Week...

The first week of school is always draining. Waking up at 5:15 to get out the door by 6:30 and rushing out of the classroom at 4:15 to get Caiden home in time for his 5:30 dinner is the story of our lives for the next 9 months! We decided to throw another kink in our schedule when we were invited to the Cowboys game on Thursday night. Jon had never been and Bebe graciously offered to have an evening with Caiden =) Not getting home until 11pm when we should have been in bed by 9pm was a little rough...thank goodness the next day was Friday!

Thankfully, Caiden hasn't had to readjust to Marsha's because he had been going a few days a week during the summer. He's changed so much since the first few months we left him with her: from crying every morning to walking up to her by himself in the morning and saying "bye bye Marta" all the way home in the afternoons!

Thank goodness for the weekend!

Here we go!

Wow...it was a long week! After 5 days of workshops and meetings, it was so refreshing to finally get to see the students again. We had Meet the Teacher Night tonight and from the 18 students on my list, I had 20 show up!!! Apparently two were added during the process! I can tell it's going to be a GREAT year.

On a different note, I am so excited about my two newest expressions. Now that I have my students, I get to order their initials to go on their lockers! I LOVE this stuff =)

This is in one of our hallways...And, this is in my classroom above my door as the kids walk out!

90 Years Young

Today we had the pleasure of spending a wonderful meal together at Maggiano's to celebrate our grandmother's (Mimi) 90th birthday! She had several different celebrations throughout the week including a lunch at mom's on Wednesday and passing out cookies at her retirement home for lunch on Friday (her actually birthday) but this was the first time we could all get together due to trainings and Jon's football schedule! She is a very inspiring lady and doesn't act anywhere near 90 years old!

On the way to Maggiano's

Caiden wasn't happy...we're not sure what Mimi was doing =)

Caiden being an angel at dinner!

Surprise!

Mom and Dad

Graduation Pictures

Walking the stage at UNT

Mom, Mimi, me, and Dad

Me and Kelly

Me and Renae

All better!

After two nights of feeling like we had an infant in the house again because we were getting up every few hours, we're finally back on track. Caiden had a virus that caused him to have high fever spikes (up to 104!) and a really nasty throat. Sat. he took a four hour nap (if they only did that EVERY day!) and then still slept his normal 11 hours last night! He woke up today a happy little kid again, fever free, and finally eating again. He had two pieces of cheese, 4 goldfish, 1/2 Nutra Grain bar, and 1 bite of a fish stick in a period of 60 hours. His poor tummy was probably starving! He started the day off right eating a cinnamon roll for breakfast =)

On another note...here's a picture of me when we went surfing on the lake. The only reason I'm posting a picture of me in a bathing suit on the Internet is b/c Jon is blocking half of me!

Graduation

Today was our graduation ceremony for my master's degree at UNT! Yipppeee...it's finally really over =) The day took a little different turn than we anticipated. Caiden was up all Thursday night with a fever, and still had it today. Jon ended up staying home with him, having to miss graduation. I was running off of three hours of sleep so although it was worth going, I was ready to be back home in my PJ's!

Mom, Dad, and Mimi came to the ceremony and they got to meet my closest friends in the program. We went to dinner at a new restaurant that took the place of an old favorite, The Texas Hamburger Factory in Lewisville. The food was good but we were a little disappointed because it just wasn't the same.

Mom and dad have all of the pictures on their camera so I'll post a few once I get them =)

It's Official...

Caiden is a Tiny Totter! I decided to just bite the bullet and get him started in the program at ASI. His classes will be on Wednesday night with his friend Addi (hopefully that will help!) Jon thinks he can break aways from football by then to come help out too! I'm SURE there will be many embarrassing stories to come!

Tiny Tots Gymnastics!

Tonight Caiden had his first (and maybe his last for awhile =) Tiny Tots Gymnastics class. A friend of ours introduced us to the class at ASI Gymnastics. It is for 18 mo-36 mo. kiddos so Caiden is by far one of the youngest ones. He LOVED jumping on the trampolines and beating the sticks to music but, he HATED having to stop one thing and move on to the next. Major meltdowns. (Julie, if you're reading this, I would imagine it came close to your experience you and Jake had at KinderMusik!)

I'm not sure if we'll stick with it or wait 6 mo. until he's 2. It was a little embarrassing having to leave to get juice b/c he couldn't handle going from dancing to the foam pit!

Jumping on the trampoline
A snack on the way home (with ladybugs on both feet and hands!)

On the lake again...

Sunday after the concert, we were invited by our friends Shannon and Scott to go back to the lake since mom was already at the house watching Caiden from the night before! They just got a new boat that creates a huge wave for you to surf on. I actually stayed up this time but got the picture on Shannon's camera instead of mine! The goal is to let go of the rope and stay surfing behind the boat!

Scott surfing without the rope =)

Jon surfing

Trevor body surfing...no board!

Trent body surfing!

Brad Paisley Concert

What a fun summer! Once again, Caiden had the pleasure of Bebe and Poppy watching him so we could go out! We met up with some friends for dinner and then sweat our rear ends off sitting on the lawn at Brad Paisley. Despite the heat, we had a blast! We went back to Chilet's mom's apartment in Uptown for the night and ate at Rocko's Pizza Place...our new late night meal ritual when we are in uptown!

Me and Shannon

Shannon, Scott, Sally, and Mike

Shannon, Chilet, and me

Jon and Jon

Kelly (from my master's class) and me