A Day in Our Life: August 2009

New year, Same drill

So tomorrow marks one full week of work for me, and JB's first full week with kiddos. He's not worried about the school year, just pulling from his previous years' lesson plans- they don't change curriculum on him every year. I picked up my class list on Monday and a positive is that so far (knock on wood) I only have 14 students because they're really enforcing district boundary lines this year. However, almost half of them are only 3 years old- such a huge difference from having 4-5 year olds. My youngest student just turned 3 two weeks ago, my goodness the abilities are going to be across the board! But hey, as long as the don't hit me, kick me, bite me, or call me nasty names- I think we'll get along just fine. We'll have to, because I'll have them next year, too :)

3 Days and counting

The final countdown began today....officially back to preschool on Monday. That's okay, this past week I spent 4/5 days home by myself and I'm not quite sure how Jerod occupied his time while I worked at the beginning of the summer because I was SO bored!! I cross-stitched, ran errands, cleaned, organized, baked, read books about buying your first house, went to the library (where I checked out Saturday Night Fever, totally not what I was expecting, I hated it- it made me sick to my stomach), and basically all Friday afternoon I spent fiddling around with this stupid iPod I bought on ebay- dumb idea. And now, I'm going to bore all 5 people who read this by posting exactly what I did nothing of this week. I hope you enjoyed this post- it has probably been the most exciting part of my day.

What a GREAT day!

Just want to leave a little note about my great day! Drove to work with JB to drop him off, then headed up to see Brenda and Adalynn (who is getting SO big and talks so much now!). We got to shop at the Williamsburg Outlet mall and get some good buys ;) Then we had a nice lunch, just us ladies, Adalynn told Brenda, "This is a good girls' day mom!" It was nice to catch up with B, I miss when we lived together and she was just a bedroom away! Then, I trekked back to State Center and hung out with Jamie and the kids while Jerod and Aaron were at back to school night. It had been a whole month- it seems like a long time after you've spent 3-4 nights a week with somebody. I am really excited to go to more West Marshall sporting events this year and hang out with the Burdorf's before or after, they're some of our favorite people. That's all, just a little shout out to everybody, until next time!

Boo

I thought I was done worrying about wedding stuff, but alas, now it's our photography! The pictures in the online gallery look gorgeous and we are supposed to get a DVD of 4x6 images which was included in our wedding package. Today, when we picked up the disc and brought it home to check it out and start designing our thank-you postcards, we realized the images were super small and all grainy and fuzzy. Well, they had been shrunk and will not even make a suitable 2x3 let alone a 4x6!! I realize she doesn't want us to screw her over, but two grand should get me at least 4x6 images, goodness gracious, grrrrrr...... Not a happy camper that is for sure.

We're Back!! Round 2

It is that time of year again.

Football Gambling Season!!!!!!

St. Louis Rams 12.5-1 to win the NFC West

Coming off a 2-14 season, in which they lost their last 10 games, and went 0-6 in the worst division in football, this seems like a logical bet.

Good Times with Good Friends

This weekend was jam-packed with friends and fun. Our good friend Clint graduated from college in New York City this summer, and everyone is so proud of him!! He finally found a college and a major that he loved and we couldn't be happier for him now that he has graduated and moved back home to Iowa. His grad party was Friday night, and the night would not have been the same without his brand new Fowling (like bowling, except with an F) set. It is a combination of football and bowling that he first heard of on his annual treks to the Indy 500. Jerod and I spent a couple days this past week constructing the fowling boards (which are 8'x42") and painting them, needless to say- we are not the most experienced carpenters!! Anyway, they turned out great, and the boys set up a tournament and had an awesome time, Jerod and his partner Matt won the tourney.....does this kid not lose anything?! Saturday night we went to an I-Cubs game where they had over 10 hits and they won- free tacos at Taco Bell!! Then we went to our friend Stacie's going away party. Stacie and her husband Ryan got engaged this spring and moved their wedding up to this past June so that Stacie would be able to live on the base in El Paso with him. We are so excited for the two of them and wish them the best and we can't wait until they can move back to Iowa in a couple of years. We are so lucky to have such awesome friends to spend time with, love you guys!

Hmmmm......Hmmmm.....

I know I shouldn't be complaining about this because eventually we will have a family and virtually no quiet time for ourselves, but we are SO bored! The first half of our summer was me teaching summer school and then we always had baseball to fill our evenings. Now that the wedding is over and we (and by we I mean 'I') have nothing to plan or worry about. I'm not stressed about school because there's no way this year can be worse than the last one (knock on wood). It's not that we don't love spending time together, but as Jerod put it "we're with each other every waking moment", so true sweetie, so true. I suppose we should enjoy being able to spend this time together before school and obligations start to crazy up our life :)

We're Back!!

I can't believe how long it has been since I added to our blog! So sorry to leave all 2 people who read this thing hanging :) I couldn't remember my password to log in, I'm such a dork. We just got back this week from our honeymoon in Minneapolis, which although very close was so relaxing. I think in general it was just relaxing to not have to stress about trivial wedding stuff. We went to a Twins game, had lunch at View Restaurant & Bar (which had a beautiful patio view of Lake Calhoun in Uptown), did A LOT of walking, took the light rail to Mall of America (highly recommend it, cheap and we didn't have to deal with traffic, plus it picked up right from the Metrodome which was only a few blocks from the hotel), and we even got to stop at IKEA on the way out of town Wednesday. That may have been my favorite part of the entire trip, we picked up a new entertainment center and a sofa table, and other stuff- it was so fantastic!! It was nice to be away with just each other though, and I'm happy we took the time to do that even though it was only a couple hours away. Here's a couple pictures from our honeymoon, Jerod wouldn't let me take too many pictures, he was tired of smiling after the wedding day :)