AHHHH!!!!! We are almost to the 9 month countdown!!! YEAH!!!! I am getting so incredibly excited to marry my very best friend and the man of my dreams! :) I cannot wait! As much as I don't want to give up the K-FED nickname...I am getting so excited to become a J____ girl (sorry ya'll...Dave's just not 100% on the whole blogging thing!!!). Anyways...I have been checking things off the to-do list left and right here and we are well on our way to planning a fab par-tay for July!
Some of the most recent check marks include:
- Hotel contract - I did fairly well on this one...not as great as I negotiated with the reception venue...but not too bad
- Shuttle to/from hotel - the more people who stay at the hotel the better! BOOK your rooms now if you know you're coming! :)
- Bridesmaid dresses - 1 bridesmaid tried it on last week; 3 more trying them on on Monday! YEAH for an A-MAZ-ING bridal party who are awesome women!!!
- Centerpieces - I think we've got it to what we want...now it's time to price them out! Mom and I both agree...we need to get better at delegating what other people (who have totally already offered) could do! I guess us control freaks :) don't really have to do it all ourselves!
- Invitation wording - Dave has been working on this! SO CUTE and I love what he's come up with! Nice job baby!!!
- Website updated - kind of...but it is getting there!
- Save the Dates mailed - YES! Such a good feeling! I invited my aunts and a few cousins over to have an address the save the dates party and we got them all addressed in like 30 minutes! We even put the 5 year old to work...she was a FANTASTIC stamp putter-onner! :)
I am SO EXCITED for this winter! We have so much to do...but Dave will be home so we'll be getting a lot done together! :) LOVE THIS GUY!!!!!! XOXO
I thought it was time for another school post! Our school's Homecoming was a little early this year but it made for great weather throughout the week (too bad it rained during the football game...which brought with it a chilly cold front for the day of the dance!). However with the craziness of homecoming (every day is a different dress-up day for school spirit) came Open House and 4 different bell schedules in one week! AHHHH!!! Talk about feeling behind...I never felt like I could catch up with what I needed to get done on any given day! Here's a glimpse of the week (I can only imagine how crazy it was for a student council sponsor!):
Monday - PJ Day (my favorite day of the year!!!) - normal bell schedule
Tuesday - Western Day (jeans, boots, flannel...niiiiiiice) - late start for the kids meaning teachers were in meetings all morning...bell schedule #2
Wednesday - Class Color Day (Frosh-blue, Soph-red, JR-green, SR-gold, faculty-black...simple enough!) - normal bell schedule
Thursday -Decade day...which means...YUP...the roller skates made yet another appearance!!! ALSO...Open House...meaning early dismissal...bell schedule #3...also means teachers get to go through their day TWICE!
Friday - FHS Spirit Day (support your team...wear yellow and green...yup, I just made that up!).
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Light Up the Night - Neon Day (see pic below if you didn't look their first!). I definitely went all out this year! Too bad I had most of the clothes to start...really! Who does that?!?!? Anyways...there was a pep assembly at the end of the day meaning...you got it...bell schedule #4 for the week! I took part of the faculty dance number this year and had a ball...I think part of the video can even be found somewhere on youtube! HA! Friday night was also the homecoming football game...complete with a golf cart parade. This year I had 2 carts in the parade (Operation Snowball and Culinary Club).
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After the crazy week...I slept like crazy that weekend! :)
The school year got off to a flying start...probably because I had to hit the ground running this year. I scheduled my flight back to the US for as close to the beginning of school as possible (looking back now that may have been a poor decision...although I LOVED the extra time with my lovey man!) I arrived back in the US on Sunday evening, Monday I had a meeting at school, Wednesday was our teacher institute and Thursday the kids arrived. Holy Moly did that week go F-A-S-T! :)
As a welcome back to school project I made each teacher in the department a gift (curtsey of pintrest!). Each lady of FCS received a new tumbler "filled to the brim" with excitement for a new school year! SO FUN! :) It contained little treats like lifesavers, bandaids, rubberbands, erasers, animal crackers, 100 grand & payday candy, stickers, gum, etc. I just thought it would help everyone transition back to school with a little more ease!
This year I am teaching 2 classes I haven't taught in a long time! I am no longer teaching LOYO or Child Development but instead I have picked up Consumer Management and Life Studies. I LOVE both classes so much! My Consumer class is a required class for graduation however I teach a sheltered section for students in the ESL program. We move at a slightly slower pace but they receive the same information! They are a constant source of entertainment for me...especially since I've had most of the students in foods before! Life Studies is a predominantly freshman class...and wow...did I forget how cute they are when they all get together! I have 2 sections of LS with about 15 girls in each! LOVE THEM!!! Although the class covers the four main domains in FCS (Foods, Fashion, Child Development, Interior Design over the course of a year) I like to also add a focus on surviving high school and being a good person. These girls are like sponges and soak up whatever you tell them! It's great!
Also new this year is my position as a cooperating teacher. For the first time I have a student teacher. She is with me (and another teacher) until the end of November. (She started on Day 1!!!) She's doing a great job and the kids really respond well to her. I can't wait to see what neat lessons she may create for my classes!
Ummm...can we just be honest here and say...WHERE DID THE SUMMER GO!?!?!?!?!?! I truly cannot believe that it is OCTOBER already! WOW! SO...that means I'm up for a little updating...too bad it has taken me 6 weeks into the school year to finally have a little time to myself to get this done! :)
So let's start where we left off! OLYMPICS BABY! We just received our iBook we made from our time at the Olympics. I am so thankful we had the opportunity not only to go to the games but also that we were smart enough to get it all into a book as quickly as possible so that we wouldn't forget anything!
Following our time at the games we realized that there were so many things we wished we had done while we were chillin' in London! It is very typical for me and Dave to overbook ourselves when we travel (may I remind you of our crazy 8 days in Italy last summer???) so it really did not surprise us that we did it yet again! We spent so much of our waking hours up on our feet touring the city and sites that by the time we got back to our hotel we only had energy left to shower (and even that was tough!)
Oh the memories! I still look back on our pictures with such excitement!!! It feels unreal! We are definitely hoping that we will make it to the games again in the future!
