9 years OLD!

E - summer 2009 going in a small jet plane!

Bakerella's got nothing on this girl!

E - Christmas Day, in all her NEW stuff. New coat, new snow pants, new chore boots, new gun from brother!

E - Christmas Eve jammies....and wet hair, must have just had a shower!

Me & E! Happy 9th Birthday "honey".

E turned 9 yesterday and to say the least it was a buzz-kill birthday. D got really sick with the flu on Friday night.....was up almost all night throwing up.....it was fun to listen to...NOT.
Saturday E was supposed to have a friend come over for the day and play. She got sick too. So NO friend, and Daddy was sick!

We started off the morning, with a nice breakfast, just the two of us. Waffles, it was her choice. then we went to my friends house. I ran with her and E hung out with her boys. It was a fun for her. Then Dave's dad and I went to help a friend move cows. D was going to go but since he was sick, I thought I better go help. E stayed home with Dave, D slept and I think E took a nap too! When I got home I quickly made her cake (an angel food cake), which we call sponge cake. Then we decided to run to Helena to watch a movie. We went to The Tooth Fair, it was great. I am very glad we did that. It helped her bummed out birthday NOT such a bummer. We went to the movie, went to Target, Walmart and for dinner too. I tried to make it as special as possible!

Well, E since this birthday was such a BUST, we'll just have to celebrate all week! We are planning to have a play-date with her friend, on ....Friday!
I have picks of her opening her gifts in the car on the way to Helena, I'll post them later in the week. I'm sure this is one birthday she will never forget.

Here are 9 things about you:
1. Your favorite colors are turquoise and brown
2. you love the make hats, so you got a hat loom for your birthday
3. you love volleyball and basketball
4. you are a math whiz and love school, mostly you love your teacher
5. when you grow up you want to be a teacher
6. you hate the dentist and have about four rotten teeth that need taken care of!
7. you love salmon and requested that for your birthday dinner
8. you love to dance
9. you do not like to read but I'm trying to help you see the goodness in it and all things.

Love you E! To the MOON, Stars and back again!

More pics pics pics

Picture overload. but LONG overdue.

T - just being T. He is a happy young man!

T & his best buddy E. They got 1st and 2nd place in the 4-H Livestock Judging at the Magie in G.Falls last weekend. E got first and t got second. Way to go boys!

The trees were covered with frost, it looked so pretty....hard to capture that in a picture but T took the pic and I thought it was pretty cool!

Pictures - only pictures

T on his 13th Birthday. New bridle and cash-o-la!

T's cake (Thanks Jami for the idea, oreo cake = Yum, YUM, YUMMY!)

T&E on his birthday!

Happy Birthday T! Wow, 13...already?

Wow, look at all that SMOKE! Call the fire department.

Birthdays, Student Teaching and Busy

Wow, it seems like forever since I've blogged. We had a great birthday party for T. He got new cowboy boots, the new stylish square toed ones. They are SWEET!
This past weekend we went to Great Falls for the Magie. D has a booth for work and so we go on the weekend and hang out with him. This year T & his friend judged in the 4-H Livestock Judging competition and they did so great. T's friend won 1st and T got 2nd place. They were surprised how well they did and so were we. :-) It was a their first one and they did great, they are motivated to keep going.
It was a fun weekend in G.Falls. Emmy and I did some shopping, toodled around the mall and Target. It was snowing so badly, I didn't dare go anywhere else, I was afraid I might get stuck!

I started student teaching this past week and it is going great. I love Kinders and my mentor teacher is GREAT. She is so full of energy, is a hoot and such a great teacher. This particular group of students is very difficult but she keeps them moving and always has plenty to keep them busy and out of trouble. Last week was observation week, this week I'm taking on one lesson, I'm going to teach Math this week. I taught my first lesson today, we counted dimes and practiced counting my 10's....did I mention I love KINDERS! :-)

WE have been busy and we have another busy week ahead but who isn't busy these days. E turns 9 this weekend on the 30th. And again, I ask myself....where do the years go? It seems just like yesterday that D left for N. Dakota and I wasn't due for another 3 weeks. Woke up that Tuesday morning and my water broke......boy was that an experience. I thought I was peeing my pants!!!

Stay tuned for birthday pics and prize winning pics for the boys and their trophies.

Have a GREAT week.
Make it the time of your life.

Birthday Boy = 13 years old

A few pics of T over the past year.

T and his Steer Reggie December 2009

T at Christmas helping set out cans for target practice with E's new bb gun.

T Christmas Morning - nice football cards!

Nice Christmas Jammies!

T - Hunting 2009

I cannot believe that my baby boy is 13 years old today! Happy Birthday Buddy, I am so lucky to have you and am so proud of you! It just seems like yesterday that I labored for almost 2 days to birth you! It was completely worth it.

I love you to the Moon, Stars and Back Again. T w/ Barbara Jean Summer 2009

T after he won Jr. Beef Showman w/ Barbara Jean Aug. 2009

T on the First day of School 2009

13 Things About you on your 13th Birthday
1. you are a perfectionist, except in your penmanship
2. you were top of your 7th grade class
3. you love to play Madden on the Wii and have discovered it is way funner to play in the hard mode instead of winning by 80 points
4. you love your animals and wish you had a big ranch
5. you are a wonderful big brother and demonstrated that a few weeks ago when E had 2 friends over that didn't get along and you took one of the friends, entertained her. You helped her deal with the 3's a crowd.
6. you love to play basketball in the house.
7. you would rather stay home
. you have a great sense of humor....far beyond your years really
9. you love to eat ice cream and popcorn before you go to bed
10. you love the Colts and Oklahoma Sooners
11. you want to be an Engineer
12. you love to laugh and have a great time
13. you are very frustrated that you do not weigh 100 lbs. I think you weigh around 80 lbs.

Have no fear, you will grow....you just have to be patient. I hope you had a great birthday and I hope you enjoy your teenage years. Love life and love the life you are living!

A New Adventure

My last day for work (until May) was yesterday. It was kind of strange to clean out my desk, prepare a manual and train someone for my "job". I am so grateful and thankful that my company and Jami are so supportive of me and my goals to complete my teaching degree and complete my last step and student teach. My company is allowing me to take a Leave of Absence (LOA) and return to my job once I am finished student teaching in May. I would like to find a teaching job but I realize that in this area they are very far and few between. I hated, especially in this economy, to quite and job and be left with nothing once I was finished student teaching.
Wow, that seemed like alot of rambling on about my situation.

AnyHOW, I am so excited to student teach. I am going to student teach in a Kindergarten class and the teacher I am going to student teach with is just amazing. She has been a teacher for around 20 years. I am so lucky to be able to student teach with her and I am going to learn so much from her. I start on MOnday. I went in today for about 1/2 hour. I think I will go in tomorrow too for a little bit, so they can get used to me and visa versa.

Since I didn't have to work today, I spent a few hours with a friend and her new little baby. It was such a joy to just hang out, hold baby, cook a little soup, and just visit. What a wonderful way to spend part of your day. NOT to mention, JT is the cutest little baby...EVER!

Tomorrow is T's big 13th birthday. So I will be posting again tomorrow.....so help celebrate T's BIG b-day!
NOT only is it T's birthday tomorrow but my mom's and one of my school friends too. January 14th is a very special day for us.

Till tomorrow.
Live WELL

New Year and New Plans

Happy New Year!

I cannot believe that it is 2010.
Where did you think you would be in 2010?
What did you think you be doing in the year 2010?
Where did you think you would live in 2010?

In the year 2010....I will.......

• turn 36

• T will turn 13 (that means I will have a teenager in the house) YIKES!

• E will turn 9

• D will have his 20 year class reunion

• I will run in my first HALF (thanks to Lindsay B for giving me inspiration)
• I will graduate with my Masters of Education

That is all I can think of for know.......but I'm sure more will come in the days, weeks, months ...ahead!

This is my last week of work until May. I am going to student teaching beginning January 18th. I am so excited but so nervous all at the same time! I am going to student teach in a Kindergarten class, and the teacher is totally amazing. We are going to have so much FUN!
I will keep you all posted on my progress and all my new adventures of a Kindergarten teacher in training.

As you can see from the pics in the last post. We had an excellent Christmas/New Year/Holiday. We got a bunch of snow last night and now I am wishing it was Christmas Day! There is just something about having a WHITE Christmas. The kids are dying to go sledding and just play in the snow. It is a cold, crisp, bright sunny, snowy day today. I think it is about 5 degrees. BRRR, that is cold!

I'm blogging from work and don't have my pictures from my camera on my work computer, so I'll post more holiday pics later. Cuz really what is a blog without pics...kind of boring eh?!

Till the next time.
Love life and love the LIFE you are LIVING!