Happy Birthday Mom!

Today was my mom's birthday! We had a great day celebrating with her. This morning I picked her up and we went for pedicures. I had no idea that it would be so hard to find a place that was open! After about our 25th stop mom called the place where she usually goes and they were open. YEAH mom!! We had a great time and splurged and got Reflexology too!

Our day kinda got changed around a little bit ..... it's all about flexibility right? So we met at our house for cake and then we had dinner at The Olive Garden.

This is a picture of my dreamy husband and Austin my nephew playing on the laptops. Lol Jimmy was finishing up the gourmet cake in the kitchen (which is right behind the couch) so the laptops kept them occupied until dessert was ready. Two peas in a pod.

Our cute little family - my mighty dreamy husband and our son Bob

I'm not sure what happened in our family's DNA but I was not born with the cooking gene. Jimmy is quite the connoisseur in the kitchen and there is no competing with him so I don't even try. He was in charge of making mom's cake.......he's always 5 star all the way!

This is mom blowing out the candle on her piece of the gourmet birthday cake.Autumn made Grandma a special present for her birthday. It was a necklace that she made herself! She was sooo excited and couldn't wait for the rest of the gifts. So we let her give her special gift to mom before the rest of the gifts and before cake.

This is mom showing her excitement!

Mom and Autumn posing with her BEAUTIFUL necklace!!

Great job Autumn!!

Our hard work paid off and somehow we were able to find a Wii Fit for mom for her birthday! She is addicted to her Wii and this is a welcomed addition to her addiction.

For Dad's birthday my Aunt Sharon is taking my mom and dad on a cruise (my Aunt Sharon doesn't mess around) and so my dad bought mom a dress for the cruise.

This is mom trying out her new toy.

Like I said before.....we had a little bit of a wait for dinner. This is Rob and his pal Austin waiting patiently for our buzzer to go off to let us know our table was ready.

Austin bringing his Auntie Kathy a flower.

Austin and Jimmy

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Autumn with PaPa...she's very tired.

Happy Hour

Thursday and Friday were our official days back to school as teachers . Those days are spent in some meetings and getting our rooms ready. On Friday our principal took us all out for Happy Hour and on Tuesday our kiddos come back to school.

Here are some pictures with friends from Happy Hour.

Pam, Gina, Teri, Marianne, and our Principal Mike

Jeanne and Nancy

Deanna and Courtney Diane, Regina, and Kathy
Steve, Diane, and Me (not a good picture of me!)

Convocation

In our school district we have what is called convocation. It's a time where we come together as a school district (classified and certificated) and we are addressed by our Superintendent, the union Presidents, and other Asst. Superintendents. We complain about it every year only because we have so much to do and not a lot of time to do it. That is always our official first day back and we know that we have our rooms to get ready and only really have a day to do it in. Anyway....here are some pictures from our convocation this year:

This is a picture of our staff. It's not all of them but it's most of them! I have no idea who the two guys in front are.....they wouldn't move out of my way.

This is a picture of my mighty cute husband! Can't you see him? His school is wearing the blue and white and he's the one about 4th row up from the bottom by the stairs. It was such a great feeling being there with my husband! I'm married now!! I'm SO proud to be his wife!!
This is a picture of my mom's school. Can you see her? They are the ones in white. She's about the fifth row of white second one in from the stairs.

The ones in dark blue kinda in the middle in dark blue is Jana's (my sister-in-law) school. I have lots of friends at that school too - but since you can't see them I won't mention them all!!

A Nice Little Visit

My mom brought Autumn and Austin over this evening after they had a little dinner treat at McDonalds with Grandma. Bob (our dog) gets REALLY excited when we have company over and the kids kinda get scared when this 75 pound Bassett Hound is trying to show them how excited he is to see them! So we decided to have them take him for a walk. Although sometimes it was Bob taking them for a walk - lol.

This is Austin trying to tell Bob to come. But sometimes (ok most of the time) Bob has a mind of his own and will go his own way!



After Austin gets over his initial intimidation of Bob he really loves him. He loves taking him for a walk.









Austin climbing with Uncle Rob's help.


The tree outside our house is a pine tree which where we live is not as common as in Florida. So it's very exciting when you can pick your very own pine cone right off the tree!! This is Autumn showing Uncle Rob her precious pine cone.

Right by our condo Austin found this awesome tree!! It's the perfect height for him to climb on and it makes a great photo opportunity. So I took the chance to take some pictures of the kids.
































My brother and my dad would be proud of my photographer's eye.......lol









Thanks for coming over guys! It was fun!!

Happy Birthday Deanna!!

Even though there are so many *pros* about my chosen profession, there are also some *cons*. One of which being that we don't get to see our teacher friends very much during the summer.

We are all busy with our projects, vacations, and visiting with our family members from out of town. Since the end to our summer is fast approaching, some of us decided to get together to celebrate Deanna's birthday. Her birthday was actually a couple of weeks ago but this has been this first chance we've had see each other.

Here are some snapshots of our fun dinner:

Deanna, Tammy, and Missy's daughter Kyla

Missy and Deanna......I think that they are laughing because Missy asked the waitress if she could split the check but we all thought she wanted the waitress to split the cheesecake!! LOL!! It's probably a moment that you would have had to have been there....but trust me it was funny!
This is Missy and Greg's cute little daughter Kyla. We couldn't believe how much she's grown since the last time we had seen her.


We were teaching her the importance of girlfriends!

And this is our friend Melanie holding Kyla.

We were both sitting on the same side of the table so I wasn't very good at snapping her picture.

Isn't summertime great?!?

You've just got to love the summertime!! Since we are both teachers and have the summer off my husband and I get to spend some precious time together (I say precious because during the school year my schedule gets pretty crazy with everything going on....) and we get to spend time with friends and family. We had the pleasure of hosting Rob's niece Tessica, her boyfriend Marty, and her roommate Jennifer for a night. They are on a road trip down the coast of California and crashed here for the evening before going to Vegas and back home to Idaho Falls. We loved having them here. They are a fun bunch. It would have only been better if they could have stayed a little longer so we could have gone to do something with them.
Oh well. Maybe next time!!

Rob and Tessica

Jennifer, Marty, and Tessica