Proud New Daddy!

Ryan calls this the "money hold"
Love those cheeks!

Cheese!

How cute, Ry is already

reading to Ty!

Check out those long fingers and toes!

Murphy and Charlie

3 dogs, 2 dog toys! Any questions?
I loved how Charlie and Murphy
brought their toy in together!

Murphy and Charlie love to have their best

buddy, Odie, come to the lake to play!

I think Tyler was getting tired of all my snapping of photos!

Wet and heading home!

Yellowstone

Ryan found out I haven't been to Yellowstone. As soon

as he heard that, he was like- we are going Saturday.

Saturday came and I found out Brittany was sick. I just

figured we wouldn't go, that is cool. Brittany insisted

we could since I hadn't been. We loaded up in the car

with diet pepsi and my iPod. Off we went!!!

Only to be stopped in traffic!

Beautiful!

That is all I kept thinking.

Look but don't touch!

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Thank goodness for Ry. I would

have missed all the wildlife without

his awesome eyesight!

Ry whistled and this beast actually turned his head!

Old Faithful!

"Ets a bawwwled eeeeagle"

Love waterfalls!

Decided we should take a picture on the way home.

Only thing is, I forgot Ry had just zoomed in

on some wildlife and I didn't change the setting!

We watched a ranger stop traffic so

this guy could safely cross the street.

How many do you see?

What a great day!

Wish Britt and Ty could

have joined us. Next time!!!

Play time!

I love all of his facial expressions.

I'm sure you have noticed he has many ;)

T-shirt Quilt

This summer I decided before my road trip

I would collect t-shirts at the various

locations and make a t-shirt quilt as a

memory of the trip vs picking up little trinkets

I was bound to lose and brake, etc, etc...

Thanks to a great mom for patiently

working with me to graph out and

plan the attack for making the quilt!

The green shirt in the bottom left is

one of my favorite finds. I grew up

hearing 'gimme sugar' so I couldn't

pass this one up in South Carolina.

I love love love this quilt, but I must say

it was not the easiest one I've ever made.

In fact, might be the hardest because it

wasn't cut and dry with a nice simple

pattern. There was a lot of math and figuring

out how much material was needed on

each side of each t-shirt!

Here is the final project! I didn't take a picture, but

I chose flip flops as the backing since I LOVE flops,

they represent what I mainly wore on this fun

southern road trip! Thanks to everyone that let us

stay with them and for all the fun memories made=)

Teaching Oops!

This morning the students came in, unpacked, and started right into their morning work. I quickly start to go through homework folders and notice a note on one of the newsletters from last week asking if those were the spelling words. In front of the newsletter was a spelling test on the half sheet of paper, the words didn't match. Initially I was so confused. Then, I looked over at this weeks newsletter and noticed the words on the half sheet matched this weeks list! Holy cow, I gave my class this weeks list last Friday for their test!!! Yes, there is a first time for everything and this one happened during my seventh year teaching. I made a comment about the mistake to the class and they all just acted as if they all knew I had given the wrong list of words. When I asked why no one said anything, one girl said very matter of fact, "You said no talking during the test." While they were in P.E., I had an email from a parent asking if she didn't understand how my newsletter and homework worked. Boy was I embarrassed to reply and explain my mistake. Thursday after work I typed this weeks newsletter. Apparently I never turned the pages back to the correct list, thus giving them the wrong words!!! The class had basically all scored an A or B on the test, so it never set any alarms off that something wasn't right. This week, I expect them to all earn 100% =) Each student went home today with the correct spelling test!!!

1 year ago...

Happy Anniversary, Ry and Britt! I can't believe it's already been a year. I've enjoyed getting to know Brittany more over the past year. She is one amazing gal and a great addition to our family. They are going to make fantastic parents to their little one on the way. As you can tell in the pictures, they had a beautiful day and everything was perfect. Congrats, I love you guys!

My favorite picture!!!

They got a little messy cutting the cake, but all things considering, they were both very kind. This is one of my favorite cake designs that mom has decorated. She did a great job on their cake, it's beautiful!!!