Fun Times with Students!

We love our students and been having lots of fun with get-togethers to wrap up the summer! We are incredibly blessed!!!

Sorry for the long hiatus!

Things in our lives have been a little crazy lately!

Student teaching is still going absolutely wonderful! (Promise...pictures soon!) I taught my first lesson this past Thursday and it went really well! Surprise...it was Math! I taught adding 2-digit numbers! I will gradually add new content lessons along with the Math lessons in the coming weeks and will eventually be teaching all content areas before moving on to 4th grade during my 2nd placement at Eaton.

We spent this past weekend in Birmingham for a conference that the Scott Dawson Evangelistic Association hosts...National League of Youth Ministers! We had a fun filled weekend! They really pampered us and stuffed us full of food! While in Birmingham we got to visit with Stacey and the boys for a little while.

The Edge (Student Ministry Youth Service) started back this past Wednesday and it was awesome!!! We had over 200 Middle School students there! We are very excited to see what God is going to do with the Student Ministry this year!

We have not sold the condo! There have been a couple of showings just recently, but no updates yet. I will let you know if anything progresses...

I promise I won't go this long without posts anymore! (Mama and Lacy!)

Hope everyone is doing well!

I LOVE Student Teaching!!!

I am absolutely loving Eaton Elementary and everyone who works there! For my first placement (8 weeks long) I have been assigned to Mrs. Shoemaker's third grade classroom! Mrs. Shoemaker and all of the third grade teachers are absolutely awesome and really "know their stuff!" Tomorrow the students start and we have been busy preparing for them for the past two days! We all have that 'tomorrow is the first day of school' feeling! It's all so crazy...I really didn't expect to ever have that feeling again! One of the third grade teachers who has been teaching for over 20 years said that she still gets that feeling every year...what fun this is going to be!!! I am so excited about meeting all of our students...we are going to have 22! I'll post again soon with updates from the first day!

Lots of changes...

Tomorrow is my last day of work at CH2M HILL! While it is very exciting it is also very sad because I have been with the company for five years! Here is my office...I will really miss it!
And, what does every girl need with a life change...a new 'do of course! After much discussion with my husband I went last night and had 3-1/2 inches cut off! This makes the getting ready process much quicker...especially since I will be reporting to school 30 minutes earlier than my regular work time!
I found out last week at my Professional Development that I will be doing my student teaching at Eaton Elementary!!! As most of you know...that was my number one request! I am very excited and can't wait to meet my Mentoring Teacher and all of the students. I won't find out what grade I will be in until Monday!

I am very excited with all the changes, but am also a little nervous with so much unknown ahead! I believe in Romans 8:28 with all my heart and will continue to cling to it during this transition.

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him,

who have been called according to His purpose."

Romans 8:28