Life With My Special Ks: Two weeks from tonight...

Life With My Special Ks: Two weeks from tonight...

Renee Garcia is a wonderful friend that I have made through blogging. Two weeks from tonight her family is going to be featured on program on TLC. Head on over to her blog to check it out.

Congratulations Renee and Family.

Wordless Wednesday - My Bathroom

I promised my husband that I will share the story of our bathroom tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Today

Today is a huge beginning for me. Today I officially begin my student teaching. We don't actually have students until Wednesday but official teacher meetings today. Today is the first step toward the rest of my life.

Today I'm just the tiniest bit scared!

Wordless Wednesday - Bunk Buddies

A Budding Artist

Before I post about our trip, which I promise is coming, I have something more recent to share.

Pullman is home to the National Lentil Festival. Every August, on the same weekend our town is flooded with returning college students, there is a street carnival, a cook off, and a parade all dedicated to the lentil. As part of the festivities there is a coloring contest. Apparently while Jonathan was doing summer camp with Pullman Parks and Recreation he colored the entry picture and his camp teacher sent it in to the lentil festival. I knew nothing of this contest entry so I was very surprised to receive a call on Thursday informing me that Jonathan was a finalist and we needed to be at the stage on Saturday to receive his certificate. I was so proud of him! Jonathan was super excited to get a certificate. He ended up getting 3rd and we are so proud. We were even able to get his winning picture to take home with us. It was such a positive experience for him and the memories will last forever. Needles to say I will treasure this picture and his certificate forever. And now I present our artist with his masterpiece.

Wordless Wednesday - Computers

Jason's "computer" is my mom's old alarm clock.

Remember Me?

Hello, is anyone out there? I've been guilty of some serious blog neglect recently. I'm back from vacation and I promise I'll get back to writing. I'm looking at pictures and trying to tell the story of our trip to Alaska. We had a lot of fun and I do hope that when I finally write the story y'all will have fun too!

Hair Cuts and Head Bumps

Yesterday was a much anticipated day.

Yesterday was haircut day.

From the moment Jonathan's feet hit the floor yesterday morning he was asking if it was time to get haircuts yet.

He was excited.

Despite all the excitement he did a fantastic job sitting still and following directions.

When it was all over he looked like this...

Ignore the cheesey smile, he had gum and didn't want it to fall out of his mouth.

Umm can someone tell me where my little boy went? How is he so grown up?

He looks handsome.

I got my hair done too.

I basically told J, the guy who cuts my hair, he could do whatever he wanted.

I LOVE what he did with my hair!

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Jason likes to climb.

He has no fear and doesn't know his limits.

Jason fell out of a chair!
Ouch.

Bummer.

And of couse we are doing family pictures in a week!

Thanks Murphy!

Swings

My dad is a very handy man. His dad, my Papaw, built houses for a living and as soon as he was old enough my dad was out there by his side helping him. So when I was born it was only natural to my dad that he would build things for me. When I turned 5 he built me my very own swing-set. In my opinion it was the best swing-set in the neighborhood.

My swing-set had a slide. two swings, a trapeze, and a teeter-totter. I spent hours out playing on the swing-set. I'd create dance routines and the neighbor girls and I would put on performances for our families. My dad would give us "high pulls" and on occasion we would jump off the swings. We would also swing as high as we could and see who could kick their shoes the furthest.

As you can see our lawn took quite the beating for all our swinging and playing but my parents never complained. I grew up imagining I was in the circus or off having some great adventure and that was all that mattered to them.

Of couse, as always happens, I got older and no longer used the swing-set as much. The trapeze rusted and the swings cracked from exposure to extreme cold. The slide went to a good home and there the swing-set sat, an empty frame.

Until yesterday...

Yesterday morning Jonathan got curious and asked what "that thing" was. Immediately after my dad told him that it had been a swing-set Jonathan asked if he could swing. So we went to the home improvement store where we found a swing for Jonathan and a baby swing for Jason. I was also pleasently surprised to find a trapeze.



And so the torch was passed to the next generation. Something tells me Jonathan and Jason are going to enjoy the best swing-set on the block!

I don't Wednesday

It's that time of the week again so head on over to Jenna's Journey and participate in I don't Wednesday!

• I don't like my naturally wavy hair. I strighten it every day. It's a total pain in the rear and takes FOREVER.
• I don't like sleeping alone. It's weird not having Dan there.
• I don't like Colgate BubbleFruit Toothpaste. I accidentally used my kids toothpaste this morning and it was DISGUSTING!
• I don't like being bearfoot in public places. I will stay in the most uncomfortable shoes imaginable before I will take my shoes off in public. The thought of stepping in something gross is more than I can stand. Infact my skin is crawling just writing this!