P.Y.T. - Pretty Young Thing

Well this has been quite the eventful week. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Billy Mays all died this week? CRAZY! So this past week and weekend have been quite busy (as usual) but definitely fun! On Thursday of last week TWYLA took my class and I to the Astros-Royals game at Minute Maid Park and we had a blast! Seriously, could I have a more fun job? I get to go on field trips weekly and my kids are fantastic and hilarious. What more could a girl ask for in her first "teaching" job? A lot of the students in my class had never been to an Astros game before so it was a great experience. Mr. Dan (my boss and the owner of TWYLA) made sure that we had great seats and even bought everyone popcorn. I took a few of my older girls to the gift shops to shop a little and it was really neat getting to show them around the ball park. Here are some pictures from the game!







On Friday Casey and I went on a date night out to eat and finally got to use some of the gift cards from Christmas (yes Christmas!) at Saltgrass Steakhouse. Thanks Daddy for those gift cards! Saltgrass was really good - probably the best steak I've ever had at that restaurant and Casey thought the same thing. After dinner we went over to Chris and Jessica's to hang out and played the new edition of "Scene It". We always have such a great time with Chris and Jess and are very thankful to have them in our life.

On Saturday morning we got an email saying that Zach has some potential new people (aka - being adopted) and as much as I have been wanting him to find a good home, I was really upset and sad to think about him not being around anymore. The people that are thinking about adopting him are from Pearland and are coming to meet him this Thursday. I was really upset and Casey could tell so he sent me to go get a pedicure with Kelli to try and help me relax. Do I have the best boyfriend ever or what? :) Casey went to play golf with Chris on Saturday morning after we found out about Zach and so I went to get my pedicure and to get lunch with Kelli as well. After that I went home and vegged for a while before getting ready to go downtown for Katie Mayes' Bachelorette party.

So later on Saturday I headed over to Jennifer Mawer's apartment to get ready to go out. We went to Willowbrook Mall (Ohhhh I miss that mall sooo much!) to look for outfits to wear that night and then got ready to go. Carl (Mawer's fiance) was nice enough to drive us down to the Omni hotel that night (and picked us up!) so that we wouldn't have to find a DD- how awesome is that? I'm telling you my friends and I have the best boyfriends, fiances, and husbands ever! This was the beginning of a very crazy and fun night. First we hung out at the Omni hotel where Katie had a suite for her Bach. party. We had champagne and wine and watched Katie open the mountain of gifts people brought her before we headed out in our PINK limo to go to LaBare. If you have never been to La Bare I would highly recommend ONLY going if you are prepared to laugh your butt off. This was hilarious!! Not exactly my scene, but it was very funny watching these men try to be sexy. Enough about that! After La Bare we went back to the Omni to go to the club that was in the basement of the hotel. We had a blast dancing all night (mostly to Michael Jackson and Britney Spears) and doing fun "bachelorette" party things. At some point in the night we had the entire club belting out P.Y.T. by Michael Jackson, so that was pretty hilarious. Here are a few pictures from that night....

Our pink limo :)

I loooooooove this picture! Katie Mayes and Jennifer Mawer dancing!

Most of the group in from of the hotel!

Today my class went to see "Up" at the Tinseltown Movie Theater in The Woodlands and I have to say that although this movie was adorable - it was also super sad! I cried about 4 times which isn't unusual for me to do during movies, but a kid's movie?? Other than that I highly recommend it! Also - it was the first 3D movie I'd ever seen so that was cool too.

The rest of this week should be pretty relaxed. We are going to try to go to church tomorrow night and then the people who are adopting Zach are going to come meet him on Thursday night and then it's the weekend! Thank goodness we have Friday off!

That's all I have to report as of right now - Happy Independence Day week everyone!

Hot Child in the City

Okay so it's not even technically summer and boy is it H-O-T in Houston, TX. The preschool I work at had to install a misting system on the playground because the kids couldn't even make it 15 minute without getting overheated! The kids (and the teachers) all love the misting system and it's not nearly as messy as I thought it would be.

This morning my work friend Nikki and I went to the Tx Gulf Coast Teacher Job Fair and to be honest, I was a little let down. There were probably 1000 people there and I am so glad we got there 30 minutes early because it was a mad house. I literally ran in my heels down to the floor so that I could be the first person to talk to the Conroe ISD reps. I was first in line, but they weren't doing on site interviews so it was pretty unsuccessful. My next stop was Klein ISD and I was one of 5-6 people who got interviews. Glad I'm an early bird! The interview went pretty well but I doubt I will get that job. The principal just didn't seem comfortable with the fact that my ACP course ends the week before school starts. Hopefully the thank you email I sent her will make her think twice! I was glad I got to talk to my two top schools first because the rest of the time I spent standing in lines and not really getting face time with anyone. I stood in line for 30 minutes to talk to Tomball ISD and was third in line to interview but by the time it was my turn the principal decided he wasn't going to interview anymore people because the line was 30 people long- so that was a bust. I didn't even get a chance to talk to Spring ISD or Cy-Fair because the lines were literally an hour or so long, so Nikki and I just loaded up and went back to work.

I only had nine kids today so that was pretty fun. We didn't do much in the way of academic work except for French (which the students INSISTED on) so we did some arts and crafts and hung out for most of the day. I'm starting to really get attached to these kids - they are so much fun! Tomorrow we go to Young Chef's Academy for our field trip and that should be super fun - I will post pictures and tell you all about it later this week.

In other news - Kelli's birthday party extravaganza was a blast this weekend! On Friday night Jessica and I got to the hotel and we hung out a little while before going to Goose's Acre for dinner and then we went out to Crush and Baker's Street later that night. We had a blast and we had the perfect group of girls - no drama, no annoying catfights, just good conversation and tons of fun. We all got a little tipsy so it was nice that we could all walk back to the hotel and nobody had to drive (Good call Kelli's mom!). The next morning we were all a little hungover so we slept in and then went to get brunch/lunch at the Hubbell and Hudson Bistro. It was really good and we had a fun time hanging out and embarrassing Kelli. Kasey and Nichole spotted a hot waiter and the manager overheard us talking about him so he went and got a few of the good looking waiters to sing Happy Birthday to Kelli and bring her some kind of delicious apple tart with ice cream. YUM! After that we just hung out at the pool for a while and then we all went home. What a fun night!

Kelli with her "Birthday Cake" shot - 1st of many!

The whole group at Crush in the rooftop cabana

Girls in the elevator on our way up to the room

The singing waiters at Hubbell and Hudson

More updates later this week!

Being sick stinks!

So I have been horribly ill since Monday morning and I am still fighting it off. Apparenlty the first time you work around kids most people get really sick. I am one of those people. I have had the following symptoms: Sneezing, stuffy nose, running nose, coughing, hacking, wheezing, daily sinus headaches, disgusting drainage, and achy soreness all over. Oh and I'm pretty much deaf. The kids have to get right up next to me or else I can't hear them. Good times. Luckily I haven't had a fever so I assume it's just a sinus infection and not contagious to the kids. **UPDATE: Casey is now sick and I the funny thing is I have the same symptoms as SWINE FLU! Luckily Swine Flu is just the flu, so I'm sure I'll be better in a few days - let's just hope Casey feels better too!**

On Tuesday we got to go on our very first field trip - I will post pictures when I get home. We went to King's Orchard in Plantersville, TX (right next to the Renaissance Faire!) and got to pick blackberries, blueberries, and a couple of strawberries that were leftover from strawberry season. The kids had a blast and so did I and we picked a TOOOOOON of berries. Funny kid story: On the way up to the orchard one of the kids saw a sign at a Jack in the Box that said "Chicken Club". He started laughing hysterically and told all the kids to look at the sign. He was heartbroken when I told him that a Chicken Club was a sandwich and not an actual club for chickens. HAHAHAHAHA! I love working with kids!! Oh and yesterday we had barbeque sandwiches for lunch and one of the kids starting calling it a Barbe-Joe (like Sloppy Joe)- kids are hilarous. On the bus ride home from the orchard 2 of the kids spilled their buckets of berries so that was unpleasant, but we got everything worked out.

Here are some pics from the field trip!

Some of the berries I picked - YUM!!

My kiddos trying to pick strawberries- they were a bit out of season so it was definitely a hunt!

My class - 6-9 year olds.

Me and Zachary on the bus - he refused to smile so I tickled him. I love this picture!

Today is Kelli Flanagan's birthday - so HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELLI!!! Hopefully I will be better before tomorrow night because we are all going out. YAY!!!

More later - gotta go teach the kids some French!!