Memories

My dad passed away two years ago today. Some days it feels like forever ago and other days it feels like just yesterday we got the phone call. He is missed greatly by all of us. Here are a few pics of him. The first one is of him and me when I was 5 weeks old. My dad and I at high school graduation.

His eyes are closed in this picture, but I like it anyway. It was taken at a Christmas a couple years before he passed away.

This is one of the last pictures we have of him. It is my favorite. It was taken the November before he passed away for his 60th birthday party.

We all miss him greatly, but know he is in a better place. One day we will all join him. We love you dad!

Husbands keep life interesting...

I got a phone call from one of the adults that helps Justin on Sunday night at youth group that I needed to come pick him up. He had decided to ride someone's motorcycle and crashed into a van in the church parking lot. He had never driven one before, so I am not sure why he did this???? When I arrived to pick him up, he looked like he was in a lot of pain. They had called the cops to report the accident and for insurance. He burned the inside of his right leg from his knee down. He also has a lot of cuts and scratches. We ran to Walgreens to pick up some burn cream, sterile pads and gauze. A friend of mine's husband use to be a EMT, so he came over and helped wrap it.

I was going to take all of today off, but the sub I wanted couldn't come in until 12, so I just took a half day today and then also tomorrow off to help him. He is fortunately doing a lot better, but his burn is going to take a long time to heal... Keep him in your prayers...

By the way, he will never get on a motorcycle again... Not just my words, but his as well...

Rock out!

Saturday night we went out to eat to our favorite mexican restaurant, Amigos with my sister, brother in-law, niece and nephew. Afterwards we came back to our house for some wii bowling and guitar hero. While we were bowling Grace and Evan were putting on a show for us. As you can see my niece loves to sing. She made up all kinds of songs. I wish we would have videotaped it. The middle picture is my favorite of her...

30 days left

We only have 30 days left of school! I have started my countdown. This time of year is always exciting and sad. It's hard to say goodbye to the 21 kids I have had for the past 9 months. I feel like they are mine... However, I am ready for summer and a break! This time of year is very busy with field trips, testing, assemblies and preparing for our Kindergarten graduation. So with so much to do the next 30 days of school should fly by... And then I will be enjoying my tattle-free summer!

Babies everywhere!

This must be the time of year for babies. I have lost count of how many people I know that have had babies within the past month and who are about to have a baby. Congrats to all of you! I look forward to joining motherhood one of these days along with you.

Happy Birthday!

We have had a lot of birthdays lately. On Monday we celebrated my brother in-law's birthday. Friday was our dog, Wrigley's 7th birthday. Saturday was Justin's 30th birthday. Sunday is our niece, Maya's 4th birthday and this next Friday is our niece Keelie's 6th birthday. Saturday morning we woke up to toilet paper all over our backyard, thanks to some kids in the youth group. Justin wanted to go to a Japanese restaurant where they cook on a grill in front of you for his birthday. I forgot to take pictures there. My nephew, Evan was scared of the fire, but my niece loved it. Justin with his Dairy Queen peanut butter cup blizzard cake.

Justin with our niece, Grace.

Evan. He finally smiled for the camera when I told him he had to take a picture to get a piece of the ice cream cake.

Today we drove to a college an hour from here to see Justin's old tennis team. The college he played for was going to be in this town. He was looking forward to seeing his old coach. We got there and no one was around. Finally an hour later, tennis players started showing up. We went and asked them about Justin's old college and to find out if they were still playing. Turns out that another team was late showing up to the tournament yesterday, so Justin's college played both matches yesterday and we missed them. So we drove 2 hours round trip for nothing....

I am glad this week is over. It was an exhausting week back after spring break. Then I had conferences til 7 Tuesday and Thursday. 44 days left of school... I am counting down

Pictures from our trip

We finally got our camera cord, so I could upload our few pictures from our trip to Minneapolis. I don't understand why they are in the opposite order I put them in, but oh well. These are pictures of us at the aquarium at the Mall of America.

This is us at the basketball game.