The Ultimate Fire Lover

We had our first fire of the fall in our fireplace! We were loving it and burned a fire for two straight days practically. Little did we know, but Sooie loves the fire more than both of us combined!

To celebrate her love of fire, I did her hair. Isn't she beautiful?!

Grandparents Day

Tomorrow (Friday) is Grandparents Day at school. The grandparents get to come and spend an hour and a half in their grandchild's classroom. We're going to do this little readers theater activity for them, some Shurley Grammar, our Bible verses, and have the grandparents share what they can remember about 2nd grade. Should be a fun time. It's also a half day! That means that we dismiss at 11:30. I'm pumped. We have to send home report cards next week so it gives us some time to catch up and work on them.

David has had/is having 2 two tests this week and a practical. It is going well. We counted up the number of tests that David has before John and Sarah's wedding (which is 3 weeks away), and it's 12! Pretty insane. I think that when he makes it through October he'll be feeling pretty good. He's working hard and doing well.

I have put up some fall decorations in my classroom and the new thing that I am going to try this year is "Thankful Thoughts." The kids will write things that they're thankful for on cute cards and put them up on our "Thankful Thoughts" board. I have scheduled the first mother-daughter cheer meeting for next Wednesday and have been working my tiny hiny off to get everything ready. It has dominated my free time this week but I am excited to get it going! It should be fun and funny working with 8th-10th grade girls!

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!

Today David and I got to go to our very first Nascar race thanks to our neighbor Larry! He got us two free tickets for today's race, so we were really excited to go. It turned out to be super fun and super LOUD! Thank goodness we remembered to bring ear plugs. When we got there we were shocked by the sheer mass of humanity. Everyone had American flags, and numerous other flags flying. When we got to our seats we were sitting by a really nice middle-aged couple that gave us lots of good Nascar facts. Words cannot describe how loud these cars are when they go past you. It's loud even with ear plugs in your ears. We were feeling like we had seen enough by about lap 100 so we beat the crowds out...thank goodness. It was great getting to do another new thing in KC and to take a beautiful afternoon off together.

These were two of our favorite fans obvioulsy. The one in the UPS jacket (which I obviously now would love to have) and the man wearing the rug were equally intense about Nascar...and equally very odd.