Gettin' Crafty

I got crafty again and painted a new canvas for my classroom! Do you think we're getting ready for football season around our house? Go Hogs!



Tomorrow I'm heading down to Fayetteville after my last day of work at Barstow to spend a little QT with my best friend Lauren. I'll be back by dinner time on Saturday. David will be here studying hard for Boards, which are Tuesday!

Good Patient

This Friday I went to the dentist aka David, to get a small cavity fixed. To tell the truth, I was pretty nervous about David giving me a shot. I've had tons of shots in my mouth, but I was just nervous about David being the one to give it. Silly, I know. Well, he didn't even end up having to give me a shot because the cavity was so small...but he did a great job! He drilled it out, and then filled it up and I was good to go! Then he took some impressions of my mouth and I was pretty tough, although I did gag a little bit on the top one. :) We didn't really take any pictures this week, but I did get one on my phone of me in the dental chair and one of Deuce in my front seat when we went to Loose Park one day this week.





Deuce likes to keep his eys on the road while I drive.

Dental Rock Stars

So far, this weekend has been great! After Mom left on Thursday, I got some stuff done for the class I'm teaching next week, and then worked swim club on Friday afternoon. On Friday night we went over to Nick and Ali Matthew's house for some burgers and rock band. It was us, Nick and Ali, and Drew and Kristen. We love hanging out with them and it's always fun. Such great friends.



The girl band.



Boy band time.



The group, between times of rocking out.

Two more weeks until boards are over!!!!

Mom came to town!

This week my mom has been in town! She came up late Monday night and left this morning. We spent time up at the Legends shopping on Tuesday and cooked together that night. She was my walking partner with Deuce too. On Wednesday we did some shopping for my classroom and rented a movie for last night. It was super fun to have her here and I loved every minute of it. Thanks for coming mom! I love you!

Sometimes it's nice not to have to cook and have your Mom cook again for you. :)



...and boy can she sure cook.



The tomato, okra, and green pepper were all fresh from Mom's garden! What a green thumb. She also left us with some jalepeno peppers!

A baby shower and night at the dog park

Today was a really nice Saturday. This morning I went Faith DeWerff's baby shower. She is the daughter of some friends from church who was born 8 weeks early and just got to come home! The baby shower seemed like a celebration of her growth and getting to some home. Sorry girls, the picture came out blurry somehow.



Tonight David came up with the idea of going to Shawnee Mission Park and taking Deuce to the off-leash dog park. We were hoping it would be a good way to socialize Deuce with other dogs and Deuce did great! He was running around and sniffing other dogs AND letting them sniff him (which is big). He came when we called and was in general a good dog. He still wasn't too keen on getting in the water though. He did watch some of the other dogs jumping in, so we're hoping that the more we go, the more he might be willing to hop on in. We were proud parents tonight. :)





Deuce waiting for us to get him some water from the doggy fountain.





Tasty water!

Eric Church

On Thursday (yesterday), David called me on his way home from the clinic and said that he had found out that there was a FREE Eric Church concert last night up in the Power and Light District! Nick and Ali and Drew and Kristin all wanted to go and of course we wanted to! We love Eric Church and can't believe it was free! So we got home and ate a quick dinner so we could head out!





The concert was really fun and he is awesome live. So fun to go to a concert on a week-night...we're so crazy. :)

Before we left for the concert I caught David giving Deuce a little love.



Being quiet and patient while I cook dinner.

Happy 4th of July

David and I had very fun, although seperate 4th of July weekends. David went camping with all the old college guys and had a great time. Sorry, no pictures were taken. :)

I drove down to the lake Friday night after work. Tripp waited for me in Fayetteville and drove the last leg with me...which I was very thankful for. I took Deuce with me too! On Saturday we spent the day out of the lake and ended the day at the Mountain Harbor Freedom Festival and a couple fun games of "peanut." Sunday was more of the same except that we ended the day on the lake with hundreds of other boats watching the fireworks. It is such a cool thing to see that many boats together on the lake at night. Here is a picture from out on the lake. Tripp and I can do some killer cannon balls off the side of the boat. Tripp's form might be better than mine but I have more "ups."



We also celebrated Mom's 51st birthday while we were there and Tripp baked what I think was his first cake...very good Tripp.

Mom celebrated her birthday with a nice cannon ball as well. :)

Off to the lake and camping

Tomorrow I will leave for the lake and David will leave to go camping. We will not be spending the holiday together. :( All of David's old roommates and college buddies could go camping this weekend only so we decided it would be best if David went too! I know he is really looking forward to it and I am glad that he will be able to spend some quality time with the guys. They're going somewhere in Oklahoma. I hope that he can get one picture of the group! I'm going to Lake Ouachita to hang out with the family and we're going to celebrate Mom's 51st birthday, which is next Friday, July 9.

This afternoon we gave Deuce a bath so that I wouldn't have to smell his yuckyness. He hated it. This is from before his bath...still a happy dog. :)