Wow…

It has been 2 whole months since the last time I blogged!!! I’ve just been so busy with student teaching that I haven’t gotten the chance to blog or read any of the blogs I follow!! Last week I started my second student teaching placement which is the one for special education. The week before that I finished my first placement which was 5th grade! I absolutely loved it!! It’s only been a little over a week since I left my co-op and the students, but I miss them!!

For my new placement I am in an emotional support classroom for students ages 12-20. It is definitely different than anything I’ve done before. The students are a lot older than the students I’ve worked with and their behaviors are more severe. But I’m going to get through it. I can’t believe that there are only weeks standing in the way of me graduating!!! It seems like not that long ago I was just starting college!! But I’ve finally made it to my final semester!!!

Well, as I write this, Sandy is making her way here so I have no school today or tomorrow. This is kind of nice to have a little unexpected break, but I’m hoping the storm doesn’t do that much damage. We’re kind of up on a hill so we should be safe from the flooding. So I’m just taking advantage of still having power while I can by watching some shows on my DVR and doing things online. Oh, and maybe I’ll play a game on XBox since I don’t get the change to play it that much. I still remember when we first got the Xbox, I said I was going to play it everyday, but that hasn’t happened! My fiancé is still working and even took a sleeping bag and some food to work in case he gets stranded there, but really hope that doesn’t happen!!! I hope he gets out of work a little early so he can get home before the worst of the storm comes!!! It’s just sprinkling a little bit now but every now and then it gets really windy and rains harder.

That’s about all I have to share for now. I’ll leave you with some of the newest pictures of Mia and Tiger! They are so adorable and Tiger is still so full of energy!!! He is one crazy cat!! We also carved pumpkins last week. (I also painted 3 small ones) And I’ll throw in some pictures of our new fish tank!

   

 

He used power tools for his…

 

 

This is the front of his…
  

And here is the back of his…

And here is mine, I just did a design on the front…

  

   

 

 

   

On one pumpkin, I painted both sides so here is the design on the other side that you can’t see in the picture above… 

 

  

 

What I’m Loving Wednesday

Linking up with Jamie at This Kind of Love for What I’m Loving Wednesday.

I’m LOVING that I am officially a student teacher!!!! I’m starting off by teaching social studies and I teach my first lesson tomorrow!! The cool thing about that is that the two 5th grade classes are taught social studies by my teacher, so I will be doing all of my lessons twice!

I’m LOVING that next week I get to start teaching math!!!

I’m LOVING the amount of work I’m getting to do while student teaching! You may think I’m crazy, but I’m loving all the responsibility that I’m getting because that is showing my teacher how prepared I am to be a teacher!!

I’m LOVING that this weekend is a 4-day weekend!!! Yes I just said that I’m loving student teaching, but it’s been a long first week so far!! I need a little bit of a break!!

It’s ok…

I’m linking up for the very first time with Amber at Brunch With Amber for “It’s Ok Thursday”.

 

It’s ok…

- that the end of summer is almost here because I’m excited to start student teaching!!

- that I’m nervous about student teaching! I’ll have more responsibility in the classroom that I ever had before and that kind of scares me!

- that I didn’t get to swim in my pool as much as I wish I would have due to it being down for about 2 weeks because of a hole.

- that we have to take the pool down this year so we can level it better for next year.

- that my new favorite store is the Dollar General (sorry Five Below)

- that I’m 22 and still love watching Disney movies! You’re never too old for Disney!!

Bo Bice Concert!!

Tuesday night was the Bo Bice concert. I got to the park around 8:50 am to put our chairs out to save our seats. Since this was a free concert, I thought that a lot of people would be setting their chairs up early. Well, I was wrong about that. There was only one other person there when I got there. So being the second person there, I got us front row seats!!! I knew my mom was going to love it when we got there later that evening for the concert!! And she did!! The concert was really good! It was just Bo and his guitar, no band. The one thing that bummed me out was that he didn’t sing his song “The Real Thing”. Here are some of the pictures I took…

   

At one point during the concert, he was telling us how our community reminded him of his hometown of Helena, Alabama. He kind of made me change my mind a little bit of how I feel about the town. I’ve always thought it was pretty boring because there is nothing to do around here. But maybe I just need to look a little harder and actually find things to do.

After the concert was over, we were packing up our chairs and I noticed some people were standing around the stage. I figured they were probably waiting to see if Bo was coming out to sign autographs so we went over there. They said that he was coming out but wasn’t going to be doing any posed pictures, just autographs. My mom had this American Idol word search book so she had Bo sign on the page that was dedicated to him. He was surprised to see that and said “They’ll put anyone in a book”. Then I had him sign a paper that the library was giving out that told about the concert and who helped sponsor it. While he was signing, I asked him why he didn’t sing “The Real Thing”, except I was so star-struck that I said “The Real One”. He said that he was going to sing that and “Sweet Home Alabama” but then his guitar string broke!! That is such a bummer!!! He sang “Sweet Home Alabama” on Idol and it was really good!!!

Here is the picture that I took right after he signed my paper. At first I wasn’t going to take a picture because the flash on my camera is blinding, but other people were taking pictures so I decided to just take one.

Then when my mom and I came home from the concert, I was looking on facebook and I found this picture…

Yup, that’s me standing in front of Bo!!! I have no idea who took this picture, but it is awesome!!!

So that’s all…that was one of my last big things of the summer. This coming Sunday my fiance and I are having an “End of the Summer” party with a bunch of our family over, so that will truly be the last hurrah of the summer!! Have a great Thursday everyone!!!

What concerts did you go to this summer???