Engagement Pictures

It has been a couple weeks since we took our Engagement pictures with our amazing and very pregnant photographer. I was super excited to see this in our mailbox!

Isn't the packaging just completely amazing?!?

Here are some of our favorites from the shoot!

Homecoming

This past weekend was my college's homecoming. I was super excited to go back to watch the parade, get my future sister-in-law fitted for her bridesmaid dress, and go to the football game! It also was very cool to have my future brother-in-law on Homecoming Court! Here's a recap of Saturday in photos. Enjoy!

 One of the Men's Fraternity Floats. The theme was Plattevillians: The Battle Within

 It's Batman!

 Paddy's Hall's Float. He's a Senior Assistant. :)

 FarmHouse Fraternity. Of course we'd have farm equipment in our Homecoming parade with our wonderful School of Agriculture and Farm! One of the many reasons this farm girl loves UW-Platteville.

 Patrick, my future brother-in-law :)

 Erin decided she wanted spaghetti straps instead of the cap sleeve. I personally like this better on her!

 Marching Band Halftime Show

 Introducing Homecoming Court at the game. Paddy and Bridget are the second couple.

 My first football game as an Alum! All of us kids with the new mascot, Pioneer Pete.  Anyone else think of That's 70 Show?! Haha.

Friday Recap

Hurray! The work week is over (sorta!!) I have a Rally on Sunday for work, but that doesn't mean tonight and tomorrow can't be fun!

Today was our 2nd 4K Friday. It went much smoother than the first one, thankfully. Here are some photos from today. :)

Our AM class made these Elephant E's.  

Our PM class made the E's above. One of the kiddos moved his E so their trunks were touching. Cute. 

This is what happens when you take a picture of a few students....they want to take your picture!  

One of my kiddos wanted me to make a silly face. I think they got what they bargained for :)

Did I mention I love my job?! :)

Thursday's Thoughts

Happy Thursday! Tomorrow is 4K Friday of the month and I'm sure it will be crazy!

Thoughts for the day:

• Do we go to Charlotte right after Christmas before going out to the coast or spend New Years Eve and part of New Years Day in Charlotte?
• Why must I not be planned for next week yet. (Maybe I should stop writing this post and get on that. It's only 3 days!!)
• I'm really hoping my future brother in law is voted Homecoming King.. that would make my weekend back to my college town awesome as a first time Alum! 
• I'm super excited that all my girls will be measured and dresses will be ordered on Monday!!
• Really impatient about getting the cd with my engagement pictures. I'm just THAT in love with the few sneak peeks I got on Facebook from my photographer. 

That's all for this Thursday! Feel free to comment!

Afternoon with my favorites

Today was the day that I set for my three bridesmaids to make their decision on their dress in my upcoming wedding. We started the afternoon with a late lunch at Fiesta Cancun, which was a good/bad thing if you think about putting on dresses after eating.

Our next stop was the bridal shop to try on dresses. I was in search of approval from my bestie of the bridesmaid dress I picked out for her wedding and I got it, so my dress will be ordered on Monday. Yay!

Here's the final picks. I stepped into my FI's sister dress that she chose on our first visit back in May. The long dress will be shortened to match the length of the other dresses. I love that my MOH has a one shoulder dress that will match my beaded shoulder strap on my gown!

 

The dresses will be in fuchsia and they will be carrying orange gerberas. This was the only orange flower the floral shop had, but it helped me visualize and do my homework for my florist. :)

After the bridal shop we were kinda talking about wedding festivities and I decided we should chat with all of us together. We stopped at Badger Brothers Coffee and spent some time talking Bridal Shower and Bachelorette Party. It's so nice to have the dates set ahead of time so we can all plan accordingly. 

Overall, a successful day back in my college town with my favorite girls!

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

I love my job... yes there's a but here.. but when I am asked to leave my classroom and my kiddos, I have a HUGE issue with this. This week I "volunteered" between my co-worker and I to work another site because the teacher was sick. My co-lead had a fill in teacher in my place, but obviously our classroom was chaos. As if it wasn't worse, the next day my co-lead went, basically so I didn't have to go again. I experienced the chaos yesterday and it was the most exhausting, frustrating day.

My rock and hard place comes in because I don't work for the district. I work for a non profit who runs a district program, yet I have a district special ed teacher in the classroom. That teacher was livid that we were taken from our classroom and had to fill in else where. I know that teacher contacted the admin for our program and my boss is not happy about the whole situation either.

To make matters worse, today in our sensory table was tree nuts....this is terrible because we have two kiddos allergic to them and they PLAYED in the table today. The worst feeling in the world is to tell a parent that their child came into contact with something they're allergic to in your classroom and it is a nut free room.

I am so ready to put in my 5 hours tomorrow of prep and end the work week. I am ready for a relaxing weekend at home with my dog and parents!