TOPT, Thanksgiving and Black Friday!!

I am very proud to say that I past my TOPT (Texas Oral Proficiency Test) Spanish Exam!! I hadn't want to get my hopes up just in case but when I recieved my scores I was soo soo EXCITED!! I called David and we managed to re-create those whole dropped call commercials. I finally got thru where he could hear me and got to announce my wonderful news!! I just have one more exam to take before I will graduate 100 % Bilingual Certified. I looking forward to graduation because that will be a closing of a chapter that I have been working on for the past 5 years. We have been working on getting the house ready for our new addition but in the mean time David has started working on the "Anderson Grill". He is building us a small outdoor patio area in the backyard to enjoy during the summer and warm days. It'll have an area for food serving and all the stuff he'll need to store his grill. Its coming along pretty well he's made the base area all we need is to get the decking portion started but the weather threatened to be rainy. Our Thanksgiving's were as normal every year. David got up really early and went with his parents to Benbrook to see his niece and spend some time with them. I went to my parents and had lunch with my parents, brother and sister's family. It was nice to have such a quiet meal or that could have been because we were starving and were all eating versus talking. David came home around 5 ish that evening and headed over to my parents around 8ish. We had our full family dinner will all 31 members of my family! Then we all planned our Black Friday itineraries!...I woke up at 3 am and made my way to my parents by 3:30 am...just to have to wake all of them up myself! We hit Circuit City, Office Depot, Old Navy, Kohl's, Wal-mart and then headed home around 10 am! Yes I did almost 6 straight hours of shopping! Later that evening we went to see Twilight!! I am certainly looking forward to a quiet weekend at home with David and Zoe!

Well it's offical!!

Well for those that don't or do know...its OFFICIAL!! I am pregnant. I found out about 2.5 weeks ago. This past Saturday was 10 weeks. We had our first appointment with the doctor for our sonogram on the 3rd and it went GREAT...things are looking good. Its alittle strange sometimes cause I don't understand all the feelings. But my family is being really supportive and took the news with open arms! David's family also took the news really well. Jomi & David will get to have 2 new grandchildren about 6 months apart!! I'll get pictures posted asap. Aside from that WONDERFUL news I am in the home stretch of Student Teaching...finally it's gonna be over and I'll have graduated! I am excited to be planning my graduation party with my niece as her husband is also graduating the day before me...its gonna be loads of fun! Just 3 more weeks and 2 days of student teaching. We had a very quiet weekend. Saturday we bought a new screen door for the house and I love it. We can finally keep the front door open without Zoe trying to make a break for it. Davids dad and uncle helped him put the door up. We also spent sometime at Lowe's picking out some laminate hardwood floors for our new kitchen remodel...which will probably start in December sometime. On Sunday we had a family day. We went to breakfast at my parents and just hung out. David eventually went home and hung out with his friends while I stayed at my parents. My brother, Kannika and I went with my mom to pick out their Christmas present. We got them a Sony Bravia 32".

We also got to watch Kung Fu Panda on the new TV and it was a hilarious movie!! We all enjoyed it and are looking forward to getting my dad some stuff to watch and play on the TV while he is recovering from his surgery.

Happy Halloween!

We had a wonderful Halloween!! Last week I was really excited that we won the pumpkin contest at school I had two of my students work with their families to decorate the pumpkin and we won BATTIEST PUMPKIN!!

David came up to school to help me out with my Halloween Pizza Party...it was wonderful my students loved that he came. We had pizza, punch and the CUTEST spider cupcakes!! I'll have to upload the picture as soon as I can upload it off my phone. It was really nice to have the day off and just spend time with David. We picked up the house after I got off of school work to get ready for our Family Halloween Pizza Party that I host every year after the kids went Trick-or-Treating. This year was a little tricky because we also had the last home AHS football game...which we had to have a letter to get into the game as David accidentally lost our season tickets...lol but its all good we got in and enjoyed the 2 quarters of the game that we did watch. We got there late because we wanted to pass out candy and then came home early because it was getting cold and to get all the food ready for the party!! It was so much fun my parents, brother and girlfriend, sister and her family and then my brother all came. I am also excited about Saturday night we're planning a small friends and family football party to watch the Texas vs. Texas Tech game!! Well we got thru Halloween and I am excited about Day Light Savings Time coming up Sunday!!

Almost a month later!!

Wow! I didn't even realize I hadn't updated or posted anything in practically a month. David & I both have been extremely busy with school and getting our assignments in. But we're making it...one day at a time!! Between work, school and life in general I am pleased to say OUR HOUSE IS CLEAN!! More thanks to David but I've helped with some laundry...About 5 more weeks and I'll finally be home during the day and just working one job. Student Teaching has been really really busy. We took our first field trip on Friday to Tipi Village!! Lets just say they LOVED IT...Its awesome getting to see how excited they get with the smallest things. I was excited that we got to go to Tipi Village because since its my senior year it was nice to see Homecominig Full Swing!! My teacher went out for her maternity leave on the 13th of October so since then I have been on my own you could say. I have a sub with me and that helps alot. This coming week is Red Ribbon Week and I know my kids are going to get a laugh out of all the different dress up days we're going to have!! Friday is also Halloween and I know they will be excited about that. We're having a Pizza Party and watching movies!! I have just one more observation to get thru and I'll be done!! My niece and I are starting to think of plans for Aaron's and My GRADUATION!! Who knows what we'll come up with!

Busy and Trying to Remember!!

Well these past 2 weeks have been crazy busy...I have been teaching most of the day at school and it has been crazy!! I've been getting lesson plan after lesson plan done. Aside from that I've had a crazy personal life on top of all of that..All I can say it I am praying to God that things go back to normal. School has been good...busy but good...the kids are getting more and more used to me being in charge and thats really all I can ask for. What I've had the hardest trouble with lately is remembering to make copies of things or even where I put things. I lost my very first paper this past week and I thought I was gonna go crazy. I also signed up for one more Bilingual Exam and lets just say the prices went way way up compared to last year! I am currently working on next weeks UNIT PLANS and then on lessons for the last week of my first placement. This coming Thursday I have my last observation for this time period....lets hope it goes well. For those that read this please pray for us that things can get back to normal and that school continues going well for me!!

1st teaching (week 3) and being windblown!!

I taught this week for the first time alone. We did calendar math and spelling/phonics!! It was certainly an interesting experience especially the days I did in Spanish!! If you know kids since it rained pretty much all week they need some type of movement to express their energy! I had to modify my lesson plans so that they were active, the first day we played duck duck goose, the 2nd day we play "El Salto Ferzo" where we pretended to be Leaping Lions!! Each lesson was either over spelling or the syllables we learned this past week. Thursday I gave my first spelling test and the results were astonishing!! Friday I gave the sight word/ syllables test and I was a bit more pleased wth those results! This next week I will start teaching the entire Language Arts block and Monday I have my first observation from my McMurry Supervisor!!! YIKES!! But on a really good note McMurry decided that I could stay in my first placement until the end of the semester...even though I won't be getting paid like I wanted as the sub for my class I will however get the experience of managing the class alone!! We got to go to the fair yesterday and so that my niece would ride this one ride I had to ride it with her and her friend...yeah how I got suckered into riding alone I don't know!! We rode the ORBITER which rotates you in the air...yeah lets just say I held on for dear life so that I wouldn't slide around in my chair!

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