Great Last week of April

I wanted to get this one in before Jenna's Birthday. To start the week off, Rachel had a very good interview as part of her Teacher of the Year honors. It was low-pressure, and she feels that she did well. Then Tuesday I passed my NT Comprehensive Exam. This was a milestone for which I have been studying and preparing for nearly a year and a half. The whole family took the opportunity to celebrate with a dinner at Chilis, and a box of Junior mints for dessert. We even bought some Oreo's to enjoy this week!

Week of April 14th 2013

This week we began preparing for Jenna's birthday. She picked out cupcake mix, and toppings for her special day. Her birthday presents started arriving, and will be wrapped soon. I can't believe she will be 2 in 2 short weeks. In fact, if you ask her how old she is, she holds up 2 fingers and says "two!".

Megan continued her emotional growth this week, which contained a few trying moments. The good news is that she is slowly learning to deal with her emotions, which is a tough thing for anyone to learn. She had a blast at school this week, doing work on the letter "p" and talking about circles. The girls also had pictures at school this week, so when we get copies we will share.

Rachel and I are plugging along at our work. She's getting her TOTY application ready, and I'm prepping for an exam on April 23rd.

This week it finally felt like spring, so we started playing outside more!! I love this time of year because its not hot enough to make me sweaty, but warm enough for the kids to have fun. They even tried flying a kite this week:


Fridays at our house are days when the kids don't have school, and we've exhausted all of our "at home" activities, so I like to go somewhere. This week, we played at a park we haven't been to in a while. We even took the dog. Enjoy the video below! And yes she does wear that headband "Rambo" style.

Week Before Easter

I decided to include pictures below from our Easter Weekend. We had a wonderful week this past week. I found out that I will get to take my NT comprehensive exam in a few weeks. The girls did awesome at School, and at play! Rachel won an award for teaching!!!! (highly deserved in my opinion!!) Roxy was a good dog :) We celebrated Passover/The Last Supper as a family this year for the first time. I think we'll do it again. We all learned a lot from the experience - and the kids really enjoyed the special experience. 

Nana and Papa came over for the Easter Weekend celebration. We played plenty on Friday - Megan even talked Papa into getting donuts for breakfast. Saturday we went swimming in the morning, then Chick-fil-a and more play time. For dinner we took Papa into Fort Worth to eat Chipotle since he doesn't get to do it in Amarillo. Church on Easter Morning was wonderful, and the egg hunt was a ton of fun! We went to the OG afterward (Olive Garden). What a great weekend of celebrating our risen Savior! God really has blessed our family!