The Time Is Getting Near...

Gotta love a sunset in the mountains...just one of the many amazing things that God does to show us the beauty of the world!

Well yes as everyone keeps reminding me we are just about a month away from the big day...WAHOO! We are getting excited and to be honest I'm just sick of waiting and ready for it to be here. I went for my 2nd fitting on my dress today and that definitely gave me that "wow" feeling in knowing that the time is close!

While we wait we are definitely kept from being bored by all the things we have going on at school. Thursday is our field day and on Friday we are having a beach day in Kindergarten where the kids get to play a bunch of water games and such so that should be a good time and wear them out pretty well! It is really neat to see how far some of the students have come, especially given the way that they came in to K. Seems like if we let them that the kids would be able to run the class on their own (and some of them try to on a daily basis!) Even though many people talk about how much pressure is put on Kindergarten students it is great for me to be able to still get to see their innocence. Just today one of our students brought in pictures of his dogs and was telling us how one of his dogs can be mean some times and they have to "smack him" to which one of my little girls replied "well if he's mean and you don't like him then you should just sell him in a yard sale or somethin!" Gotta love the minds of kids!

As many of you know James and I have also been doing a lot of traveling lately including a camping trip to the beach with Molly & Matt and also a trip to the mountains that James to me on for my birthday! We had a great time on both trips and feel really blessed to be able to get away like that, especially with gas prices and all going up I think our trips are going to be minimal here the rest of the year! Here are a few pictures I thought you all would enjoy from those trips!

Setting up a tent on an incredibly windy day...not so easy but who needs guys when the girls can do it!

Molly & Matt on the beach with their dog Tacori

James & I sitting by our JEG in the sand that I drew...awww! OK 10 points if you can tell me what JEG means!!

James and I on our trip to the mountains at the top of Chimney Rock...we did it!

The view from Chimney Rock...it was BEAUTIFUL!

James doing some creative photography with my ring...thought it turned out pretty cool!

A.J. and I were ready for a nap after a long weekend!