Moving

Well, things went well for Travis and Ian to move our things into our house. The trouble we're having is getting our refrigerator in our house. The moving guys came in and messed up a wall near our front door. :( They also scratched the refrigerator on the front, so they are going to have to get us a new one. They also tried to see if they could get it through our back doors. So they started taking it all apart. I'm so nervous that our sliding doors are going to be messed up now. Ugh. I guess everything couldn't be smooth sailing. I will give you all an update when everything is finally in.

Our Home Walk Through & Doctor Appointment

On Tuesday we got to go see our house!!!! It is beautiful!!! It took a long time going around the whole house and checking everything. There are some touch-ups that they need to do, but it was still beautiful. It made Travis and I even more excited to move-in. Today we went and signed all the important papers to receive the house this next Friday, yea!!!!! I took some pictures of our house and thought I would share them with you. Here is how our house looks as of now. Enjoy!

Here is a view of our kitchen with Travis and our Construction Supervisor.

Our Family Room

Our Lovely Tile

Our Master Bedroom

Our Master Bathroom

They need to put in the clear glass around our shower though.

OOne of the other bedrooms in the house. We got fans in all our bedrooms.

Today we had an appointment to have another ultrasound. At around 12-13 weeks they do a test to check the neck of the baby. This will see what the chances are for us to have a baby with down syndrome. Everything looks good! We got to see our baby move around and our baby even waved to us! :) It was SO nice to see that everything is going well with our baby. Our baby was being stubborn though and not cooperating...lol...the doctor had a hard time getting our baby to turn around. She did say that she is 75% sure we are having a _______. Travis and I won't say until we are more sure though. :) So things are going well and we are super excited with everything God is blessing us with.

First Week of School

I survived my first week of school. It is tiring having to get up at 4am to get ready for my day. By the time we leave work and get home it is 6:30-7pm! So Travis and I have long days during the week. I have 25 students in my class (the most I've had teaching). The parents have been wonderful to work with and very helpful. I've had to make some not so good phone calls home the first week of school already. I'm just making them change their card every time so that they don't think they can get away with misbehaving. So far I haven't had a same kid get on red during the week, so that is nice. This year is going to be a little different teaching 1st grade. A lot of the kids I have only had half-day kindergarten. At my other school all of them came from full-day kindergarten. I can tell the difference!!! But we will work on it and I will have them getting use to being at school all day.

Aside from school, this Tuesday we will have our walk through for our house! We are SUPER excited! We have about 2 more weeks until move-in. Hopefully everything is ready at that time and we can move in. So I will be taking pictures for the walk through and have another post of it. We also have an ultrasound appointment this Friday. So we're excited to see how the baby is doing. It's hard having to wait so long to see how everything is going. I got really sick this past Thursday. Travis had to pull over on the side of the highway for me to throw up (gross I know)!!! But I'm feeling better now and think something was in my system that just needed to get out.

Exhausted

This week was a crazy week for me. I started my day by getting up at 4:30 a.m. to get ready to go to my school. Travis and I carpooled to Queen Creek this week and had to leave the house by 5:30 a.m. to get to his work on time. I would drop him off and then head to my school. We were having meetings to discuss how we wanted our student handbook and staff handbook. We also looked over our school map to see what duties we would need. I also got to get some stuff done in my room. I was mainly unpacking all my files and transferring them into smaller folders that would fit the file cabinet. So after my long day at school, I would go pick up Travis and 4pm so we could get back to the house. By the time I got home I would have enough time to eat dinner and then get my things ready for VBS. I taught the 1st and 2nd grade class for VBS. When VBS was over and I got the room cleaned up, it was about 9pm when I got home. So I was super exhausted. I did this M-Th and then on Friday I didn't go to school. I had a doctors appointment to go over my blood work and ultrasound. She said everything is looking good. So I have to schedule an appointment to get another ultrasound done around 12 weeks so they can do a test to test down syndrome on the baby. So that was my crazy week. Next week I start work officially. I have our staff developments & trainings to go to and they will also give time in our rooms to get it ready. I can't believe my summer is over!

Our House

Belle, our Shea community contact sent us a recent picture of our house. It's starting to look more like a home now. We have our house walk through on August 12th. I'm so excited!!! We got pretty much everything we wanted to have in our house. Here is the picture of what our house looks like now.

It will be nice when the big trash can and the port-a-potty is GONE!

Rain!

Last night we got to experience rain! We haven't had rain in a long long time. So we went outside to enjoy it. Travis went "dancing" in the rain while I only stuck my leg out to feel the rain. With the wind and the rain I actually got kinda cold (I'm always hot), so that was a surprise to me. Here in Arizona in the months of July and August we experience monsoon season. So hopefully we will be seeing more rain!

Here is my backyard with the rain coming down. You can actually see the raindrops.

"I'm actually cold!"

Enjoying the change of weather.

A Trip to Queen Creek

So yesterday I got to go to Queen Creek to get a tour of my new school. I was nervous and excited (feelings I seem to have all the time!). Everyone met in the gym and we got to go around and introduce ourselves and say what grade we will be teaching. It seems like we have a pretty nice staff. So after introducing ourselves, I found out who I would be working with in 1st grade. I really like the ladies I will be working with. One is my age and she is going on her 5th year of teaching. The other one is older than us, but it is her first year of teaching! She seems like she is going to be great though. We went to check out our classrooms that were assigned to us before eating the lunch that they served us (we were too excited to wait)!

When I first walk into my room this is what I see. My cabinets, sink, and drinking fountain.

This area is my bulletin boards. They don't have bulletin boards around the room. The person you see Sheila, she is one of my team members.

I was so excited when I saw that they were giving us cubbies. Now I don't have to spend my own money to buy them, yay! My other team member, Aubrey, is in this picture.

On the opposite side from my bulletin board space, I have 2 whiteboards and a smartboard in the middle.

Since my classroom is at the end of the hallway, I got two windows in my classroom.

The door next to my cabinets is my adjoining door into Aubrey's classroom. That will be helpful.

Here is one of my desk (I get two) and the other one near the window is for the kids to use. The door you see is the entrance into my classroom.

So that is a tour of my classroom. Next week I'm going to start moving my things into there and start the decorating. Next week I will be meeting with a few other teachers to discuss how we want to do things at our school. So I'm exciting to be part of the decision making. I also found out that our school colors are teal and black and our mascot is the Roadrunner.

Since I was in Queen Creek, I thought I would stop by our house and see how it was coming along. It's exciting to know that we'll be moving into our house next month! Here are some pictures I took.

This is approaching my neighborhood.

Here is the entrance into our neighborhood.

Here is our house. It looks like they are getting read to paint the outside of the house. I saw them taping up the window areas.

Not sure if you can really see or not, but there is a man inside the garage spraying white paint onto our garage walls. They have also poured in the concrete for the driveway.

So while I was down in Queen Creek, I got a phone call saying that my dad was being rushed to the hospital by ambulance. My brother was out with my dad and I guess my dad told him he was having a hard time to breathe. So my brother was taking him to the hospital but my dad told him to call the ambulance because he didn't think he could make it. So I left Queen Creek and headed to the hospital. They said he was not getting enough liquids and was dehydrated. They kept him overnight to monitor him and make sure everything with his heart is okay. Hopefully he will be coming home today.