Don't Blink: A Weekly Update

Hello Friends!

Wow! What a busy past couple of weeks we have had! I have been so busy getting ready for school two weeks ago, and just finished my first week of school this past week! Our inservice week before school started was awesome! We got a new super intendant and he is awesome! Check out the hilarious video he created below, he showed this to us at our convocation at the beginning of the year.

Not only is he really funny, but he is so kind! My team and I went to eat lunch at BJ's on Tuesday, the day after he showed us the "Happy" video, and we ran into him! After making a couple of jokes of sending over a drink to his table (a Dr. Pepper), we decided we would buy him dessert and send it over to his table! We planned on sending over a dessert with a note we wrote on a napkin saying "Thank you for a "happy" convocation, we know we're going to have a happy year!" and signed it from our team. Well, unfortunately, our waitress didn't understand. She went over to his table and asked if he wanted a dessert, when he declined, she just gave him our note. It was so stupid and we were embarrassed! After that we asked for our check, and she said that it had been taken care of. Well, we knew that part of our meal had been taken care of by the manager, because they had messed up some of our food and they had told us they were taking care of that part. We checked to see if the manager was taking care of all our meal and she said "yes" and pointed to our new super intendant and said "He took care of it for you". How sweet is that?! So we went to say thank you, and he had written us a note back on another napkin!! We just couldn't get over how down to earth and sweet our new super is!

Meet the Teacher Night went great, I LOVED getting to see all my old kids! They are so adorable! I am SO in the right profession for me! I seriously left school with such a full heart that night! My first week back at school was good and busy as well! I can tell I am already needing to work on getting used to this whole swapping class thing. I am already behind in both classes and had to play major catch up on Friday! I need to get that on lock down, quick!

The weekend before school started, we went to the Rangers game with Kelsey and Ryan. The boys had fun!

That Sunday, I made some corny apple cookies for my team, because I LOVE corny things like that!

Sara helped a little!! :)

These are the adorable flowers that Nick and Susan sent me for the first day of school! They are so sweet!! They even had a couple of crayons in there! How adorable!!

We also had a surprise this week, an unpleasant one. We found out on Monday that Zach will not have a job as of September 15th, his product got sold to another company and they would not be able to take everyone on. SO, we prayed about it, a lot and God provided for us! Zach found out two days later that he was getting picked up by the new company that bought his product! God is so good! For some reason, I wasn't really worried about it, I was really at peace about and had faith that it would work out, and it paid off, praise the Lord! The only negative is, we don't have benefits with this job. We had GREAT benefits before, so this is a downside, but we get a paycheck every month, so that is good. I have faith that God will take care of this little problem for us too! I can easily go to my insurance at school, its just not very good, and we will have to pay out of pocket for Zach for now, and maybe his new company can provide better insurance later on.

Well, after not getting home until 10:00 every single night my first week of school, we then went to Abilene with our friends, Ryan and Kelsey to see Kelsey's grandparents. It was a fun trip. They are so sweet and enjoy seeing us and we got some really great food when we go! We get to eat at Perinis, which has the best burger I have ever had in my life. We also get Nanny's chocolate pie, which is DE-licious!