May ended well... Scotty graduated from College on the 17th and I was able to go home for a week to hang with family and friends. It was a fabulous time being home. My first full day back I was able to take Ethan for a Jess/Ethie day and we went to church and played for about an hour or so with cars and "Big Trucks" he told me I was "not nice" because he threw a truck at some glass and I told him No and he was not happy with me at all. We went to the mall from there and hung out with Scotty and his girlfriend Meghan. And boy was Ethie in a good mood! He threw dirt in the fountain instead of pennies... it was hysterical. He was driving one of the car strollers and was having a blast! By the time we went to pick up mom from work, he was starting to get sleepy but when we got to the school he literally played on the playground for a good 30 minutes non stop with the older kids! Needless to say he crashed on the way home. We had a great day.... Here are a few pics from that day!
The rest of the weekend was a blast, Scotty's party was on Sat. and I was able to see so many people that I hadnt seen in awhile. It was a great time, beautiful weather and great times! On Sunday we went to Uncle Gary and Aunt Becky's house for Courtney's graduation party. It was so much fun, we went paddleboating, fishing and my personal favorite 4-wheeling! Monday I spent the afternoon with the Workmans's and Char, it was great... felt like old times playing in the pool, laughing, singing, joking, we had so much fun. The kids are growing up so fast! Here are some more pics from the rest of my time at home.
So after all the fun at home, I returned back to Kansas City and was ready for summer programming to start. I am full time for the summer at East Hills. It has been a blast so far. Monday's we do some nutrition classes and guy girl groups, Tuesdays are this thing called Hip Hop academy, it is so much fun we have teachers come in and teach the students and adults the various elements of Hip Hop so far we have learned turn tables, graffiti art and rhyming. Graffiti art has by far been my favorite to participate in , however turn tables are awesome to watch as well....! Wednesdays are our swimming days and Thursdays are are field trip days. It is definately a full summer! Here are some pics from the summer so far!
I have also already gone through bible school at Nall. This is my second year teaching 3 and 4 year olds and let me tell you what. They are too funny. This one little girl Charlee came in the first day of bible school with a tinker bell shirt on and when I said "Hi Charlee how are you?" She quickly turned to me and said "UGGG my name is Tinker Bell." So needless to say the rest of the evening she was known as tinker bell she would literally freak out if you called her Charlee. She is also the funny little one who had a high school musical shirt on one night while on stage singing and I said to her that she had sharpay on her shirt she was argueing with me and said... NOOOO its musical high school so we were teasing each other and I said,Nope is sharpay and she is a drama queen just like you.. she looks at me and says... "no I am not a drama queen ... YOUUUU are the drama queen!" We were all cracking up. That age group is so much fun, one night our story was about Telling the Good news of Jesus' resurrection and and Idea in the book was to have someone call and ask the kids if they had heard the good news. The kids were so enthusiastic when they heard my dad on the other line asking them if they knew.. they were so excited and so into the story it wasnt even funny. When their parents came that was the first time they were telling them. Here are a few pics from the week, along with pics of my room. Our theme was Studio Go so rooms were decorated with movie, hollywood, tv kinda things it was a blast!
I was also able to go this thing called Red, White and Boom. My friend Leah had a friend who won tickets off the radio but already had tickets so ... she was able to get me the hook up! I had tons of fun. David Cook headlined the show and Blue October, The Veronica's, Matt Nathanson, and a few more were all there it was great! I went with my friend Kim we had a blast after it stopped raining. I literally downpoured for 2 hours we were troopers though we sat there through the rain totally drenched. We kept saying we will definately remember this for years to come. It cracked me up once the rain stopped though to see all the little teenie boppers trying to dry their hair under the hand dryers in the bathroom. People are so great to watch, we saw a "Cougar" hitting on a 16 year old as well as some very drunken parents grinding on each other. It was also fabulous that we moved from our lawn seats all the way down to the stage standing area! It was a great day!
Now that this is probably the longest post ever, I will leave you with just a few more pics from the summer so far.
Me and Ms. Jackson from the Youth Center at our training we had to make a child out of all these crazy materials her name was Gabby and she had a huge head! LOL
Me and my friend leah out shopping! We are special
The New Do
the new do from the back
Me and a few friends from Church at Tori's going away party
Sorry so Long hope you enjoy! Ill prolly post again in a few days with more pics from July!
