DALLAS

Preston and I went to Dallas last week for an entire week.  Preston took two of his debate kids to nationals so I tagged along.  It was nice to have a whole week with him since we haven't go to see each other much lately.

 View from our hotel room

 I was so excited to see this.  It was a life size bronze statues of a cattle drive.  Since it was so hot I burned my hand trying to climb on one of them, but it was still fun.

 Heart Attack Grill.  A cafe that prides itself on how unhealthy it is.  Our shake came with a slice of butter on top.

 Preston with the two kids who competed at nationals.

 This was a museum of mummies found in Mexico.  Zach thought it was cool that I saw real mummies.

 Dallas World Aquarium.

 Preston and his student Chancy eating sushi for the first time.  We even got a video of Chancy gagging.

 Waiting for the DART train after the NBA championship parade.  It was so crazy.

We went to several art museums in Dallas.  Some included Holocaust Museum, ssculpture gardens, museum and where JFK was shot.  Most wouldn't let us take pictures but here is one outside of SMU.

I had such a great time, even though I missed Zach like crazy and gained about 5lbs.  Next year will be Indianapolis so hopefully some more kids can qualify.



Boys will be boys

I know I haven't blogged lately, but I had a TRAUMATIZING afternoon.  I was in the kitchen baking which is already a major anxiety for me and Zach came in the back door from playing outside.  He said, "Mom I have a surprise for you."  This usually means some dandelions so I said, " Oh you do what is it?" and then PLOP this is what landed on my kitchen counter.....

Yes I screamed and luckily Preston was home upstairs so I ran to him yelling and screaming.  Zach couldn't understand why I was upset over a robin.  When I took him upstairs to hose him down he said, "Well you're nurse can you fix it."  So sweet but also very disgusting.  For those of you concerned with my kitchen counter like I was, I did bleach it. 

I'm still here

Yes I know I haven't posted in awhile, but I'm still here.  We have been so busy the last few months.  We survived the holidays which were extremely hard and now we are just trying survive the second half of the school year.  Preston is busy with debate tournaments and goes almost every weekend.  Zach is getting so big and so smart some of the stuff he says I don't know where he learned it.  I'm just trying to keep up with everyone.  I will post pictures of our live when I find them and find time.

Family Pictures

Here are our family pictures for this year.  They are in no order and then there is the ones on the top and on the side.  I hope they posted ok.

This is how we all felt by the end of it.

Halloween

We were so excited for Halloween this year.  It is one of Zach's favorite holidays.  He said he wanted to be a ghost for awhile now but it is very hard to find a ghost costume and I don't sew so we found a zombie costume and just called it a ghost.  I don't know if he realized or someone said something but when we went trick-or-treating he kept telling people he was a zombie ghost so it worked out.  We were all suppose to dress up but Preston ended up having a debate tournament and couldn't go with us.  The ended up taking 3rd so I guess it was ok since he wasn't there.

Well I think he is the cutest zombie ghost!

Pumpkin patch

Zach and I went to the pumpkin patch with his preschool earlier this month. We had never been and Zach really enjoyed picking his pumpkin. I drove a couple of the kids with Zach and I was laughing so hard and the things those boys were saying. I really appreciate Miss Kari she has her hands full with all those boys. The picture above is Zach being mad I had him take pictures while everybody else ran around the patch.

Update

Mr. Clarke on his first day of school. Yes he was mad I made him take a picture.
Zach on his first day of school.

Just a funny picture we found of Zach.

Yikes it has been a very long time. Lots has been going on and it has been crazy. Here is just a highlight of each of us from this summer until now....

**Preston taught Taiwan kids English at SUU this summer. He has been working very hard to get endorsed in English basically taking what classes it would take to get a minor in English. He is loving his job at Beaver even though it is time consuming and stressful.

**Zach started preschool. I didn't know how I would feel about this but he absolutely loves playing with the kids. He runs away to all of our neighbors and I can never find him. I'm pretty sure he is going to get arrested for breaking and entering even though I have explained several times you don't go into someones house without knocking and then them answering. He is so smart and comes up with the craziest things.

**I just cut down to two days a week. Yes from 36 to 24 hours and I love it. I actually get to see Preston for more then 15min a day. Zach is not used to having me around so much but I think he likes it. My next goal is to organize my house. Yes it still looks like a tornado hit it even though we have been here for two months. Another highlight was at a high school dance Preston and I chaperoned several high school kids thought we were still in high school and dating. I had a good laughed.

Well that's it. Now that things have calmed down a little and I have found my camera I will post more.