Hello friends!  Life has been BUSY BUSY BUSY.  Adam started his student teaching in January and is experiencing the stress of learning new material while trying to manage 40 students.  It's been a good learning opportunity for the both of us!  I'm just treading water with my own master's degree and fifth grade class.  Thank goodness for weekends!

Here are a few pictures from the last few months.  This is Jocelyn, our niece.  Adam and I babysat over Christmas break.  We made sure she was bundled up!

Adam and I made our 2011 goals.  One of Adam's goals is to not spend any money on haircuts this year.   Because of that, I've made it a goal to become a hair dresser!  Here is our first experience!  Not so bad if I say so myself.

We also said goodbye to our table.  I say our table, but really we were borrowing it from Kara and Peter.  They got a place of their own so we returned it.  Mom and Dad Attridge are going to give us Grandpa's old table.  Until then we sporting an old card table and folding chairs.  It's made dinner entertaining!  A few weeks ago at dinner I knocked the leg and dinner ended up all over the place!  Here is Adam saying goodbye to the table.

Dress For Success

So for the last few years I have been working for DCFS (Division of Child and Family Services). I love this job for various reasons. Here are some reasons in no particular order:

1. I don't like money
2. I don't like to feel good about myself
3. I like to work with drug addicts. The drugs make them very rational and level-headed.
4. I like to get reminded by juvenile court judges that I am incompetent and that I am ruining people's lives.
5. Government bureaucracy is awesome.

Unfortunately, I have also been working on a degree in education for the last few years. I recently found out that I will be doing my student teaching this January. I have been crying myself to sleep since finding out because I will have to leave the job I love to complete my degree.

I determined that I need to start dressing like a teacher. Here's my attempt:

My teacher sweater

I have a cold. Students carry germs. 

Casual Friday

Nothing says patriotism like a polo shirt with a flag on it.

Practicing my stern lecture pose.

If anyone has any wardrobe suggestions please let me know. I don't want to mess this up.

New and Improved

Welcome to OUR blog!  For those of you that have visited our blogs before, you're familiar with past blog failure.  We're hoping that by doing it together we might find more success.

Here are a few pictures of our COLD Thanksgiving Day 5K.  It was great!  Nothing like a little exercise before the big dinner!