M&K: hello world

wow.. i know, its been forever... and for that, i appologize.

for the first time since we moved, we have actually been really busy on the weekends!!! hahah.

so this one might be kinda long... but here we go..

october FLEW by! nothing super exciting has really happened in school or work for either of us. my sweet three year olds are still keeping me on my toes all the time! and i am loving my job more and more every day :) i have the BEST co-teachers and they have started to become great friends! i have decided we could probably write a book of things kids say that you never saw coming... those kids along with two teachers that have a great sense of humor keep my day full of laughs! which is key when working with three year olds, amen? mick is still doing well in school... october for him meant tests, tests, and more tests. one week he had three, the next he had four... thats about how its gone. it has been a challenge, but he is right on track and doing great!! the study group that he has formed has really been key for him and been an effective way to study, so he is thankful for that! this coming thursday we have a big thanksgiving dinner with all of the families at my school! i cant wait for that because mick will finally get to meet the teachers and kiddos i work with... so get ready for posts about that!

and heres why we have been so busy...

weekend 1 - mick and i went to the brazos county fair an rodeo! it was a full PRCA rodeo and we caught it on finals night, so it was a lot of fun :) after the rodeo, we stayed for the eli young band concert they had on the fairgrounds. if you dont know who eli young band is, its just a texas country band that we like a lot. so, it was really fun to get to go to that. it was a little taste of home for us:)

weekend 2- the week of my birthday, mick had a TON of tests. so, the monday before my birthday is when he took me to celebrate. we had dinner at a restaraunt here called Las Brisas, that turned out to be really good. after that we came home and he had a pumpkin waiting for me so we could carve it! i know maybe that seems silly, but i had been begging him to take me to get a pumpkin for a couple weeks and he kept saying no... so the fact that he remembered that and went and got one for my bday was really special to me! we had a lot of fun carving and painting it :) well.. i probably had a lot of fun, and mick just did it to make me happy, but either way.. great bday! that weekend, i headed back to angelo for the weekend and mick stayed here in league city to study. i was pretty bummed to leave him here, but i had a GREAT visit back home! the only down side was it was way to fast. friday- i got off the plane and me and mom immediatly went to get ALLLL my hair chopped off! I got about 10 inches cut off and i am going to donate it to locks of love...which is a company that uses donated hair to make wigs for cancer patients. after that mom took me to academy and bought me some sweet new tennis shoes :) then we went home and met up with the rest of my familia!! i was soooo beyond happy to see them! after that it was off to DUNBAR for dinner with all the family for my bday :) again... soooo happy to see everyone!
after dinner, it was off to the central football game! it was good to be back watchin the bobcats! Saturday i went with mom and dad to check out the new Cross Texas Supply building. i could not be more proud of my parents for doing what they are doing :) if you havent seen it, go check it out!! then we picked up coby and headed to the house. the four of us played around in the yard and just hung out (ps.. it was really great tosee my puppies too!!), then i went to Henrys (score!) to eat lunch with all the matthews for my bday! it was so fun seeing them and catching up :) after lunch it was off to meet joslyn and watch her soccer game. after her game we got to hang out and chat... i miss that girl! then it was off to meet renee to take some pics (which proved to be a dangerous venture... but the two of us always seem to get ourselves in a mess haha), then back to their house to see all the kiddos and clif!! we went to the glenmore fall festival (so fun!) then to eat :) cant even tell you how much we miss the robbins!
then it was off to the engels for a little while... again, miss them like crazy and it was great to catch up! then went to meet nicole and dustin at the ropin fiesta dance and then back to their house!!! it was so good to be hangin out with nic :) sunday was church at GMBC :) then lunch where i got to see some more family, then just hangin out at the house with the fam till it was time to fly back to league city! mom and ash took me to the airport, where lauren happened to be flying on the same flight as me. after saying goodbyes and crying some more (of course) lauren and i were off! on the plane i met a really neat girl who long story short i just might be teaching with in angelo some day! its a small world!! even though i was sad to leave the family.. i COULDNT WAIT to get back to mick! i was so happy to see him when he picked me up from the airport :)

weekend 3 - after a fast and furious week, mick and i took a roadtrip to Nacogdoches to watch ashley play in the regional flag football tourney there! it was a really great trip. the drive there was BEAUTIFUL... that town is absolutely gorgeous in the fall! we had a really great time just getting out of town and seeing a new place. we ate lunch at a place that one of micks friends from school told him about. it was YUMMY. then we were off to the fields!! i was really excited to see ash :) i miss my sister A LOT and it was fun to hang out with her. they went undefeated and ended up winning regionals!! (thats the way us Dyches girls do it ya know?) on the way home, mick got a phone call from chad inviting him to go to the HOUSTON TEXANS game for free!! not only that, he got to sit right on the 50 yard line! he went to the game on sunday and LOVED it. not only that, but the Texans were playing the Browns, which mean he got to watch Colt McCoy play too! it was a really great opportunity for him :)

this weekend, we went to dinner last night in Texas City (thanks Rainey family)! and tonight we are headed over to Britnie and Ty's (micks cousins- for my family) for a cookout for her bday! it should be a lot of fun and we are looking forward to it!

well, thats the run down... sorry we havent been keeping up lately!!! here are some pictures from the last month!

ps... i have discovered pinterest... expect pics of new projects soon :)

click here to see pumpkin pics :)

click here to see locks of love pics :)