Its all about ME

This post is strictly about me and there are no pics so you may find this boring. Well yesterday marked a first for me and I decided to share it all with you. It was my 1st day teaching a didactic course at CBC and ALL WENT WELL. one down 11 to go. I have been teaching in the dentsl hyg. dept at CBC for over a yr now but I have been in with the students in clinic where they are on patients. In that class someone else is the head instructor so all I have to do is show up (and not come up with a lesson plan, make copies, nothing). I generally have 4 students while they work on their patients, making sure to let them know if they have done something wrong, but also praise them when they do something well. For everything that the student does, I have to come back in and check and make sure that I agree with what they found, have etc. This is why it takes 3 hrs to get your teeth cleaned at the clinic.

Anyways so I am doing the clinic teaching in addition to the radiology course. Yes that means that the last month I have spent making power points, notes, schedules, quizes, tests, etc, etc, etc, and I finally know what it feels like to be a teacher. I have way more sympathy for them now knowing all the time they put in that is not paid for ( that is the worst part). I have 18 girls (yes sometimes there are boys but none this yr, there were 2 last yr) and they all thought I was the best yesterday because I brought them donuts, who could hate an instructor that brings you donuts. Hope they are not planning on that every week, that was just to butter them up and make them think that I am the best, I am sure that will all change as the weeks go on and I bring them tests and quizes instead of donuts. so from here on out if I post something about school you now have a little insight.

The Big Birthday Girl

She officially is considered a toddler, but I will continue to call her my baby (I still call Krae my baby from time to time). It has brought many happy moments for Gracee, but some sad ones for me because I am not ready for her to be a big girl. But ready or not its here-- I would say she is officially walking. she began taking a few steps at the begining of the month and last thurs. she started taking 5 or 6 and today she has been able to make it clear across the living room. As a matter of fact she thought she was a big girl tonight and felt the need to carry her PJ's around w/ her which did not help much because she kept falling, but she kept right at it. she is enjoying her freedom to move about freely. she still feels the need to run though and not walk, so that is the majority of her problem right there.

We celebrated her B-day on Sunday so that friends and family could come. It got a little crazy with all the kids that were there but it was tons of fun also. We had it at our house out in the garage and surprisingly it turned out to be a nice day-- the day before it rained all day and the day after was windy. Today- her actual b-day we spent in town w/ cousin Laney and Aunt Amy getting pictures and then GG and Aunt Diane met up w/ us to have some ice cream. I saved her cake that she did not finish for today but was not brave enough to pull it out. I figured if I sugared her up right before bed I might be up w/ her all night where as the other day she ate it in the middle of the day.

This picture here is of all the babies that were born w/in the year that are either friends or family (except the 2 girls standing on the left). yes, there are 2 sets of twins, one set is my cousins girls kennedy and katori, and the other is friends that jake went to high school with that were born the day after gracee Ayla and Addison, the others are jess little one Emersyn, my niece Delaney, Jakes cousin's kid Logan, and my friend kristins boy Colin and of course Gracee- the only one who did not want to cooperate at all for this picture.

The Birthday Girl

Her beautiful fairy ice cream cake

and of course I could not leave out her messy face-- she did not dig right in like I thought she would but once she was shown how and got a taste she had no problems at all. On Kraetons 1st b-day as many of you know he was not a big eater by any means, so he just sat there and looked at the cake and did not want a thing to do w/ it, so i do not have a messy face picture of him on his b-day.

"Hunting Camp"

So after years of trying to convince me Jake finally got me to go to "hunting camp" up in the blues near Waitsburg, Walla Walla, Dayton. I had always had excuses: last yr I was 9 months pregnant, the yr before we were working on our addition to the house still, and the list goes on. In the Waters family "hunting camp" is for the whole family--mainly because the majority of the girls in Jake's family like to hunt. As a matter of fact the "buck" that you will see was shot by his cousin Tera. Not only did she shoot the first deer, but so far is the only one to get a buck. So we arrived friday about 4:30-5 and by 8:00 jak had come back with this doe, so I was thinking "hey we can go home right"-- no wrong. The other part of the story Jake left out was that it is also bear and cougar season (yes both of which have been seen up their by his cousins in the last week, kinda feaks me out a little)and as of tody elk season, so needless to say Jake has an excuse to go hunting the rest of the season. I should have known better that it would not be over because they always hav late hunts and then something else will open up etc, etc, etc. I swear there is always a reason to hunt. I probably would not hate it so much if it was limited to 4 weeks or so, but no soon there will be something else to hunt for. Ok enough about that. Did I mention "No I will not be eating this animal" For some reason I do not like game-- no matter what you try to tell me and convince me I am not going to eat it or even try it, the end. Surprisingly my picky 6 yr old will, so he and his dad will get to enjoy it.

While the boys were out hunting saturday we (Jake's cousin Sheena and her 2 boys Logam and Aiden) decided to go to the Dayton fair. It was a nice little fair with no carnival but had a rock climbing wall and a mechanical bull for children that was free, and a little kid coner where they could color, paint or get their faces painted. It gave them a little something else to do other than ply with dirt and logs and anything else they could find.
Here he is riding the bull, thank goodness this was free because he loves to ride this thing and I was going to tell him no until the guy anounced that it was free- I guess that is the perks of having a little fair--some wheat farmer probably paid for that.

Here is Krae on the rock climbing wall and he decided that was all the further he was going because he was scared, so I guess that was a waste of $6

The kids at camp wrestling

The boys Aiden who is 2 but looks 4 and yes sometimes he can beat Krae up and then logan who just turned 1 but looks 2.

Finally pictures of the deer Jake shot archary(?) hunting or as Krae was asking "What tree dad" he thought Jake was saying "our tree". Krae was mightly disappointed that he did not get to shoot any thing with his bow and arrow but jake did take him out 2 different times and let him look for animals with him and tried to teach him a thing or 2 about hunting like staying quiet.

Jake, Krae and cousin Jimmy

All the guys giving their advice on how to gut a deer, this was Jake's first time doing it.

Here is the poor thing hanging. So they all made fun of Jake because when they were cleaning the deer they realize that she must have been pretty old becuase her hooves were worn and flat and her teeth were black and rounded off and so thay accused him of shooting Bambi's grandma and the other joke was that he must have had his hunting partner Mike go and knock the walker out from underneath her and then took a shot.

So we all survived and it was not as bad as I had put it off to be but I told Jake that I was not coming up next weekend. I could not stand the kids being so dirty and then the poor kids ran out of things to do so it seemed like all they could do was gt into trouble. And because A play pen does not fit in our camper poor Gracee did not sleep as well as she does at home. So if i go back it will be without Gracee.

"Happy Anniversary"

Yesterday was our 6th anniversary, but also it marks that it has been 9 yrs since we first started dating-WOW how time flies. If I had a scanner I would have posted some pictures but since i don't I will bore you with words. Jake and I went to dinner and a movie without the kids for once (no actually I think that is only the second time we have left the kids to do something for ourselves). Normally when I leave them both it is to go to work, so when it comes time to do anything else I feel guilty about leaving them and thus the reason Jake and I have only done something twice since Gracee was born. Maybe I should clarify- we do things all the time we just always have our kids with us. We went to dinner at P.F. changs (it was ok) and then went to stepbrothers, which by the way was good. And remember that really good christmas idea I had a few blogs ago, well Jake absolutly thought I needed it now. So I now have a new camera and was able to give the other one back to my mother. For those of you that do not know I HATE giving each other gifts for anything but christmas and our b-days, and for those of you who know Jake he would probably come home with a gift for me everyday if I would allow him to. I just think it is a waste of money, I would rather just go to dinner and do something fun. needless to say we did both, so yes Jake won, but now he will have nothing to get me for christmas so ultimately I won.