Lauren's 13th Birthday!

Lauren's 13th Birthday is today and for the past month and a half or so I have been planning. She loves Minions and so I decided to do an everything Minion party. I decorated the dining room and bathroom with blue and yellow crepe paper on Thursday. I also made some cupcakes with some minion cupcake liners and toppers. 

The bathroom all decorated

The dining room

Surprising Lauren with all the decorations

Seriously...trying to get a decent picture is a nightmare.  We took so many pictures just to get these few fairly decent ones.

Noticing me creeping in the background :)

Minion Candy

Minion Bracelets

 Someone's excited about all the Minion presents

Lauren's cupcake

Lauren with all her presents

All of her presents from me, mom, dad, and Grandmary

Girl's Weekend

On Thursday night, I surprised the girls by telling them we were going on a trip this weekend and I told them to pack a bag. I didn't tell them where we were going. On Friday as soon as I got home from work we left for our trip.

All ready for travel!

Seattle at night

20 minutes before arriving at my cousins house I accidentally spilled the beans on where we were going.

I had told the girls to pack a swimsuit because we went to the Snohomish Aquatic Center, the girls had a blast!

"Ahh! Lauren!"

Overview of the Aquatic Center

Lauren, Piper, and Emily

After swimming Piper was worn out so we snuggled on the couch together while she slept. 

Tom is in the back one of this, proof that it wasn't only girls the whole weekend!

Jacinda and I

Skittles Day

This year our school has begun to implement PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports).  The students had been working towards a goal of earning so many points during their specials to be able to have a Skittles day.  The day finally arrived today!  My teaching partner Fallon made our great Skittles shirts.  The students all wore bright colors and we had lots of fun dressing up and then they also got a bag of Skittles at the end of the day.  

Fallon and I

Jordan, Fallon, & I-Third Grade at DGS Rocks!

Shadow Cuteness Overload!

While going through my phone recently I found all these pictures of Shadow and thought I'd compile them all into one blog post of Shadow cuteness!

                                               

Shadow while camping

After camping bath

The aftermath of Shadow having his head out the window while the car is driving

I don't think he wanted his picture taken here...

Shadow does a lot of sleeping

Last but not least is my all time favorite picture of Shadow. He looks like a puppy in this one!