HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

Tyson and I would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!!!! I hope everyone fills themselves up with turkey! I know we will!!!!

I'm so sorry for no blog post in a long time. I've been so BUSY!!!! My semester is coming to an end, so that means all assignments must be due. I haven't been able to do much wedding planning (which is ABSOLUTELY FRUSTRATING) because I'm so busy trying to get my assignments finished. Today, I found out my placement for Student Teaching (MY FINAL SEMESTER!!!!!) and I will be teaching Kindergarten the first 6 weeks, and then for the second 6 weeks, I will be teaching in my DREAM grade level which will be 2nd grade. I'm absolutely thrilled!

Tyson is still doing well. He's turned in his background check application in with Georgetown PD, and now it's just a waiting game. We'll keep you posted on what happens next. Tyson's still working hard as ever to save up money for our wedding. Also we have to make up for the fact I couldn't work this semester, nor will I be able to for next semester. He's such an incredible guy, and I'm so thankful to have him in my life.

Well, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and Tyson's parents are here to visit for the holiday. Nancy and I will be cooking away tomorrow for our yummy Thanksgiving dinner. I'm SO ready to eat! I'm hoping to get up early in the morning to get into the gym before I stuff myself, but I doubt that will happen. I'm sort of taking it easy this week. It's my break, and it has been one HECK of a semester for me, so I deserve one. Plus, I want to spend time with the family and my fiance.

Well, this semester is almost over which will allow me more time for wedding planning. I will keep everyone posted and updated on both this blog and the wedding website.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Wedding and Life

Tyson and I just recently met with our wedding coordinator and I LOVED HER! She really seems to know what she is doing, and it certainly organized things a bit. We planned out how the ceremony and reception would go, and as we were talking about all of it, I was just getting more and more excited. Tyson and I are just a little stressed about all of the details wedding planning entails,but we'll get through it. To me, it seems so EXCITING that our wedding is only 4 months away!!!! WOW!!! By the way, our wedding website has been updated:

www.mywedding.com/reanninandtyson

This will be updated frequently when we receive more and more information about our wedding.

For me, school hasn't been much fun. The professors have been disorganized while one tells us to do one thing, and the other tells us to go away from that and do another thing. It gets sort of confusing. Plus, I'm now "teaching" 4th grade at a school in Klein ISD, and I'm not very happy with my placement. I walk in the first day, and I feel like the classroom vibes and classroom management was a little off. There were a lot of behavior issues, and my mentor couldn't seem to pull it together. She also wasn't using the right tone with them, and I felt like she only wanted me to sit and observe when I was supposed to be interacting. It all made sense when I walked in the second day and found out that she got a degree in business, worked for a company for a number of years, became a stay-at-home mom for 10, and then decided to teach and got alternatively certified. The thought that went in my head was, "NO WONDER!!!" This is her 3rd year teaching (but first year teaching 4th). She had substituted for Kindergarten for about 2. She was even admitting to me that she was alternatively certified and didn't have the education we did in classroom management and teaching styles, etc. etc. etc. and that she was obviously inexperienced. So, you can say that I'm disappointed and would have prefered to be placed with a teacher who has a degree IN early childhood education. Plus, I have to teach 3 lessons to these kiddos, so let's see if I survive the behavior issues. Let's see if what I learned in classes will help me gain control of them. Overall, I'm so stressed because this has been a tough semester, and I just found out I have to write a teacher work sample that can only be compared to the size and quality of a dissertation. Thank goodness we only have to write a small version, but, in student teaching, it will be huge. UGH! SO STRESSED! I have found that my sanctuary is spending 2 hours in the gym. That seems to alleviate some stress, and it takes my mind off of everything. I get away from the dogs (especially hyper Rosco), from lesson planning, or just any home or school responsibilities. It's my "me" time.

About Tyson. He just tested for Georgetown PD (city outside of Austin) and passed both the written an physical. Now, he's in the process of filling out his background information packet so the PD can do a background check. It's going to be quite a long process, but he'll find out if he gets hired in either March or April (that is what the HR lady told him). He, too, is a ball of stress. I've actually never seen him so stressed. It's been an interesting rollercoaster, but Tyson just wants this position so badly. It's close to his parents, my mom and little sister, possibly my other sister, her husband, and hopefully a new baby, and he could have the opportunity of doing K9. All around, this would be a great opportunity for him, and it will make him happy. We LOVE the Austin area and we would love nothing more than to be closer to our families. Tyson has been working so hard lately, and it has been one stressful moment after the next. He's hanging in there, and I know that I'm pretty optimistic about this Georgetown position. I think he's got it in the bag. But, he keeps doubting himself, but I continue to stay positive and cheer him on because he needs to get out of his funk.

Overall, we're going to get through all of this. It just so happened that all of our stresses decided to pile in at the same time. But, WE'RE DOING GREAT and that is all that matters.