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This year is kind of big for Zach and me with school. This is his last year as he will be graduating in May (we are counting down the days!), and I was accepted into and started the Teacher Ed program and will do my student teaching next fall after Zach graduates and then I will be DONE in Dec. 2011.

These are my books this semester. I love them =)

I was so happy to be starting the Teacher Ed program that I had to take a pic of the screen on the first day and send it to Mom and Dad.

Since it is such a big year for us, we decided to really get organized. So, we took the bed out of the guest room (no one ever sleeps there anyway), and made an office for the both of us with two desks! We have already used it quite a bit and enjoy doing our work together in there.

The futon is still in there just in case we ever do have guests! (Dad and Mom - on Christmas Eve night Zach and I will take the futon and you guys can have our bed...don't worry.)

The Summer...

Well, summer is over and I didn't blog at ALL! So, I thought I'd do a rundown of our summer.

It started out with Zach heading to camp (of course), and me heading to Dallas to hang out with Van and Tatum for a few days while Mom and Dad were out of town.

Then, when I got back from Dallas, Zach and I headed to Branson for the weekend. This is us at the hotel before dinner one night. We're cute, huh?

We hung out with our niece, Brylee, a TON! Isn't she precious?!

We went to the lake with Zach's mom. We ate at Joe's Crab Shack one night---yummy!

Zach's mom, Kim, at Joe's. She's so much fun!

Audrey and I traveled to Dallas for a Michael Buble concert.

Audrey at the concert...

It was SOOOO good!

Audrey and I also ate at P.F. Chang's in Dallas. We had so much fun!

Then Zach headed off to Colorado for Youthquake for a week with about 75 students from our church.

While he was hiking the mountains in Colorado, I was relaxing on the beach in The Bahamas. I went with my sweet friend Wendy for a few days...all expenses paid! We had a great time!

While I was in The Bahamas, I got the news of my Papa Joe's death. He was 78 years old and is very much missed. I have been especially sad for my grandma, my mom and her siblings with the loss of their husband/father. I am so glad that they have each other. I love you, Pops!

The Sunday after Papa's funeral, most of my family joined us at Racine and we all went to lunch afterwards. It was so nice being out all together. After lunch, we went with Dawsyn to get her ears pierced. She ended up opting out...haha!

We then went BACK to Branson! This time it was for our church's staff retreat. This is most of the group at dinner. Fun was had by all!

This is my friend, Brooke. She is in our church youth group. This was at World's of Fun in Kansas City where we took about 60 kids on one hot Saturday before school started.

So, all of this plus I took 11 hours of SUMMER school...and made all A's! I love staying busy but I am glad that Fall is a calmer season for us.