Switcharoos

I've been working the past month or so at getting rid of Brooklynn's old clothes.  There is a huge consignment sale twice a year in Greenville called Switcharoos.  I consigned about 65 items and today was the first day that I could go to the sale.  I got up early this morning ready to go but little did I know what I was getting into.  This place was HUGE!  I got Hayden and B tons of clothes for fall and winter.  I even got Hayden some trucks for Christmas.  I stayed about two hours before I started getting tired.  A big thanks to Nick's mom who bought B and Hayden all sorts of much needed clothes.  Pics to come!

As of last night I had only sold 5 of the items I consigned for a grand total of 12.68. Ha!  I'll be lucky to sell half of my stuff.  There is just so much!!

New Friends

Today I kept B out of school because she had a play date with some new friends, Ellie and Owen.  Their mom, Julie and I were good friends growing up.  Julie and her family lived on our street and her brother, Mike, is still good friends with Blake as are her parents with Mom and Dad.

Brooklynn had never met Julie's kids before but had a blast at their house.  Her favorite part was playing on the trampoline. B told Nick as soon as he got home tonight that she wanted a trampoline for her birthday.

B was mad at me as we left Julie's house today.  She fussed at me half way home and told me I was mean for making her leave and she was still talking about Ellie tonight at bath time.  I know a little girl that is going to sleep good tonight!

Back to School

Today was my first day back at school.  Actually it was the first day that teachers could get in their rooms. I don't have to go back until next week.  I'm glad to be back but sad at the same time because so many of my good friends left my school at the end of last year.  Someone told me we are getting around 22-23 new teachers and staff members.  That's a lot of new people!

I have to say that it is slow moving trying to get my room ready being 32 weeks pregnant.  Luckily, Kristy stopped by to help me even though she won't be at CCE this year.  I'm sad she won't be on my hallway this year or even at my school for that matter.  But, thanks to Kristy and Sonny I was able to get my furniture moved around.  I just had to take a pic of Sonny because he walked around all day with this hat on!!

This was about all I got finished today.  My word wall is almost complete.  I just need to hang up the letters and it will be ready to go.  That still leaves a ton left to do, but at least this looks cute.

Memorials for Mom

Many of you have asked if the memorial you sent to the National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation was received. Honestly at this point, I don't know.  I contacted them a few days after Mom passed away and they said they would send me a complete list in early September, so I can't send thank you notes until I receive that list.  Until then, they do post names on their website.  Mom's name is finally up with a list of those who sent in memorials.  I know that this IS NOT a complete list because it is not updated regularly and some have sent in memorials that aren't listed yet.  I'm not sure how often it is updated, maybe at the end of every month.

They also have Mom's name spelled incorrectly.  I'm trying to get that fixed. I've already emailed the lady so much at this point about getting the names for thank you notes that she must be tired of hearing from me.  I figured I would wait a week or two before trying to tackle getting Mom's name spelled correctly.  

Memorials Click Here

If you scroll down you will see Mom's name listed under July.  

This picture was taken in May at the Reedy River Rubber Duck Race

Run 2 Overcome

Yesterday I volunteered at the Run 2 Overcome with a couple of girls from work.  This race was to help raise money for the Julie Valentine Center and over 700 runners participated!  Kristy, my volunteer buddy, and I had to get up extra early, 4:45 to be exact,  to be at Cleveland Park at 6 am.  We were in charge of checking in the 10k runners for the 7:30 race.  After we finished that we also checked in the 5k runners and then we were responsible for pulling the bib tags at the end of the 10k race as the runners came through the finish line.  The bib tags are help tell the race coordinators who finished in which place.

 We had a great time and this has been one of my favorite volunteer activities yet.  After running so many 5k races it was fun to be on the other side of the table.  I have to say though, I was absolutely exhausted the rest of the afternoon.  It was worth it though!

Here are all the runners beginning the race and this was just the 5k!

My New Year's Resolution was to volunteer 50 hours in 2012.  I don't think I am going to hit that this year.  I guess I have a good excuse after the summer we've had.  Having a baby in the fall makes it a little more difficult as well.  I'm still working towards it though!

Fun Friday

Yesterday I kept Brooklynn home from school for some much needed mommy- daughter time!  

First, I took B to the dentist.  You must be thinking that going to the dentist doesn't sound like fun.  Brooklynn, however, LOVES the dentist.  She was so excited to go.  I was a little nervous though because Mom has always taken her while I've been at work, but I was pleasantly surprised at B's good behavior.  She let them clean her teeth and even let them do her very first x-rays.  She loved every minute of it.  

Waiting patiently for the dentist.

Ready for an xray.  Cheese!

Next we headed over to Uncle Blake and Kaley's house for some pool time.  I've avoided the pool this summer not being a fan of the maternity bathing suit.  Brooklynn and Aunt KK headed out and had a blast.  

Next we went to the library.  B was excited and of course she talked about Mimi the whole time because they went to the library together every Thursday.  She picked out some books and played on the computer. Afterwards, we headed over to visit Pops and to show him all of her library picks.

"Reading" Cat in the Hat on the computer.

I picked out this book, but  B hasn't let me read it to her yet.  She just isn't interested.  

Just as a side note:  A good friend, Jessica, has just started a new blog.  She and her husband, Grant, have recently moved to Waco where he is beginning a new job teaching at Baylor.  Jessica and I lived together in college at Lander, and Nick and Grant lived together at Clemson.  Jessica's family was  so sweet at Mom's visitation and made me feel so comforted and loved.  Her mom is a breast cancer survivor and they have been friends of Mom and Dad's since we were little girls.

  You can read Jessica's new blog from my blog roll, "Life with the Morgans."

Bubbles!

Brooklynn has spent a lot of time this week outside playing with her new bubble machine that Aunt Stephanie gave her at the baby shower a few weeks ago.

Man does this thing put out some bubbles!  I can't believe I've spent all this time blowing bubbles when this thing exists. B likes to get her bug net out and try to catch the bubbles.

Just an update on the baby.  I went to the doctor last Friday for a check up and baby Farr is no longer ahead of schedule.  I actually lost a some weight over the last few weeks, but the doc said not to worry bc he is still growing and is right where he should be in size.  I've also been having tons of Braxton Hicks contractions over the past several weeks.  He said that the stress of Mom's illness alone would be the cause for so many and to just take it easy.  Hopefully baby Hayden will stay put for a little while longer!