Time for my monthly update, I suppose!!

HA!! Just kidding =)

I suppose the biggest news is that I now have a J-O-B!!!!!  I’ll be a 2nd grade asst. teacher (not ideal, but I’ll take what I can get at this point) at Franklin Academy.  I will be working one-on-one with the students that are struggling the most, doing intervention type instruction to hopefully catch them up with their peers!!  It should be a really great experience and I am getting more and more excited about it as my first day gets closer and closer!  We have our first work day on Aug 3rd and the kiddos start school Aug 5th!

Next up,  Justin on the flight line… Sadly, I have no pics but every day he comes home super excited (and sweaty!…shh!!)  He had his 4th flight this morning and it was an EARLY one!!  He had to be at work at 430am and he flew at 638am.  This whole week has been an “early week”, meaning they go in every morning around 4 or 5am!! Ahhh!  This means, for those of you not catching on, that I am up at about 3am making him breakfast (typically, 4 eggs/toast/fruit).  Oh the things I’d do for this man! =)   Supposedly, next week is a “late week” meaning he’ll be doing night flights and not getting home until midnight or later!!  So we’ll be jumping from one extreme to the other, no biggie!!

Justin says, “UPT= STUDY, STUDY, STUDY!!”….

Exhibit 1

Exhibit 2

…I don’t know how much of that I’m believing anymore!!!

Let’s seeeeee, what else?!…Oh! I got a new houseplant to replace my ponytail palm (it requested to be moved outdoors to enjoy the ridiculously hot weather of MS)…

Please excuse the blue "sea urchin", as Zola calls it

And now for some pics from our fabulous 4 day weekend we had this past weekend =)

I call these "Gaming Man Dates"...the world could come to an end and they would not know it!!

Happy 4th of July!

Seriously....WAYYYYYY too excited about their 2/$5 glow-in-the-dark necklaces/whatever

Yay!! FIREWORKS!!!!

Justin's fav!

....and, one last one for good measure! =)

This is just a cute pic I found…not real sure where we were headed….

See! Cute =)

Oh I do have some news about Lil Girl….I took her to the vet yesterday bc she had started limping/not using her back right leg 2 nights ago.  She was only doing this periodically, so I left it alone and figured she’d be crying if it was bad…well, sure enough, yesterday I was holding her and she just started crying so I set her down and she collapsed on that back right side.  $30 later (doesn’t she know I was wanting to buy her a cute new leash to match her cute new collar!?!?!…there goes that!), we were told she has a medial luxating patella, aka a knee cap that slips out of place occasionally.  Right now, he said to do nothing bc it’s “hurting me more than it’s hurting her” and that likely we won’t ever have to do anything- she just has to stay skinny and active =)  Swimming was recommended but after our attempt at that in the bathtub I’m afraid that would result in drowning!

However, I think it was all a ploy just so she could get a lil of this….

such a lil actress!!