Happy Birthday Tyson!

Today is Tyson's 3rd birthday! Yay! :) It's hard to believe when we first brought him home he looked like this:



Now he's a big boy!:


For his birthday I got him a whole schluuuee of things including:

An ISU jersey! I thought it was too cute to pass up. We'll be ready to cheer them on this fall!


Also got him some bones (actually those are for both of them) and a $2 squeaky toy


And a happy birthday cookie! Taytum got a Spring one so she doesn't feel left out :)


I'm excited! It's going to be really nice tonight so I'll probably go home and go on a long walk with the dogs. It is going to be nice all week and I'm looking forward to it! Tomorrow we are taking the 8th grade on a trip to the Capitol and then Thursday is an early out and then no school on Friday! I think I'm going to head to Omaha to stay with Grandma and Grandpa on Thursday after the early out so I'm pretty excited about that. I'm ready for some Easter this weekend too! We're going to Josh's grandma's on Sunday and I get to celebrate my birthday with them then, too. Yay! Can't believe it is already April...only 2 months left of school - where does the time go?! I'm ready for a break though, the kids are really anxious with the warm weather and it makes for a noisy classroom at times. Hope everyone has a good Easter!

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Concert was a success! We had so much fun! I'll post a few pictures. We ended up getting floor wrist bands, but it was so packed down there we ended up sharing some seats with a few other people in a really good location!

All of us doing the Black Eyed Peas "pose" haha

The golden ticket...our floor wrist bands!

Ludacris! I was pleasently surprised...he played a lot of really good songs!

One of the band members on a light up motorcycle in the air!

Fergalicious :)

Fergie! She was really good and no lip synching!

The wolfpack back in action! I love these girls<3



It was a lot of fun - at one point in time they were even DJing Journey "Don't Stop Believing". It was great! I'm a little tired today though...just dragging. I woke up though pretty bright eyed and bushy tailed, now I'm just hitting a brick wall. I got a Mountian Dew though to hopefully keep me going the last few hours I have! All this fun and I made it home by midnight last night :)

Tonight's gonna be a good, good night!

Yay! Tonight some friends and I are going to the Black Eyed Peas concert!

I'm pretty pumped, number one because I get to see my friends, number two because a lot of my other friends are going, and number three because they sing some really good concert songs! It will be fun to dance around and sing at the top of our lungs. :)
I can't believe it is almost April. Next week, I think, is going to fly by. Tuesday adn Thursday we get out early, Wednesday we have an all day field trip to the Captiol with the 8th graders, and no school Friday! This weekend we're going to Josh's Grandma's to celebrate Easter, his mom's birthday, and my birthday all in one. I'm pretty excited, mostly for ham and cheesy hasbrowns. <3
Other than that nothing new to report. Next Monday I'm getting a cavity filled, filling out some paperwork for my summer job, and going to the doctor's for an ultrasound on my stomach. I've been having some troubles lately and my doctor said she doesn't think I should be too concerned, but wants to check it out just in case. Hopefully it all checks out fine!

I'll try and post some pictures tomorrow after the concert. Not sure how I'm going to be feeling. I scheduled my classes tomorrow to be the easiest day possible...I give them a treat called a "read and feed" where they read for the entire class time but they can bring food and drinks haha. It's the highlight of their month actually! Then the second half of class we're cutting out butterflies, kites, and bugs and writing poems on them in honor of April being National Poetry Month. I'm using it as the excuse to, "See what they already know about poems before we begin the unit." Haha...after becoming a teacher, I always wonder what my teachers were up to somedays that we had no clue about.

It's a...

Girl!! I said it was from the beginning, but now that it has been confirmed I went ahead and bought some things. :) They are naming her Kayden Nicole Meckley and I'm certainly ready to spend oodles and oodles on all the fun girl things! So far I have bought:

A counting book. I am an English teacher after all, so I like children to read at a young age. Haha, but really, I remember having this book when I was little and when I saw it at Hy-vee I was sooo excited to buy it! They had a ton of Little Golden Books there (although they didn't have Rolly Polly Puppy, I would have snatched that in a heartbeat!) So I got this cute little counting book - every number is a baby animal.

These slippers! I almost died when I saw them! Regardless of the fact that she'll be born in the beginning of August and her feet will probably not get that cold, I couldn't help myself! They are little pink bunnies and they are so super soft! They make my heart hurt they are so cute!

Self explanatory that she'd need a bib professing her love for her aunt. :)

And a little bumble bee onesie. It has snap buttons on the bottom of it, and I hear those are great for changing diapers. Plus the bumble bee was just too cute.

I found so many great things this weekend! I have to keep telling myself that I have the next four months to buy things. I'm going to jump ahead and buy a little Halloween outfit for her, since that will be her first holiday. I'm waiting for more pictures of her from Andy and Laura. I'm pretty excited though! :)

It's a....

It's a....girl?? Boy?? Ugh. After much anticipation and Jane driving 3hrs to be with Andy and Laura to find out what they're having, the baby had its legs crossed the entire time! Apparently the technition said, "Well...I'm not really sure...I can't really tell...if I had to guess I'd say it's a girl...but don't take my word for it." :( The good news is though that they made an appointment at place that does ultrasounds so they have another ultrasound to check at 11 A.M. on Sunday - hopefully this time Baby M isn't so stubborn! (But she did say she thought it was a girl - so I was right all along!)

Today is the day!

Today is the day we find out what Andy and Laura are having! That means after today I'll find out if I'm going to have a niece or a nephew - I really can't wait! I'm so excited to go out and buy tons of things, whether it be blue or pink. I'll post whenever I find out this afternoon :)

Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day, but we didn't do too much. I've had a pretty nasty cold the past few days and Josh didn't feel like spending money, so we just stayed home - which was actually really, really nice. We just bought a new back door too which cost us more than we expected, so we've been trying to save after spending all the money on the door, plus waiting for a labor bill. We had a St. Patty's day dress up yesterday and here are the middle school winners:


They were pretty fun! Lots of green walking the hall yesterday, which was fun to see. Here are some updated photos of my classroom too:



The first one they did movie style posters from the book they've been reading and then the second board was created for them to just bring pictures of themselves they'd like to put up, but turned into a baby photo wall! It has been so fun to see all their baby photos and how some of them have changed, but some of them haven't changed at all! Plus a few embarassing ones of themselves as well, too.

All is well here...64 degrees today so I plan on taking advantage and walking the dogs down the bike trail this afternoon. Need to soak it up before rain and snow come for the next two days then back down to 30 degrees. Ugh..but at least the snow is melted and my birthday is right around the corner! Will update tonight after I know what Andy and Laura are having! (Praying for a boy!)

Spring is Here!

Yay! Spring is finally here! It seems like we'd never see it after the harsh winter we had, but man was it nice here today! About 55 degrees and the sun shining meant long walks, yard cleaning, baths, and being outside in long sleeve t-shirts. Tyson got a bath today (partly because he needed it and partly because I think he rolled in something outside). Taytum usually gets a bath too, but with her long hair and her fatness I usually try and do it at Mom & Dad's because they have a pull down shower head. I have the day off though in 2 weeks so I'm going to just call and make her an appointment since she needs a haircut after the winter and they can just bathe her too. We also did some yard work (which means me having to pick up the abundance of dog poop right outside the front door) and we took a few walks. It's crazy to think that after we're spoiled with all the warm weather in the summer, come October when it's 50 degrees for a high that's freezing, but right now it's gorgeous! I can't believe most of the snow has melted from our yard!

Tyson was excited to spend a lot of time outside, but that also means they spend a lot of time in the basement getting their feet to dry and not be so muddy. Taytum is always excited to play frisbee though, no matter what type of weather!

Nothing too exciting here this weekend. I had the last of my bus classes on Saturday and Josh's brother Andy came back so we all went out to eat then to the bar uptown. Plus it was rainy and kind of chilly yesterday - nothing like today! Nothing too exciting. Next weekend I can start putting up all my spring decorations! And I am posting a picture of my egg tree too :)

We're going to end the day with a walk - hope everyone had a good weekend!