recap: life last month

i know i haven't posted in forever and that is just because i have been so busy with work and this new big girl life i am living :)

i really need to try and get better at writing more often!  since i haven't written in over a month, i am just going to do a quick recap of the past month to catch me up.  hope you enjoy :)

kindergarten has been fabulous and i have actually gotten to know 83 precious little kindergarteners and their many different personalities.  it is so fun to think that i am actually playing a role in shaping these 5 year olds into the learners that they are becoming.  i should start writing down some of the things that they do and say because i will want to remember them for years to come.

besides kindergarten...

 i have been enjoying a lot of gamecock football

we went to the south carolina state fair

i decorated the front door for fall

gair and i spent a wonderful weekend in the mountains with his family.  we visited sky top orchard and picked apples.

taylor on curtis' shoulders reaching all the good apples in the tree.

little elliot helping put the apples in the bucket

triple stacked on top of curtis to reach the apples that were so high :)

gair and i picking apples and having so much fun with everyone!

after picking apples we headed back to the mountain house to watch some football and hang around the house!  carolina was playing florida so we were hoping for a [win] but had to suffer with another loss :(

since carolina wasn't playing too great and the weather was so wonderful we all went outside to play for a bit while gair and big g were working on the new bridge!

this is the view from the top of the mountains. i know i have posted this view before, but i can't get over how beautiful it is.

on the way home from the mountains we stopped in chapin to visit with mummy and dada.  

(more on that in the next blog post)

halloween is always a great time, and this year we had some friends over to the house for dinner and to carve pumpkins.

travis carved the angry bird, gair traced his hand like sign language for "i love you," of course mine is just random shapes (so kindergarten), and carly did the awesome fish bone pumpkin!  i think we did pretty good :)

gair and i decided last minute that we were gonna go downtown with yates to meet up with ashley, mike and brandi.  i found this indian costume, from when i was in the 3rd grade, in my "costume box" that i have in the attic for when i get my own kindergarten classroom.  and yates had this indian costume at his house for gair to wear.  we sure were a cute little indian couple for putting this together so last minute :)

yates went to halloween express and picked out an entire costume get up for ash when she got off work.  what a great surprise.  we had so much fun all dressed up :)

the past month and some has been too wonderful with the beautiful weather, my new job, and having fun with friends :)  looking forward to an even more amazing holiday season!

will post again tomorrow (aren't you surprised?!?!)