Drew and Theresa's Happenings: July 2014

The past few weeks have been mighty busy! Here are some pictures!

Jenn's Bacherlorette Party! This gal is no longer a Miss! So, blessed to have been able to be a part of this dear friend's big day!

Beautiful Bride!!

Love ya lots Jenn!! I am so happy for you and Chris and I hope you are enjoying married life and a little time away in Oregon!

My dear friend Victoria told me that she wants to see more blogs which means I need to actually take the time to sit down and write about life, haha. Like I said its been a little busy around here. We had a lovely 4th of July and got to go to a BBQ here at one of the pastor's homes, saw the fireworks in Lafayette. And, then since it will be our Anniversary soon we had lunch at the Melting Pot while in Indianapolis for the day. Though we hadn't made reservations the hostess sat us in a special booth that was back away from the rest of the restaurant. (oh and the cheese course by itself is actually really reasonably priced fyi). I can't believe all that has happened in the past two years but I am so grateful to be married to a wonderful man, and incredibly excited to see where life will take us! It is so much better to be on this adventure together :)

Happy 2 years my love!

I also just got back from a 10 day trip to Idaho where my mom and I went through a bunch of the baby stuff she had kept and accomplished other projects before helping out and being a part of Jenn and Chris's wedding. Though IF doesn't necessarily feel like home anymore it is still so nice to be surrounded by the people that have known me longest and spend time catching up. Miss Kelley and Kyle's wedding can't come soon enough, so that we can go back and see everyone again and oh my that time we will have a 5 month old baby, haha! My mom and I drove back to Indiana, and meanwhile Drew worked on his second class and I think enjoyed having the apartment to himself for a few days. He got to make a tuna casserole (since he knows that I despise all things tuna, haha)

Once she got back (Drew here) from that, I repaid Theresa for leaving me for a week by leaving her for a night, though the timing was more devious than I had hoped. The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows from all over the stinkin nation converged, or rather, convened, in Chicago for a fancy Convening with a capital C. It was pretty awesome to finally see how many people there are in this program! There's hundreds in the 2014 cohort alone, which means we're going to be affecting tens if not hundreds of thousands of students in the coming years. Wow! That's pretty awesome. Oh yea - they haven't taught me how to quote a conference, but I'm certainly getting conditioned for writing formally and academically and all that. (But I informally and imprecisely quote that one guy who spoke and said a number approximately like 250,000 whose context I don't remember.)

We had a great time, as shown by India's goofy-too-early face below :) I got to meet a bunch of people from around the country who have a passion for teaching, and listen to some great talks about teaching practice and such. I know I'm in for a whirlwind when I actually start student teaching in the spring, let alone the real deal next fall, so it was good to hear about some practical stuff from real teachers.

The fellows all dressed up

Look at them! So fly. #wwtf14 Back to school now, sort of. First step, finally baking Amber's chocolate chip cookie recipe. Second step, ... mehhhhhfine reading.

I (Theresa) have also been busy with classes which need to be finished in a little under a month from now (gulp)....it has definitely been harder to work from a distance and I am so glad that I only have these two left! My time has also been consumed with taking advantage of my 2nd trimester energy by registering for baby stuff (fyi we are registered on Amazon) and working on projects for Baby S! I am already at 16 weeks...

My philosophy has been to recycle a few things (ie. I used a beach towel that we had and turned it into baby sized washcloths, used towels that we had and made cute little hooded towels, twin x-long sheets from college into crib sheets and then some left over fabric into reusable cloth wipes and breast pads). I also bought fabric and made two "moby" style wraps, and swaddling blankets (like the Aden and Anais ones) (my wife is really cool). I have fabric to also make receiving blankets, burp cloths, and a carseat canopy. My mom also surprised me with some homemade gifts when I arrived in Idaho!

Here are some pictures of what I have been working on: