october

october is over and i rarely posted. sorries! after working all day i never really want to sit down and write about what is going on. if you notice that i haven't been updating you should definitely check Pete's Blog because we do almost everything together and he is better about blogging than me.

in october i...

• went to the doctors a lot for checkups and i'm healthy yay!
• went to a few parties
• had picture day
• started BTSA - the program that will give me my "full" california teaching credential and help me get my masters
• paid a bunch of bills
• hung out with erica (writer on the oc, and currently criminal minds - family friend) and her husband kenny. peter and i visited the set because a friend i made on the show was getting his episode produced. (his name is mark) we hung out for a while and met a bunch of people including shemar moore (who i met before) and joe mantegna. we also had dinner one time and went to the movies together another.
• saw a bunch of movies including SAW, ROLE MODELS, W., SCHENECTADY NEW YORK, BODY OF LIES, and ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO. probably some more in theatres and definitely a bunch on dvd
• celebrated my 2 years and 11 month anniversary with pete
• ate a bunch of wings at "Big Wangs"
• started going to a dance class at my gym with a fellow first grade teacher, lisa. its a hip hop class and so much fun!!!! i hate going to the gym so doing this class helps me want to work out
• volunteered at church in the kids club with peter so we could help out and also just play with babies. (that was actually today which is november but whatev.)
• celebrated halloween! carved pumpkins, made treats, had a halloween parade at school, made pumpkin seeds, and dressed as tinkerbell to go with my peter pan.

so it was a busy but fun october. i'm planning on doing something supercool soon and i will let you know about it later. also peter and i are attempting to buy a wii after selling some old video games and systems. tuesday is election day but i'm not sure if peter and i are going to be able to vote because we are not 100% sure how to do it absentee and we def don't have an absentee ballot if we needed one. so everyone else, go out and vote on our behalf!

in november, i am going to a few more parties for coworkers, doing a lot more BTSA stuff, paying more bills, celebrating 3 years with peter (officially, but its really like 3 years and 9 months) and going to chicago for thanksgiving. then it will be almost december and I will be going home december 20th!

i can't wait to go home. i miss my family so much; especially my nieces. they are growing up so fast. elisa can read and she lost her first tooth, mia is teething, zoe can talk like a grownup and they are all getting so big!

i promised some pictures and here are a few!

until november....

farmer shelton

farmer shelton and chef ishaq

first grade!

first grade teachers

girls only pumpkin carving party

the second pumpkin i carved

halloween!

some semi-recent pictures of mia, elisa, and mom <3

yay!