Our Life: 1st birthday

So we just celebrated Adalyn's first birthday! My how they grow. I remember giving birth to her like it just happened. It's a scary (I'm about to be responsible for another life), yet awesome (I get to hold and snuggle this sweet brand new life) feeling. Soon she will be walking and we will hit a whole new phase. Aaron and I were discussing how you go through this all with the first one, but when you have the first one and then the second one is going through it, the phase changes a bit due to the way you are experiencing it the second time.

I'm glad that we live right here with all of our closest family around. We get to share and experience it with them and they are always there to support us and help out. I love that!

Back to the birthday! So I woke up at 7:00, due to kids not my choice, and we did our normal morning routine, then I cleaned. I find it funny that we clean before company because you always have to clean again when they leave. Not to mention most people really don't pay to much attention to wether or not you have dust on your furniture or not. But I notice it I guess, so I cleaned and got all the stuff set out. We did simple sandwiches and cake and ice cream. It was fun. Adalyn actually got messy with her cake, unlike Kayla who just cried on her first birthday when her hands got in it. Talking and visiting with family is always fun.

So this next week I get to tutor kids after school at Parson Hills where I taught! I am super excited about this. It's a paying gig so that makes it just that much better, but I really love teaching and get lots of urges to be in a classroom. To keep my teaching license valid I still have to do 60 hours of professional development a year. This is hard when your not associated with a school. Usually they have things going that help you get a lot of those hours, mine are all on my own. BUT, the state has an online program that is great. Anyways, while I am doing that professional development, I always get ideas and find neat things that I want to put to use. So hopefully this will satisfy some of that longing. It's only three days a week for a couple of hours, so I wont miss to much time with my girls either. WIN-WIN.