Well it has been quite some time since we have posted on here, about a month almost a month and a half I think. Maybe one day Jon will finish the wonderful stories we have from our cruise and vacation in Hawaii. We are so blessed to have the opportunities to spend so much time traveling and seeing friends and family. Hawaii was only the beginning. I came home from Hawaii around the 7th or 8th of August and we left that weekend to go visit some friends in Norfolk, VA.
We had an absolutely wonderful long weekend. We went to visit Paul and Stacy, Paul and Jon were roommates in college. The guys lost touch for a few years but got reacquainted from facebook. We were so excited when they came for the wedding but unfortunately didn't have a whole lot of quality time to spend with them. So, we went to go visit them and enjoyed the cooler weather. I am sure you all have heard but we have been breaking records with the temperature in Houston and its excessive need to go over 100. We went to several cute restaurants that sat right along the water. We also had the opportunity to go to the zoo the last day we were there and that was a lot of fun. It broke our heart a month later when the the eye of the hurricane was headed right for them. Luckily they were safe and did not experience any damage. They shared pictures of the local area after the storm and it kind of reminded me of Ike, lets not do that again.
We got back on a Monday and I started back to work on Tuesday. As usual it was a week full of training and finalizing the classroom. The beginning of the year. We had only been in school a week or two and Jon and I set off to our last adventure for awhile. Over Labor Day weekend we flew to Denver, CO to visit Jon's brother and his family. David and Candice used to live in Vegas, we had visited them there one Christmas but it was awhile ago. Last Thanksgiving they moved to Denver and we hadn't had time to make the trip with the wedding and school. Finally, we made it out there and got to spend time with them. We had a great time and really enjoyed getting to know little Matty. That is our nephew who is 18 months. He is mobile and at the age where he is lots of fun. Once again we enjoyed the break from the heat and the scenery was fantastic. It was a pretty laid back weekend because this was also the start of college football season. I must admit it was nice to have some down time, we don't get much of that around this house.
Since then we have been busy doing things around the house, starting our final year of grad school and I have started teaching a new grade, more on all of that later.
