School Days and Pizza! Pizza!

Bren is loving school this year!

I can already see big improvements in her learning.

Despite all of our workbooks

and drilling over the past year or so,

Bren still struggled with her

alphabet recognition.

But this month, she's been the letter Queen!!

She spots them everywhere

and excitedly

let's us know what they are.

This is such a relief for me

because I was beginning to think we may have

a long road ahead of us in the reading department.

{On a side note, Michael,

who we did have a very long road with

is doing so much better this year!}

Despite this sudden learning/retention surge,

Bren will tell you that her favorite thing at school is still recess!

I'm going to her school in a few hours to help in her class.

I'm the "Friday room mom"!

We're going to the pumpkin patch with her class this month

and I can't wait for the photo ops there!

Speaking of photo ops,

I've been hired to be the photographer

for the Fall social on the 24th!

I just bought my backdrop stand and

will be driving to Seattle this weekend

to pick up my backdrop paper in "chestnut".

I think this color will showcase just about every

costume beautifully

and when I add in a few large pumpkins and maybe

a bail of hay or a weathered chair,

the photos will have a warm fallish feel to them.

I'm so excited about this opportunity!!!

In other news,

Zach has landed his first job!!!!

Yup!

He's now working at Little Caesar's Pizza

in Marysville!

He's in training now and tells us he loves it!

The people he works with are fun

and the place stays very busy,

so his time goes by quickly.

He's saving up for a car now.

Hopefully, he'll have one by Spring!