The Month of May: Family & Milestones

We had the wonderful privilege of hosting family from Oregon for the first week of May.  My parents flew in Friday evening and we spent the weekend doing "Carbondale Life." Dad and Chris did a meat run, Mom and I did the farmer's market, we had a gym party, church and serving, and finally supper club.  We tried out a few local BBQ places for my dad to sample and judge.  17th St. was the first place since it is very close to where we live.  Dad says it was "ok," which I tend to agree.  But it is always a fun experience to go the original restaurant in Murphysboro. 

The Month of May: New House

Well we decided to say goodbye to city life and give country living a try.  By God's wonderful blessing we were able to find an absolutely perfect place that had our name written all over it.  It is about ten minutes from downtown Carbondale.  We are renting from a couple that has owned the farm for over 80 years!  Our house is smack dab in the middle of it all.

A Year Later....

Well looks like it is time for my annual once-a-year blog post....yikes, has it already been a year!? Time flies when you are having fun.

Ok so year at a glance:

Fall &Winter 2013

Rachel - I was offered a Teaching Assistant position in the Kinesiology Department.  Saying bye to working with my good pals Mallory and Liz was a tough decision, but it turned out to be a great opportunity and a good challenge for me to overcome. Teaching is seriously terrifying.  When I agreed to take the position I had no clue what I was getting myself into!  I have a whole new respect for teachers that is for sure.  It is not easy to keep those dang kids entertained and try to fit some knowledge into their noggins at the same time! I taught Walking and Jogging for Health and Fitness and Diversity in American Sports.  Fall semester was rough, I would learn the material the day before then have to create a lesson plan and turn around and teach it the next day.  I most definitely learned more than the students did.  Not to mention creating quizzes, exams, assignments, and grading!  I learned a lot of cool things that worked, and some utter fails....mostly my jokes. It's cool, at least I think I'm funny. Spring semester was thankfully much easier since it was the second time around. On the other side of it, I can say I'm glad I did it.  It really really stretched me to step outside of my box and I think I grew a lot from it.

 Davies Hall (Kinesiology Building)