TGIF!!!! Well this past Friday for sure!!

All the required paperwork is in.  I finally got my official transcript & IR.  So, Friday, May 21st I drove to the Department of Education in Phoenix and left with my teaching certificate.  This was the last piece of the puzzle.  Everything has been turned in or signed to my district office...I can officially say that I am a teacher in the Roosevelt School District starting July 15, 2013.  The studying, paper writing, collaboration, and learning I have finished in the past six years has finally come to fruition.  Its been a long road since I was a third grade students, learning from my teacher and deciding that is what I wanted to do when I grew up.  I am so happy and elated...I even teared up on Friday walking out of the DOE building with my little green certificate in hand.

On another note...my little brother (he's 36, so not so little) finally got engaged to the wonderful girl he has been dating 3+ years.  I look on Facebook at 11pm last night & they had both changed their status to engaged.  I am soooo happy for them.  My brother, since my parent's divorce, has swore he was never going to get married - I am elated that he has changed his mind and is ready to go on this lifelong journey and  adventure with such a sweet, smart, and beautiful girl.  She texted me a picture of the ring last night...isn't it gorgeous!!

Needless to say Friday, May 21st was an AWESOME day!!!