It's been toooo long!

Ok it has been way too long since we posted....I wish I had the time and more importantly the talent to have and keep up with a beautiful, meaningful blog, but nonetheless, I am giving myself brownie points for effort today!  :)   We have been quite a busy family lately.  I survived my first year as a middle school science teacher (just barely, lol) and despite budget cuts across our school district am very excited that I will be staying at Travis Middle School for another year and will now be teaching 6th grade.  I also just completed teaching a week long NASA Summer of Innovation Girls Camp which I thoroughly enjoyed.  Here is a video of the camp that I made for the students/parents: 

 I had an awesome group of girls and wish that all students had the desire to learn these girls have.....what an inspiration!! I even had three girls that were chosen from applicants all over the valley to visit the NASA Glenn Research Center in Ohio on July 17th....way to go girls!!

Locks of Love

Kayla has never wanted to get her long, beautiful hair cut before. But she had been begging for weeks to get a haircut and she wanted to donate her long hair to Locks of Love. We went through with it because of the cause, and are so proud of her for wanting to do this on her own!

Graduation!

Finally updating the blog!! Here are some grad pics...yes, I finally graduated!! It's been a long time coming and I finally have my BS in Interdisciplinary Studies with a Teaching Cert. for Science grades 4-8. So excited about that!! Noe is going to school and will apply for the Radiology Tech. program in May, he is doing really well so far, despite the fact that he hasn't gone to school in 10 yrs!!

First Day of School

Nathan started 3rd grade and Kayla started Kindergarten this year!! Jax was super sad that morning, but at least he got to stay home with his daddy. I, on the other hand, was sad that I didn't get to walk them to their classrooms, because I started my student teaching at Fossum Middle School as well and had to leave early. Noe is also going back to school , so we are all adjusting to this busy schedule. Kids are doing excellent in school so far....Kayla's teacher says she does like to talk though (now, where did she get that from :) ) Noe is doing great too....and I am loving student teaching so far, I have an excellent mentor and am learning a lot. I also passed my content exam, so now I am certified to teach middle school science, I just have to graduate in Dec. and I'll be ready to go!

Obviously Kayla is NOT a morning person

4th of July fun!!

Despite everything that has been happening lately, we managed to have fun on the 4th with family and friends!!

Sophie Zamora, our neice

New Baby Cousin--Allyson Jenae!

We went to Kingsville to visit the Stones and their new baby Allyson Jenae, who was born on June 15th

my son, the ladies man!

I had to put these pictures on here, it was so funny! We took the boys to a Dorados game during the school year, and Jaxon could not take his off the redhead, he just kept staring and smiling at her! The girls thought he was so cute, and that made it even worse.....he wouldn't even look at us to take the pictures!

Life

Things have been a little hectic in the Zamora household lately. On June 30...Noe got laid off from his job at Schlumberger where he has been working for the past 6 years, they just decided to up and close the entire shop down here. It was a big shock to us, but we are starting to come to terms with the idea. Since the oil industry is very dry in South Texas at the moment, Noe has decided to go back to school to become a Radiologic Technician. Yay Noe!! We are so glad that he has this chance and keep thinking that something better will come along for our family soon. I will be done with school in December and will hopefully find a job teaching Science in one of the middle schools nearby. Hopefully everything will work out well....as we have faith that it will!!

Fun at the beach

A day at South Padre Island! This was Jaxon's first time to the beach...and he had a blast! Andrea and Dustin were able to tag-along, and we had a lot of fun, with only minimal sunburns. (me and Dustin got burned on our backs)

Kayla's Pagaent

Kayla participated in the Little Miss 4th of July pagaent for the city. She was cute and she had the best talent....she actually sang in front of everyone (acapella too). She sang God Bless America, and it sounded so beautiful, we are so proud of her!

Kayla with her big brother Nathan and her Uncle Andy.

(we had to force the boys to take this picture of course)

Kayla posing...my little cowgirl with attitude!