Post TPA Weekend

For all you out there that know what a TPA is I just finished #3 last Friday. For those that don't know, it is a series of 4 state assessments that teacher credential candidates need to pass to get their credential. Not sure how many hours I spent on it, but it was easily 20+. I think I am pretty deliberate (read as slow) when it comes to these things. It should be about a week before I get my grade back. I am pretty confident I will pass, we will see. Anyway, between the TPA, school stuff and my shoulder issues I have not had much time to just play with my family and get and have fun. So essentially that is all I did this weekend.

Saturday morning I met up with Chris, a classmate of mine, and he myself and my son went for a ride around lake Hodges. I could not believe how crowded it was! Place was packed out because Trek had a demo day going on. The weather was awesome and we really had a pretty good ride. Nothing to exciting, except the old guy that came around a corner out of control and ran into me and Aaron causing us a small crash. But we were all ok, although I was a little irritated at him for hitting us. As crowded as it was he should not have been riding so fast and out of control. After the ride, my son and I went to a friends house and spent a few hours working on pine cars for his pine car derby which is next Saturday. We really had a fun time shaping and painting, we still have some work left on it but so far so good!

Sunday was great. I went to church with my family and the message was really strong and the kids had fun in their classes too, which is important for us. They have fun and they away come away learning something. We left church and went to Santa Rosa Plateau and all rode bikes for few hours. Aaron and Hanna did great! Aaron rode his BMX bike and Hanna went over some pretty rough stuff on the tag-a-long, she can barely touch the pedals when they are in the down position so she bounces around a lot and just holds on for life. She was laughing and singing the whole way! After the ride we came home played some games and did some on the pine cars, still did not finish! All in all it was a great weekend... Now I am two days behind in my school work!