9 more weeks!!!

This is what it looked like in SGA all day today. The streets are lined in pollen and there are yellow-lime looking puddles everyswhere. Since it was a teacher workday, I spent a relaxing day working my tale off in my classroom. I got an hour off for lunch and I got certified in first aid! I opened my back door for most of the afternoon and the cool breeze that blew in intermittedly was nice! I got a lot done and am ready to celebrate St. Patty's Day tomorrow with my kiddos. This will be our
2nd celebration.


Tomorrow marks the last 9 weeks of school!! My how quickly time goes by. I got a new pocket chart and I love it!


I am very obsessed with pocket charts. I think I will post my collection soon!!


Oh, and how cute is this teaching apron? LOVE IT!!

Memories...

I have a few projects that I'm going to be working on this summer because the one class that I am taking will be completely online. I am going to make a VSU picture collage for my classroom. I have a lot of pictures to add (well, I have to scan them in b/c they are not from a digital camera) but these are a few that were on my computer. I will pick from these. I tried to only choose ones that were taken at sporting events or graduation at college.

We are big Blazer fans but also love the Dawgs!! Good think both teams are red and black!!! I will have to add a picture of graduating with my Master's to my collage when that day comes :)

I realize I'm getting carried away...

But you don't know how much I'm in love with Casting Crowns. Their music touches my soul like no other. AMAZING! I always feel so good, just soaking up their lyrics. So, I know I've been going crazy uploading vidos, but I can't ever get enough of these two videos.




This is obviously a home video and it is sort of shaky. The live song by the girls is one of my favorite..they combine Love them like Jesus and Does anybody hear her!!!! Then I like every man too...mainly because of the lyric "I am your daughter's favorite teacher..." Sometimes I wonder if my parents really know who I am and that even though I am their child's teacher and they talk about me all the time...Do they really know what my life is like? The struggles that I face everyday? Hmmmm...How hard I work to give their kids everything that I can? Or how much I really love their kids.

I will post videos or song clips for Somewhere in the Middle, The Word is Alive, and Here I go again later. Those three are probably my all time favorites.


Look who it is...Brooke Fraser...the shadowfeet girl. I have had this song forever and always love it...but had NO IDEA that she was the one singing it. It is actually another one of my morning songs. Did you know that Hosanna means SAVE ME! Sub Save me for Hosanna. It is powerful!

Rainy Georgia....Sunny Caribbean

I was Spring cleaning here in rainy GA today, and as I walked into our guest room a picture caught my eye. The Georgia Peaches (our name for each other came about after a day of fun in the sun and dinner and karaoke at Toucans in Mexico Beach) leaving for our cruise! We took a cruise to celebrate our graduation from college...well over a year before I actually graduated! :) We left for Jacksonville to sail to the Keys and Bahamas right after Amanda's graduation. She was starting her masters program right after we got back. I think it is safe to say that we had the time of our lives. I've been noticing that a lot of my younger friends are going on cruises for their spring breaks over the next few weeks. I'm definitely jealous! :)

I made a Spring cleaning list.

Here's what I cleaned so far!
-kitchen cabinets
-doors
-appliances
-dusted the entire house
-scrubbed bathrooms

I still have to:
-clean the baseboards
-organize my horribly messy closet

Matt has swept and vacuumed. He is going to mop bathroom and kitchen floors. To me he has the worst job. I hate to sweep hardwood floors.

I love a squeaky clean house!

I'm off to get ready for a lunch date with a friend.

Shadowfeet

This is probably my favorite song right now. I liked it a lot when it first came out, then the radio played it too much. Now I love it again. I hear it every afternoon when I'm working in my classroom. I also play it over and over and over :)...you get the picture in the morning when I'm putting on my make-up (yes, it takes me awhile)! My favorite lyric is "when the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing" I also LOVE when she sings "YOU make all things new"!!! Matt requested it to be played on the radio when I was driving to Valdosta to take my test yesterday since I didn't have my iPod. It never came on :( SAD. Anyway, I'm so glad it is Friday and I'm on Spring Break from VSU!!! I'll post later about our St. Patrick's Day Picnic Party!

Tennis Fever??

I am LOVING this Spring weather! I've had a wonderful week at school so far. How can my class be so perfect during a full moon? Thank you, Jesus! I gave a big presentation for one of my Reading classes (Grad School) and it went well yesterday! Today I'm just enjoying being home with Matty for an evening. I will be studying in a bit because I have a big test on Thursday.

This afternoon I went to Publix, then while supper was cooking, I went and sat out on the back deck with Blakely. I opened a fresh can of tennis balls and played fetch with her. Well, while I was getting the can of tennis balls out, I FINALLY found my earrings that have been MIA since January! I guess I can stop trying to replace them! I also pulled out my trusty old tennis racket from the good ole days at DHS and of coaching tennis clinics at the country club.


My bag of earrings! Not all mind you. And I do own a very nice vera jewelery tote..but you see what I use!

I love my Prince racket. It was one of the best to have at the time. It was expensive! But I LOVED it!

My brother and I used to play this game in our yard, where he would throw me the ball, I would hit it back to him with my racket, then he would catch it with his glove. We had the best of both worlds. So tonight, Matty and I gave it a try. It was a blast!!! FUN FUN! I am a little rusty and hit a few balls over the fence. Well, Matt lifted Blakely over and told her to get the balls. She did. She brought them back to him, then he lifted her back over! What a smart good girl!! I told her she was a hero! So when she saves the day, she is called a HERO! How sweet is that?

I decided to pull out a few photos from my tennis days! I have many more, but these were just a few that were easy to get to.


This was our team when we were so close to being state champs! We went to the State Final 4 and lost to a big private school in Atlanta. I am next to my coach...back left.

This is at a weekend tourament in Bainbridge. Our other favorite tournament was in Buckhead. I am near the top of the pyramid on the right...big white ribbon in my hair!

My FAVORITE author ever, has a new book coming out!!!

THIS BOOK GOES ALONG WITH MY FAVORITE SERIES...The Redemption Series, The First Born Series, and The Sunrise Series. Well, it has special appearances of the Baxter's!!! Woo Hooo!!! I have passed Karen's or KK's (as I like to call her) books along to many of my friends. Every single friend is now hooked and a die hard fan like me!!! I'm too excited about this book!!!!!! March 10...the book comes out! I will probably go pick mine up Thursday night after my Psychology test. If I get it on Tuesday, I will have a hard time studying :)