Tuesday, May 12, 2009

JSL??!!!!

Well it is official! I knew that I was nominated for Junior Service League but got news today that I will be in the provisional class this fall!!! I'm pretty stinkin excited! I mean, I don't know anyone that will be in my class....but I just needed something to do since I'll be finished with my Master's and I love community service and think that all the socials and meetings will be fun too!

Some recent happenings...my K babies graduate to 1st grade on Friday. We only have a week left of school after this one. AHHHH! I begin Maymester Thursday. I have 3 baby showers (1 of which I'm giving) and a wedding shower within the next 3 weeks too. We're also getting super close to building our house which is exciting news!

Now, I just have to say that I am very very very ready for summer! I can't wait! I just got back from a retirement dinner and that was a lot of fun! I am almost finished up with all of my conferences...which is a relief too! I am ready and pumped about the biggest loser LIVE season finale tonight. I have my pajamas and blanket and blakely ready to snuggle and watch!

So....8 more days...let the countdown to a much needed break from work or "vacation" begin!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

A to Z

A
- Available: most nights and weekends :)
- Age: 24 forever!
- Annoyance: having to repeat myself
- Animal: blakely...my sweet perfect golden

B
- Beer: never
- Birthday: 12/16
- Best Friends: I have differnt groups of best friends...too many to name! Blessed!
- Body Part on opposite sex: smile and eyes
- Best feeling in the world: making someone's day unexpectantly
- Blind or Deaf: sad
- Best weather: warm and breezy or thunderstorms..heavy rain no wind
- Been in Love: am in love
- Been on stage: many times
- Believe in Magic: no
- Believe in Santa: I believe ;)

C
- Candy: gum
- Color: pink
- Chocolate/Vanilla: vanilla
- Chinese/Mexican Food: mexican...cheese dip!
- Cake or pie: cake
- Continent to visit: I'll stay in North America
- Cheese: cheddar
D
- Day or Night: both
- Dancing in the rain: not if I have somwhere to be
E
- Eyes: hazel
- Everyone's got: something special about them
- Ever failed a class: no

F
- First thoughts waking up: I'm so tired...15 more minutes!
- Food: I like to cook only when I have time, wish I loved it

G
- Greatest Fear: diseases, crashes, break ins, fires, boys
- Goals: to be an educational leader, to serve my family always
- Gum: sugar free
- Get along with your parents: yes...we're so close

H
- Hair Color: brown
- Height: 5' 7"
- Happy: yes
- Holiday: ALL OF THEM...Really!
- How do you want to die: old and when sleeping, preferably with all of my loved ones at the same time

I
- Ice Cream: Bride's Cake
- Instrument: guitar and piano (too close to choose)

J
- Jewelry: my wedding band and engagement ring, my big fake pearl earrings, a watch
- Job: Kindergarten Teacher

K
- Kids: 2 girls and a boy or 3 girls or a boy and girl or 2 girls please! No...just healthy babies. For now my Blakely boo!
- Kickboxing or karate: kickboxing
L
- Love: joy, peace, patience, kindess, gentleness, and self control-fruit of the spirit :)
- Letter: W
- Laughed so hard you cried: one of my favorite emotions

M
- Milk flavor: fat free
- Movies: girly...just tasteful
- Motion sickness: not really
- Mickey D’s or BK: McDonalds

N
- Number: #4

O
- One wish: I have too many, so I just pray

P
- Perfect Pizza: mushroom and cheese
- Pepsi/Coke: diet coke

Q
- Quail: Blakely has a stuffed quail toy

R
- Reason to cry: happiness, sad circumstances, fear, thankfulness
- Reality T.V.: Love it! Biggest Loser, Tori and Deen, The Hills, Idol
- Radio Station: Christian on the way to work and class. Country, rock, and hits on the way home!


S
- Song: Casting Crowns - Somewhere in the Middle (describe me perfectly)
- Shoe size: 9 1/2 10
- Salad Dressing: Honey Mustard
- Sushi: gross
- Skinny dipped: yes
- Strawberries/Blueberries: strawberries
-Sunny/Cloudy: sunny mostly but I like both

T
- Tattoos: none
- Time for bed: 11ish...would like it to be 10ish
- Thunderstorms: great to sleep, watch a movie in, or read a book in....oh and clean and do work in!

U
- Unpredictable: sometimes I like to be!

V
- Vacation spot(s): some beach....somewhere.

W
- Weakness: spending money on things when I'm stressed, then feeling like I'm going to puke afterwards and wanting to return everything....don't judge
- Which one of your friends acts the most like you: Hmmm...they all have certain characteristics
- Who makes you laugh the most: Matty
- Worst feeling: Fear
- Wanted to be a model: a ROLE model
- Worst Weather: Tornados

X
- X-Rays: My best friend looks at them every day!

Y
-Year it is now: 2009
-Yellow: Jamie Bradley...her favorite color

Z
- Zoo animal: zoos make me sad...

50 things you would never ask...or something like that :)

1, What color is your toothbrush? Light blue and lime green

2, Name one person who made you smile today? Well I am home alone, but Blakely I guess (my hubby, kids, and coworkers make me smile daily)

3, What were you doing at 8 am today: Sleeping...usually Morning Board

4, What were you doing 45 minutes ago? Sitting outside with Blakely

5, What is your favorite candy bar? Twix? I don't know that I reall have one.

6, Have you ever been to a strip club? NO...YUCK

7, What is the last thing you said aloud? Matt, What time are you coming home? He's at work and I was talking to him on the phone.

8, What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Bride's Cake (Bluebell)

9, What was the last thing you had to drink? Diet Coke

10, Do you like your wallet? I actually want a new one. Mine is kakhi and about 4 or 5 years old and really dirty...but I love the monogram.

11, What was the last thing you ate? Cereal

12. Have you bought any new clothing items this week? No

13, The last sporting event you watched? A Braves game...can't wait to go to one.

14, What is your favorite flavor of popcorn? NATURAL *no butter

15, Who is the last person you sent a text message to? Michele Warr :)

16, Ever go camping? Well, sort of. I really want to go again, but am so scared of wild animals and crazy people.

17, Do you take vitamins daily? NO, but I really need to...so I'm told

18, Do you go to church every Sunday? Every Sunday we're here, and Sunday night's our favorite, and most Wed. nights! We love our church.

19, Do you have a tan? Not really, but I will have one soon

20,Do you prefer Chinese food over pizza? No probably pizza, but I do lke shrimp fried rice.

21, Do you drink your soda with a straw? Not out of a can...yuck, but fountain drinks and restaurants YES!

22, What did your last text message say? I might be working with her next year.

23, What are you doing tomorrow? Church and finishing up end of the year stuff.

25, Look to your left, what do you see? A bench full of presents for showers that I have to attend and of gifts that I need to mail out to people.

26, What color is your watch? Which one? I have a timex that I wear all the time...it's black. I also have a silver watch and a bronze one, a black and red one, and a colorful cuff watch. I like to know what time it is.

27, What do you think of when you hear Australia? right now, VBS...outback express! I am reminded of the olympic games and all of their swimming stars.

29, Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru?
Drive through, now that I have a window that rolls down. Except for BK every sunday morning back in Dublin with the Kinards.

30. What is your favorite number? #4!!!

31, Who's the last person you talked to on the phone? Mama just called.

32, Any plans today? I need to clean and run a few errands. The outdoors is calling my name though...as is the bed.

33, How many states have you lived in? FL and GA

34, Biggest annoyance right now? That I have a slight headache and I just wonder why when my life is stessful and chaotic, my house ends up looking like a tornado blew through!

35, Last song listened to? Carrie Underwood cd.....on the way home from Valdosta last night

36,Can you say the alphabet backwards? Yes. I can sing it!

37, Do you have a maid service clean your house? No

38, Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time? I am a firm believer in teaching in crocs. My feet never hurt. However, my favorite shoes are my flip flops and sandals...and I get to teach in them for the month of May! I LOVE my OKA Bee flower flip flops. I have gold and black.

39, Are you jealous of anyone? Not of a certain person, but I do think people with very nice houses, families that live in town, and healthy families are lucky.

40, Is anyone jealous of you? Maybe but HIGHLY UNLIKELY (I'll just keep Katie's answer)

41, Do you love anyone? I have so much love in my life. I love to love things. Yes, I am in love.

42, Do any of your friends have children? Yes, actually most of my friends have children. The ones that don't (and Becky and Lynn) keep me sane with my obsession with age and my biological clock.

43, What do you usually do during the day? What don't I do? I am a mama to 20 6 year olds. I am also responsible for teaching many georgia performance standards, I hug and love on my babies, and run around like crazy, I work very very hard from sunrise to well after sunset :)

44, Do you hate anyone that you know right now? No

45, Do you use the word 'hello' daily? I say Hey! all the time!

46, What color is your car? Champagne but Chevrolet calls it Silver...really??

47, Do you like cats? Not really

48. Are you thinking about someone right now? Yes

49, Have you ever been to Six Flags? Yes, I don't think I'll ever go again

50, How did you get your worst scar? From years of living in my rollerblades and years of dance lessons (landing on my knees)

Sunday, May 3, 2009

My new Tahoe!

Do I have the best hubby in the world or what? I called Matt on Friday to check on the Tahoe that was missing from Spence on Thurs. night. He told me that a couple from Tally bought it yesterday at full price. I REALLY believed him...and was sad. However, everyone at school thought that it just wasn't meant to be, and I figured I would just continue to drive my Honda for a few more months while we shopped around. I also knew that Matty really wanted to get me a car for my graduation in August.

Well, when I left school on Friday, guess what was waiting on me in the parking lot?? Matty and the beautiful Tahoe! I was shocked and speechless! I kept asking if it was really mine?



This is one that looks a lot like mine.

After we drove around for a while, we had to go show Becky, Jonathan, and the girls!

We had Relay for Life that night, so we got to take it there and I showed everyone!

I am very proud of our choice! It is used and in excellent condition. Since neither of us have had car payments before, a brand new car payment seemed ludicrous to us! We will pay the suv off in 4 years and the monthly payment will still be less than the raise that I will get when I graduate with my Masters. We are very thankful to own such a dependable, safe vehicle. It will be great for long trips to visit our families, and a perfect family car for car seats!

Saturday we had two of my kids birthday parties to go to. One at Chukee Cheese's in Tally and one at the skating rink here. Then we had a cookout at Matt's boss' house out at Lake Riverside. We sat under the oaks and enjoyed a beautiful night and good conversations!

Now, we are getting ready for another really busy week. I have conferences every night after school, plus I'm trying to finish my babies placement cards for next year!

Thankful Thursday!

I kept myself running on empty last week by saying over and over, "If I can just make it to Thursday night" and that is exactly what I did and the reason I am so thankful! We took our last Psych test of the semester, and got our presentation and impact project grades...100! So thankful! I also turned in my Spelling Portfolio for my other class!




After class, we went over to one of my favorite stores, TJ Maxx....it was my very favorite store in college. I got some really cute black patent leather steve madden sandals with a gold chain across the top for cheap! I couldn't find an exact pic of them but the one above is close! Jennifer, Bridgett and I all sought out different items and had a fun time....while Carrie finished her portfolio, then met us at Roadhouse! We enjoyed a night of Jamaican Cowboys and Cowgirls :) Matt came, as did Jennifer's new fiance, Jeremy.

We drove home and went by Spence to see if the cleanest tahoe you have ever been in was still there. We made an offer earlier in the week, because sadly, I have had the same care since I was 16, and it was just time. Especially with all the driving I do at night, plus we're going to need more room eventually and my dad found this incredible deal. We made an offer on it, but Matt wanted them to come down quite a bit and wasn't going to budge. And, sadly it wasn't there anymore! Or so I thought...

Sunday, April 19, 2009

The countdown is on!

5 weeks until summer break! Woo Hoo! Only 20 days until my sweet babies grow up on me and graduate. I'm already planning a rockin' reception with a few of my parents and grandparents! This week has been super busy, as will this next one! But here in my town, the roses are blooming, and that means one thing.....The ROSE SHOW is near! It's next weekend! I'm so excited and will post about that later. Now, let me post a picture recap of life lately.


Our Family


Our Easter Baskets...this is actually the first year that we've done Easter gifts or baskets. We are usually in Dublin and mama does them for us. I was just in the mood for Easter this year...and I mean seriously in the mood.


Matt and his new dvd player and Marley and Me...we both cried harder than ever before watching this. It really hit home with us and especially with me b/c Marley reminded me so much of my other dog, Ginger...my sis :)


In my pj's and ready to watch the movie.


My nest earrings. I was very surprised! They don't stay very long in Firefly. My first easter gift from my hubby and possibly my last!


My Easter lunch centerpiece! Loved it!


Easter Sunday


The goody bags I made the 1st graders that welcomed my kids into their class, showed them around, and made them feel comfortable. My kids were kind of sad that I didn't make them treat bags too :)




This is the back of the shirt that all of the teachers at my school wore at The Rose City Walk on Saturday! We did great! More pictures coming soon!


My handsome hubby going to play golf this afternoon! He looked so cute in his Masters hat that I couldn't resist a quick picture!


Our little Easter/Spring flag that Blakely loves to watch flap in the wind.

I didn't get pictures of me test driving "my" ;) new car this weekend or of my parents visit. They arrived shortly after we got finished with our walk, so we were rushing to get lunch fixed....sandwiches and a variety of salads from Publix. But we had a great time, ate dinner outside at George and Louie's since it was such a beautiful day! I was so sad to see them leave.

Coming up this week in my life: Teaching about the lifecycle of animals/plants and then moving into rocks and soil (yay!), Monarchs across Georgia, Field Day, a field trip to see a fairy tale, tutoring, a Presentation recap of my spelling impact project for Psych, The Rose Bud Parade, Church on Wednesday night, and class Monday and Thursday nights! I'm not even going to go past Friday or talk about all the data, paperwork, or end of year gifts that I am trying to get completed...because then a whole new set of things to do will occur! Kind of stressful, but I do love it all, I'm just ready for Summertime!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Lord, You're Holy!!!!!!!

Please, please, please watch and listen!!!! This is what Matt and I heard at our church this morning....what an amazing song of worship!!!! Oh my goodness....on this Easter Sunday, worshipping with our church family, we are so thankful. Now, if I can get my hands on a copy of our choir singing it...I will upload it right away. I'm going to talk to our video tech! I have never heard them sound so beautiful...and they sang with such praise and passion! There were these banners...oooh I just can't describe the feeling I get when I hear this. This version actually sounds so much like my church choir! So enjoy!



We are about to eat our Sunday lunch and then head over to The Jense's house! But since we've been home from church, we have probably listened to this song about 15 or more times. I just keep hitting replay.

Another cool thing, is that both of my administrators were at my church this morning! I like the fact that my school family worships with me!