I DON'T WANT TO GO TO WORK TOMORROW!

Winter Crafting

For my birthday, Lance and Kendra gave me a gift card to the Wood Connection and Kamie and Tim gave me a gift card to Hobby Lobby... Obviously, I love to craft! I decided to finally get myself something for Thanksgiving, although I didn't make it until Thanksgiving was over... But oh well. As you can see here, this was the end product.



I also bought some cute trees to add to my Christmas decorations (my mom bought me Christmas ornaments for my birthday too, I'm so spoiled... You will see those soon, once we get our tree decorated).


And finally I needed to make my own version of my totally favorite quote to go in my kitchen. Since the quote reminds me of sweet treats, I had to go with the black and pink, although Kamie and Jenny wanted theirs to match their kitchens. The tan and red one is Kamie's and the black and red one is Jenny's. They are not completely finished, but close! I can't wait to finish and put mine up!

We've Moved!

Yay! We are officially out of our one-bedroom apartment and into a bigger apartment! Yay! Pictures will be coming soon, I can't bring myself to put pictures on the blog of an apartment that still has boxes sitting around.

The Teacher Credo

I would make one amendment...
"I will not yell in class EVERY DAY."

Life After 11 PM

So, Matt and I are pretty boring, I'll be honest. We haven't been out with friends in forever, and rarely are up past 10 or 10:30. So after I got done babysitting on Saturday, Matt and I got together with Tim, and Tom and Lindsay to do some bowling. It is a true testament to Tom and Lindsay as friends that they came down and hung out with us when we called them at 9:30 at night and wanted to meet up at 10:30, when they live in Roy. When we got there, the guy said we wouldn't be able to use our coupon we have, so after being indecisive for a little while, Tom, Lindsay, and Matt and I went back inside and bowled. Wow, I forgot what life was like late at night. We sat near a very interesting crowd to say the least.
After we played two traditional games, Tom made up a new game. In this version of bowling, you try to score the LOWEST. Now you are probably thinking, "Gutter ball every time." In this game, a gutter ball is worth 10 points. Not so easy now, is it! Wow we had so much fun. People thought we were crazy when we were all stoked to hit one pin, and mad when we got a strike. The picture below shows the final scores for everyone (I am number 1, Matt is 2, Linds is 3, and Tom is 4). Take the final score, and add ten for each gutter ball, and you have Matt as the winner! Crazy fun.
Thank you Tom and Lindsay for a very fun night out!

Christmas books

You all know that I am crazy about books. So, of course I think the best gifts are books! Please, if you want to get books for your family or friends for Christmas, go to my book club site and order there! You get everything scholastic has to offer without paying retail or shipping! I am putting in an order on Friday, November 19, in order to make sure everything gets here in time! Please check it out! I get points and free books for all orders. I use these for books for my classroom and gifts for my students who don't have books at home. I promise this is worth it for you!
Website: www.scholastic.com/bookclubs
Activation code: DH2FZ
If you decide yo order, please put your name in the student name line so I know who to bring everything to! I will deliver everything to you personally before December 4!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

My List of Yay!

Yay #1: Parent-teacher conferences are over!
Yay #2: Only two weeks until I have A WHOLE WEEK OFF for Thanksgiving!
Yay #3: Only three weeks after that until I have TWO WHOLE WEEKS OFF for Christmas!
Yay #4: Christmas is coming! (I don't own Thanksgiving decorations, so I started putting up my Christmas decorations today and I liked it)
Yay #5: We are looking for a new place to live!

Halloween Weekend

For Halloween weekend, Matt and I headed up to Richmond to spend time with the family. Diet, Myrna, Tim, Kamie, Steven, Kari, Jenny, Randy and Brad and Claire all spent the weekend lounging around, eating a lot of junk food, joking, laughing, wrestling, and doing all sorts of fun things together. We carved pumpkins, dressed up in our costumes, went trick-or-treating with the kids (in the rain), played games, and had a fun weekend! Thank you Jenny and Randy for sharing your home with all of us for the whole weekend! It was such a blast!

The Rest of my Birthday

Last Friday, Matt promised to take me on a birthday date. I was so excited since I had spent the whole day doing report cards and getting ready for parent-teacher conferences. We went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner and cheesecake (of course), then we went to This is the Place for their haunted house/forest. We wanted to go to the Night at the Zoo but we were too late. Hopefully next year. We were not disappointed though by our choice at This is the Place. It was so much fun, and actually pretty well done for a haunted house/haunted forest mix. They used the entire place, inside and out, and had surprises around every corner. Our favorite part were the war trenches, it was so different from anything we have ever done before. What a fun night, and thank you to my cute husband!

Party Like a Fifth Grader

So Halloween at an elementary school is fun if you are a mom or a student, but SUCKS if you are a teacher. 600 kids on a sugar high, sweating to death in their costumes, slutty parents dressed in costumes chasing their kids around taking pictures during the parade... ugh. What a WASTE of a day.

This year, we decided not to do anything important, and just party all day. We have been working with the kids and parents on two goals that they work on at home. When they work on their goals, they sign a calendar. The kids who brought back the calendar completed went to a special Halloween party. We hung doughnuts up on strings and watched the kids eat them without hands (so funny by the way), and the kids loved it. In between doughnut hanging, we played Freeze Dance. This was the best part of the day (ok, the smell was terrible), and it was incredibly fun to watch the kids let loose. This video doesn't even do this justice. The music was blasting and you could hear it, with the door closed, down the hall. Funnest party ever.