Tis the Season......

Well it's that time of year again to start watching for those who love to come and decorate your yard with that pretty white stuff they call toliet paper!!

A good clue would be if your dogs start barking when they normally are quiet. That's what happened to us tonight and it was fairly early too. I mentioned to Leah that I bet someone was rolling our yard and she said Nah it's too early for someone to be doing that!!! Well low and behold here comes Leah's friend Haley flying in the house saying that as she was pulling up someone fell out of the tree!!!

Opps hope they weren't hurt!!

She also gave a description of the vehicle and it was a tan Tahoe. Hummmm I have a pretty good idea who the driver might have been!!

Happy Birthday Charlotte!

Just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my younger sis, Charlotte.

I hope that you had a great day today and got to relax esp. since we are on fall break!!!

I will be nice and not tell how old you are!! LOL!

It's a Halloween Giveaway!!!!

Okay everyone go to http://www.simplyjoycatering.blogspot.com/ and enter her Halloween giveaway!! She has got a great Halloween basket to giveaway to a lucky "spook"!! Tell her when you post your favorite Halloween memory that you saw this on my blog!

Recognizing a great coach!

Yesterday afternoon the dance team booster organization as well as the girls on the dance team were able to pull off a big surprise for Ms. Shockley. She has been working with the dance team as director/coach since 1996. Well she took a few years off to rest but joined us again a few years ago. She was hired as the new 10th grade principal at our high school this school year and had to unfortunately give up coaching the dance team.

In the picture above, are the junior members of the dance team. Allison, Kayann, Ms. Shockley, Lindsey, Laci and Leah.

The girls as well as parents wanted to give her a big surprise party to thank her so much for all her dedication and many extra hours that she has put in working with the girls. She was on the dance team during high school as well. And believe it or not I was one of her coaches along with Patti Clarke. We also wanted it to be a congratulations party as well for being selected as the principal. We think that is a great honor esp. with some 1800 students at our high school.

We had a great cake that was made by Joy Tubb at Simply Joy Catering. You can find her blog on my list of favorites.

Everyone had a great time! Thanks for Ms. Shockley's sister and mom for helping us pull it off and for providing us with all the pictures to decorate with.

Thanks again for everything Penny!! We all love you and appreciate you so much!

Dance Team Paints the Town Pink at the ballgame!

Friday night at the football game the dance team particpated in the Paint the Town Pink day. As you can see the girls look pretty in pink! The girls also wore buttons with people in our community that were in honor of those who were survivors or who are now fighting breast cancer/or in memory of someone.

Also at the game Friday night the preventing domestic violence organization had a fundraiser as well as a program at halftime. The dance team as well as the band and cheerleaders went on the field and lite their candle in remembering those who have been victims of domestic violence.

Friday is Paint the Town Pink!

As you all know October is breast cancer awareness month. Friday is designated as "Let's Paint the Town Pink Day" in Warren Co. Everyone please try to wear some kind of pink and support this very worthwhile cause.

Leah's friend, Haley and her FCCLA club at WCHS has put all the hard work into getting this going so please give to breast cancer research!!

Finally we have Rain!!!!

I was trying to remember today when the last time that we got a good soaking rain and it has been so long I just couldn't remember. We were blessed today with some rain. I hope that it continues to rain all through the night.

Of course with it raining, that means that we probably won't be able to take the children outside to play in the morning but that is okay. We can work around that problem.

Today is hump day for us at school. We will not be having school on Friday due to teacher inservce and this Thursday is Parent/Teacher conference from 3-6.

I usually see my parents every day so I am not sure how many might return on Thursday afternoon. I love talking to my parents and they are eager to help out in anyway they can. Not only with things at school but working with their child as well. I have a lot of great grandparents who help out a lot too.

Fall Break will be all next week! I am so excited. We have not gotten a whole week off in the fall before. My oldest daughter will have her fall break on Monday and Tuesday as well. We are looking forward to that!!

Everyone have a nice Wednesday tomorrow!

Autumn Street Fair

My friend, Paula stopped by the Eastside booth to get her a chocolate dipped bananas!! Looks like shes got something else yummy ready to eat as well!!

Eastside School PTO had a booth at the street fair selling chocolate dipped banana's, sliced apples with carmel, tattoos and other things. The bulldog mascot was there as well greeting the children.

It was nice to see our Main St. downtown filled with people and vendors!

The street fair had a beauty pageant for the little ones! If you look closely you can see little Lauren there in the orange dress with her mom, Brandie (catch her blog at Dream Custom Artwork. The link is below.) I heard that she got 1st place!! Congratulations Lauren!

Hello Kitty and her friend were even at the Street Fair!

Westwood Lock In

After the ballgame Friday night, Westwood had a 5th quarter fellowship and lock in at the church. The highlight of the night was the huge inflateable that was a big as the width of the gym floor!!! Lauren even though she is older came by and decided to try it out and enjoy the fellowship and food of course!! Leah was there but I could not catch her on the inflateable. Haley, Katie, Kenzie and Lauren are all smiles and having fun! Thanks Shelby and Jessie (Westwood's youth minister and wife) for planning this and staying up all night with nearly 70 kids everyone had a great time!!

Homecoming Court 2008

Allison and Leah

They have both grown to be beautiful young ladies! We are so proud of you!

Sorry this one is sideways. I haven't figured out how to rotate them yet!

I'll work on it!

Dylan, Leah, Alllison and Rudy
The Juniors!

The entire Homecoming Court 2008

Leah and her cousin, Tyler. Wonder how long it took to get all of that paint off???

Lauren and Leah

A nice family shot!

Homecoming parade pictures 2008

Some of the Junior classmates road behind their float. Don't they look great in their orange t-shirts? Some even spray painted their shoes neon orange!

The 2008 Junior Homecoming Float

Thanks so much to one of Leah's good friends, Laci! Her grandmother, Patty let them use her car for the parade and Laci's dad, David, drove the car in the parade. Thanks so much!!!

The Junior Homecoming court before the parade began. Rudy, Allison, Leah and Dylan. They are all really good friends and were excited about the parade and football game!

Exciting and Fun-filled Weekend!

Our weekend started off Friday very busy with all the Homecoming activities at Warren Co. High School. The parade began at 12:30 p.m. and then Leah had to report to the middle school for homecoming preparations/pictures/etc.
Below are pictures from the parade, the halftime homecoming court and pictures of some of the floats in the parade.

We were glad that Lauren got to come home from school and see Leah as well! It was good to have her home even it was for a short time because we did not get to see her last weekend!

Friday night was a lock in at Westwood for the youth so we all stayed late for that and Leah stayed all night. So that ment that I had to go and pick her up at 6:00 a.m. this morning!! Due to the fact that she doesn't have a car anymore! (opps trying not to mention that she had a wreck Thursday morning and totalled her car, BUT she is okay!! That's the important part. ) I have included a few pictures of the lock in.

Then Saturday morning Leah had a performance with her high school dance team at the Autumn St. Fair where she had to report at 8:15 a.m. (there wasn't much time for a cat nap between 6 and time to go either!)

Hope you enjoy my pictures that I took. Ya'll have a nice rest of the weekend!

Need to continue to "Spread the Love"

Thanks so much to Joy with "Simply Joy Catering" for nominating me with a spread the love award. I love my job and taking care of and educating those precious "20" 4 year olds that I have in my classroom. Everyday is different and that's what I love so much about my job. Also, you can't hardly beat seeing those smiling faces each morning. It would make anyone's day!!

I am nominating 3 other people who I think "spread the love" each and every day. They are:
1. Paula Morris who also takes care of those precious children at Pre-Pioneer Daycare. She has lots of love to go around too!

2. Katie Tubb who is a student at Centertown Elem. She is a great friend to all her fellow basketball players, dancers and friends in the youth group at Westwood. I remember when Katie was maybe 4 years old and I taught her to write her name on vacation in Florida. She is left handed and so am I so her mom was thrilled that I helped her out on that for sure!!

3. Danielle Sliger who is a friend and fellow teacher. I first met Danielle in the Leadership McMinnville class and it has been so nice seeing her at church and continuing our friendship. She is another one of those special teachers who spreads the love in educating our children!

Have a great rest of the week! It's hump and and won't be long until Friday is here!

Prayers to the Bell family

Please keep the Bell family in your prayers. Kayla and Attonda (two of my former preschool students from several years ago) lost their father this morning in a motorcycle accident.

Warren Co. High School Homecoming Week

It is Homecoming week at Warren Co. High School and there is lots of excitement into getting all the floats ready for the big parade on Friday. We are so proud of our youngest daughter, Leah. She was selected by the Junior class as one of the Jr. Homecoming attendants. Her friend, Allison Chilton was also selected as one of the Jr. attendants. Leah will be escorted by Dillion Blair and Allison will be escorted by Rudy Cotten.

All of these Juniors are such good friends of Leah's. Allison is on the dance team with her. Dillion is a friend from Midway and the ballpark/games this summer and Rudy is one of her wakeboard friends from the river.

The parade begins Friday at 12:30 p.m. It will start at the Blue Building and it will end at the Farmers Market. It is not a very long parade this time. If you are wanting to see it, you need to stand somewhere along main street by the fountain or close by.

I am sure that we will be spending several hours this week in getting the Junior float finalized. We are playing the Cumberland Co. Jets. During halftime will be the presentation of the Homecoming Court and a Homecoming Queen and King will be selected.

Good Luck to the Warren Co. Pioneers this week!!

Too fast.......

Tell me why weekends just go by too fast??? I look forward to Friday's so much and then before I turn around it is Monday again! I try so hard to get things done that I haven't been able to do during the week and they still don't seem to all get done.
Oh well, fall break will be coming up pretty soon. Maybe things will get done then.
I hope everyone has enjoyed their weekend. The weather has sure been nice and cooler. Open those windows up and let the fresh air in!! Electric bills will be going up starting next month. We need to save all the electricity we can. I dread seeing the next bill.

Desperately Trying This Blogging Out!

I guess one of my new hobbies has been reading other blogs from so may others and from so many different places that I just couldn't resist trying out one for myself. I am not very good with technology but maybe I can learn slowing but surely.

As you can see my daughters are above. Lauren is 20 and in college and Leah is 16 and a junior in high school. We love them so much and are so proud of both of them. Lauren is an education major (imagine that guess she is taking after her mom) and Leah is on the high school dance team and is involved with many other school clubs and church youth activities.

I have been teaching school for 19 years now. Most of that time teaching PreK in our public schools. I absolutely love it. Every day is different and special to me. Yes is does take a lot of patience. I was fortunate to be blessed from the good Lord with patience that is for sure or I don't think I would be able to teach this as long as I have.

Hopefully, I will be able to remember to post often and get better at blogging.

Thanks to my friend Joy at Simply Joy Catering for helping me last night get started with this! Without her I don't think I would have ever gotten this done.

Thanks again sis!

Both Joy and my friend Sheila at Gim' Me Memories helped me make the final decision in my blog title! I wanted something catchy and they said this would be the one! Thanks so much!