Top Ten Tuesday

My top ten list today is crafts that I like and want/will make:

1.Book Cover Art

Using a board book, make a wall hanging.

2. Spring Bling Straws

Dress up an ordinary straw.

3. I Spy Quilt

A new twist on the classic game of I Spy!

4. Personalized Magnet Toy

This would be a great activity to take in the car on a road trip.

5. Block Nativity Set

I've seen cuter versions of this, but I like the idea that kids can play with this nativity set and not worry about breaking the pieces.

6. Button Wreaths

I can see these being used as ornaments, door knob decorations, enhancements on gifts, and so much more. I like the idea of doing monochromatic color schemes too.

7. Magnetic Bookmark


8. Silouette Portraits


9. Movie Ticket Bowl


10. Cereal Box matching game & bookmarks



EXTRA:
This was just too cute!!
Muffin Tin Book

Easter

What a beautiful day it was to celebrate Jesus' resurrection! And because of that, we're able to celebrate good times with family.

Today was one of those days.

After a great church service, we all met and mom and dad's for lunch. Good eats.

Then it was time for some easter fun with the kids. After they successfully tore into their easter baskets, it was time for our egg hunt. This is no ordinary egg hunt mind you! Knowing that the kids would get tons of candy and sugar from their parents and other grandparents, I've decided to make the traditional egg hunt not so traditional. In fact, my egg hunts have even landed me here!

The eggs are filled with trinkets that go with an activity to do after the egg hunt. Last year, the eggs had puzzle pieces inside.

This year, I went with Leggo's. Each kids was assigned their own color eggs to hunt.




Once all the eggs were found, it was time to go back inside to open them and begin the fun!
Brooke & Blake got leggo (ok, so they were generic brand!) kits:

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Evan got a younger kid's version of leggos using Cookie Monster:

Bo got a Mr. Potato head. I figured it was kinda like leggos...he still had to put pieces together.


The older kids seemed to enjoy their leggos. Evan wasn't too keen on the Cookie Monster. All he really wanted was the horse out of Brooke's kit! (Uh, can you tell he's in a horse phase? Notice the hat and boots in every picture!)

Here are some other random shots from the day:







After all the festivities, Evan and his dad were off to the rodeo:



Hope you had a happy easter!

Girls Night Out #2

A couple of days later, I had my second girls night out!

This time, it was just me, Becky

and Kristen

We met for a delicious dinner at On the Border. So good...and I was able to eat leftovers for dinner tonight!

After dinner, we headed back to Barnes & Noble. We had an hour to kill before our movie and that's when the idea popped into my head!

A photo scavenger hunt! The deal was you had to take pictures of yourself with books that reflect anything about your life. Go check out Becky's! So cute!

So, here's my life in pictures:

This one is a joke because most people know that I hate, despise, loathe, detest cats.

Well, that IS me. It's also a great devotional, by the way.

I do wedding cakes on the side. Go here to see some of my work!

Sometimes, my life feels like I'm in a "Man of the Month Club". I go through spells where it's one blind date after another. Blind dates are NO fun!

Ha! This is kinda funny! I wouldn't say I'm an actual scientist, but I do teach science...to 6th graders so no rocket science there!

I admit...I'm a piano drop-out. I hate that I quit piano lessons.

This is where I grew up.

One of my favorite things to do!

I was in Sigma Nu Sigma in college and they were some of the happiest times in college!

Love, love, love my Macbook!

Then we decided to take some pictures that would apply to all 3 of us:




After that it was finally time for our movie. We saw

What a cute movie! And if you're single, you can TOTALLY relate!!

It was a great time with great friends!

Girls Night Out #1

There is nothing better than a night out with your girlfriends...and this week I had 2!

The first was with Amanda

Mandi
Kristen

We met at California Pizza Kitchen. I haven't had anything on the menu that I don't like!

Oh, we are so cute!

After a delicious dinner, we decided to waste some time at Barnes & Noble.


And we spent the majority of that time talking blogs and taking pictures.


Good times!!

Baby gifts

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A bloggy friend, Amy, started this business. She's got some really cute things! Go check it out!!

Top Ten Tuesday

Today's TTT is (a little late!) in honor of me being on spring break! These are the top ten things I get a break from saying this week:

1. "Get busy"
2. "The stapler is in the same place it's been since the first day of school"
3. "Class is over the same time it was the first day of school"
4. "Have a seat please"
5. "Read the board"
6. "Go put it in the Work Wall"
7. "Make sure to put your name at the top"
8. "Read the directions"
9. "I've already said that. I'm not saying it again"
10. "Push your chairs in. You may go"

Change

I'm playing around on my blog this morning. My previous background was designed by one of my bloggy friends, Brandy. She did an awesome job, but I'm just ready for a little change. So I thought I would try one of the free sites...you can obviously see my dilema.

Anyone know how to change my header?!?!

Meteorologist

Today was a great day at school. Mostly because it's the last day before SPRING BREAK!! Woo-hoo! I really don't have much to get excited about because I'm not going anywhere! Other than Hilton Head. (I'm only going for one night and it's for wedding business with my roommate...that'll be another post!)


The other reason today was a good day was because we had a special guest. Meteorologist Steve Milone from Fox 5. He is the on air meteorologist on Saturday & Sunday mornings. It was great timing because we had just finished up our weather unit in school. Mostly, the kids just asked questions about being an on air weather man.

He gave us a heads up on the weather next week and said that Monday & Tuesday is supposed to be COLD. He said the highs might be in the upper 40's?!?! What? Some spring break!

Here's the cool thing, though. He's going to give us a shout-out at 8:15 on channel 5 AND put up some pictures!! I'm so excited! Look for me!

April Fools

I normally hate April Fools...if it falls on a school day. Ugh. I mean, kids just think they're so funny and honestly, I can only fake laugh so much during the course of a day!

Well, I decided to have a little fun with it today. This morning, my homeroom students came in and had a word search on their desk. It had April Fool type words on it: prank, laugh, joke, trick, etc. What the kids didn't know was that only 1 of those words was actually in the word search! I saw most of them had found the one word (April Fools) but I was laughing as they kept trying to find the other words! Hee hee!

The other joke I did was that at the end of each class period, I told the kids I was disappointed in their homework from the previous night and that they were all getting a detention. I had printed out a bunch of actual detention slips with my signature on them. They were thrilled to take that home and prank their parents with it. The detention was to be held with Ms. Loof Lirpa (read it backwards!)

Any other April Fools jokes?

Happy Birthday Bo!

Today Bo turns 2!! He is truly an answer to prayer as he started his little life with a few problems.




I love you Bo!!

March's NEW

My New Year's resolution of doing/trying something new every month has been something that I've, surprisingly, been able to keep up! I have to say that I was a little nervous about this month, because I just couldn't come up with anything...until today!



I was featured on a real blog!! Not one of my dear friends who mentioned me on their blog because they're just nice like that, but a complete stranger's blog who lots and lots of people read. Granted, my name is misspelled, but having an unusually spelled name, I'm used to it.

Go check it out here!