Summer

Everytime I post on here I tell myself that I am going to keep up with it from now on. We will see if I really listen to myself this time. Summer is going well so far. I feel like I have been very busy. My friend Marsha is back in the hospital with her baby, he had the second open heart surgery of his life, and is recovering well! I have been out to Children's Medical center a lot lately visiting. I helped redo a bathroom for a friend, and did some painting with my sister at her awesome new house!! My yard has been transformed from this ugly mass of mud to beautiful grass and flowerbeds! Yesterday I created another flowerbed and planted two big plants. One Hydrangia, and one Hibiscus. We will see if they last. Also this week I am teaching 4 year olds at Vacation Bible School. We had a lot of fun this morning and 3 more days of it to come! This Saturday I am going to my Cousin's house to take some pictures of a big party he has planned for his mom. It is the second of my photography gigs this summer! I remember summer as lounging around, having fun, and sometimes being bored. These days that is not the case. I feel motiviated to find as many things to do as possible, and there seem to be plenty of things around!! So for me summer is not "off time" it is "do anything you WANT to do time" and I am liking this!

Crazy Days

Well it has been a crazy week! Last Sunday at 11:02 a.m. my best friends Marsha and Ryan had their Son Xander Thomas Wade! Shortly after we found out that he has a problem with his heart. He is now getting ready to undergo open heart surgery on Monday morning at 6 a.m. Xander is very strong and is eating from a bottle and breating room air (not on a ventalator) The doctors are going to go in and put a tiny peice of plastic to re-route the blood and then 2 other surgerys will come later. Hopefully he will recover quickly and be at his house in 10 days!!! Keep them all in your prayers!!

Spring Break!

It is that wonderful time of year we like to call SPRING BREAK!!! To most people who have earned a degree and moved on past their school days these are just a memory of travel, parties, days off and fun times. But for educators the break lives on! I started my week off by doing a little yard work and then diving into a book. This is one of those books that you just can't put down, I was warned by the many teachers that I should be ready for some late nights. The book is called Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. It is a love story with a Vampire twist. It sounded a little weird but I gave a chance. Those many teachers who warned me that it was going to keep me up, because I will just have to know what is going to happen next, were right. Another warning they threw out there for me was that I should have the second book in the series right there waiting for me when I finished the first. To this warning I did not heed, but after finishing the first book in two days I wish that I did! Let us just say that I will be shopping for New Moon tomorrow!! I got so caught up in the story today that I have a very bad sun burn from not paying attention to the time I was out in the sunlight. Off to apply Aloe!

Today......

I got some beautiful flowers from my Sister and Bro-in law and their family! My table will be decorated with beauty now for my quarter of century birthday! I took some pictures but for some reason Blog isn't working right now for me to post them. This week was CRAZY! We had the TAKS test on Wednesday and my students sound pretty confident that they did ok. We won't find out until after spring break how they did. We also had some crazy snow! I built a little snowman for my students to say good luck on the TAKS but again I can't post that picture, but I will come back later and put it up for all to see. Another thing I did last week was join a gym! I am excited to get back into the routine of exercising. It was a great deal and it has 24 hour access and all of the machines that I like. Plus it is only a few blocks from my house so no excuses! Everything is going great here I still love my job and know it is what I am meant to do! Hope all is well where you are!

Long time no post :(

Ok OK I know I need to post.....post coming soon but tonight I need to grade 40 compisitions and I am babysitting for my awesome friends while they go and watch Barry Manalow (SP??) So keep checking I will post about life soon!! :)

House

The search is over I have found me a place to live!!!! It is very awesome. It is a 3 bedroom house with a yard, hardwood floors, a wonderful kitchen, ceramic tile, and a huge master closet, a yard, and it is only a few blocks from work!!! I have a few pictures but there will be more to come in the future. I will be moving in the next few weeks.

These are a few pictures from my classroom. The first one is a look from the front, the second one is my traits of writing wall, the third one is my inspiring quote, "If better is possible then good isn't enoug," the fourth one is an example of my students work, we made coats of arms for each class, they got to pick two colors, and an animinal that showed an attribute of our class. This class picked an elephant because he has a long trunk to suck up the knowledge and put it in his brain and elephants live together and work together like a family. They are so smart! The last one is a veiw of the other half of the classroom from the front.

Yay! I'm a teacher and I love it. It is the best job in the whole world! I am so glad I finally found where I belong. I got through my first week teaching with very few problems. I have such an awesome supportive staff at my school, they are always there to jump in and help me at any time. Before school started they decided that I could handle teaching both 7th and 8th grade English, and one of my mentor teachers decided that I should be in charge of the National Jouinor Honors Society! It's a challenge but I am definately up for it! This is my favorite time of the year, fall tempratures are coming, the trees will be turing into beautiful works of art from God, and of course Football is here! Here is my top ten list.

1 Texas Tech Why? Duh! Because they are awesome!
2 Texas A&M Why? Because they are not afraid to get the sense knocked out of them because they don't have just a whole lot to knock out!
3 Texas Why? Because they are so ugly that everybody else will be running the other way and lose but us Texas teams are used to their unsightliness so we will triumph.
4 USC Because their Mascot also rides on a horse but he wears a skirt.
5 Florida Why? Gatorade: it will help them this year. But not enough to be better than Tech.
6 Ohio State Why? Their colors are red and black close to Tech's scarlet and black but not close enough.
7 Oklahoma Because Far and Away is one of my favorite movies.
8 Auburn Becasue I went to kindergarten in Alabama.
9 Nebraska Because their mascot always smiles, even after we beat them 70-10 in 2004.
10 Oregon Because The Mascot Quacks! and my Nephews live in Oregon!

So we will see how I do. Well it is time for church! Talk to everybody later!

Love You!

Stacy