November 2014 Kindergarten Junior Brave

At our school, once a month each teacher picks a student from their classroom that is exhibiting good scholastic and character qualities to be presented with the Junior Brave Award. This month, Hunter was chosen for his class. We are so proud of our little man.   

This honor is very prestigious. Students were taken to an elite banquet hall back of the cafeteria at a respectable lunch time 10:30am. Where there were linen plastic table cloths and silver plastic cutlery. The ceremony was lengthy about 3 minutes tops where the principal and her assistant the school nurse handed out the golden awards hot off the printer certificates and told us how awesome our children are. Then we moved on to the fine dining experience cafeteria food and chocolate milk to go with our meal. As we dined on our fine cuisine chicken nuggets, for our listening pleasure, they brought in some entertainment pre-k kids there for lunch.  The noise level was just right deafening. I absolutely loved it!  It was the greatest ceremony ever, because we were there to celebrate Hunter, our little Junior Brave.

How to use up all of the Leftover Halloween Candy

Then feed it to the church family for dinner day.  Hehe

Halloween Highlights

No comments on how late this is....I'm trying to catch up.

First we carved the pumpkins.

The three most handsome Texas Game Wardens I know.

2nd place winners at the school costume contest.

Momma got in on the fun, too.  Snap, Crackle, and Pop won the first place prize for the teachers.

Trick or treating at the trunk or treat.

Hanging with our bestie, the werewolf.

Halloween Throwback

Halloween through the years:

1 year old - Monkey See and Monkey Do

2 years old - Thing One and Thing Two

3 years old - The Doublemint Twins

4 years old - Batman and Superman

5 years old - Texas Game Wardens

Girl's Weekend Getaway!

This past weekend Chris had a chance to take the boys to his parents house and go deer hunting. I had a girl's weekend with my mom.  

It started off on Friday night when we drove to Irion County and watched our mighty Braves take on the Hornets. The Braves squashed them. It was kind of sad. My two favorite parts of the game were when #12 (my nephew) played quarter back and ran it up the middle for a first down, and when that same #12 intercepted a pass and ran it back a long way before he was tackled. I love #12 and football!!  Happy Aunty here!

After that Mom and I spent the night in San Angelo, got up early the next morning and had hair appointments, then made our way to Fredricksburg. We had a blast shopping at the trade days and at all the cute shops downtown. 

My favorite part of the weekend was getting to see a long lost friend from my very first year of teaching. She is retired now, but this friend taught me so much in that first year. We visited like old times and never missed a beat. She was such a good Christian role model. 

Saturday night, we went to the Rock Box and watched a George and friends show. It was awesome, even though a man came up to me and told me he "just wanted to say hi to the only person there under 55."  It was true, but I still enjoyed the show. 

Sunday morning we enjoyed a little more shopping before heading back home. It was a much needed break and getaway. I can't think of a better person to shop with than my mom!

Oh, Heath!

Heath got bit by either a mosquito or a flea right on the forehead.  It swelled up and had an allergic reaction.  Poor baby looked like he ran into a brick wall.  He had a huge goose egg!

My sweet babies come to my classroom in the afternoons while I am still having tutorials with some of my students.  To keep them busy and out of my way, I put them on Lexia, a computer learning program.  This past week, while I was working with other students, I looked up to find that poor Heath had fallen sound asleep while doing his work.  He told me later that "Kindergarten was exhausting!"

I know it looks like he is smiling, but I can attest that he was really sound asleep.  I finally turned off his computer and he crawled under my desk and continued his nap.

Homecoming 2014

A sweet lady from our church made all of our church kids mums and garters.  The boys loved theirs for about 2 minutes, then decided they were done.  They looked really cute though.

Can you guess what the number of the year is?

Heath and Hunter's Hero