It's that time!

So I am pretty sure that one of the biggest reasons that I became a teacher is that I love to change the calendar every month and change decorations in the classroom and on the bulletin board for holidays. October begins the "holiday months."

I am pretty sure that my i-pod knows Christmas is coming because every time I put it on shuffle lately, it has been playing Christmas music and getting me really excited for the holidays and the decorations in my room and all the fun art projects we get to do with the students!

Happy Birthday Mary Deane!

The most popular person in our family had a birthday yesterday! What is she going to do when her little brother is born? She will have to share all the popularness (yes I made that word up). Mary Deane is so special and has already had such a big impact on my life in her 2 short years! I got to skype with her on her birthday and she got to show me her birthday presents and tell me all about her life. She has started saying my name more and more which makes me happy because she says it so cutely (Kawlie). She even kept asking me, "that my stroller?" like she couldn't believe that she could be so lucky to own a baby doll stroller as cool as hers.
It was also and is always, very amusing to watch Brendon and Ann try and hold a conversation with me with Miss MD around. She does not let anyone get a word in edge wise. I wonder were she got that quality? ;) (Her parents are both very quiet and dignified by the way)
I sure love you Mary Deane and hope you had a very Happy Birthday!

Please excuse me...

...while I toot my own horn. So I filled out an application to be on the boundary committee of the district. They are in charge of realigning all the new boundaries with the new high school being built and 9th grade moving up to high school and 6th grade moving up to middle school. And, I GOT CHOSEN! I was excited, but I was not sure how big a deal it was. At our first meeting tonight they talked about how we will get calls from the press and questions from parents and community members because our names are posted for all to see that we are on the committee. I already love being on the committee and I get paid for the meetings so it is nice. Okay, tooting of my horn over!

A WHOLE NEW WORLD!

Thanks to my favorite older sister in law (yes, I have to say older because in case you didn't hear I have two sisters in law now), I am eating a grilled cheese sandwich. Now this is not just any grilled cheese sandwich. When I visited Virginia Ann made grilled cheese sandwiches with mayonaise on the outside instead of butter and it rocked my face off. Now I can make them for my very own and they are amazing every time that I make them. Thanks Ann for showing me a whole new world!

Adorable!

So there is a little boy who will remain nameless, but he was in my class last year and he had a little thing for me. I thought it was adorable and so did his mom. She would always tell me that he would just go home and talk about me. Well he came up to me everyday last week while I was on bus duty and told me that he is going to have his mom request that he be in my class next year. Well after hearing that 10 times, I think I get the point.

Well, today I was out there with my class the same time as his class and he came running over to me. "Ms. Jones, you are the best teacher I have ever had and I better get you again next year!" Then he proceeded to do tricks on the monkey bars to impress me. Isn't young love adorable?

So I start school again tomorrow and I am like a giddy little school girl (excuse the pun). And I don't mean teaching school. I start the first class towards my masters tomorrow and I can't wait to start school again. I love to learn and I love to be doing homework and all that jazz. I am a nerd I know! This time I get to take the class with most of my coworkers too so I get to bounce ideas off of them to use in my classroom. It will be great! I am even packing my backpack as we speak and laying out my crisp outfit for class.

I LOVE FOOTBALL!

I am not sure if it came on slowly as I grew up or if I have always loved football as much as I do now, but I really do love it. As I was watching the pregame show yesterday I was thinking about shuffling to the stadium and watching the cheer leaders try and pump us up waiting for the players to run out. I would always go crazy when they ran out and scream and jump up and down. I was one of the fans who booed the ref when he made a bad call and I still do.

Katie kept texting me from her room yesterday asking if I was calling for her or yelling at the tv. I was just yelling. I even do it when I am alone with no one to hear me scream. I can't help it. We even won yesterday which made it better! Bring on football season.

Do you remember when?

So Katie and I got cable for football season of course and I am loving it. We got a DVR so that I can record things and skip over commercials. It is so great and the shows I like go by so much faster and I can skip the half time show during football season! Anyway I was thinking today that I still remember one summer that I was living with my cousin Madison and we were so stressed about finding a vhs to record the Backstreet Boys concert on Disney channel that day. Then it wouldn't record and we started to stress. I am so grateful for technology and the fact that I don't have to stress about finding that vhs anymore ;)

Don't hate me but...

in the rush to get out the door on time, I forgot my camera for the wedding! I was so sad. So pictures will come of the joyous event once I can hack them off of someone's facebook. It was so wonderful though. The sealer was a long time friend of Rachel's family and he was great. They both looked so happy. It was fun to get out of town for a weekend and just have time with family too.