This past weekend Sara, Lindsay and I made ornament wreaths. (Thank you Jen for the good tips and examples!!) This is something Sara and I have wanted to do for the past 3 Thanksgiving breaks! Lindsay and Sara made a Christmas wreath, and I made a Halloween wreath. I think all 3 wreaths looked great when they were done! I am so happy with mine and now want to make a Christmas wreath. Sara and I have plans to make a Valentines and an Easter wreath or centerpiece. Is that too much?!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I had a great day. I love getting together with family, and that is what that day is all about!! We ate, relaxed, ate, visited, ate and played games. My friend, Sara, was in town for Thanksgiving and stayed through the weekend. I had fun spending time with her!! I feel very thankful and blessed to have such wonderful, supportive and fun family and friends. You are all the best!!  Thank you!!

Last night Bailey and I spent the night with Mom and Grammy because the guys were out of town.  We had a great time!  Bailey’s favorite part was playing The Mexican Train Game!

I love having a dog.  She is so much fun and such a good girl!!  I am very thankful for Bailey.  (The post about me being thankful for my family will come later!!)

Today was my last day of school before Thanksgiving!  I had a fun day, and I think my students did too.  We made these turkey hats today.  They looked so cute walking out of school with them on.  I feel very blessed to be a teacher.  I am at an awesome school and have an amazing team of teachers to work with.  The other three first grade teachers and I get along very well and have fun together!  I also have a wonderful group of students!  I love it!

“in the midst of everything else that has happened lately, tom, travis, and i have all spoken together. first through a number of phone calls, and then a couple of weeks ago we all hung out for a few hours. they’ve all been great, very positive conversations. we’re just reconnecting as friends after four years of not talking. it’s a good thing. obviously the first question for a lot of people will be “does this mean a blink-182 reunion?” the answer is none of us know. we haven’t talked about it at all. right now it’s just good for the three of us to see one another, reconnect, and let the past be the past. the events of the past two months supersede everything that happened before. life is too short.” -Mark Hoppus

Jim and Kathy visited last weekend to help celebrate Scott’s birthday. We had a great time together. We went shopping, watched movies, played games, went out to eat and relaxed while they were here. Jim and Kathy gave Scott season 1 of Chuck. We got hooked on the show and watched all of it!

On Sunday night the four of us went to my parents to celebrate Scott’s birthday. They had friends over which was a surprise to Scott! It was fun having Jim and Kathy meet our friends. It was a perfect vacation!!

Scott and I are the senior high leaders with Justin and Rebecca this year.  I am excited to be doing this with them.  This past Sunday we had a senior high halloween party.  I hope/think the kids had a good time.  Scott and I had a fun time dressing up for it, but I don’t think Bailey did!  Dosen’t she look so cute in her costume?  She woar it for about 5 minutes and was ready for it to come off.  (I love having a dog!)

A few weekends ago Scott and I went to a corn maze with friends. We had a great time! I hope this become a yearly tradition!

Today is this AWESOME girl’s birthday!!