School's Out For Summer!

It is Sunday morning and I am up early. We're getting ready to go paint our new home in Starkville! John Allen is catching a few more z's and I'm having my morning Diet Coke! It just hit me that I don't have to go to school tomorrow! It is a good feeling! Here are some picture of my latest projects. I painted the sign for my classroom door last summer, but I just painted the other two for a teacher's lounge remodeling project, spearheaded by our Assisstant Principal Intern. They're fun to paint.

Memorial Day Celebration

We had a lovely time watching the fireworks show at the Coleman's home! They did it right! Lots of kids, plenty of ice cream, music, and Diet Coke! The weather was perfect!

Oh, the days when it was okay to have green stuff on your face! I love this picture of Miss Lily!

A Bham Weekend

This past weekend, we spent some time in Birmingham with Paula, Wem, Will, and James (John Allen's sister's family). It was a beautiful weekend! We went to Will's t-ball game then went on a hike at Oak Mountain. We even went to a petting zoo and saw some cute baby goats, but my camera battery was dead by then.

Will did a great job in the game!

James is the most well-behaved child! He was sick with a bad cold, and was still so good!

Our hike was beautiful! It was the perfect day for it! We played follow the leader, and Will was always the leader! It was pretty funny!

A sssssnake!!! All John Allen got out of his mouth was sn...and I was outta there! I think I pushed Paula off the trail. You can see how far away from them I am, and I even zoomed in! I don't handle emergency situations well at all! This is not good for my husband and future children. When something unexpected happens, I unvoluntarily start running in the other direction. When kids fight at school, I go the other direction (which is the smart thing to do) or just stand there stupified and stare. If anyone, or even the dog, ever gets sick at their stomach, I take off! Once, I saw an old man get hit by a car in the WalMart parking lot, and I just started running! I wasn't running to help him, or to get help; I was just running! I wasn't even running towards my car! I just freak out! I would not be the person to go into the wilderness with! I would feed you to the bears without even thinking about it! Sorry. . that's terrible! I would, however, try to catch it on camera!

Mother's Day Picnic

Happy Mother's Day to all of you mothers! Saturday, John Allen's parents and his grandmothers came over for dinner and we had a very nice time celebrating Mother's Day with them. We also had a great time in Corinth today on our Mother's Day picnic with my family! The weather was great, just a little windy!

My grandmother on her first ever "Mother's Day Motorcycle Ride"!

A little windy!

This was last weekend when we kept Matt and Sally's dog, Cooper. He and Sugar had so much fun! They were worn out!

I've Been Tagged!

What I was doing five years ago: May 2003 - I was living in my own little house in Corinth, working, eating with my parents almost every night, taking tennis lessons and cake decorating classes, and about to get engaged (but I didn't know it)!

Five things on my to do list today:
1. Fine tune my lesson plans for this week
2. Spend time outside with John Allen, Sugar, and Cooper (brother's dog)
3. Vacuum, dust, and wash clothes - this seems to never leave my to do list!
4. Buy groceries
5. Wash my car inside and out

Five snacks i love:
1. Ice cream
2. Chips and Rotel
3. Mozzarella Sticks from Sonic (or anywhere for that matter)
4. Cold watermelon in the summertime
5. Anything with ranch dressing, even veggies!

Five things I would do if i was a billionaire:
1. Buy a new couch and bedroom suit
2. Invest for the future - because that's what John Allen would make me do
3. Not worry about the cost of the clothes and shoes that I want
4. Buy John Allen a new truck and pay for his vet school
5. Buy something really nice for our parents and family - all the time!

Five bad habits:
1. Eating junk
2. Drinking a lot of Diet Coke
3. Letting the ironing pile get too big
4. Not washing my car regularly
5. Drinking half of a Diet Coke then getting another, colder one.

Five places i have lived:
1. Corinth, MS
2. Omaha, NE
3. Starkville, MS
4. Southaven, MS
5. Hernando, MS

Five jobs i have had: (I added a couple more)
1. Bank Teller - college and summer job
2. Public Relations Assistant - Crossroads Arena, Corinth - this was a fun job
3. Billboard sales- not my cup of tea - "You don't need it? Okay, see you later!"
4. Receptionist for Alcorn County Electric Power - loved my job and miss my friends!
5. Wedding and Event Coordinator - Bonne Terre
6. Training Coordinator/Cooperate Training - ServiceMaster
7. 8th Grade English Teacher - All of the above to get me here. . .I am so thankful, I love it!

Five people to fill this out:
1. Beth Middleton
2. Jennifer Hopkins
3. Carrie Abraham
4. Matt Lilly - this won't happen because he won't create a blog
5. Natalie Lynch

I Don't Wanna Grow Up!

John Allen and I had a great time today at the birthday party of our friends, Ken and Elaine's, little boy Max who turned 1. We were surrounded by cute little children, and it wasn't long until John Allen blended right in!

When we pulled up, John Allen said, "Look, they have a pina colada!" Um, that's a pinata, John Allen. Since he was so excited, they let him swing first, except they held the pinata out of his reach! :)

If you know John Allen, you know that he loves to be in charge. He got to be in charge of the pinata! Look how he blindfolded this poor little boy! He couldn't move his head, and bless his heart, he said, "who turned the lights out?"

I had to drag him away, kicking and screaming! . . . Just kidding!