The "haha" game with my grandma 2.5 years ago...

My grandma a couple years ago and all of us girls playing the haha game!

Spirit Week

Ok... So it was spirit week this week. Thursday was super hero day. This is what one of the teachers put on Good Morning Parsons (our video announcements in the morning). I was mortified at first, and then it just made me laugh really hard. My principal called me and she was laughing so hard she could barely talk. The only creepy thing is that a couple of students asked the teacher who put these on GMP to print the picture out so that they could take it home and put it on their wall. Kind of weird, but I have gained popularity points among the students!

Another teacher and I have been planning these outfits for a couple months for this rally. We were stoked to finally wear them. We ordered the shorts and socks and made our shirts. It was a blast to wear these smokin' hot outfits at school. The kids thought we were awesome and crazy at the same time! I had a lot of fun (even though the shorts were CRAZY short! Oh well. I even went to dance practice after school sporting my awesome outfit. I love fun days like this at school. It makes life interesting!

Pi day madness!!!!

Ok...so pi day was so much fun...and pretty disgusting! We raised over 200 dollars for our eighth grade celebration day, so that was awesome. Students paid $1 to throw a paper plate with whipped cream on it at us. Our principal even participated. She is the one in the pics to my left. The guy to my right is the other 8th grade math teacher. We had so much fun. We also had pie eating contests...my classes against Barone's classes. That was a lot of fun! I couldn't eat the pie, but it was fun watching the students go crazy and really get into it.

Thanksgiving and my birthday

So...Not exactly in order, but here we go!

Here I am with Makenna, Bailey, and Reece(my cousin) at
Thanksgiving

Precious Halle Olivia! She turned 1 today on Thanksgiving!

Here is my surprise birthday party. My parents said they were taking
me out to dinner for my birthday. Then we show up, and there
were a bunch of friends there. I was super surprised.
It was a lot of fun, and definitely made up for the not so great
actual birthday that I had. I felt really awful on my actual birthday, extremely
dizzy and super emotional. So, this definitely made up for that.
We had a lot of fun hanging out, laughing, and eating really yummy food.

Hannah and Bailey

That's all for now. I will try to post more soon. I am not very good about this, sorry. I just don't ever feel like I have cute pictures of me to post! Anyway...hope you enjoyed these few pictures.

Makenna is 2!!!

Can you see the excitement in my face while Makenna is opening presents? Wow!!!
Plus...Notice that I am wearing my Parsons shirt...classy 2 year old birthday party attire, don't you think?Good times on the slide...Reece and Makenna
...And me with the fantastic hat that way goes with my outfit!

I love these two girls so much! Precious!

Such a cutie pie! I cannot believe she is 2! And I will miss her so much when they move!!!

Health update

So, I thought I would just give you an update on my health. I have not been doing well lately, but I know (or am clinging to a hope that) they will find out what is wrong and hopefully fix the issue. I just found out that the neurologist will be able to get me in sooner than February 1! That was good news. I have not made the appt yet because they just left a message and I haven't been able to get ahold of them yet. I have a sleep deprivation EEG scheduled for Sept. 28. This is a little scary because it is a test that they use to find out scary stuff! If they find something in this, then what I have is not good. It also stinks because I have to get a sub for that day (which I REALLY did NOT want to do!!!) Also, it will completely jack up my entire week because it is on a Monday. I have to not sleep for 24 hours (so I have to be up by 8:30 on Sunday and have someone drive me the next day because I will have not slept) before the test. Crazy! I have never heard of such a test.

I also talked to the mom of one of my tutoring students who is a nurse. She told me that she has 2 patients who are about my age and have very similar symptoms to me. Then she informed me that both of them have MS!!! What?! I had never even thought that what is wrong with me could potentially be something as scary and dumb as that! Anyway, then I made the mistake of looking up MS online because I don't know much about it other than it is not good. SO many of the symptoms are exactly what happens to me. I am trying to not go there. I don't know that this is what I have...and it could be a simple fix. So, that is the update! I still do not know anything, and I have lots of doctor stuff in my near future.

My Classroom!!!!

Ok...so this is what my knees looked like after falling for no apparent reason! I now know that it is related to my health problems, but it was still really sad. I fell at Parsons and my knees were scabbed and bruised for at least 2 weeks! Goodness...I am so sad!

My cousin was so sweet and helped me set up my classroom! The following
pictures are from that day!

I absolutely love these two things that I put up!
The first is at the front of my classroom...a great quote.
The second is my favorite! I had my students complete the
phrase and write their response on 3 X 5 cards. It turned out
great and is so encouraging to both myself and the students.

This was such a surreal moment for me! Sitting at
MY desk...who would have thought? Craziness!

I absolutely LOVE teaching! It is the greatest thing in the world, and I could not
imagine doing anything else. This is definitely what I was born to do and I
am so happy that the moment has come for me to fulfill my dreams! Such an
amazing feeling!