State Championship 2009

The Trinity Trojans made it to the State Championship in San Antonio, TX. We took a road trip to show our support. Wendy, Mark, and Alex left on Friday afternoon and I left bright and early Saturday morning. The Trojans were playing Ausin Westlake. Since our sister and her family live in Austin, TX, they came to show their support for the Austin team. The were dressed in all their "Westlake" gear, even a painted on "W" on Bryce and Grace's cheeks. The Trojans ended up beating Westlake 41-38 in overtime. Yea Trinity! This is their 3rd State Championship in 5 years. Way to go boys!!

Santa Arrives by Helicopter

An HEB tradition, Santa and his friends arrived by helicopter at 8:45am at Midway Park Elementary School. He makes a stop at every Elementary School in HEB each Christmas. The students always enjoy bundling up and going outside to wait for the arrival of Santa and his friends.

This is the Christmas Tree in my classroom. I experienced a special Christmas feeling this morning as I sat in my classroom with a small lamp lighting up my classroom. I had Christmas music playing in the background and looking out the window, which was right next to my Christmas Tree in the room, watching it snow. It was great! I felt tingly all over....definitely the Christmas spirit.

The Christmas "spell" I was in was quickly broken by screaming kids running up and down the hallway! Oh well, it was great while it lasted!

Day after Thanksgiving 2009

Up bright and early again...but this time, it wasn't because of the nieces and nephews. We all stayed up and watched a rather disturbing movie, The Mist. It kept me up all night. Every little noise I heard startled me. By the way, if you have not watched this movie, don't bother...it's awful and has a terrible ending.

Anyway, we got breakfast from the famous J & J's BBQ...their bacon, egg, and cheese tacos were absolutely delicious and so were their migas (special breakfast tacos with tortilla strips). Wendy and baby Alex arrived around 10:00 in the morning so we were very excited. She spent Thanksgiving with Mark's side of the family and drove down early this morning.

We always have a great time when all the sisters get together. Since my little sister and her family live in San Antonio, and my oldest sister and her family live in Austin, we rarely get together except for holidays such as these. Great times!

The best news of all today was that the Trinity Trojans football team beat Arlington Martin in the semifinals of high school football. We were bummed about missing the game since we were out of town, but we were able to listen to the game on the radio. They ended up winning 37-19. We will play the winner of the Arlington-Coppell game scheduled for tomorrow. I'm hoping they will go all the way to state. GO TRINITY!!!

Various pictures from today:

Bryce took Freeway for a walk down the street...he was so proud of himself.

Lucas reading "Dig, Dig, Digging" to baby Alex. He has the entire book memorized word for word...very impressive.

The kids enjoyed playing "Pirate Pop-Up" I jumped every time the pirate popped out of the barrel.

Alayna with mommy!

Bryce playing blocks with Jenga

Alayna with baby Alex

Grace with Baby Alex

The "cousins" before baby Alex arrives.

Thanksgiving Day 2009

What a great day! We had a wonderful feast prepared mostly by my brother-in-law, Aaron. The turkey was delicious and so was the rest of the meal. My job was the green bean casserole...which I just prepared using the back of the French's Fried Onion cans. My little sister Vivien, prepared the spiral ham and my mom took care of her famous stuffing. We also had rolls, white-trash-a-roll, fresh cranberries, dressing and Waldorf salad. It was all very delicious. We had various desserts made by my dad. He picked numerous pecans from our backyard and made pecan pie, pistachio, pineapple, and pecan pie, and cheesecake. Carol made the traditional pumpkin pie. We had our big Thanksgiving meal at 3:00 and I was still stuffed by 9:30 that evening. I didn't even have pumpkin pie until late that evening.

Thanksgiving 2009 - Day 2

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! All the nieces and nephews woke up around 7 am....BRIGHT & EARLY!!!!! We started off the morning with a great big breakfast. We had eggs, bacon, canadian bacon, fruits, sausage pinwheels, Amish bread, freshly squeezed apple, carrot, and pear juice, and coffee. We are eating our Thanksgiving meal at 3:00 so we had to eat a big breakfast and snack until 3:00.



We went for a mid-morning stroll to get the mail. It turned into a 30 minute ordeal just to get everyone ready to go. The kids wanted to ride in the wagon and strollers. The tires to the stroller was flat so we had to get air pumped into it. Alayna and Bryce waited very patiently in the wagon with Ah-gong while waiting for Uncle Sean and daddy to pump some air into the tires.








When we got back from our walk, I challenged Sean to a friendly game of JENGA. Guess who won? Yep, you guessed it, ME! Maybe next time Sean.

Thanksgiving 2009 - Day 1

Greetings from Austin.....my oldest sister and her family live right outside of Austin in Leander, Texas. I drove down from Fort Worth with my parents Wednesday morning and my little sister and her family got here around 1:30 from San Antonio. The Reedys are back in Hurst for Thanksgiving with Mark's family. We miss them a lot!

Here is a picture of Bryce wondering what it's like for Freeway to be in his kennel. More pictures to come.....

Scrapbooking Retreat 2009!

Here are some pictures from our Scrapbooking Retreat in Weatherford this weekend. The theme was "Super Heroes!" Our wonderful Susan did another awesome job putting together a wonderful weekend.

The "Incredibles" room consisted of Rae-Ann Daniel, Julie Totten, Wendy Reedy, and me. Andrea Trout was our "honorary" roommate. We had a blast and can't wait for the next one in the Spring of 2010.

This is Julie in her "Incredible Mom" costume!

This is Andrea, our "Scrapologist!"

Trunk or Treat!

Our church had Trunk or Treat this year and it was my first year to take part in it. Since I wasn't going to dress up, I figure I would dress Freeway up. I got his costume at Walmart and he was the hit of the night. He was a very good sport and let all the kids pet him. Everyone wanted to take pictures with him. He had a great time and we had over 3,000 people come through that night. Awesome job Center Point Church!

Vocabulary Parade!

Instead of dressing up for Halloween at our school, the students dressed up as a "vocabulary word." All the teachers had to dress up as well. Since we had a 7 man team, we were a "LANDMASS" and we each dressed up as one of the continents.

North America - Miss Casey; South America - Miss Tiffanie; Africa - Miss Karyn; Asia - Miss Betty; Antartica - Miss Jennifer; Europe - Miss Kim; and Australia - Miss Niki....

Western Day!

We had Western Day at school right before our school carnival. Our team sure does like to dress

up! YeeHaw!!!!!

Having a blast!

Well, it's been 2 weeks down and things at school have been going great! I have really enjoyed working with my new team. The atmosphere is so much more positive than in the past. We took this photo after a faculty meeting. I love my new team!!!






Of course we can't ALWAYS be so serious!!! We can let loose some too!

Almost time...

Well, it's offically 10 hours and 45 minutes before the 1st bell will ring tomorrow at school. I have worked all week in my room and preparation for tomorrow. I met most of my students during "Sneak Peek" night last Thursday night. I have 20 students in my class. 4th grade is pretty full with all of us having 20 to 21 students in our homeroom. Tomorrow will be the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year. I'm very excited and nervous all at the same time. More to come tomorrow...

Freeway's Buddy!

Freeway has a new friend, Amelia. Amelia use to be afraid of Freeway and Lucey, but she's warmed up to Freeway. She always says, "Look, Freeway likes me." I'm glad they are friends now!

Fun Times at the Ranger's Game

Mark, Wendy and I had our 1st outing without baby Alex last night. We went to watch the Rangers play the Boston Red Sox. It was the first time we had a babysitter for Alex besides me. Alex's Mimi and Aunt Marilyn watched him while we went to see the Rangers beat the Red Sox 8-2. It was really fun but we were tired around 9:30 and decided to head home. We're such old folks now....can't even stay for an entire baseball game. Anyway, it was a lot of fun and I'm glad the Ranger's won!

The Classroom is Almost Done

I've worked on my classroom on and off for the last couple of weeks. For the most part, I am done with all the big stuff. The great big math word wall is up, the math posters are up on the back wall, and my data charts are up in place. Now all I need are some students to fill the room.