Spring Break Part 2

Let's see.. the second half of SB flew by quick as a wink. Thursday Aubrey, her mom Sheila, and I took a trip up to the Gap outlet in Bartlesville. An hour drive for one store? Yes, worth it. We left with SO many great deals. Aub even made it home with this hat. > Thursday night Jon and I hit up downtown T-town to celebrate St. Patrick's. The weather was perfect, the Killian's was cold and the people watching was prime. Luckily Lacey was there for a bit to take a picture with me, since Jon was being lame and wouldn't.

Spring Break was not entirely all fun and games, however. Friday night we experienced a bit of a tragedy. As we were backing out of the driveway we hear a::CruncH::. "What was that??" I asked. "Oh, probably a cat or something," Jon casually retorted, to which he earned a slap on the arm and "You're an ass! It sounded like a plastic pop bottle" We leave, glance back, nothing. Fast forward to Saturday morning bright and early. I'm leaving for the gym, about to take a big bite of my protein bar when I discover what the crunch was. A, quite large turtle. Blood. Guts. GAG. I pulled over once my tires had successfully straddled it and send a sleeping Jon a text:" YOU KILLED A TURTLE!!! WAAAHHHH!!!" It took my entire workout to shake the image from my head. The story gets worse, Teddy the turtle wasn't dead. Poor amphibian suffered all night. I'm not going to lie, I shed a tear or two after hearing how he was finally put to rest. I'll spare you.

I had to quickly get over my grief and hustle to get ready for our trip to OKC. I should have posted the picture of Jon snoring in the car. Justice for Teddy, you know, but I'll be nice. We had such a fun time with Michelle, Brian and the girls. We played on the swing set, went for lunch and ice cream, watched home videos of their trip to Disney World and we drew with sidewalk chalk. We met Miss Sophie too.

Alains is far too busy to pose for pictures. This was the best I could do, mouth full of her 'dirt and worms' ice cream.
I really don't get to see the girls often enough. Alaina is a regular comedian with enough personality and attitude for ten toddlers. Alyssa on the other hand is proving more and more that she's not a baby anymore, not a toddler either but a full-fledged little girl. Amazing.

Back to school, aka, work came quickly and I'm enjoying my students so much. I think that little break was immensely helpful. It occurred to me today that there are only 8 weeks left of my 1st year of teaching. I want to soak up all the good in these kids while I've got 'em, and if I can help with the bad, or at least ignore it I'd say the year will end in success.

My Spring Break Glass is 1/2 Full

Today marks day 5, the official "hump day" of Spring Break. I'm opting for the optimist's view on the week and not thinking of it as that there are mearly 2 days left of the week, then it's a regular 'ol weekend and work comes Monday. Now by some people's standards my break has been lame, boring and sad because I didn't take an exciting trip. My standards say if the last half is as good as the first I can't wait to get up tomorrow. Let's begin with Monday. What started as a lazy Regis & Kelly over --you guessed it-- cereal, morning, followed by a little L and T (my Spring Break agenda was filled with days of GTL) turned into a sponteanous little crafty trip. Aubrey, my BF4L, aka Bfri aka has too many akas to keep on...yeah her and I went to use an expiring Groupon and painted some pottery at Color Me Mine.

I made measuring cups...because I don't have scoopy ones like these. They'll be bright red when they're ready...I know you're dieing to see the "after" pic. Trust, it's coming. Aub made a coffee mug. ~~~>







We don't get out much together for anything other than dinner or shopping so this was a fun friend date. Not that we need to go anywhere to have fun...which brings me to Tuesday night. Lizzie Bre is the kind of friend you have the most fun with when you're not trying. Just sitting at home being ourselves, conveniently for us, we happen to think we are need-our-own-reality-show-HILARIOUS! Promise, we'd have you bustin' a gut. I just went over to use her tanning bed (Gettin in that T, GTL, guys)...and somehow this happened. ...

I don't know how funny anyone else might think I am for randomly concocting this costume from crap I found in her car, but this girl is my BFF because I can count on her to deliver a boisterious cackel to affirm my hilarity. (P.S. If you are thinking we're dumb feel free to get the H outta here!)



Ohh did I forget to mention that Monday I stopped by mom's on my way to G and got to play with THIS little nugget

Forgive my thumb and knee in the picture. I was trying to balance the toddler for a game of airplane and capture his sweet little grin with my crappy phone camera. You get the point.

Big brother was asleep so we got some good one on one time. Not to worry because the very next day Max took a nap so I could play with McClain alone when they were visiting at my house. My favorite line of Tuesday's visit was this sweet one liner from Mc after he was released from a brutal 3 min. timeout "I love you, Fartahead". Melts an aunt's heart. Fartahead. Where's he come up with this stuff?

So yeah, not a bad SB2011 thus far for this girl. There are obviously a few things that need to happen for it to be complete; for example, a St. Patrick's Day celebration to celebrate the one heritage I'm sure I've got in me, also I'm going to need to go see my girls (this weekend so Uncle Jon can see them too) and meet my new dog-niece Miss Sophie. I won't spoil the next post by divulging all my 2nd half SB plans just yet, but I'm excited.

I was taken a little off guard when I entered my kitchen and found "Steggy" Staring at me this afternoon. Looks like he won't be getting pinched tomorrow for forgetting his green. That'll make two of us.

For the Sake of Productivity

Yesterday I knocked out the month of February with some umph. Thirteen-hour-day kinda power and I definitely didn't hold back,(Eng. meeting, school, cheer mtg, gym) which left me thinking "Man, I should use up most days this way." Well...something happened between then and now because I sit here at 8:30, and realize I've been sitting here since roughly 4:45 this afternoon. The most I've accomplished is 1 load of laundry and finishing off this box of cereal.

Ok, so this isn't even the box, I google image searched....because I'm too lazy to get up and take a picture of the box. And yes, I ate cereal for dinner...because I was too lazy to cook. TSK!

Today was an interesting day at school...another teaching 1st. I was called a name...I won't say which one but it rhymes with Gag. I'm not sure how publicly I'm really suppose to talk about things pertaining to school, but I thought this was note-worthy. Obviously it didn't bother me too much other than the interruption it caused my other students seeing as how I had to stop class to fill out the detention referral....and try to keep from laughing while doing so. Never a dull moment in Middle School that's for sure. That being said, I was undoubtedly enthused to discover there are only 8 days of school before Spring Break.

(I tried searching Spring Break 2011 for a cutesy image...just got chicks in bikinis. I'll spare you)

So, now I've updated my blog, which always makes me feel accomplished...all 10 times I've done it throughout the last 2 years. And tomorrow WILL be productive. I've already packed my bag for the gym so I can head to BodyPump right after school. :) (yes, another generic image, you get the idea).