Dress Up Days!

 Dress up days are the icing on my cake.  I love these days so I can see the smiles, shocked expressions, and hear the giggles when my students pass by me in the halls. 


 Crayon day:  I dressed up as copper. 

Supper Hero:  I am Super Hero Barbie Fairy.

 Profession Day:  Got to wear the comfortable Construction Worker outfit and stop kids in the hall.

Pajama Day:  I was looking forward to wearing my new warm pajamas all week since our winter got extended by 6 weeks.

 Even got the rollers in so I could have curly hair the next day.

And curly it was!  'Lower back' length hair curled up to my shoulder.

My inspiration to be Fancy Nancy for Favorite Character Day next week.

Three more dress up days for the rest of the year!  Let's go ice some cakes.

Goofiest Goofballs

And I'm grateful every day that their goofiness brings such joy to my life!

 

 

Mi Sobrina's first quilt

So when I get a text to come over to help with a sewing project to make a blanket....there is joy in my heart, a pep in my step, and creative juices coming out of my pores!
Was thrilled to be able to help out on this AWANA project.  My niece needed to work on a pattern for her assignment.  And my first thought was quilt!

Next time I will double check that the pattern is correct before we sew the rows together.  I'm glad my niece was happy with the final project.  And not a bad two hour project for her first quilt/blanket.  When she first mentioned making a blanket I was thinking an actual human size blanket....glad she meant small blanket so the project could be completed in a short amount of time.

Alphabet Hair Clips

I have made Alphabet Hair Clips so my RTi kids have some thing fun to spell as they see the back of my head.

Made the vowels out of the blue chip board so they would stand out.  My head is only big enough for three letters.  I have made two 'S' hair clips but I'm thinking adding another 'P'.  The letters are so big it is hard for me to get them all on the back of my head.  I need more hair!

Precious

Precious Memories

loveliness

Learning to water ski with broken wrists.

wisdom

Swimming in the overflowed street.

flexibility

The cat that was ours but not by name.

responsibility

Laughter at Peppermint Park.

 friendship

Summers with sugared cereal.

generosity

Road trips with family and friends.

growing

Sunday sermons.

learning

A kitchen water fight with sprayers.

humbleness

At the park with a Slurpee in each hand

loveliness

Precious Memories

Another Tía Day!

Getting to watch my niece and nephew is the highlight of my week!  We finally, had a weekend without rain and so I rallied the troop to help me rake the leaves in my backyard.  15 bags later my Cutie Patooties deserved a much needed reward.

Meet Sally

 Found some Salamanders in the backyard

Meet San

We built up an appetite.  So we got some grub and headed to the kiddos first basketball game.  This was a fifth grade girl's team so it got my Sabrina thinking that she might be able to play next year.  Though she thinks soccer will be her sport of choice.

A very exciting game where my school's girl basketball team pulled out a terrific win.  And my Sabrino got to practice his math skills by paying attention to the score board.

Go Wildcats!

Afterwards, they got to play a little basketball on their own.

Two points!  Can't believe I took the shot were the ball went in!

A little dribbling and defense action.

Then it was time for desert.  I fun trip to the Frozen Yogurt Shop where it is a sweet tooth's dream come true.

We had a few minutes to kill so we drooled over arts and crafts at a nearby store.  Plus, got in some clothes shopping at another nearby store.  I know how to make the minutes count.

Next it was movie time!  Can Tía make things happen or what!   To end a night where we got to sing with the movie was right up Tía alley!

And off to home where I had two very tired but extremely grateful kiddos.

Twelve Tribes of Israel

Got to teach Children's Church and it was a blast.  Decided to teach the twelve tribes of Israel with each kid getting a paper plate, glue, tissue paper, scissors, and a marker.

We talked about each tribe having a symbol and what the symbol meant according to the blessing they received from their father.

They drew an outline of the symbol and started gluing the tissue paper to the plates.

Then I taped a popsicle stick to the back to make the plate stand up.

Lastly, we put them accordingly on the floor map and I couldn't be happier!