so far this week

so this week started with the ever UNpopular staff development day for the teachers while the kids had a day off!  one good thing about these days, though, is that we actually get to eat lunch at a normal speed instead of inhaling it, and we get to eat at a restaurant!  our team chose outlaws!  yum.....

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outlaws at outlaws

(i took a bad picture of the rest of my team!  sorry sherrie and kay!)

i also finally hosted bunco at my house monday night.  we had lots of fun, as usual!

tuesday morning as i was getting ready for school colby came in and said his stomach hurt.  that's not unusual because his stomach will hurt when he's hungry, and he hadn't eaten breakfast yet.  so i fixed him a bowl of cereal, and headed to the shower.  just as i was getting out i heard a knock on the door.  colby said, " i have to tell you something....i think i'm gonna puke."  and he did.  

i got to frantically prepare for a sub so i could stay home with him. 

he and smudge just laid around all day while i graded papers.

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sick boy and lazy puppy 

colby was still sick on wednesday, but daryl stayed home with him while i went to work.  since it was wednesday i stayed home from church with colby because daryl is the preacher and all....

i called daryl a few minutes before church started to ask him when colby last had medicine.  i could tell something was wrong with him just by the tone of his voice.   he said, "i'm going to kill your child.  he lost his flipper."  don't worry, he wasn't literally going to kill spencer!  but spencer really did lose his flipper, the fake front tooth that he just got a month ago that's not even paid for yet!!!

he and some boys were outside before church playing around, and spencer's flipper "just fell out" in the grass!  they searched for a while, but never found it.  about 20 minutes after i talked to daryl, spencer called.  he sounded so pitiful.  he was outside in the dark at church all alone still looking for his tooth!  he asked if i would bring him a coat, gloves and a hat because he was freezing.  i knew he was worried, so i bundled up and went to the church to find him.

daryl told his class what had happened and few minutes after i got there, some of our church family came out to help us look!  it was soooo cold out there!  but we had to find it because a snow storm was coming in a few hours so we couldn't wait until morning.  we searched for an hour, and i was about ready to give up and let spencer spend the next four years with a big hole in his smile!  i'd been praying the whole time that god would show us the tooth.  i just KNEW he would, and that's why i didn't stop looking.  a little after an hour i finally found it!

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true friends

the flipper

 today was a snow day! that storm last night dumped about 4 inches of snow on us! woo hoo!

i spent half of the day working on one of my "wanna-do's" for 2011.  i want to knit a pair of socks!  i had gotten pretty far when i realized that i messed up!  ugh!  i've started over several times now, but i'm not giving up!  i am determined to conquer double pointed needles!

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my socks

neither of the boys felt very well today, so they just laid around.  they didn't even go out in the snow!

spencer is under here somewhere!

colby on the couch.

 smudge joined them for some lazy time, too!

but smudge got out and played in the snow!  every time we put him out to potty, he came back in looking like this!

quote of the day:  "no school.....happy snow day!" ~text from my team leader at 5:41 this morning. ( i hope i get another one like that tomorrow!)


p.s.  to all my blogging buddies out there....you need to blog!!!!  i miss reading them!

i love sundays

sundays are happy days.  i get to go to church and worship an amazing god with some wonderful people.  and two of my very favorite people at church are these two cuties!

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cuties

before worship started, rylie and addison attacked me from both sides!  it was awesome!  rylie always gives me a hug, but today was the first day addison came up to me on her own!  and then we noticed that we were all wearing pink and black, so we HAD to have our picture taken!  we just looked too cute to pass up that photo opportunity.

another reason i love sundays is i get to take a nap!

after my nap colby and i took spencer to his youth activity.  we went to k-mart to look for these little erasers that colby likes....gomu erasers????  i don't get it, but i'm sure my parents didn't understand the things that i liked to spend my money on when i was a kid!  anyway, they didn't have them (which colby didn't understand because the website said they were available at k-mart!) but i found a great deal on a sweater! (nellie and geeg will be proud of me...it's gray!)  it was marked down to $9.99 from $24.99 so i already thought i was getting a bargain.  but when the cashier scanned it, it came up $5.99!  score!!!  all of their clearance clothing is an additional 40% off, so i may have to go look a little closer....

after k-mart we had a little time to kill, so i took colby to the park.  we were the only ones there, so colby decided he was going to play on everything for a count of 5.  i had to time him, and he completed the challenge in 10 minutes and 1 second!  and that was just enough time for me to decide it was getting too cold to stay at the park!

quote of the day:  "a sunday well-spent brings a week of content." ~unknown

change of plans, change of heart

yesterday i stayed longer after school than i had planned to stay. that ended up being a good thing because our entire team was there, and we were able to plan next week together.

as we were pulling into our neighborhood, colby asked if he could go play at alli's house.  i initially told him no because it was so late, and it didn't look like they were home.  but right as i was about to pass their house, i saw a light on in the window and quickly changed my mind and pulled into their driveway.

colby got to play at her house for a couple of hours, and her mom said she would bring him home.  

spencer asked if we could just keep driving around and not go home yet.  he'd had rotten day, but he wouldn't talk to me about it even though i told him that i was there for him anytime he wanted to talk.  he still didn't want to share.

it was already after 5 p.m., and i really wanted to go home.  but i could tell he didn't just want to sit at home, so i changed my plans and just kept driving.  i'm so thankful i did.  

he realized we weren't headed home and asked where we were going.  i just said, "you said you didn't want to go home yet and wanted to keep driving, so that's what we're doing.  do you want to go see the bowling ball yard art?"  we ended up driving to nowata, and he ended up opening up to me and sharing his bad day with me.  (nothing major, but it would have made my day lousy if it had happened to me!)

he wasn't in such a bad mood after our quick, spontaneous road trip.

so now i've been to the bowling ball yard art place 3 times, but each time it's still fun!

 i'm giving bunny ears to a rabbit!  ha ha!  i'm so funny!

 notice how straight his whiskers are in this picture.....

 spencer was fascinated by the newton balls made out of bowling balls!

 there was an OSU bowling ball display, but spencer didn't want anything to do with that.  hmm...i wonder why!

 beautiful oklahoma sunset!

 now look at the bunny's whiskers!  one of them is bent!  after i took a picture of spencer giving him bunny ears, i swear that rabbit bit me when i walked by!  i felt something grab my arm and when i looked at it, his whisker was bent!  sneaky rabbit!

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barbed wire at sunset

 awesome giant pig at a nearby farm!

today i went to the tulsa performing arts center with kori, kashia and their mom, karen (a.k.a. granny k)  we saw the dance show, burn the floor.  i don't know how those people danced so much!  they made me tired just watching them!

this was my attempt at a one-arm-shot of all of us.  it would have been a great picture if i hadn't cut kashia in half!  

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burning the floor with kashia, kori and granny k!

quote of the day:  "hey mom, don't leave those earwax sticks with the cotton on the end on the floor....smudge tries to eat them." ~colby (as he was taking out the trash today)

new book

i bought a new book today that my sweet friend, nellie, recommended to me. i can't wait to start reading it!

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crazy love

quote of the day: "a good book has no ending." r.d. cumming

hot wheels

check out my new ride!

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hot wheels!

it became officially mine today!  daryl found a great deal on this used '08 honda pilot, and we traded off my jeep compass.  i wasn't sad to see the jeep go.  it had terrible blind spots, and it didn't have a lot of cargo space. spencer was so excited about the car that he just wanted to go sit in it last night while it was parked in the garage.  i was leery, but daryl said it was ok as long as he didn't push any buttons!

i got in it this morning all excited to drive to work for the first time, and it wouldn't start!!!  i thought, "maybe there is a trick to starting it." but then i remembered i started it twice yesterday with no problems.  daryl said it was probably just so stinkin' cold and it hadn't been driven very far in a while.  we didn't have time to jump it because i had to be at a faculty meeting at 8:00 and spencer had to be at school by 8:12.  so daryl took all of us to school.  when i talked to him at lunch, he said the battery wasn't dead because of the cold.  it was dead because of spencer!!!!  so much for not pushing any buttons!  he'd turned on the dome light last night and left it on!!!  ugh!

so as payment for me not being able to drive my new car today, he's had doggie potty duty outside in the below freezing temps!  

quote of the day:  "it was so cold, grandpa's teeth were chattering...in the glass!" ~unknown

snow day

no school today!  i don't really know if they cancelled because of the road conditions (which really weren't that bad) or if they cancelled because of the temperature.  if it was for temperature reasons, then we might be out tomorrow.  the low in the morning is going to be 1 degree!  that's it!  just 1!

so i didn't do much today.  played on my phone, washed some dishes, did some laundry and watched phantom of the opera.  it was so good!  i had seen parts of it last christmas when i was at my sis-in-law's house.  my niece begged me to watch it with her, but i fell asleep a couple of times. it's a much better movie if you watch the whole thing!  i watched the scene with the song, "all i ask of you" 3 times!  it is a beautiful song, musically and lyrically.

while i watched phantom, smudge slept in my arms.

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smudge's snow day

i promise my picture of the day won't always be smudge!  i only took pictures of him sleeping and that was because i had my phone right there with me!  if i hadn't taken this picture, i wouldn't have a photo of the day!  yikes!  i can't mess up just eleven days into it!

quote of the day:  "say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime..." line from "all i ask of you"

(i can't get that song out of my head!)

1st snow

it finally snowed today after many weather reports and much anticipation!

it wasn't a lot of snow, but it was enough for two little boys and a dog to have fun in!  poor smudge was used as target practice, i think.  i looked in the backyard a couple of times, and both boys were armed with snowballs chasing smudge.  at least smudge was smart enough to run under the shed, out of the line of fire!

the colorful gloves that spencer is wearing are MINE!  i just bought them a couple of weeks ago because they were so cute!  each finger is a different color!  in his hand is the beginning of their snowman.  and guess where my gloves are now....on the snowman!  sheesh!

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mr. innocent

i love this picture of smudge! it's too bad it was taken while the nerd was trying to come across the end table beside me to get my chocolate milk!  ugh!

quote of the day:  "i hope we have a snow day tomorrow, but don't tell anyone i said that!" ~ me