my sweet mommy!
Thank you for all that you do.
You're my rock and support.
I couldn't imagine my life without you.
After we knocked out the family and wedding party pictures, we had some time to ourselves for our pictures as husband and wife. We didn't see each other before the ceremony because we both really wanted that first look to be surreal and breathtaking (which it was!).
We finally had a chance to take a breath with each other and take a moment to take everything in. I loved spending this time with my husband before we celebrated with family and friends!
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You could say that I've been a tad absent from this little blog of mine over the last couple months. There's been a lot going on here recently, and I have to say that I've missed this world of blogging! I miss the regular scheduled posts, the reading of some of my favorite blogs, the commenting on special things going on in their lives. I feel like I've missed so much with some of y'all! So in hopes of getting back into the swing of things here's a life currently update for my followers - or the ones still left. ;)
+ Cody & I will be celebrating five months of marriage come Friday! Some days I feel like we just got married yesterday and some days I feel like we've been married for five years. I love calling this man my husband and even though we've both had tough months work wise, I wouldn't want to go through this with anybody else.
+ I posted a little about school last week, but after my very tough beginning of the year, I've come into my own I feel like. I still have constant daily struggles that I truly feel like are out of my control, but I've come to find a way of lesson planning and teaching that I truly love. I've found my teaching inspiration through Amy Lemons at Step Into Second Grade, and feel like she's the teacher I can and want to be. Through reading her blog, I really want to start my own teaching blog and eventually begin creating my own TpT units and lessons. Eventually.
+ Now that Halloween has passed (and the fact that I have three weeks of left of school until a week break from work), I am all kinds of excited for Thanksgiving, and dare I say - Christmas! I've been secretly scoping out the ornaments at Target...my wallet can't even handle it.
+ Although Cody and I didn't do much for Halloween or dress up for that matter, receiving this picture on Halloween completely melted our hearts and gave us both a pretty good case of eeeeeeek - baby fever. We love this little peanut so much!
+ When Cody and I do get time to ourselves, we've been completely consumed with season six of Sons of Anarchy. We were PUMPED when we found out it finally came on Netflix, and it's made us the laziest people. That show is SERIOUSLY addicting.
+ I'm not sure how I missed this on our county school day calendar, but this teacher has tomorrow off for Election Day! Talk about a nice surprise when I found that out! I believe my day will consist of taking my little weenie of a dog to get her nails cut and laminating centers for my math stations. That's teacher life for ya.
Aaaaaaaaaand......
+ There's one BIG thing that has consumed mine and Cody's life here recently, buuuut we're gonna leave y'all guessing for a few weeks on this one. ;)
Happy Monday!
So, I don't normally speak too much of what we're doing in the classroom, but this I just couldn't help but share! Not only because they are just about the cutest thing ever, but because of how proud I was of my kids for doing such a wonderful job!
Aside from all the regular lifestyle blogs I read, I have a few of my favorite teacher blogs also. One of those teacher blogs that I love is Hope King at Elementary Shenanigans. (formerly 2nd Grade Shenanigans) She is such a creative teacher and always has the best ideas to engage her students. When I saw her pumpkin book reports, I knew it was something I wanted to try.
I expressed my beginning of the year hardships on this here blog awhile back, but I've been trying my best to start putting more of my personality and my heart into my lesson plans to give me that fuel and desire to survive through this year. It's still a tough day every day in my classroom, but I can honestly say that by me putting more of my heart into my plans, I actually look forward to planning and teaching to the students that want to succeed and learn.
With inspiration from Hope, I assigned these pumpkin book reports to add a little fall flare into our normal routine! With some hesitation, I had my kids work on this project at home for the month of October and planned for us to share the last week of the month. I expected them to have a lot of help from their parents (some more than others!), but I was completely okay with that. I want my parents to be involved with their child's education and what a fun way to do so!
I was nervous and worried about the outcome, whether or not my students would participate or not. But come Monday morning, I was blown away with all the creative pumpkins my kids so proudly brought to school! We have them displayed in the hallway for everybody to admire their hard work!
Definitely a project for the books!
If you'd like to check out Hope's Pumpkin Book Report unit on TpT, click here!
