Sunday, November 25, 2007

So much to be THANKFUL for...

This is our Thanksgiving story 2007.
Clayton and I both had the entire week off from work! We are thankful that we are both in education and are able to spend so much time together as a family during holidays. We spent the first few days at home and even had some family pictures taken on Monday. We headed to my parents house on Wednesday morning and came back after lunch on Sunday.
My sweet class helped begin my Thanksgiving celebrations. Here are my sweet Indians and Pilgrims. This table was actually Brooke's. Her and I drug lots of old toys down from the attic and bleached them for Camille to play with. This was Wednesday morning before it got too cold to play outside!
Then Nana came home with lots of new toys for Camille. She thought it was already Christmas! Brooke and I spent a long time putting this new wagon together for her with help from dad and Clayton. Here's dad pulling her around the house in it with our friend Austin and Lucky in the back. They were just going along having so much fun...
until the wheel fell off. This happened more than once. I think we finally got them on correctly because he didn't have that problem after a few tries.
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
With so many people and so much going on, naptime was pretty difficult for Camille! Thursday evening, she was SO sleepy and would NOT take a nap! The wagon came in very handy when I made laps inside the house until she fell asleep. That was definitely one thing I was thankful for on Thanksgiving!
Friday we enjoyed a wonderful shopping trip! Target was our first stop...of course! We didn't get up super early, but we still found lots of good deals and I got a pretty good start to my Christmas shopping! Camille was super excited to be there! Camille found this dollhouse in Sears and LOVED taking a shopping break to play in it! She definitely put this on her Christmas list.
Here is my mom, sister and cousin Mallory while we enjoy our lunch at Chick-fil-A.
This is how much Camille loves ice cream! Thanks Aunt B and Cousin Mallory!
Now that we are home I am thankful to be home...but I HIGHLY enjoy time with my family! Even though they live only a little over an hour away, I loved spending 5 days with them! We ate lots, played games, watched movies, created quizes and went shopping! I can't go without saying how thankful I am for Camille. I am so thankful for how heathly she has been! She has never even been on antibiotics! I remind myself all the time of how lucky I am! I am so thankful He chose Clayton and I to be her mommy and daddy. She makes us smile every day!

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Quiz Time!

I have created a quiz for everyone to take to see how well you know me...have fun!

http://www03.quizyourfriends.com/quizpage.php?quizname=071124130518-344129

Thanksgiving pictures coming soon!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

National Young Readers Day



On Tuesday, our school celebrated National Young Readers Day. A lot of work was put into this day! Each grade level had a celebrity come read a book to them in the library. Our biggest celebritiy was TO from the Dallas Cowboys! It was a pretty big deal to alot of people. We even tried to keep it hush-hush from parents to keep them away as much as possible. He actually came to read to the 3rd graders, but my kiddos got to see him walking down the hall as we were waiting on our speaker. I watch the Cowboys (I don't really have a choice...) but I'm not a huge fan. I didn't really care too much about him being there, until I see him walking my way down the hall. I did get a little nervous and excited to actually see him! He was so tall and big! My kids thought it was pretty cool. He even donated several of his books "Little T Learns to Share" to our library.
The kindergarteners' speaker was Derrick Castillo from Channel 5 Sports. He wasn't as much to get hiped about, but he did a great job talking and interacting with our kids. During the day we also had a book exchange, cookies and punch and a bookmark competition. Lots of fun!
This is the link to the story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Buzzzz...

Camille was our little bumble bee this year for Halloween! We went to our church's trunk or treat and passed out candy. I have to say I learned alot and next year will be completely different for us. This was our first experience at a trunk or treat and I knew nothing about it except that we passed out candy from our trunks. I didn't know people go all out and decorate with themes. I'm already planning for next year! Notice I have NO pictures of our trunk. I was actually embarrased when I drove in the parking lot and made Clayton drive our car up to the "line" for me.

Enjoy these cute pictures of Camille and her stinger!
This is her and her ladybug friend, Emily checking out Emily's candy.Here she is with her chicken friend, Mylie. Notice they both have bows for the moments they aren't wearing their hoods! Too bad Camille's is almost on top of her head.Here is our family on Halloween. Mom and dad were fuddy-duds and didn't dress up. Look how sleepy Camille looks in this picture...it's almost sad!
Here she is 10 minutes down the road once we got home...a little wiped out bumblebee!