Sleeping with a Kitten

Maisie is the coolest kitten ever! Although, she literally NEVER sleeps! Trying to have her sleep in my room was pretty much a disaster. She will be sleeping in the office for awhile haha. She just kept wanting to play non stop. This might have been okay, but she has this obsession with pressing her head against your face (which is pretty sweet and adorable if you ask me) but when you are trying to sleep and she keeps randomly rubbing up on your face it makes life difficult.

She's so funny. She doesn't like to be alone at all. The funniest part though, is she will be sitting with you, then walk in the other room by herself, start meowing like crazy because you didn't follow her, then when you call her name she comes running back and climbs you to press her head against your cheek like she's so excited to see you all over again.

Who wouldn't smile seeing this sweet face upon waking up?!?

Christmas Kitten!

Look what T bought me for Christmas!!!

I have been talking about how much I want to get a kitten for months now; so today, T took me out to look for the perfect one as a Christmas present. When I found this sweet girl I fell in love with her! She's just beautiful :)

She's about 4 months old, and has already had all her shots and been fixed. She's such a cool kitten! She is incredibly sweet and cuddly, would rather curl up on your chest than be anywhere else, but is feisty and loves to play as well. She spent the afternoon crawling all over me while I edited pictures, and then finally curled up in the nook of my arm to nap. *sigh* I love her already!

I'm so excited I have 2 full weeks to stay home and play with her all the time. Best Christmas present ever! :)

Oh, I named her Maisie.

Thanks T!

Online Shopping

This was the year of online Christmas shopping and after this I will NEVER go back to shopping in stores again! I literally bought every single present online and had it shipped directly to my front door. I never had to get dressed, and I never had to leave the house. It was SO worth not having to deal with the crazy holiday shopping crowds. Plus, I got all my shopping done in just one day because I didn't have to go a million different places. Why have I never thought of doing this before?!? So stress free! I have never had all my shopping done before Thanksgiving ... it's just amazing really!

The only real problem I have found with getting my shopping done so painlessly and early this year is that now I keep wanting to buy people more things. I guess this isn't really a problem, but I'm spending quite a bit more money than I would have otherwise. Oh well haha

4 more days until Christmas break! YAY!!

Fishing Weekend

On Saturday, Tony and I drove out to his mom's house in Dayton to join them on the boat for some fishing. We stayed out practically all day and caught next to nothing. I caught one small fish all day, Gene didn't catch any, and Tony caught a few small ones. Pretty disappointing as far as fishing days go. When we finally got tired of casting out and catching nothing, we headed back to the house for dinner. Sam made pork chops, while the rest of us hung out by the fire outside. We made smores, which pretty much made my day!

After the A&M game (whoop!) we decided to just stay the night so we could go out on the boat again the next morning and try our luck again. We caught SO many fish that second day! Literally every time you would cast, you would catch a fish within minutes. The best part though, was most of those fish were keepers! We ended up staying out for only a few hours, and bringing home 34 fish for the fish fry. I love days like that. :) We spent the afternoon around the house then headed back home after dinner.

What a fun weekend!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I'm pretty much obsessed with Christmas. Most years I have to try extremely hard to hold off busting out the Christmas music until at least November. Not after Thanksgiving mind you, but just November in general. Well, Tony being the good friend he is, gave in to my obsession and went shopping for Christmas decorations with me last night. We bought a small tree, lights, ornaments, and lights for the house. Then we spent the evening decorating the tree while listening to Christmas music. It's so pretty! I haven't had a tree at home since I moved to Houston so I'm pretty thrilled about this.

I think the cats are pretty thrilled too. Something about the glow of the lights must attract them because they have just been taking turns laying right next to the tree, and sticking their heads inside it.

So far, no ornaments have been knocked off and the tree is still standing. We'll see how long this lasts haha.

"prison riot"

So everyone knows our first graders are crazy. I'm talking CRAZY lol! It's not like every kid is crazy of course, but the group as a whole is just one big crazy mix of children. They are wild, and they do what they want for the most part. Well, this week it was decided that, because they are so crazy, all 5 teachers needed to be outside at recess as crowd control. So, our principal asked 3 office staff members to do our lunch duty so we could all have recess duty all the time. Today was the first day they were in the lunch room with our kids.

We were all sitting in the lounge enjoying lunch together when one of the ladies comes in and says "oh. my. gosh. I thought there was about to be a prison riot in there!" Apparently, out of nowhere, ALL the kids in the cafeteria started doing stomp stomp clap and then started the chant "we will we will rock you". The ladies in there didn't know what to do. One of them actually got up on the table and started yelling at them to get them to stop. INSANITY I tell you. Absolute insanity.

This is what we deal with on a daily basis. First graders are CRAZY! haha

Dewberry Farm

A couple weeks ago we took the kids to Dewberry Farm for our first grade field trip. Let me just tell you, that place is AWESOME! Michelle (one of my teammates) and I may have been more excited about this trip than even the kids hehe. I had never been to Dewberry Farm before, but had heard good things so I was pretty stoked about it.

They had so much fun stuff there, and Michelle and I literally spent the day playing on everything with the kids. They had mountains of hay to climb with rope swings off of them, zip lines, swings, racing bikes, big inflatable bounce pads, animals to feed, rubber duck races, a corn maze, and a hay ride out to a pumpkin patch. I took SO many cute pictures of the kids having fun that I wish I could share them here, however posting pictures of children that do not belong to me is sort of a no no.

The funniest part of the day had to be the hay ride. Michelle and I hopped on with a few kids from my class and as we were riding out the driver told us if you looked off to one side you could see the pumpkin patch. We looked, and saw nothing. Then we got a little closer and looked again and found this:

They literally had dumped a bunch of tiny pumpkins in a field and called it a pumpkin patch. Michelle and I were dying laughing! False advertisement I'd say hahaha

When I hear pumpkin patch I think of something much more like this:

Alas, this was set up just for photo ops, it was not the real thing. haha!

Because I have changed grade levels every year I've been on a lot of different field trips (this was my 6th) and this one was by far my favorite! The kids LOVED it, it was low stress, and fun for teachers. Can't wait to go back next year! :)