GG

I love my GG!

Please pray for her. This morning I got a call that something had happened to her and the ambulance was being called. So I got my close on and headed her way. She lives in Cumming and there is a hospital not too far from her. She was taken by ambulance to Northside Forsyth. She was bleeding alot and had hit her head. The doctors are still trying to find out where the bleeding is coming from. Please pray for the healing of her body as well as the hands that are helping her heal.

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! This year I really took the time to remind myself what I am thankful for! I Love my family and friends! Very thankful for everything I have!

Ready or Not...

...School is starting tomorrow. I think for the most part I am ready. I have met most of my students at Open House. My room is set up the way it needs to be, and our Panda Patch is coming along great. This year our class will be called 'The Panda Pals'. Pandas are my favorite animal and so I thought, why not be surrounded by them all year long! I cannot stress enough how excited I am for this year to begin. I have so many exciting ideas for my students, and cannot wait to see them succeed! I will have the inclusion class again this year. Inclusion ranks very high on my favorites list! I have some cuties coming in this year! :)

My summer was very laid back and relaxing. Well minus the Swamp trip. Ok the actual trip, stay and company was great. The time spent in the swamp with the gators in a little john boat was not so much fun! Not my idea of fun anyways. To the people that go there all the time, they enjoyed it! I was doing ok until my hubby and brother in law decided to go fishing and it was feeding time for the gators. Well one gator decided he wanted to eat the fish, and bumped out boat to try and get it. Then I was done! I would love to go back next year but I think I will skip the boat part!
A couple of weeks later my grandmother, aunt and I went down to my other aunts house at Lake Oconee. We had some great chats and just relaxed. Then it was followed up with a baby shower for my cousin. Can't wait to meet little Peyton.
Our last trip was to Ellijay with the Cips. They invited us to come up with them over the 4th of July weekend. It was alot of fun. They are great people to be around in general. We also went tubing with Tony and Megan. That was nice and relaxing as well until hubby fell out of the tube and scrapped his back. He is nice and healed now!
Speaking of hubby, the highlight to our summer was that he just received the news that he has been put on the kidney transplant list. Of course there are mixed emotions with this but overall we are happy that this is finally happening. Please keep our family in your prayers.
Now that was a wrap up of our summer. We have been busy but also able to fit in some relaxation time. Now it is time to start full force this school year.
OHHHHH I almost forgot! I am graduating in December. I have FOUR MORE classes to take and I am ecstatic to no end. There is no more going to the Reinhardt campus because my classes are online. And they are special education classes at that. I have been wanting to take these classes and now I have the opportunity to! YEAH!!!
Well that was alot in one post! I am going to try and update this more often. Maybe daily....huh!
Enjoy your day and see you soon!

Update on Lucy...and the test!

Lucy is doing much better. After taking her to the vet, she was feeling better that day. It was so sad to see her pitiful and sad. I think Asher missed her playing and growling at him. He didn't know what to do as well!
Well Saturday I go to Johns Creek High School to retake the GACE II. I am so over this test already. I am looking forward to it so I can pass it. Today I am studying all day, with maybe a break for a manicure and pedicure! :) I will be reading all day and finding out about certain events that I am not too sure about!
Please pray for me at 1:00 on March 27th.
Now onto a fun filled week...

Poor Pup!

Lucy has been sick the past few days. Took her to the vet today and she has a GI infection she got from eating something in the trash. She has just been laying around and getting food every 4 hours. She loves that part. Here is a picture of my baby girl on a better day...

Weight...UGH!

Ok so my ***BFF*** has been asking me to update my blog, and I feel I live a boring life and have nothing to say. She always has something to say with her precious babies!
So I figured I would post my newest accomplishment! I lost 10 pounds!!! I am soo excited. I started Zumba on Wednesday nights and it has been a blast! I really think that has helped my weight come off! Some days I really feel the weight loss and then other days I feel as if I have gained it all back. I want to loose 20 more pounds and I hope I can do it by May! I am in the lead at work with the "Biggest Loser" challenge!
Work is going good. The children are learning more and more and becoming so smart! They are so excited to get ready for Kindergarten! College is going good as well. I made a 4.0 this semester! Love it! I also got the go ahead to be able to start my Student Teaching in the Fall. I pray that I get a good teacher to be able to learn from and work with!
Hubby and pups are doing good. Asher is still barking at every little thing, (right now it is the toilet brush) and not wanting to sleep at night! Lucy is awesome! Hubby is great!
Well that is about it for now! I will update soon when I loose my next 10 pounds!

Ode to the Diet...

Monday at work we started the "Biggest Loser" with weight watchers. We weighed ourselves on Monday and whoever looses the most weight by May 28th gets the money in the pot. Everyone is putting in $2 each week. I am so excited! I am actually doing really good so far.

Monday-Wednesday went really well. I did have a little trouble getting to my allowed points but I guess that is ok!

Thursday I did really well and made it to my points allowed and did not go over!

Friday I was observing at the elementary school and decided to eat lunch with the kids. It was hot dogs and french fries and they were getting ice cream so of course I wanted ice cream! So I think I went over for that day. But when I came home and have dinner I had a small Smart Choice meal.

Saturday...oh geez. It was birthday lunch with the family. We went to Olive Garden. At first I was thinking of not caring and eating whatever I wanted...then I thought about how nice I will look this summer (HEHE) and ordered a salad with low fat dressing, ate ONE breadstick, and a small portion of soup. I did check the calories of some items before I got there. I cannot believe the amount of calories in one item! WOW!

Today we are going over to the Cip's for another birthday dinner so I am sure I will go over with my hubby's delicious crab cakes, but I will try and walk tonight or something!

Well I am trying to stay on this! I Can Do IT!!!!

***Please be praying for me at 5pm Monday afternoon. That is when I learn what my GACE score is. I am so nervous!***

Have a wonderful Sunday! I leave you with a precious picture of my babies!

Observation

After reading my friend Sarah's blog, I am trying to step up my blogging as well! HEHE!

Over the past few days I have been doing observation at an Elementary school in Canton. I am really loving it. The teacher I am observing is awesome! She is so calm and great with the kids. It makes me want to be a teacher more and more! There are some great kids in there as well. The teacher has let me help the students with their seat work, and I got to read a book today! Loved it!
This week is birthday week in my family. My GG's birthday is tomorrow, Mom and Aunts on Friday and my Great Grandmothers Saturday...RIP MAMA! We are headed to Olive Garden Saturday for lunch! Can't wait.

At work we started Weight Watchers among a few women there. We weighed in on Tuesday and will weigh in again on the last day of school. We have a little incentive pot going to help us all! I am excited! I have been doing good so far...Day four is upon us!

I am posting some cute pics of the pups. We recently got a new camera and these are from us experimenting with it!