All I want for Christmas is...

Two front teeth, oh my two front teeth. This is what Heather can sing now that she lost her 2nd tooth.

Letter a Day

Someone gave me the idea to make each day's post related to a Letter in the Alphabet each topic will be about something in my life So today's letter is A of course..

A is for Autumn. Yep, that's me! I am a full-time Pre-K teacher & after school hours I moonlight as a mother! haha I have 3 wonderful kids who are full of energy & keep me busy. I enjoy scrapbooking, crafting, & photography. I spend waaaayyy too much time on the internet but I learn lots of good stuff while I'm there.

Maybe tomorrow's post will be a little better!

Later Gators.

Snaggle Tooth

Heather with her new smile
Heather finally lost a tooth today! We are so happy around here. We are waiting for her to go to sleep so the Tooth Fairy can come!!!!

~How Sad~

Can we all please pause for a moment of silence in honor of this dear dog?

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/11/22/ugly.dog.ap/index.html

Thank you~

O Christmas Tree

Yesterday after church the kids were ready to put up the Christmas tree so after we fed them a little lunch we pulled all the stuff out and went to it. The kids put the tree up, I fluffed the branches then Tyson put on the lights, THEN we let the kids have free reign on the tree. They put all the ornaments on it and did a great job, so it's officially Christmas time at the McDaniel's house.

Happy Holidays!!!!

UGH PUKE!!!

Jed started throwing up last night around 9pm. He stopped so we went to bed. He woke up a few more times through the night~then Heather started throwing up, so i would get one tucked in bed, the other would wake up & do their thing, then the other would start. ALL.NIGHT.LONG. So guess where I am today with 3 kids. Caroline, thankfully, hasn't thrown up yet. Cross your fingers.

Family Math Night

Tonight was Family Math Night at Heather's School. All the teachers had stations set up with some kind of math activity and sent us home with several different game ideas. Of course we had to stop off at the book fair and spend $20 nevermind that Christmas is coming up. Guess I shouldn't complain about it at least it was books. haha

Tomorrow is Picture Day for Heather & Jed. I hope they smile pretty. Caroline is suppose to have pictures Thursday but I don't know if I'm getting hers~depends on the prices haven't seen them yet.

Tomorrow I have to go to a PTA meeting at my school & I also have a conference with Heather's teacher tomorrow afternoon.

Later Gators
Autumn

Veteran's Day

Here's the best I could do for a Veteran's Day Tribute: It's an altered calendar/planner like thing.

Spelling news: Heather made a 100 on her test today! Yippee.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Second Grade

is going to KILL us. Well not actually second grade just spelling~Heather is NOT a good speller to begin with and now she is having to spell such words as microbats, megabats, echolocation. That was from last week's list. This week has words such as passengers, Veteran's Day (that's the bonus word), shallop. The rest of the words aren't too bad and Heather can spell them pretty good~until she gets to her spelling test tomorrow. We'll see how she does. They also have to do something called spelling clues~for example:

This word is opposite of what humans are & has three syllables. What word am I?

They have to pick from their spelling list. I guess it's nocturnal. Of course she didn't get that one right.

Here's one from this weeks list:

I have a double constant & I'm plural. What word am I?

Answer: passengers

Needless to say, spelling isn't our strong point. Wish us luck on our test tomorrow.

Note to Self:

in case one sick kid wasn't enough the other 2 woke up with the same gunk in their eyes as Caroline had the other day. We put eyedrops in them and went back to bed. So everyone is having a sick day today~except Tyson he's out hunting.

YAY!!!

I'm moving up in the world. Two good things about my job~My principal came in the other day and asked would it be ok if a college student came in to observe on Thursday. And I just found out she is putting me on the curriculm writing team for my campus. YAY!! 2 compliments in one week. I'm excited.

Sick Baby

Well I'm home today b/c Caroline is sick. I took her to the doctor yesterday afternoon b/c her eyes were doing the same thing they did when she had celluitis and was hospitalized. The doctor sent us home with 3 prescriptions. She ran fever all night, of course when we were at the dr's office it went down to 99.9 and when her school called me it was 101.9. It ran 103.9 last night before Tyson went to work. She is still asleep this morning~Poor Baby!

Happy Birthday

Today is my 32nd birthday!!! woohoo! another year older!

Tyson brought home a triple chocolate cake~and it was yummy!

a new game

this is kinda neat although i wasn't very good at it.

ENJOY!!
http://www.joeykatzen.com/alpha/ver3/

I'm BACCCCKKKKK!!!

Ok i think my sister is the only one who reads this stupid thing so i'm going to update it just for her. Maybe I can come up with something to write.

We were busy today~Heather's class participated in the local TRASH OFF~they had 41 people participating so they won the grand prize of $300. YAY TEAM!!!

We went to eat at the Outback for supper tonight for my birthday since I'll be the big 32 tomorrow. Then we took the kids to see CHICKEN LITTLE! OH SNAP! cute movie.

That's about all for tonight. I'll catch up with ya'll later gators!

School~

The kids and I have spent a week and a half at the school working in my room~actually me working and the kids making a mess in every corner. So today it poured down rain so we decided not to go work~I needed a day off anyways! I need to be doing housework but here I sit!

Heather will be turning 7 next week. There's not a thing in the world that she needs and her list is mainly junk she doesn't need. So I think I am going to redo her room in blue~she said she wants a lava lamp and beads that hang down on her door and a TV (that might have to wait until christmas though). So i'm on the lookout for blue bedroom stuff if you see anything I need let me know.

We will be taking the kids to SeaWorld next weekend~wow! I am excited and i think they will have a good time. A friend of mine helped us get tickets really cheap and my mom bought them! thanks jill & mom!!!

That's about all I have to tell right now.

Blood, SWEAT, & Tears

Ok so there's no blood and tears to write about~but there's enough SWEAT around this place to make up for it.

I went to Curves this morning i was so nasty walking out of that place, not that i worked out hard but the building was just hot. then i step outside and it's so hot at 12:00pm you can't even breath! so there's some more sweat for ya! Then me and the kids are sitting/laying around the house and i hear a loud thunder outside~so i run to get the mail and roll up my windows and then comes a huge thunder storm. Knocked the lights out for about an hour. i tried to get the kids to take a nap but for some reason they wouldn't cooperate.

I'm looking at the Peanut Gallery at www.twopeasinbucket.com some awesome scrapbookers there. I wanna be just like them when i grow up!

I've been working in my room this week trying to make it take some kind of shape. Maybe it will come together.

Purse-Making 101

I swear by the time I die I'll know a little bit about everything. I took a purse making class a few weeks ago at Hancocks simply b/c I wanted to know how to do it. Pathetic I know~Like i don't have anything else to do! So my friend Paula & I made purses that match, they turned out cute! So I started Caroline a tote bag to carry to school, then Tyson's aunt asked me could I make a diaper bag for a baby shower gift. It turned out so cute I'm almost finished with it and when I get through I'll post a pic of it and my purse.

Other News~A friend of mine told me about a dr. in our area that is really good at treating people with ezcema. So I called to make an appointment~she's out of the office until Tuesday so the dr is supposed to give me a call when she gets back. I'm excited if it will work~I'll be ticked if i drop $50 for 2 kids and i waste my $$$.

Camping~we took the kids camping this last weekend. We had a good time except for the heat. I swear Heather & Jed should be fish! They love to swim.

Fun~I got down on my hands and knees yesterday and mopped the whole house it's clean as a whistle now!

I guess that's all for now. Have a good day!

I Need to get Out More..

Check this out it's pretty cool These are the states I've been too:


http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedStates/statemap?visited=AZCACODCILINKSLAMDMONMOKTNTXUT


Go Make your own it's pretty cool It made me realize I definitely need to get out more.

http://douweosinga.com/projects/visitedstates

Jed, Heather, & Caroline enjoying a summer day!