Valentine's day celebrating has been low key this year!
On Friday, my class had their Valentine's party. We made ice cream sundaes and goodie bags. The kids loved it. They also gave me quite a bit of goodies!
I picked up a heart shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's on Friday for dinner. We love Papa Murphy's!
On Saturday morning, I made a little sweet treat for us-chocolate chip banana muffins. They were SOOO good.
For dinner Saturday night, I made breaded shrimp from Skinny Taste and pasta. It was delicious.
I really want to read more this year, so I want to document what I do read!
So, in the month of January I read three books.
Th Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Obviously, I loved all three and cannot wait for the movie.
I'm trying to decide what to read next. I really love reading a series of books. I know a lot of people read Divergent or Matched after reading The Hunger Games. I'm trying to decide if I want another dystopian book. If you know of a good series, let me know!
So, you know I love making wreaths for every occasion. Surprisingly, I didn't have a Valentine wreath. I had to fix that! So, I waited for all of these things to be on sale at Hobby Lobby and snatched them up.
I got two rolls of red mesh and two rolls of pink mesh. (I actually only used 1 roll of each color.) I also got regular red ribbon, a wreath, and floral pins.
I wrapped the red ribbon around the wreath first, so the wood color of the wreath wouldn't show. Then I just swooped and puffed the mesh around and pinned it. Once I was satisfied with it, I attached a heart wreath that I had gotten from Target last year.
Here's the finished wreath! I LOVE it.
I also put a few lovey-dovey touches throughout the house for Valentine's Day.
Pink flowers in the foyer...
The table is set with Valentine's placemats and plates. I put my pink cake plate in the middle with some Valentine's blocks from Target last year.
Valentine's plates and napkins from Target.
Towels from Target
Heart chargers on display
And just little touches on the mantel...
Candy hearts, pink mesh, and red ribbon fill some of the apothecary jars.
And a little pink and red heart in the middle
I love the way the candy hearts look!
And to be honest, this is what the full shot looks like! The treadmill is now a permanent fixture in the living room!
January has been a pretty busy, kinda stressful month so far. This would be the reason for my lack of blogging. It's been full of car troubles, teaching, teaching, teaching, report cards, assessing, evaluations, observations, cooking, running, and reading. So, here are some iPhone pics to give you a visual of some of this busyness.
Last week, I was driving to the mall to return something at Forever 21. To get to the only Forever 21 in our city, you have to drive on the turnpike. I freaking hate the turnpike because I don't like PAYING to drive on a street. But obviously it's necessary sometimes. So, I had to stop at the bill changer because I only had dollar bills and the toll has to be paid in nickels, dimes, or quarters. It was really windy that day (or everyday in Oklahoma), so I put my car in park as I was about to put the dollar in the bill changer. I was afraid my dollar would blow away so I wanted to use two hands to hold onto it. I get my change and am ready to drive to the part where you put in the toll. Only, my car would NOT move out of park. It was totally STUCK. I nervously wave to the lady behind me to tell her that she needs to go to the other toll lane. Well, she gets out of the car to see what's wrong and thankfully she was so nice. I told her my car would not move out of park. She says that her husband is about 3 miles away and maybe he can help. I call Trey and thankfully I wasn't too far from our house. So, the lady's husband gets there and so does Trey. They try to rock my car and force into gear, but it's not happening. At this point, my toll lane is so backed up AND the other lane is backed up, too! Apparently, there was a tractor trailer trying to go through on the other side and couldn't get the green light and was too scared to go. So, it was MAJORLY backed up. We had to call highway patrol to get them to come help. Some people had gotten out fo their cars and were cussing and yelling. Because obviously I was CHOOSING to be stuck in the middle of the turnpike! So, we wait for the highway patrol to come help and then wait about 45 minutes for a tow truck. Apparently, it's common for Volvos to get stuck in park. But luckily this happened on Sunday and the next day was MLK day so they could work on my car and have it fixed before I had to return to work on Tuesday.
So, the next day while driving to pick up my fixed car we discovered this awesome soda fountain called Kaiser's. We HAD to try their milkshakes, especially since it was happy hour! Oh my goodness, it was soooo good!
Here are some pictures to show the teaching part. We've been learning about community. So, we took a tour around our school and neighborhood and took pics with our iPads, then the kids came back and worked together to make maps to represent what they saw. They worked so hard and they turned out so great! Plus, they kept talking about how fun it was! Score! :)
These are pics of the beginning stages. I broke it up into two days. The first day they created their maps and the second day they labeled everything.
I did get to have a sushi night with my friends to celebrate a birthday. That was fun! I was wearing a cute outfit that day, too! :)
I made a delicious crockpot recipe called Italian chicken and potatoes. It was great! I got the recipe from one of my favorite blogs The Larson Lingo. I also made a pizookie the night before thanks to her. It was too good to last for pictures!
Of course I can't write a post without a picture of Fiona! Trey put her up on the stool and she just sat there. What a pitiful little girl! I love her so much!
Oh, and like everyone else I've been reading The Hunger Games series. Oh my word. It is so flipping good!!!!! I cannot wait until the movie comes out. I've seriously watched the trailer about 20 times. It gives me goosebumps.
I host bunco this week and I'm doing a breakfast theme! Breakfast foods and pajamas! It'll be fun! Hopefully, I'll get some pics! Have a great week!
I am 27 years old. I met my husband, Trey, when I was sixteen years old. Six years later, on March 15, 2007, I married him in Florence, Italy. I am madly in love with him and my precious pomchi, Fiona Apple. I grew up in a small town outside Memphis. I moved to Mississippi to attend college, where I received my B.A. and my M.Ed. We lived there for seven years. We moved to Nashville in June 2009 and then to Oklahoma City in June 2010. I have taught for six years. I am an AMS certified early childhood Montessori teacher and taught 3-6 year olds for 3 and a half years. I was then a reading intervention teacher for K-2 and now a Kindergarten teacher. My loves: Trey, Fiona, my family, music, Italy, diet coke, cupcakes, decorating, cooking, baking, traditions, organizing, documenting, names, the colors pink & turquoise, holidays, seasons, Mexican & Italian food, photos, big earrings, big purses, traveling, Montessori, kids, books, weddings, crafts, and blogs! Welcome to our Oklahoma nest.
