It would Rain on Moving Day

With one hour to go till moving time, it is raining, thundering, and lightning......

But atleast I was able to sleep in past 5:30AM.

Hope everyone has a blessed Easter Weekend & a fabulous Good Friday!!!!

What I am Loving Wednesday!!!!

Hello My Readers Out There! :)

I am Linking Up With Jamie over at This Kind of Love for What I am Loving Wednesday

I am loving adding things to my Bed Bath & Beyond Registry.

In addition, to picking out fun things for my friends getting married too!

I am loving the Handpicked Earrings I got for a STEAL Saturday for the wedding :)

I am loving that John is moving all his stuff home in 2 days!!!!

I am loving that it is a 4 day week in Teacher land and I get GOOD FRIDAY OFF!!!!

I also am loving that there are only 30 more School Days Left!!!

( I secretly DESPISE that state testing will be here in 12 school days! So Much Left to Learn & Teach!!!)

I am LOVING that I get to see my Wedding Dress tomorrow! I picked it out around the end of October so I hope it still looks like I remembered and that I fit in it! Ek!!!!

And Lastly I LOVE that my Teacher Blog already has 30+ followers and over 700+ hits and its only been up and running for almost a week and a half!!!!

What Are You Loving This Wednesday????

Teacher Blog

Also to all my friends who care :)

I have started my own "Teacher Blog"

It is called The Brand New Pencil

Cannot wait for Thursday

Well not really because it is "Thri-day" (Thursday/Friday) for me on the work week ------

But because I am going to see my wedding dress for the first time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have so much to look forward to in the next couple of weeks.

1. My First Wedding Shower on May 1

2. Finalizing the Guest List to get to the Calligrapher.

3. Helping John move all his stuff home on Friday. (now only a month left of this long distance bull-honky!)

4. My BACH BASH in June :)

5. Friend's Weddings from now until Fall!:)

7 weeks....I think I can

Only 7 more weeks of separation of me and my future husband!!

I cannot wait to just be in the same town together for more than 3 days at a time!!

Goodbye Winter....Hello Spring

Well I have been absent for the past two months in the "blog world". My excuse was always I couldn't get my good photos off my camera.

Well what have I been up too????

Went To 2 Weddings

Went to 2 Clemson Basketball Games with Mom & Dad & John & Kyle

Surprised John for his birthday and took him to a Hawks Game :)

And My 2nd Ever NBA Game....Reference Back to Happy Birthday to John

Saw Sugarland in Concert :)

AMAZING I May Add!!!!

And went to the Augusta National for the 75th Masters - Tuesday Practice Rounds with John, Mom & Dad! John & I walked around alot and then parked it for the remainder of the afternoon on 16 and watched the golfers SKIP IT!

Well my Spring Break is coming to an end which means there is only 8 more weeks of school, with a Day off for Good Friday, An Early Release Wednesday in May, and PASS Testing approaching! Happy Spring to ALL!!

Another Year Older

Well tomorrow is the dreaded birthday of reaching finally 25! (gasp)

I was just thinking yesterday that I was just 21 and finally being able to drink legally!

Sorry for my absenceness but I have been busy with school & wedding planning!!!! I plan on blogging a couple times this week to catch up :)

What I'm Loving Wednesday!!!

I am linking up with Jamie with her What I'm Loving Wednesday!!!

This Wednesday I am loving that it is almost the weekend. We had the first two days off for Snow Days, a 2 hour delay today and then the kids come tomorrow while Friday is a Teachers Workday!

Also I am loving that I am going to see my wonderful fiance this weekend and that we are looking and buying (hopefully) him a car this weekend!!!!

What are you loving?

Cabin Fever

Cabin fever has evolved in the Sink house on Snow Day #2. I am very thankful that tomorrow I am able to see my 22 third graders and go back to the best little school in the whole wide world :).

Today, Erin (My MOH) and I went to Target & Staples. They are my weakness. Staples I found an AMAZING deal on sentence strips. They must of been left over from some clearance clearout because I got the long ones for 50 cents a pack. All my teacher friends know that this is a STEAL. I only grabbed one pack intially. I got to the parking lot - looked at my reciept and ran back in leaving Erin to start up the car.

Thankfully Aiken County has graciously allowed us to return to school tomorrow on a 2 hour delay. Now only to come up with what we are going to do tomorrow since my plans are pretty much shot for the week and will now become next weeks plans.

How did you spend your snow days?

Teacher Blogs

I loathe to read Teacher Blogs. I could read them all day! I really love to gain insight and ideas to make them my own. The thing is that I cannot find any good and high quality teacher blogs related to third grade. Especially right now with my current state of trying to find worksheets since my projector decided to take a vacation on Tuesday. Oh yes, it decided to break and now wants to travel to figure out if it is to be replaced or repaired.

Oh yes, since I had scanned the quiz to save on copies and to only waste a half sheet of paper, we had to take our quiz the old school way. Thank goodness it wasn't with the overhead (the room i took over had not even used the interactive whiteboard, only overhead), so i kept it real and just wrote my heart out on the board. This picture really wasn't to share, but to remind me what I wrote on the board when grading and since we did not finish the quick check, it was to tell me what I wrote.

Welcome to my life. Everything breaks.

Snow Day 2011

After a weekend spent with John in Charleston, and planning for the upcoming week, the South gets hit with a Snow Storm 2011. Milk and bread was flying off the shelves, as I was heading back to good ol' North Augusta. Instead of sleeping in and enjoying relaxing on my snow day (that i did not want might i add), I got to wake up call with the announcement from John that his car was giving him problems again.

So after finally waking up, and realizing what is going on, and 5 hours later, we have found a car online being sent to Charleston from Columbia and hopefully will be buying "us" a new-to-us Toyota Camry.

Goodbye Blazer, Hello Sedan

Hopefully, I will be down in Charleston for my long weekend with a new car in our possession. His friends at school must like him alot because they are going to pick him up and take him to work and help us save some money and not have to rent a car. I mean he is a catch, who wouldn't like John?!?

Back to Snow Storm 2011, Snow in the south is like a once in a liftime experience it feels like. I thought moving home to North Augusta was going to make my snow days slim to none. During my time at Winthrop in Rock Hill, SC, we atleast had one or two snow days a year. We even had a fire day my last year in graduate school. Another story for another time.....

The Homestead after the Winter Storm.

Mom & Dad aka the Roomies

Me & the MOB

Mom in the Snow

Happy Snow Day to All!!!! Back to Searching for Lesson Plan Ideas before indulging in the BCS Championship game!

Welcome to 2011!

Happy New Year Everyone!

I am so excited we have made it to 2011 & with all of my upcoming things to look forward to.

1. My Friend's Weddings


2. MY WEDDING


3. Completing my First Year Teaching


4. Hopefully getting a house with John


5. Finding out where John will be next year


6. Enjoying Life :)