Cheyenne is now on the wall!

She's only 16 months old now, but my niece Cheyenne had finally been added to the wall hanging I created for the dining room. She's featured twice... eating, of course!

Pilgrims and Lunches

Aside from being Rodney's and my 11th anniversary, the boys had some exciting activities today. Xan had a morning Thanksgiving pageant, where he played a pilgrim (with a rather large hat!). Later in the day was Will's "Lunch with a Loved One."

Science Fair

We went to science project viewing night at school today to see Will's science project, which Rodney and Grandma Nancy helped him with. His project was about evaporation. He got third place!

As we walked through the gym and looked at the other projects on display, Xan told us his class did a project, too, about jumping jacks. Sure enough, we found his class' project and he was featured in a number of photos. Their project was about heart rate.

My classes

My students were good sports and let Mom take a photo of me with them. The first photo is my 8:30 a.m. class, followed by my 11 a.m. class. The majority of the students are freshmen.

Xan's lunch with a loved one

Grandma Nancy and I went to Xan's "Lunch with a Loved One" event Wednesday, when family and friends can go to the school and eat lunch with their student. Will's is Friday.

Xan thinks this is a cool pose.

158 words in 24 hours

After learning all of his site words and getting a 100% on his test yesterday, he was assigned 158 more words to learn. Grandma Nancy went over the words with him last night and he took a test today. And got a 100%!!! Amazing! Now that he has done these short vowel words he has about 50 long vowel words to learn. We are putting the list on his pillow to see if he will learn them by osmosis tonight.

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Marine Corps Ball

Mom watched the kids while Rodney and I attended the 236th Marine Corps Birthday Ball last night in Destin at the Sandestin Resort. Here are some photos. The official portrait will be in in a few weeks.




















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Xan's artwork

Xan's interpretation of what Rodney and I will look like at the ball tonight. First off, I love how he makes triangular people -always has. Second, the detail is great... I am in my multicolored dress and Rodney has on his medals. And Rodney has his big head. :)



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2011 NAS Pensacola Airshow

If you can't read this, it is celebrating 100 years of naval aviation.

Redneck bluetooth. :)

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Marble says it's cold

Once it drops below 60 degrees, Marble says it's winter time.



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Shirts from Aunt Jilly

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Child labor

The boys helping out at work, getting ready for next weekends airshow, putting stickers on packs of earplugs.







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Crashed

This is a photo of Xan that Tyler texted me while I was in class and he was watching the kids. apparently Xan had an absolute meltdown when Tyler suggested they read sight words and he fell asleep this way.




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Report Card Time!

Both boys did very well... they even got Perfect Attendance ribbons and Will made A-B Honor Roll (Kindergarteners don't have the same grading scale, as you'll see below).

Halloween 2011

We started at 6:42 p.m., took a break at about 7:30 and handed out candy, and then went back out for one more circle through the neighborhood. Here are the highlights:

They got their school sweatshirts in!