AMAZING families

I just finished my 2nd year of collecting items for a sub for Santa kinda thing. Last year Cassidy's honor society was making bags to send to a school in Ogden School District for the 1st graders there. I thought it was such a great idea and started collecting items to send. This year I asked Ms. William's class and Mrs. Lawrence's class to help out because I didn't get the notice that we were doing it again until very late. I only had 3 days to collect items. I didn't think we would get very much stuff because of the time restraint and of course because of the economy. I was so shocked when I saw the amount of items that started to come it. I don't know how many times I was close to tears as I would watch my kiddos bring stuff in and say "this is for those kids that don't have as much as we do". I am truly blessed to work in such a wonderful area with such fantastic parents. Thank you so much for your time and dedication to our school. You are all amazing and I am certain that a few more kids will have a better Christmas this year because of your generosity. Thank you so much!

Frosty Visitor!!

Dear Kindergarten Students,
Hello! My name is Frosty the snowman and I hope you don’t mind but I paid you a visit last night! I really wanted to come and meet you today at school, but as you know snowman only come alive at night.
I enjoyed playing on your playground. What a great school you have. I went so fast in the spinning baskets my nose fell off!
I decided to come in and check out your classroom. It was very fun! I really liked playing in the kitchen and with the Legos! I also found my favorite book The Snowman! I hope your teacher doesn’t mind that I sat and read it for awhile.
It seems that I have left quite a mess. Your classroom was so nice and warm that I started to melt a little. Sorry about that! Watch out for puddles of water on your chairs and tables. I tried to clean them up but I was melting so fast I had to go.
I noticed your playground doesn’t have a snowman, but I saw the wonderful snowman you are making in your cubbies. I also left you a little present in your cubby. I hope you like it! I have one just like it.
I hope you have a very merry Christmas! I hope I get to meet you some day. Remember snowman love to have friends to play with at night, so maybe you could make me a new friend sometime!

Love, your friend
Frosty

Annual Christmas Tree Hunt

It's a tradition in our family to go cut down Christmas trees the weekend after Thanksgiving. It is always cold, but fun. We walk and walk untill the perfect tree for each family is found. This year is seems that our perceptions might have been off, slightly! Everyone ended up with HUGE trees. Oh well, nothing a chainsaw can't fix! Of course poor me is stuck with a fake tree. I totally hate it. But hauling a tree up 3 flights of stairs and not being home very much doesn't lend for a very happy live tree. There is always next year!

David Archuleta

We had a fantastic weekend in Rexburg Idaho. On Friday I took Cassidy and Taelor to the David Archuleta concert. I dragged my friend Lexi along for company. I have to be honest, I could only name one David Archuleta song before I went to the concert. But Cass and Tae LOVE him! So I took them. It was CRAZY! The place was packed and honestly the college kids were acting like he was Elvis or something. They had signs, homemade t-shirts, and cameras going off like crazy! It was a good concert. The first part was his popular songs and the second part was Christmas songs. He is very talented, but kinda sounded like a DUH when he would talk. We think that maybe next time he should use cue cards! Cass called Grandma Thomas (who is also a David fan) to see if she would buy them shirts for Christmas. Of course she said yes. They were so excited to get them!

We stayed with Grandma LaRee while we were there. She was telling us about using brown paper bags or rags to curl her hair when she was younger. So I decided to try it on Regan. She looked so cute with her hair in rags, but the outcome...wasn't so cute. She kinda frizzed out! She cried and cried until I washed it out and straighten it. Not the outcome we were looking for!