So Glad for Tacos and My Bloggy Friends!

I have not had a day like I had today in a LOOOOONG time!  It was horrible!  I woke up this morning and had a feeling that it was going to be a rough one, but I had no idea how rough it would be.  My National Boards stuff is due at the end of the month (and I am wasting time blogging catching up with all my friends instead of working on it!), I had to lead a tech training session today and all my Dibles data has to be in in 7 days!  The day started out bad and ended up in the deepest pit possible.  Ok maybe I'm being a little dramatic, but you get the gist, HORRIBLE DAY!  

On the upside, it was Taco night and I got to enjoy delicious tacos with the hubs, my girlies, and my bloggy bff....Amber!  We ALWAYS have the best time!  If it hadn't been for the tacos, I do believe this day would have been a dark cloud over my whole week.  

You guys out in the blogosphere also made my day more tolerable.  I have the best bloggy friends out there.  I was honored to be given awards from 2 lovely ladies. 

First Tamera from My Heart Belongs in First gave me

She even said I was one of her daily reads!!!  That made me feel ah-mazing!  

I am going to have to break the rules for this one and post my 15 blogs later.  With my long to-do list getting longer by the minute, I just don't have time right now!  

My 2nd Award came from sweet Elizabeth (great name, huh!)  from Fun in Room in 4B

She gave me the biggest compliment anyone could with the Top 10 Blog Award!

As if that wasn't enough, she said the nicest things about me which made me feel all fuzzy inside.  

I will pass this one on when I have more time!  

I feel so lucky to have such awesome support from all of ya'll!  When I've had a bad day, I can always count on getting on here and ya'll making me feel so much better.  Ohhh and my girls make me feel better too!  

How can you not smile when you see they are both ready for the Zombie Apocalypse!  

An Award, Dental Unit and Hump Day Freebie

So I started off my awesome hump day waking up to an award from my teaching soul mate, Amber, over at Adventures of a Third Grade Teacher!  She so lovingly bestowed the My Favorite Follower Award on me!  Many of you know that we are friends in real life, but I would so follow her if we weren't.  She's awesomely amazing and watch out when her creative juices are flowing!

I have so many awesome followers that it is very hard to choose this one, but I have to give it to Kelley over at Buggy for Second Grade.  She always leaves the sweetest comments on my posts and gives me encouragement on those tough days.  I'm pretty sure that if we knew each other in real life, I'd want to be BFFs  with her!!!

So did you know Dental Health Month is in February?  I must confess, until this year, I didn't!  We have been planning kick butt health units this year and Dental Health is no exception.  My rockin' teaching partner, Erica, planned out this unit and let me just say, you all need your own Erica on your team, because this unit is SU-Weet (said just like that!)  Our kiddos are making lapbooks that include types of teeth, parts of a tooth, dentist tools, and dental vocabulary.  I will add pics in the morning, because I left them at school.  We also did this cool experiment to see how toothpaste with fluoride helps protect your teeth.  Erica soaked half the egg in the toothpaste mix for 3 days then we covered the whole egg in Vinegar overnight. 

The side with the X  is the fluoride toothpaste side.

Today when we looked at the egg the side that wasn't protected with the toothpaste was soft and squishy!  My kids couldn't get over it and kept repeating how they were going home to brush their teeth!  

And finally, what you have all been waiting for, the freebie!!!  I updated my Long Vowel Racetrack games because when I printed them today, they weren't as large as I wanted.  So I placed the updated versions of all 5 vowel racetracks at my TpT store.  

The freebie is the Long A Vowel Racetrack.  My kiddos love this game! Click here to download your copy.  

Best.Week.Ever!!!!

My great week continues!  My kiddos were basically good today, just a little talking, but nothing earth shattering.  And when I open up my email and I find that Tanya, over at A Class Act  had given me the Liebster Award!!!!  I was thrilled and it was like the cherry on my ice cream sundae!  

The rules of this award are as follows:1. Show your appreciation to the blogger who nominated you by linking back to their blog. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Tanya!  Make sure ya'll check her awesome blog out.

2. Nominate five happy little blogs (200 followers or less) by posting a comment on their blogs.

3. Post the award on your blog.

4. Check out what the other up-and-coming blogs have to offer.


Teaching and Life: At the Beach

Make sure you check out these blogs.  Each of them have awesome ideas and are some of my fav blogs!

Versatile Blogger Award

My Night Just got better!  Laura over at Kinder Kraziness has given me the honor of giving me The Versatile Blogger Award!

I was beyond excited and suprised!  I couldn't believe that someone would actually enjoy my blog!

The rules for this reward are as follows:

1. Thank the person who presented the award to you and link back to them.

Thanks bunches, Laura!  Guys make sure you head over and check out her super cute blog!!!

2. Tell seven things about yourself.

1. I have adorable twin girls that were born right before Christmas last year, so my house officially looks like ToysRus blew up!
2. I have been teaching third grade for the past 7 years and LOVE it!  I can't imagine being anywhere else.
3. I love OLD things.  Like primative decor and things from the civil war era.  Give me a museum and I'll be happy for hours!
4.  I enjoy scrapbooking and my Circut!  I don't know what I did before I had it.
5. I now spend any spare time, (yeah right with 1 yr old twins!) blogging.  I love when I get a new follower.  My first comment from someone I didn't know personally, I almost wet my pants!
6. I get so inspired by looking at all the awesome things that my fellow bloggers are creating on TpT.  I have now started creating some of my own :)
7. I have the most supportive hubby on the planet.  I can be a little high maintenance and he puts up with me all the way.  

3. Pass this on to 15 newly discovered blogs and let them know they've received the award.

 

 

Check out these ladies' blogs!  They are awesome and always full of great ideas.  Make sure you share the love!!!!