The Mountains

Trey loves the mountains.  I am more of a beach girl, but the kids love to go.  I told Trey we could only miss 2 days of school for this adventure.  So what does he do....he schedules for us to leave after school on a Wednesday and drive the entire way.  We were exhausted by the time we arrived at 11:30.

This sign was a beautiful sight after a long ride.

We were all whipped, but as soon as we arrived at the new pad everyone was pumped and exploring.  The kids were excited about the movie room.

Morning view


Day 1.   Cold.   Very touristy







I had to document that he was on his phone A LOT.




Long bridge

See us up in the corner?


Fact



Now this was neat.   We had 3 private guides for a mile and a half zip line.










I had never done this before.  I was very nervous to take off the first time.




I forgot my bathing suit.  Oops

We brought Spoons and Play Nine

Day 2


Being touristy while waiting on Dollywood to open.






Nauseous and cold

Arcade


Prizes we "won" playing overpriced games.

To be continued....

Thankful Lists 2022

 Thankful Lists 2022

 

Ford

 

1.     God 

2.     Jesus

3.     Bible

4.     House

5.     Momma

6.     Dad

7.     Annie 

8.     Tuck and cats

9.     Bit

10.   Puh 

11.   Pops

12.   Bobba and Grandmother

13.   Boompa

14.   Patty

15.   Uncle Vance 

16.   Uncle Ken

17.   Aunt Emily

18.   Aunt Ashley

19.   All cousins

20.   Church 

21.   Food 

22.   Sports

23.   Friends

24.   Sleep

 

 

Annie

 

1.  God

2.  food

3.  health

4.  family

5.  Momma

6.  Ford

7.  Daddy

8.  Bit

9.  Me

10.  Dillie

11.  Puh

12.  Patty

13.  BoomPa

14.  Pops

15.  Molly Cate

16.  Caroline

17.  Jack

18.  Aunt Ashley 

19.  Uncle Ken

20.  Tuck

21.  friends

22.  Uncle Vance

23.  Aunt Emily

24.  house, church, school, food, Christmas, and Thanksgiving

 

 

Bitty

 

1.  Momma

2.  Daddy

3.  Ford

4.  Annie

5.   Tuck

6.  BoomPa 

7.  Patty

8.  My sack

9.  Molly Cate

10.  Caroline

11.  Jack

12.  Dillie

13.  Aunt Ashley

14.  Uncle Ken

15.  Aunt Emily

16.  Uncle Vance

17.  house

18.  school

19.  teachers

20.  Puh
21.  Pops

22.  food

23.  water

24.  friends

 

 

 

Meet Tuck

The kids have been begging for a dog for months now.   Literally.   As much as I didn't need anything else on my plate, I caved and we found a British Lab.   A family in town had a male and we kind of fell in love with him.  We went to visit several times and decided he was the dog for us.  Before he even came to live here they had named him: Tucker Thomas Lamar....Tuck.

This is the day he came to live with us....

They wore him out.


Ford turned 13.5 the day we adopted Tuck.

He's 4 feet 11.5 inches

86 pounds

size 6.5-7 in mens

We can't forget about the Gingko tree at our church....











The sickness hit our house pretty hard.  Ford had strep.  Bitty had flu.   Annie had a mystery virus.   Ford had fever for 7 days.


Trey took Bitty to a NWCC game.    He was pleased with the chicken wings.

This is one of my students.   We talk about bucket lists at school.  I told them if they ever saw a Buc-ee's gas station they needed to stop.  She went on a trip and brought me back a prize.   I squealed.

Grandparent's Day 2022..... I forgot to take pictures!!!!!!



Day 5 of sickness with no diagnosis.

Every year since I student taught, I have read the book, Frindle, with my students.   A few years ago I incorporated a project to design their own pen.  I love it.

The art teacher sent me this one day!!

Trey hosted a MHS junior high football banquet.

Daddy sent me a hunting picture.

Our loaded tea place offered teas for teachers the week of Thanksgiving.  People could send a teacher a tea.  Taylor sent me one!!!!!!

It made my day!