Cute Furry Faces

Ahem, I know I missed last week, the theme was music and the concert I was banking on to get pics for the challenge canceled at the last minute.....so I bagged it and now this weeks theme is animals sooooo I'd like you to meet.....

My class pets at school! Pepper is the grey guy on the left and Barbie is the reddish one on the right. It was cage cleaning day and Thursday and I snagged a picture. They are always intensely curious about the other hamster they smell, but I'm nervous to put them in the same bucket.....

Pepper is an adopted pet, he belonged to an older kid class but then when that teacher left the new gal didn't want him, so I took him in. He bit at first, but I've held him enough now he's great with the kids! And Barbie is actually the class next doors hamster, but again, the old teacher left and the new teacher isn't into rodents, so I clean and take care of Barbie for her!

In other animal news, growing up my parents had the coolest fish tank.....

And I've been looking for one for years. I was once again reminiscing about it when my dad found it on Amazon (like duh, I never did think to look on there, just on Pinterest.....) so I ordered it and it should be here in a couple days *squeeeeeee*!!!!! 

But, since we have a cat at my house, Pepper and Barbie will be getting a new aquatic friend! Hopefully if I don't name the new fish Sushi (I made it up to Sushi Jr. the 9th before I gave up on that name. The last one banged his head into the side of the cup all the way home from Wal-Mart and was almost dead by the time we got home.....) this one will live a little longer!

With laughter and love,

KatySue

Drum Roll Please.....

One of the kids stuck this little man in a glass at work and I was suddenly hit with a vauge memory. I just couldn't remember the little guys name though..... 

So I googled: little guy in a glass who lived in the kitchen, and got exactly what i was looking for, I was pretty excited!

Finally have a name tag with my name on it for teaching Sunday school. My last one just said:

V.I.P.

Very Important Parent

So, after weeks of fielding questions about my kids(ahem, they as of this very moment do not exist, but I'm sure when they do I will be very important to them!) I was very excited to get my name tag this morning!

Did you guess the theme for this weeks, though I guess technically now it was last weeks, photo challenge? In case you missed it, it was excitement!!!!

With love and laughter,

KatySue

Silhouette

This weeks theme was silhouette, a word I can never spell correctly on the first try! I've always loved the way the sun rising and/or setting creates a silhouetted horizon! Snagged this picture from my churches parking lot, it's one of my favorite views, no power lines or houses to interrupt the gorgeous sunsets! 

With laughter and love,

KatySue

Water

This weeks theme is water and I was despairing of what on earth I could take a picture of considering the most exciting water related thing that happened to me this week was the potties in my classroom finally flushing correctly because they took them out and put them back in to put the awesome new floors in my room!!! 

Before old, scratched linoleum....

.....after beautiful wood, well fake wood, but still, it's a vast improvement, makes the classroom feel much more homey and it make me smile every time I look at the floor!

Anywhoodle, back to the reason for this post, my Mom and I were out and about and stopped for an iced coffee in our adorable town square, then we sat right in front of this fountain, and you were all saved from a picture of a tiny toilet flushing! ;-)

With love and laughter,

KatySue

Happy Fourth of July!!!

Our town had it's first 4th of July parade this year and while it was small, it was still pretty neat!

We had Uncle Sam.....

which also is my picture of the week as the theme was patriotic!

James K. Polk, who lived in our town for a few years when he was collage age!

I love our downtown, and would not mind at all living in a place like this one day!

Mmm, fresh peaches from the farmers market, we also got some cherry lime and spicy caramel popcorn! 10lbs may not seem like much to carry, but the awkward way I had to carry the basket and the 1/2 mile back to the car it I'm pretty sure the basket gained a few pounds.....

My patriotic manicure!

Us kids got to set off some smoke bombs during a break in the rain midafternoon

Colleens first time lighting fireworks!

I told them to stand like cool ninjas.....

Megan, Shawn, Hannah and Lizzie got here around 1pm and I told Hannah to smile and she said, "Aunt TayTay, I make cheeeese!"

Brownie pie with toasted marshmallow icecream, it the perfect summer dessert!

The local fireworks show was still on in spite of the rain and it was a great show!

Hope your 4th of July went well and it was filled with food, friends, family and fun!

With laughter and love,

KatySue

I Failed the Photo Challenge.....

.....or did I? 

The goal wasn't necessarily to finish, but just to start blogging more, which I did, so while I failed at the specific challenge, I achieved my over all goal....at least that's what I'm telling myself, so I don't feel so bad about completely dropping the ball! =)

~Random Updates~

~Staff meetings are as fun as I always thought they'd be.....at least I got paid for the extra time!

~In spite of the staff meetings, (along with a few other annoyances.....) I really am enjoying my job!

~Clark (my car, in case you didn't know) scared me by attempting to die, but thanks to the mechanics and my amazing dad carpooling with me and my crazy ever changing work schedule, my the car is fixed and I always got to work! 

~The fall bug has bit me hard, I've been doing back to school at work for 3 weeks now and I'm drinking pumpkin and caramel apple themed drinks from Buckhead. So I wish the temp would stop reaching into the 90's, accompanied by "air you can wear" as one weather man referred to the humidity!

~I'm thinking of doing this to my hair again.....

.....as I have to wear it up all the time, it just gets in the way when I work and I get headaches when I wear my hair up everyday.....any thoughts?

Day Twenty-One

~Summer Time~

As you already know I went to visit my sister this week end, I had a fantastic time and Megan and Buggy got to come back and stay with us the rest of us for the week! Here are some pics from a great summer weekend!

 TinkerBell (my sisters cat) loves cereal milk, she stalked me until I let her drink some!

But Mom, I know I can fit two in there, see? ;-) 

Found this lovely little confection at World Market, haven't had it since Bend and may have bought two bars..... hey, the whole family loved it, I would have been in trouble had I not brought any back!

Their yard is full of these tiny little frogs, I hate to think of stepping on them, but you don't really notice the unless they're moving!

Selfies in the Starbucks line! 

Taken after an hour detour and before discovering all of the exits to the interstate I needed to get on were CLOSED and the crossing my fingers driving though downtown Birmingham!

Day Fifteen

~Green~

A little peek into our yard!

Just a heads up, you won't be seeing me for a few days as this lucky gal is spending the weekend down in Alabama with her sister! I was going to set up scheduled posts, but a surprise 2 hour visit to a walk in clinic to get a medical release for work filled out, I kind of ran out of time, it was blog or pack and I decided to pack! 

I'll see all you lovely gals on Monday!

Day Fifteen

~Clouds~

Day 13

~A Bad Habit~

 Ahem.....let's just pretend that the last two days, in which I failed to post, were illustrating today's post about a bad habit of mine!!! ;-)

Day Ten

~What I Wore~

(AKA the more important thing is what I didn't have to wear!!! Yeah for not having to wear a polyester polo or shoes except when I go outside!)

 Dress: Wal-Mart, Cowboy boots (not worn, of course!) Wal-Mart

 Bee necklace: Little gift shop attached to Buckhead, bought today and worn immediately because it was so darn cute!

Ear cuff- Claire's

Day Nine

~Transportation~

For about two hours on five days out of seven this is my life!! If you look closely you can see the backed up traffic, it doesn't mater if I get off at 4:30pm or after 6:00pm, this is what it looks like! =P

But, I'm really loving my job and starting next week I'm being promoted to teachers assistant!!

Day Eight

~An Activity I Love~

As of today I am both it 8 days into the challenge without missing a day (and considering my recent blogging rate this is a pretty good track record!) and have been at my current job for exactly a month! =)

Day Seven

~In My Bag~

Ahem.....there is a reason I have such large purses, I carry around a lot of stuff....including but not limited too:

Checkbook

Wallet

Sunglasses case

Pen

Binky (my nieces)

Lego ( from my last nannying job!)

Bracelet

Fingernial clippers

Phone

Medical release (I need to fill it out for work)

Calander

Notepad

Keys

Two kinds of hand sanitizer

Gum

Two kinds of Starbursts

Flash light

Foldable hairbrush/mirror

Change purse

A pair of earrings 

Tilly the Tardis 

Tickets to Beauty and the beast!!!!!!!!

Sometimes a water bottle, a book, and even lunch get stuff in there too, but since the strap on my lovely, lovely big purse is broken I've had to downsize and I can really only fit what is pictured and nothing extra!

Day Six

~A Favorite Place~

A road near my house that never fails to make me smile, it looks like something out of a movie and I'm all about pretending my life is a movie, now if only I could the soundtrack working..... ;-)

Day Five

~Something I Made~

Mmmm, how about some fresh bread to go with the peach jam my Mom made?! =)

Day Four

~Picture of You~

There you go, a quick "snapshot" of me! =)

Day Three

~Water~

The universe very kindly complied with today's theme and sent an abundance of water down from the sky, AKA it's raining and this is a pic of one of the pots of flowers on our back porch! I was going to take  a pic of the water that courses through our basement every time it rains, but alas and alack, the stream was not there when I went to take pics! 

Day Two

~Hands~

Today at work we had a magician visit the school and I thought that would have been perfect, but then I remembered we are not allowed to post pics taken in the school on the internet *sigh* oh well, you'll have to accept this picture of my hand during the drive home stop and go (mostly stop) traffic!