Fun times with friends

After Destination Imagination, Kierah came over for a sleepover. The next day, we went to Clip N Climb for a fun activity. The poor girls had no energy whatsoever! THey ended up being so exhausted, we left 5 minutes early.

They climbed face to face... this one was a hard one so this is as high as they got!!

They did climb side by side and that was a bit easier!

I love seeing them have such a good time together. It's so much more fun to do an activity with a friend now!

Maelie is growing up into a wonderful young woman. I sense the teenager growing inside of her! As much as she is growing into her own person, I still sense the need for mom :) I love that feeling. I hope we grow together , survive the teenage years, and end up with a close relationship like the relationship I have with my mom. I also hope that she can have the relationship I had with my moms mom.

As this blog keeps on going, there are some events that may or may not end up on here. Maelie has her say now in what she wants published or not. I love seeing her read older posts though and she finds herself so cute! or she asks me "did I really do that mom? did I really SAY that?" Everything on here is true! So yes Maelie, you ARE that adorable and sweet!! and I love you more than anything in the world!

DI once again!

Maelie participated in Destination Imagination again this year. Her and her team presented a short play in front of judges from the school board. Her team placed 3rd, and they got an extra Award called the DaVinci award which basically congratulates them for thinking outside the box and for being so creative.

The kids slet at school on the Thursday and we picked them up Friday. They had a great time!! Maelie slept much better this year. It helped that I brought her Subway instead of eating the pizza provided there. Last year the pizza made her a bit sick, so she didn't want to risk it!!

Getting all of their luggage to go home!! There's a LOT to pack for one night away!

It was a bit bitter sweet for the kids without realizing it. A few of them participate in EVERYTHING. 3 of those kids that participate in everything are going to different schools next year, so this is one of the last big events that they will do together. Grade 6 is almost over! May as well enjoy it to the max!

February full of appreciation

The week around Valentine's Day is always Staff appreciation week at school. Maelie wanted to bring a little token of out appreciation every day this week. Some days had 2 treats since it was a 4 day week.

All ideas were found online, mainly after searching Pinterest, so I am not taking credit for any of them.

Here are the Teacher-savers. We took the wrapping off Lifesavers and replaced them with Teachersavers.

These were little bubble gums, with a tag saying "you always blow us away, thanks for everything"

This one, Thanks for your commit-MINT. It was a small pack of mints.

You are o-fish-ally the best teachers and staff! So cute! I put pretzel fishies in the bags.

These were for Valentine's Day itself, Have a Rockin' Valentine!

I also made some teacher chocolate suckers, as well as the whole alphabet made of chocolate. The chocolate racks came back empty! :)

We also worked on Candy-grams at work. We delivered over 600 this year. It seems we have more and more every year to deliver. People like to send out a treat for their colleagues, and they get some in return!

These projects have been keeping me pretty busy in February hence the lack of blogging.

We also got Windows 8, and it seems since we got it, I dislike everything! It's harder to navigate, harder to get the photo program to work, harder to upload anything... so I tend to get discouraged. I like things plain and simple on the computer and it's been hard to get used to.