Santa Letters

My kids wrote letters to Santa this past week.  They are pretty hilarious!! I am going to keep to their spelling because it adds character :) Here are some goodies:

Dear Santa,
How do you get all the houses in the hill in tire rth? (whole entire earth) Santa, I haven't ben rilly good. Is ther semthing I can do to fix that?
(From one my best behaved children in the class)

Dear Santa,
Do you poot up a tree.  Do you eyt cande cas? (candy canes) Can you shoo me a picr of yo riten the sla (sleigh?)


Dear Santa,
Thac you fr the elf. I wd like a frbe fr christmas.  If you dot cer I wd also like a fatball hel mit.
(Thank you for the elf. I would like a furbie for christmas. If you don't care I would also like a football helmet).

Dear Santa,
I was really good this week. (she wasn't good in school, I can tell you that much). Can you breign me asapris on christmas (surprise on christmas). I need more make up for christmas becuse my sistr tace (takes) some of my makeup so it is allmost gone.

Dear Santa,
Today I was good by working quiet. (this little boy NEVER talks.. so yeah that's true)

Dear Santa,
I wot a I tuch for christmas.
(anyone surprised by a 6 year old asking for an Itouch??)

Dear Santa,
I want a lot of presens.  I am veary good this year. I am nice to frends today. I bet you have a lot of elfs like 100000 of em (them). I want 10 toy stuft animals to play with it all day long. I will love it so so so mutch I wont it.

Dear Santa,
 I wats a Ipod for Christmas it will be fan (fun) so so much fan! I wot a mostr hiy grel (monster high girl) 5 mostr hiy grels! I ded (did) be nis (nice) so so nis but I wot you to gef  (give) me a spris for chirstnas and a cat jrnl (journal).

Sorry that's a lot of letters.. but I giggled at every single one... here's a picture because posts without pictures are boring :)

Life + Kid Quotes

Well Ladies and Gentleman... The Time HAS ARRIVED!!! It's officially..........

Christmas season!!! Woot  Woot.  I am pretty darn excited.  But let's RECAP about ThaNkSgiVIng shall we??

Momma and Pappa Albright came into town with big brother Adam and his adorable new girlfriend, Emily.

Thanksgiving was filled with the usual of....

FOOD 

BLacK FriDAy Shopping!

Yeah.. two big screen TV's.. we don't mess!

Family Time!!

And some NEW things such as:

Mom being moved to sit at the kid table.. We all knew it was only a matter of time...

And Woody killing an Elk.. what?! (I apologize for they yuckiness in the picture... really sorry about that one)

A new for Woody and I.. a ChrIStMaS TrEe!! YAY! I got it for 50% on Black Friday, I am proud of my Christmas Tree, but embarrassed that it took me so long to own one.

Also during Thanksgiving weekend Woody and I celebrated our 3rd year anniversary!!

I seriously love this man SO MUCH! I could not ask for a better husband who is so patient, kind, forgiving and hilarious! He really is my everything and he completes me.

We went to Rodizio Grill and got STUFFED.. it was delicious and fun :)

OH yeah.. I promised Kid Quotes....

Miss Spence (teacher neighbor): OH B, look at you cleaning those lunch baskets you are such a trooper!

B: I'm not a storm trooper!! But those guys are really awesome.. I wouldn't mind being one 

Mrs. Palmer knocks over a stack of paper and walks away because I have to find something for a kid for lunch... and IMMEDIATELY my kids rush to pick up and put away the papers (I've trained them well).. 

While helping (and me NOT helping) one kid says: Oh! Mrs. Palmer just make the kids pick it up huh??

During our questions for our special student of the week (we call them "catch of the week") 

little boy: what do you have? like dish?

catch of the week: **confused face**

little boy: like you know.... dish ... or the other things?

catch of the week: OH! We have comcast

little boy: cool

We also wrote "Three Little Pig" stories from the wolves point of view, they were HILARIOUS!

Only one little girl wrote about the wolf eating the pigs and after eating the pigs he would tell them they were tasty :)

Good day at school

Today was a traditional Monday morning... Me running around crazy wishing I had stayed later Friday afternoon. Hahah you would think I would learn my lesson... I never do! But my turned out to be great and I left school with my common thought of "man I have the best job ever!"  I truly am grateful that I am able to have that thought. So here are some goodies from today:

This girl sneezed...... And farted! It took a lot of self control on my part to not laugh and to continue on as if nothing had happened.  Don't worry I was giggling in my head.

One of my co-workers had a death in the family so my kids made her cards today. One little boy made the sweetest card on the planet.  It had a big smiley face on the front and on the back it said
"Be happy. Don't be sad. It's ok. It's a nice day outside. Smile. Play with your children. It'll be ok".
My heart. Melted.

We had a WONDERFUL math lesson filled with TONS of talking from my students! Love! I heard lots of
"I disagree with your answer"
"How did you do it."
"That doesn't make sense"
It truly is an accomplishment to get the kids to talk about their thinking

And of course B had many humorous moments today. My new favorite technique with him is if he interrupts me he is not allowed to ever tell me that story, he can't raise his hand to tell it, wait until I'm done talking to tell me.. Once he interrupts the story is gone! So his stories are precious and he is getting better at interrupting me ;)

Anyways I love them. They make me happy and they make the long hours at school and at home worth it :)

Feel free to be jealous of my job......... Or grateful you don't have to do it. However it works :)

Pre-Halloween Festivities

My FABULOUS parents came up this weekend.  I just love it when they come to visit.  

My mom came in and told her spooky Halloween stories.  She seriously has the best CAcKlE that I've ever heard.  My kids called her "witch" the whole afternoon haha

I had one little boy who kept asking my mom how she made her poison.  He wanted to make it at home didn't really believe that it had "eyeballs, teeth, acid" etc.

 My dad was a SUPER star.  All of my kiddos wanted him to help them with drawing their monsters.  He's kinder than me and would help me.. I usually just tell them "I don't know how either!"

Saturday night we all dressed up and went to Heather's TrUnK Or tReAT.  I am so glad I have a family who is into HaLlOwEen, it's so fun!

Woody had multiple costumes on that evening.  He kept changing his "title"

Heather and I found these shirts at the DIsNeY stOrE that afternoon!! Holla to fitting into little kid's clothes

HEather and her two Princesses!

The Albright Family *snap snap*

Baby Oaklei Aurora

I honestly can't remember the last time Woody and I had such a normal   cute  picture of us taken

Towards the end of the evening Woody got a little picky as to who got to get candy when they came trick or treating!

Woody took his job of photographer very seriously...

OH yes!! This is what we usually look like for pictures

ShErRiff WoODy

 I promise he LovEs Me!

At the TrUnK OR TreAt there was a chili cook off.. YUM

We had such a fun weekend with the family.  Woody was able to take  RARE break from his homework and spent most of the time with us YAY ME :) I am so grateful for two amazing parents, for their examples to me as to how to have a fun and fulfilling life

More Kid stories

This week is our "drug free" week.  So we have had some dress up days = crazy kids... they are fun, but they always make the kids a little bit more excited than usual. 

 Today was dress like what you want to be when you grow up.  This is what I wore:

Basically my main idea was, "what outfit can I wear that represents a career and is REALLY comfy".  My Sweet husband found this bad boy for me, wad up!!
When my kids walked in today they were a little surprised

Boy: woah! That is not what I was expecting!
Me: What?! What were you expecting
Boy: I dunno...  for you to be a teacher or something
Me: Well I thought when I grow up (put my hand up... meaning taller) I could play basketball
Girl: but teacher.. you're already grown up

haha Ok.. yes you're right I'm already a grown up, I'll give up my dreams of being Michael Jordan Danit!


So remember how I said dress up days my kids crazy... well my one little boy, B, is normally crazy.  So dress up days have sent him a little bit over the top

B had a hard time in writing today and refused to write, so during Spanish he had to sit in another classroom and write for the entire half hour.. I told him absolutely no pictures and he couldn't stop writing... (don't judge me, I swear I'm a nice teacher!) This is what he wrote

"I am so bored.  When will I get out of here.  I am so mad. I want to get out What time is it? When will this end? How am I supposed to know what time it is if no one will tell me? I think this is coming to the end! Nope, I was wrong. Seriously I want to get out of here.  What time is it?"

Hahaha!! Well at least he was writing the whole time, and quiet.  Which is a BIG deal! Plus he had really good endmarks, so no complaints here :)

I had one of my little girls earn eating lunch with me and a friend this week.. we had a really good conversation

"Everybody in the whole world had kids!"
"I know where babies come from and how they come out...."
"Some people who live in other states don't have kids, so no one starts out at 0 years old"
"I don't know what these are... but they taste really yucky (tries the food) oh.. yeah they are really yucky"
me: Be careful with your chocolate milk dont spill it
gril: yeah well.. I always spill it, it's really hard not to spill it, so I'll probably spill it

Also, in real life:  Woody's sister, Ashlee got married this weekend.  So we had a wedding weekend.  It was fun to have all of his family come up and see them, and Ashlee and Cody were looking happy!

Sorry all I talk about is my kids... they are just the most exciting part of my life..