PTC and KS Weather

Just a quick update to let you know that I have survived the first round of Parent Teacher Conferences! I only went to 1 of the 2 nights, (long story) but was only visited by 2 parents! And of course, they were the parents of GOOD kids! All in all, it was a good experience. The best part, I will be enjoying half of a day off tomorrow, yay! That means I get to sleep in.

And to address the second part of this title. Could someone Puh-Lease explain to me how we can get SNOW last week and 70 degree weather this week? It honestly feels like spring this evening. Not that I'm complaining, just makes me wonder what the next few months are really going to be like!

5 Down!

I joined 2 Mondays ago and I found out last week I lost 5 pounds! WW is a pretty easy plan, wish me luck to stick with it! :)

Cute Cookies

It's a longggggg story, but somehow, I agreed to put on a "hamburger feed" before Friday night's football game. A local man donated $100 and the FFA purchased supplies to serve hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, chips, cookies, and a drink for $5. All in all, the event went well. We had plenty of help and managed to make over $250, after expenses. I asked the students to provide the cookies, and decided to make some myself. I was so proud of how they turned out, so I took some pictures :)

Funfetti cookies with vanilla icing and candy corn. YUM!

Dairy Judging

Tomorrow we're headed to the NW District Dairy Judging Contest at Fort Hays State University. Coming from Ho Co, I feel like I should be an excellent judge of dairy animals...right? NO WAY! Thankfully, the father of one of my students came in to help us out tonight. The kids will judge 8 classes and give 3 sets of oral reasons...wish us luck!

fun times!

my, oh my! what a night!

i had a novice teacher meeting in manhattan last friday, so i seized the opportunity go drive out the night before and be a college kid again. my good friend lori, what a good friend she is! although she had mountains of homework to finish, she still managed to see that i had a great time in Aggieville. her poor bf, brandon, was in charge of entertaining me for the evening. we started out at BW3's (forgot how YUMMY wings are!) then headed to Kite's, where we met up with Kelsey, another friend from study abroad. lori preceeded to leave us at this point, brandon took kels and i to the concert, such a gentleman, and we all had fun.
here's the funniest story of the night, just a subtle reminder that NO MATTER where you are, you'll manage to run into someone you might know: so i recognized a few guys who had judged the livestock contest at the rooks county fair. not sure why, but i felt compelled to tell them that i recognized them and followed that up with "i'm from ohio, so i don't know many ppl" one of the guys says "wait, are you a buckeye?" DUH!? what else is there? lol anywho, turns out he's from BOWLING GREEN and we actually have a handful of friends in common. scary...:) i was on an "OH" - "IO" kick for the rest of the evening/night/early morning. I think i slept about 3.5 hours before heading off to my meeting friday.
i owe this great time to lori (the DD) brandon and kelsey. thanks guys!