Amy's Blog

Weekend Travels

It's finally warming up some here in the mountains and I couldn't be happier! Last weekend we decided to take the top off of the Jeep and go for a ride. We rode through the Lake Weddington area and wound up about 4 miles from the Oklahoma line! It was such a nice day and I can't wait to go through there again when things start blooming. Here are some photos I took along the roadside. The boulders were just awesome! The kids had such a fabulous time climbing the rocks!

Welcome Macy

Macy is our new puppy. She's a Golden Retriever/Lab mix. She's been a very good girl and hasn't had one bit of trouble with her potty and kennel training. We're very proud of her and she is in love with the kids.

This is my new life.

This is what I brought home today to grade. This is less than one day's worth of work from my students. I graded for two hours this afternoon before taking a picture of this stack. This is why I don't get to knit or spin much anymore.

A New Meme

Don't worry, I'll post some new knitting and even some spinning content soon. But in the mean time...........This one you answer with just one word. Consider yourself tagged! ;0)

1. Yourself: busy
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend (spouse): true
3. Your hair: boring
4. Your mother: musical
5. Your Father: hunter
6. Your Favorite Item: yarn
7. Your dream last night: missing
8. Your Favorite drink: soda
9. Your Dream Car: mustang convertible (ok, so that's two words!)
10. The room you are in: living
11. Your Ex: gone
12. Your fear: failure
13. What you want to be in 10 years? happy
14. Who you hung out with last night? teenagers
15. What You're Not? simple
16. Muffins: blueberry
17. One of Your Wish List Items: louet
18. Time: more
19. The Last Thing You Did: grade
20. What You Are Wearing: sweats
21. Your Favorite Weather: snow
22. Your Favorite Book: biography
23. The Last Thing You Ate: candy
24. Your Life: good
25. Your Mood: frustrated
26. Your best friend: Rebecca & Colleen (who I miss!)
27. What are you thinking about right now? knitting
28. Your car: Impala
29. What are you doing at the moment? avoiding
30. Your summer: rest
31. Your relationship status: married
32. What is on your TV? cartoons
33. What is the weather like? wacky
34. When is the last time you laughed? today

48 Things

I picked this off of Lisa's blog, so here goes.

48 Things You Could Care Less About

1. FIRST NAME? Amy
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Not that I know of
3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? Last week, I was feeling really sick
4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? I guess so, but my mom's is really pretty
5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCHMEAT? bologna
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Probably
7. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? this blog
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yes
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? H-E-L-L NO!
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Cap'n Crunch
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? No
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? sometimes
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? Lately it's been strawberry which is odd because I've hated strawberry icecream my whole life.
14. SHOE SIZE? 8 1/2
15. RED OR PINK? PINK PINK PINK!!!
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? I'm too random and way overloaded with stuff to do and I let people take advantage of me because I do not say NO enough.
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? My great-grandma.
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? Um, well, they can steal it for their blog, but I'd rather read it there! Leave me a link in the comments if you do though!
19. WHAT COLOR PANTS, SHIRT AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Plaid multicolored pastel flannel pajama pants, pink t-shirt, and pink fuzzy socks
20. LAST THING YOU ATE? A chili-cheese coney from Sonic
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Mythbusters on TV and Chandler talking on the phone.
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Carnation pink.
23. FAVORITE SMELL? The way Toby's face smells right after he shaves
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? My mom.
25. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO? their smile
26. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON you stole THIS from? Yes! She's way cool and she loves pink like me!
27. FAVORITE DRINK? Dr. Pepper, but I've made myself stop drinking it and switched to Diet Coke which I tolerate.
28. FAVORITE SPORT? Well.....I love to watch NASCAR, but I take Tae Kwon Do and now, believe it or not, I play Soccer and it's really super fun too. So it's hard to say just one thing right now.
29. EYE COLOR? blue
30. HAT SIZE? 100 sts in worsted weight on a size 6 needle.
31. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Yes, and glasses too, but not at the same time! lol
32. FAVORITE FOOD? Mexican
33. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy endings for sure.
35. SUMMER OR WINTER? Winter, I get to wear my knitted wool socks.
36. HUGS OR KISSES? Kisses
37. FAVORITE DESSERT? Cheesecake.
38. WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? No idea.
39. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Again, no idea.
40. WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING? Ron Clark's ESSENTIAL 55 and EXCELLENT 11.
41. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE Pad? It's a Ducks Unlimited pad with labs on it.
42. WHAT DID YOU WATCH LAST NIGHT ON TV? NCIS
43. FAVORITE SOUNDS? silence.
44. ROLLING STONE OR BEATLES? Stones
45. THE FURTHEST YOU'VE BEEN FROM HOME? I don't know
46. WHAT'S YOUR SPECIAL TALENT? I'm 31 years old, way overweight, but I can still do the straddle splits and get up!
47. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Louisiana
48. WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? I stole it from Lisa's blog.

What a feeling!

I am so excited tonight. I passed my Tae Kwon Do belt testing and I even broke my first board!

I stink at blogging!

So I may be one of the laziest bloggers around, huh? Sorry. I've had a lot going on around here. I started teaching full-time. I'm teaching 8th and 9th grade business classes. They're GREAT!

I got a spinning wheel. So far I've made two skeins of yarn. The wheel is an Ashford Traditional single drive. I love it! Here's a sample of the yarn that I made.

My brother and his wife had a baby boy, so I knit a kimono. I made it with Sugar and Creme cotton yarn. I like the way it turned out, but I think it's going to be too small. Will have to wait to see. The only modifications I made were instead of using ribbon for the ties, I used two snaps. I put one on each side. I had thought about using buttons, but after searching two stores and not finding a single button that would look right, I gave up and went for snaps. I just thought that the ribbon would be too girly with this blue. I started another kimono for my sister-in-law. She's having a girl so a pretty girlie sweater it will be!

This weekend we went to Bikes, Blues, and BBQ. It was fun, but we didn't venture too far into the crowd of people. It was VERY crowded.

Chandler got to meet the guys from the Chrome Shop Mafia. They make the television show Trick My Truck on CMT. He was excited to say the least. They had one of their trucks on display and it was really neat to see.

Please pardon the smokey picture. The smoke was from this:

That is the world's largest travelling bbq pit. Pretty cool! Don't know why that impressed me so much.

After the festival, we went up to Pig Trail Harley to look at the bikes. There were too many people in there to look this weekend. We still haven't decided exactly which bike we're going to buy yet. I know that I will be glad when we finally get the bike no matter what it is because the waiting is stressful.

Let's see...what else....Oh yeah! I'm looking forward to Wednesday because I'm taking nine of my FBLA members to the Fall Leadership Conference. Our guest speaker is going to be awesome. Judson Laiply, the guy who does the Evolution of Dance is going to be the speaker and I can't tell you how excited my kids are! It's going to be a fun day.

I guess that's about it for now. I'll do my best to not be as long updating again.