Being Thankful

The month of November is about being thankful. I'm sure it wouldn't take me very long to think of 30 things that I am thankful for, but today I am SO Thankful for not only Micah's Wonderful school, but his teachers, the children in his class and their parents. I just love his school! Today Micah's class had their Thanksgiving Feast. The kids all had made darling little hand turkey shirts and wore them along with their Indian headdresses with the Indian names on them. Micah was "Flying Eagle." Mrs. Scott painted their faces with tee pees and they looked darling. Mrs. Kathy was dressed as a Pilgrim as she served food, and there was a lot of yummy food. Including a HUGE table of desserts. Here's what we made! Darling huh?
We had So much fun at the feast. I just LOVE Micah's school!!

UGA Football

UGA football is one of my favorite things! I LOVE going to Athens on game day. There are wonderful smells and excitement everywhere. As long as you're wearing Red or black you'll find friends wherever you go. I used to have season tickets, but when the donation requirement was raised, I had to opt out. I have a wonderful uncle who has been a season ticket holder for forever and he VERY kindly passed his tickets on to our family last week. We jumped at the chance to go see the Dawgs play between the hedges. Even though this hasn't been one of our best seasons by far, I would Never turn down the chance to see a game. Plus Micah hadn't been to a real game yet. We've taken him to picture days, and even to the G Day game during the spring, but EVERYTHING about game day is different! Have I mentioned that I LOVE it?
Stacy and I had a date night on Friday night and Micah spent the night at The Rent's house. We picked him up early Saturday morning and headed to Athens. We tailgated with some friends and had a fun time before heading the the UGA bookstore.
My Uncle's seats are GREAT seats, although my first year's season ticket seats will Always be my favorite, there isn't a bad seat in the house (at least of the ones that I've sat in) We all enjoyed a Home Coming whopping of Tennessee Tech and are very thankful that we got to go! GOOO DAWGS!!
As we were leaving the game I asked Micah if he had fun, and he said yes. Then I asked him what his favorite thing was and he said "dancing with that girl." He and Peyton became the best of friends and sang and danced at the tailgate party.....So for now on, maybe we'll just let Micah party outside the gates :)

Halloween (only a week late :~)

We attended the Fall festival at the church this year and knew that it would be in doors due to the rain. We showed up a little early and Micah played all kinds of games. He had a BLAST but was ready to go to Mam-ma's house within an hour. We left with a TON of candy!!
He was So excited and asked if there would be games at Mam-ma's house. There were no games, but my goodness did we get a surprise or what? Mama, Daddy, and Nut ALL were dressed up and had pumpkins lit on the porch and all!! They crack me up!!
Mama had a bowl FULL of Micah's favorite things for him to have (there were Nilla Waffers, some kind of nut energy mix, fruit snacks, bandaids, and candy!) He was so happy! We visited for a while before heading to Mr. Jeff and Mrs. Cindy's house (Micah wanted to go there too) They had some candy for him and it just made his night to be able to see them too :) By this time it was around 7:30 or so, I thought it would be a great surprise to go by Stacy's parents, so we did. They LOVED that! On our way home we began thinking it would probably be a good idea to eat supper (VERY late for us) We stopped at a place in Monroe called Joe Shmoe's Pizza. It was So yummy! If you're ever in Monroe you should try it :) Take a look at Bones below!

Bones

Anyone who knows me and knows my taste in clothes will be VERY surprised with what I'm about to share. A couple of weeks ago Micah and I went shopping for warm pajamas. First I hit the Dreaded Wal-Mart and they had NOTHING for a boy his size. I wasn't sad, I just thought I could pick up some of the off brand of Carter's for cheap. No luck. We then hit Discover Mills. I found some cute ones at Carter's and bought them. I had plans to meet my sweet aunt for lunch and had some time to waste, so we went into Gymboree. I LOVE that place!! I found several short sleeve shirts for next spring/ summer and while checking out I told the worker bee that we were PJ shopping. Well she showed me some that they had on sale for $5.99, not bad at all especially for Gymboree. I bought them. They are MIcah's most favorite PJs and he would sleep in them EVERY night if I'd let him. What do you think of "Bones?" BTW they glow in the dark! CRAZY!!!

Micah Monkey

Micah Monkey from Jeremy McBryar on Vimeo.

Green Ash

When we first moved into our house, the tree that had been planted in our front island died. We quickly replaced it with a Magnolia, it died. Then we got a Maple tree, it died. Finally when I was just about ready to give up having a tree in our front island all together, Home Depot put all of their trees on Clearance for fall/ winter. I found a tree called Green Ash, the description said that it was drought tolerant, and would grow in nearly any soil. It cost $4.97 and had a one year warranty. I bought the tree. It quickly adapted to our yard and shot up. It is taller than nearly everyone else's trees and was planted much later than most. It is a happy tree, plus during the spring and summer it blocks me from seeing my neighbor's house across the street :) This year when the tree began to change 2-3 weeks ago, it looked beautiful, especially with my yellow lantana still in bloom.

No matter how hard I think about this next part, I can not for the life of me figure it out. But as soon as the leaves began falling from the Green Ash, Micah said "The leaves are falling that mean Halloween is almost here." Halloween is by far not one of the most celebrated things at our home. We don't go trick or treating (we'll go to the church) So I'm not sure what made him even think this. Anyway every morning when Micah wakes up first he asks me, "Is the ice cream bus coming today?" Then he asks what the day is and if he's going to school. For the last couple of weeks every day Micah has commented on the tree and told me that Halloween is coming because the leaves are nearly gone. Stacy and I just laughed it off until yesterday. This is what we saw!!

There is one lone leaf left on this tree. Take a real close look and you'll see it at the top. Needless to say, as soon as there was daylight outside this morning, I looked at that tree.... Yep, you guessed it, NO LEAVES!! It is CRAZY! Just thought I'd share :)

Halloween Party

At registration dear Mrs. Scott asked me to be a room mom. I have NO problem with that. One other girl signed up, so I knew that I wouldn't have to do everything myself. I kept thinking how much I wish I could help plan the party, but also be a bystander who gets to take pictures of all of the fun. Next time I'll have to bring some extra hands and eyes :) This morning was our very first parent planned party. We had several crafts, games, food, and the kids even got to decorate sugar cookies. We had a great turn out as far as parents go and everyone had a lot of fun. I only got a little stressed, okay, I hardly have any finger nails left. I said that my craft would be picture frames. I planned on ordering some really cute ones from Oriental Trading for $.50 a piece, with FREE shipping, but by the time the party was actually planned and I went to order the frames, I would have had to pay $30 to get them here in time for the party!!! Needless to say, the pictures have already been taken, I STILL am in charge of picture frames. Hmmmm I went to Hobby Lobby, one of my favorites, and left with NOTHING. Went to Michael's and ended up buying $1 frames, and some foam sticker to decorate them with. The price came to like $1.50 a person! That's a lot when we only requested $5 total per per for Everything. So I came up with a new idea. Popsicle sticks and the foam stickers....they turned out really cute believe it or not. We had a whole lot of fun! I am sad that I didn't get pictures of the actual party taking place, maybe another mom will be willing to share. I met some really nice people today, I just LOVE Micah's class! Here are a couple of pics of My little Monkey.... BTW apparently I missed out, Spider Man is the thing to be this year....there were 3 in his class, including a girl :) Maybe next year he'll have a choice :)