A couple weeks ago, I had to go to West Jefferson. The Coney family has vacationed in and around West Jefferson since I started college at Appalachian...I love the small town feel there! They had there Christmas decorations up already when we were there (no judgement here!) and it was so pretty, I had to take a picture.
My students had to create science projects that use a simple machine. Their projects were incredible, but I sadly didn't get a chance to take a picture of each project. We had a mini science fair and the children all told how they built their simple machine and how it worked. This is the only one I was able to take a picture of...various pulleys that can lift powered bottles! ("Hey Mrs. Blair, can I drink that when he's done?" "No. No, you may not.") We had everything from a Lego man whose car went up a ramp to a series of sailboats that turned on a lever. So creative!
Last weekend, we had nothing going on with church or our families. Jared spent a large part of the day doing yard work, and I went to the store and then tried out some new recipes! It was a fun and relaxing day. I also closed the garage door when I went to the grocery store and almost locked Jared out of the house. Whoops again. :) Anyways, I wanted to share these recipes with you because we enjoyed them so much!
Dinner was pizza casserole. It obviously made a lot, so we ate off of it for almost the rest of the week!
I found the recipe on Pinterest. It's from this website:
Our pizza casserole was not 3 meat, because I enjoy sausage as much as I enjoy a baseball bat to the head. Thus, we had 2 meat pizza casserole.
For dessert, we had Krispy Kreme cupcakes! I also found that recipe on Pinterest. We really didn't think they tasted like Krispy Kreme doughnuts, but they were still good! I would recommend this recipe, too!
At some point a couple weeks ago, I was inspired to try crocheting a hat. I've never done that, so I was pretty happy with how it turned out! I had to undo and redo some parts because I realized after the fact that parts of the pattern could be altered if needed. It's a beret-style hat, and I think it turned out pretty well!
I got the pattern here: http://creativeyarn.blogspot.com/2008/02/puff-stitch-crochet-beret-with-bow.html
If you like crocheting and are interested in trying to make it, I say go for it! It was pretty simple once I got the hang of it!
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| A picture of the finished product! |
My bff Teenia mailed me a Thanksgiving card...she's the best! Yay holidays!
*Note the penguin pj pants...on laundry day, anything is free game!
Yesterday, I ventured to Concord Mills with a couple of ladies from church. One of them is the music pastor's wife, and the other has children that hang out with us on Sunday nights and she teaches with me. We had a full day - met at and left the church around 8:45 and got back around 10:00 last night! It's been a while since I've had a long shopping day, and I got a good start on Christmas presents. I'm saving some of my shopping for when we're in Winston-Salem later this week...Hanes Mall, consider yourself warned.
We're so excited for Thanksgiving and for spending a few days at home!
We are going home Wednesday so that we can go to the mall. It was either go Wednesday or go on Black (go to the mall if you have a death wish) Friday. Wednesday was the obvious choice. We're also going to FBCW's Thanksgiving dinner Wednesday night...I hope we get to see a lot of familiar faces while we're there!
Thursday, we'll be celebrating a Coney Thanksgiving, and Friday will be the Blair Thanksgiving! Nothing like stuffing our faces three days in a row with our favorite people :)
I hope everyone has a blessed Thanksgiving. Our pastor shared some thoughts about Thanksgiving this morning, one of which I would like to re-share: "Who you're thankful to is more important than what you're thankful for." So true! Happy Thanksgiving, friends!
