First Year Teaching Memories....

I do not often blog about my career as a teacher, you just never know these days, but there are a few memories I would like share/remember...

As a teacher, you are often left notes on your desk, and you never know what you are going to get...

There are often the sweet notes, that remind you why you chose this profession....

 Dear, Mrs. Pody I love you. And thanks for teaching me.

ps. I like your hair. 

(You can always use a good compliment;)

 Mrs. Pody makes me so happy I smile.

(No need to elaborate, that just makes my heart smile;)

 Mrs. Pody you are a wonderful teacher and fun. Thank you for being a perfect teacher.

(How sweet is that?!)

 I love Mrs. Pody so much.

I hope you like teaching your class. Cause we don't want to go we want to stay with you

(Such a sweetheart...)

Then you have the notes that give you a much needed laugh... :)

 It's always fun to see how they view you.... 

She even gave me some beautiful pink earrings :)

 This one made me laugh out loud... Their creative minds are so funny!

 From: Pody

To: Lee

It's a Chevy.

On the side it says:

Look on the back Lee and Pody (I love how he is referring to me as PODY)

Which do you want?

 (This is the back, He even gave Lee a choice! ;)

Yesterday, I walked into the room and found this laying on my desk. 

I thought it was hilarious....

 Mrs. Pody at a club with he husben on a school night.

(This gave me a much needed laugh! Like I said, you never know what you are going to open up amd find!!! I love my high heels & extremely short dress and Mr. Lee's gigantic feet.

Little does she know, her teacher is a boring girl! ;)

Having the last name "PODY", you often get some interesting pronunciations...

So far I have gotten: PONY, POTTY, JODY, POSY, POOTY, CODY, and the list goes on.

My students have now given me the title Mrs. Purdy so I'll take that... :)

They are sweethearts (MOST of the time;).

HAVE A BLESSED WEEKEND!

Hopefully I will be back Monday with a weekend update....

Fall Decorations 2011!

This weekend, Lee and I did a little fall decorating around the house. I LOVE decorating this time of year! Especially when you go to Lowe's and get to the register, you realize you have a gift card left over from your wedding; and it is all practically "FREE"! Just wanted to share a few with you....

(I don't have my "professional" camera YET, I am still saving though!!! Bare with the poor quality pictures;)

 It's FRIDAY! 

Lee and I are going on a date tonight and HOPEFULLY stopping by the LOYAL HOMEGOODS! Lee ordered my upper cabinet lighting this week, so that, of course, calls for MORE pretties! :)

HAVE A BLESSED WEEKEND!

Random Update.... Questions Anyone?!?!

What's been going on around the PODY Household....

• We are continuing to make progress on our home. Lee has been working his booty off to make the yard look nice and it looks GREAT. We added some monkey grass around our maple tree and a few more plants to add some color. When spring gets here I am going to go crazy (I am already researching outdoor furniture but TRYING to wait to see what comes out new closer to season;)! Our next big project is adding a privacy fence in the back yard and getting our fire pit set up.
• This weekend Lee got the sound system throughout the house hooked up, it sounds like we are opening up a club.... ;) While Lee was busy with that mom and I slipped out to do a little shopping! We wanted shop for clothes as well as home decor but traffic was BAD so we only got to home decor. But we found some perfect items that I can't wait to share! We have a long way to go but a few more touches and I hope to get my sis over here to take a few pics! 
• BIG things left on the list: rug and coffee table for keeping room, table for foyer, side tables for family room, a few more decorations for the master bedroom and family room, outdoor furniture/decor, then I plan on making our "playroom" an office/craft room for now and it IS going to be my black and white room. Always wanted one and never stuck to it! That's all I can think of for now.
• I have been focusing A LOT on school and my little angels. First year teachers always have to do a little extra preparing but I have a great team that helps me out tremendously! Mom and I decorated my classroom for fall/Halloween so I hope to share those when I get my first classroom pics (hint, hint LYNDSEY!;) My children are very observant and notice EVERY LITTLE THING I change in the classroom. I like to freshen things up for them; they enjoy it. If it wasn't for my mom NONE of this would be possible though, she is my HERO!!:) I have a sweet little group (of 24 as of today!!); there are definitely stressful days(that's for any job), but I absolutely love my job and my class; extremely blessed!
• I have been reading your blogs but I have been in a blogging rut lately. Hoping that changes today!

I would  love to participate in the cute question game everyone is doing! EMAIL or comment ANY question you would like to ask! :) 

HAVE A BLESSED DAY!

Let the decorating begin!!!

 We took a trip to the lake and had a wonderful first weekend besides me getting BURNT UP! 

We left out this past Friday after school and due to bad weather we decided to come on home Saturday morning.

As you see we've moved up in the camping world... started off in a pop-up and got our camper sometime last year.

Welllll.... after very few uses we've decided to sell the Salem.

We really don't know why, it's a nice camper, just not getting a lot of use out of her! ;)

SO LONG SALEM! 

You will be missed! :)

 

 

Mom and I spent our Labor Day SHOPPING!! 

I feel like we've got a great start!:)

It's starting to feel like a home and I can't wait to share!

We are out of school today due to weather!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

HERE SHE IS!!!!!!!! FIIIINALLLLYYYY:)

 This evening I FINALLY took some pictures of our house so I MADE time to share them with you all.

I seriously did not plan on taking THIS long, but we have been extremely busy (blah, blah, blah) Like I've said before, I know everyone in America is busy so I hate saying that but we really have been crazy busy.

Between getting this house SOMEWHAT together and getting my classroom together, I did not even think about blogging (Welll, I did make time to look at y'alls blog) BUT you know what I mean;)

Anyway, so HERE SHE IS!

With the bright yellow security system sign shining RIGHT in front of the house and all!!!haha

This is the sidewalk going from the driveway to our back porch/patio.

We decided to stamp our sidewalk and I LOVE them. Totally worth the $$$! :)

You can see we have part of our deck screened and part open (obviously) But we also have a patio under the deck. The stamped concrete continues to the patio as well. We plan to put a swing and maybe a small table.Also, we plan to paint the deck chocolate when the wood does........something!(Whatever Lee always says;)

Right side of our house. My pretty window is much prettier in person, oh yeah, maybe it's the green sheet hanging taking the shine away!!;)

Upclose pic of our pots. 

Ok, so we went like two weekends ago to get pots and flowers and needless to say we were a little late on everything. We went to 5 different places and finally came across these. I thought they turned out perfectly though. The plants aren't my first choice, but they turned out pretty good for what I had to choose from. 

We also stamped our front sidewalk. (We think the orange/red hose pipe adds a little character;)

You can not tell in person, but our lot is a corner lot, so our house sits at an angle on the lot. :)

I am still looking for window boxes to put under the two larger windows with shutters. 

Any suggestions on places to get them is welcome!!

Hope you like it!

I look forward to showing you all the inside!!! But we are waiting on the other half of our furniture! It is supposed to be in the end of August... so SOON! I will tell you all the furniture story in a later post.

I hope to get my sister over here to take some better pictures when the inside is complete. My 7 year old camera has GOT TO GO! Nikon D3020404 (whatever the # is) PLEASE;)

Like I said earlier, worked hard on my little classroom this summer. I have some before and after pictures I hope to share soon (HINT for my sister) By the way, I could not have done it without my sister's, mom's, and friend Ale's help this summer. THANKS SO MUCH!

We are going to the lake for the FIRST time this summer/year this weekend! 

Camping/ lake/ boat riding/ relaxing/ pigging out EATING  HERE I COME!

 Things have SOMEWHAT slowed down, so I hope to get back to blogging on a regular basis!

HAVE A BLESSED WEEK!!