Monday Meet Up!

I know I already blogged today and linked up with Monday Made It, but I am finally relaxing for the evening and have to link up with The Teaching Tribune for Monday Meet Up!

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-Jamie

Monday Made It! TPT and Kitchen Redo!

Happy Monday!  I am super busy with my kitchen remodel but I had to take a break to link up with 

4th Grade Frolicks for her Monday Made It Linky!!!

 Over the weekend I created a super cute calendar pack!  It includes monthly headers (Jan-Dec) and numbered dates (1-31 plus 5 blank cards) for your classroom calendar!  It also comes with a printable teachers calendar (August 2014-July 2015) as a FREEBIE!!!!  I have been using the same classroom calendar numbers for a few years now and it is time for a change!  Is it time for you to change yours up as well?!  Check it out HERE!!!!  A preview of it is below!

Numbered Dates to laminate and use on your calendar classroom! (2x3 in. each)

Monthly headers to be printed an laminated for use on your classroom calendar! (Print on 11x17 paper)

FREEBIE teacher's calendar to go along with your new classroom calendar set!!! (8.5x11 in.)

Get your brand new classroom calendar set HERE!

Speaking of my kitchen remodel, I wanted to share a pic with you to show you what I have been up to!  We are 'antiquing' our kitchen cabinets.  Here is a pic of the before and after.  I still have a lot to do but it looks great so far!  I'll post more on exactly how we got that look when I am finished with it and can post some nice pics of the whole kitchen!

Old look on the left, new 'antiqued' look on the right!!!!  

I'd better get back to sanding and painting!  Hope everyone has a great Monday! And don't forget to link up with the Monday Made It Linky!

Jamie

Saturday Snapshots - 4th of July!

Today I am linking up with Run! Miss Nelson's Got the Camera! for her Saturday Snapshot linky party to tell you a little bit about my weekend!

Her first sparkler!  Got the solo cup idea off of Pinterest, of course! #safetyfirst

Her first time actually 'swimming' without anyone holding her! She did an incredible job! I couldn't believe it!

To preface the next pic, I want to share the easy-peasy recipe for my favorite sweet/salty treat, "Patriotic Pretzels"!

**I bought mini M&M's and medium M&M's, white bakers chocolate, pretzels, and red sprinkles!

   1.  Sort bags of M&M's.  Put all the red and blue in a separate dish.  (Time consuming, but
        worth it because the red and blue look soooo cute for the 4th of July!!!)
   2.  Lay out pretzles on wax paper in a single layer.
   2.  Melt bakers chocolate. (Make sure you do it very slowly.  I have never had good luck with  
        bakers chocolate and I over-heated the first batch I made.)
   3.  Drizzle melted chocolate over pretzels.
   4.  Sprinkle the sprinkles all over the pretzels.
   5.  Drop M&M's on the pretzels.
   6.  Let dry and devour the deliciousness!!!!!!

NOM NOM!!!!!!!!

I was feeling lucky when I was at the store and just had to buy some scratch-offs!  My feeling unfortunately didn't pan out...

My ADORABLE 4th of July outfit!  I got it at Target and it was sooo comfy!

My super cute shoes I wore with my dress!  These are seriously the most comfortable wedges I've ever owned!  Love me some Payless sales!

And of course I just had to get Baby O some cute shoes when I got my pair!  The tennis shoes and sandals light up!

And last but note least, my Time Hop for the day!  I cannot believe how much my beautiful little girl has grown the past two years!  She gets more precious (and ornery) every day! I am such a lucky momma!

My family and I had a fantastic 4th of July, with great friends, family, food and fireworks! I hope yours was fantastic as well!

Did you hit up any 4th of July sales?!  Let me know in the comments!

Thanks!

Jamie

Linky Parties Galore!

I am linking up with two awesome blogs today!  

First up is What i'm Wearing Wednesday linky with Ideas by Jivey 

Because of all of the Old Navy commercials talking about their sales I had to hit them up for some online shopping the other night!  Yesterday I received my order and I LOVE the 3 dresses I got!  They are in the washer right now or else I would totally post a selfie in one of them!  But here are pics of them!

These two are exactly the same except the color, of course!  They are super flattering!  

Old Navy $12 each

This dress is flattering as well and is much brighter than in the pic.  It's more neon pink! I love it!

Old Navy $8

And now for Wordless Wednesday with Sugar and Spice!

This is my Summertime guilty pleasure, for sure!  I know it's a bunch of vampires, fairies and witchcraft, but I still enjoy it WAY more than I should! And this is the last season so I will have to find another show to look forward to next summer!

Do you have any Summertime TV show guilty pleasures??

I love reading your comments!

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Jamie

Currently July!

I literally cannot believe it's already July!  Where has the first half of summer gone?!  I guess it's time to link up with Farley for her Currently Linky Party!

Listening- The past 2 weeks or so my daughter has been refusing to go to sleep at night.  Now she is starting it with nap time and I have no idea what to do!  She has never done this before. It is super frustrating and super sad because I HATE listening to her whine, but I know she needs the rest. Oye.  #mommyproblems

Loving- I am in LOVE with my newest product on TpT, my Circle Paper Pack FREEBIE!  It has 12 images that can be used as digital or printed backgrounds for almost anything!  I am probably going to use them to make my next set of task cards!  Go check 'em out while they're free HERE!

Thinking- I am bringing a dessert to our 4th of July get-together this year and I am pretty stoked to spend some time on Pinterest looking for the perfect item to make!  I love desserts and fireworks!

Wanting- I want to make some time to pick up my book and do some serious reading because I really like it so far.  If you haven't read Reconstructing Amelia yet, I highly suggest it!

Needing- Don't we always have laundry and dishes to do?  It seems like those two chores take up so much time every day.  Today I might just leave it alone and do some reading!  After all, it's not going anywhere but my book is due back on Thursday! LOL!

4th Plans- Going to my husband's aunt's house to swim and eat scrumptious food!  I can't wait!

I love to read your comments!

Jamie
Life As I Know It

Five for Friday ~ June 27th!

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Today I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her 'Five for Friday' linky!

On Wednesday I had the pleasure of meeting two of my new teammates for next year!  We had lunch together and got to have some good discussions as well as get to know each other a little better.  I am very excited to work with these ladies next year!

Today my daughter and I went with her daycare that she goes to two days a week during the summer to the Orr Family Farm!  It is a cute little farm with a petting zoo, playgrounds, zipline, train, and even a pumpkin patch in the fall.  Here are some pics of my baby girl from today!

My husband and I have become obsessed with the Discovery Channel show 'Naked and Afraid'!  The premise of the show is honestly pretty stupid, so I must admit that we only really like it because we get to laugh at dirty, naked people running around and trying to chop snakes heads off.  Sounds weird, but I swear it's funny!  Check it out if you haven't already!

On Sunday my family went to the Oklahoma City Zoo and had a blast!  

The hubby and I!

My mom touching a sting ray!

Olivia!

After my lunch with my new teammates this week I finally got motivated to start preparing for next school year!  To begin, of course I got on Pinterest!  So now I have a list a mile long of things to create for next year!  I am starting to get excited! YAY!

Thanks for reading!

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Tried and True & Positive Thinking Thursday

Today I am linking up with two fun Thursday linky parties!

First, I am linking up with the Teaching Tribune for her 'Tried and True' Thursday linky!

Then it's 'Positive Thinking Thursday' with Mrs. Laffin's Laughings!

This is something that I have tried and has proven true, and this post can also be considered a throw back Thursday post because I have written about it before!  In fact, it was my most viewed blog entry ever!  Check it out HERE!

CLASS DOJO!

It is an app that not only I love, but my students love as well!  It is a behavior management app on which you can give and take away points for positive and negative student behavior.  You can track students points anywhere, since you can have the app on your phone, ipad or computer.  You can give and take away points from individual students or the whole class.  Students get to choose their own avatars and parents can even track student progress online.  It was a wonderful tool for me last year, as I had a super rough class!  I highly suggest you checking it out!  It has proven itself to me as the perfect classroom management tool!

View my previous blog about Class Dojo Here!

Now a little somethin' for Positive Thinking Thursday!

I am enough.

~Jamie