sophomoric

One of my sophomore sponsorly duties was to "supervise" the class party at one of the girl's relatives' house nearby. We loaded up almost the whole class and drove them over.



Most of the afternoon was spent watching TV. We had the football game on in two locations, and the Wii upstairs.





TV watching was supplemented with foosball, pillow fights, and pool. You can see here they were excited when the Titans were doing well. Too bad they lost in the end.



The boys stole the chair from McKenzie and Shana, who then tried to dump them out of it. This was a BAD idea. Right about the time I snapped this picture, the front left leg broke off the chair. Granted it was only plastic, but still, we felt bad breaking their furniture.


Their house sits on top of a hill, just down the ridge from Highland. They have 3 cows and I counted 1 dog and 4 cats. I didn't think the school's mini bus would make it up the hill.



Tyler gave Shana a good ride on the tire swing.

mmm . . . marshmallowy goodness

I forgot to put this picture on my last blog. It's the Willow Tree nativity set the girls got me last year. I love it! It's sitting on top of my entertainment center.

It's that time of year again . . . . . Faculty Family Vespers! This year I have 6 girls who are all seniors. Clockwise from the top left are April, Gianna, Natalie, Candace, Andie, and Erika. I know you will remember and appreciate the back of their heads.

After eating lots of pizza, veggies, chips, and apple crisp, we painted ornaments again this year. I found some cute ones at Hobby Lobby that were unfinished. They were more fun to paint than the plain shapes we had last year. Ornament painting evolved into face painting.

Gianna meticulously paints her stocking ornament

Natalie's picture frame ornament

Candace the reindeer contemplates the meaning of Christmas as she sits by the tree.

I spiced things up by getting out my mini-marshmallow gun. I managed to shoot one straight into Candace's mouth! They all want one now. That's what I should have made them for Christmas . . .

Yes, this is exactly what it looks like. Why didn't I think of it sooner?

Group shot

And with ornaments!
(L to R: Erika, Gianna, Andie, Natalie, Candace, April)

celebrations (don't tell Olivia)

What was supposed to be a surprise for Jaclyn and Ryan's engagement turned into a surprise for all four of us.


After I had been very vague with letting Kelli know whether or not we could come on Saturday night, I text messaged her on Friday and let her know Ryan and I could come. Since we got engaged on Thursday (earlier than Ryan thought he would be able to ask me), we were free. Kelli and everyone surprised us by including us in the party.

After we had snacks and cake, we played a round of Thump Thump (7 Up, Old Thunder, . . .) It was really fun. I lost with style.




I came into work this morning and my office was filled with balloons and there was a bottle of sparkling grape juice and a bag of kisses on my desk with a card from Don & J.P.

Everyone seems to be really excited . . . except Olivia. She made her opinion very clear to me in the hallway when I told her I was getting married. "Why you got married?!?" and then when I explained that I wasn't yet, "Carrie, you CANNOT get married!"