I just absolutely love Fall!!! best time of the year. It's not too cold but I'm not sweating either! I love the all the trees changing colors and all the little store putting out their pumpkins and gourds. I love the Halloween decorations and the excitment of Thanksgiving and eventually Christmas. I even stopped to buy some Candy Corn, it's only right to have such candy in the home during this holiday season. I just drove through Hernando and I am convinced it is one of the best towns in the world. Everyone is so friendly and I love the small town look and feel. It has so mnay cool old and unique shops. If it were up to me, we would end up here in Hernando. So this past week Matt had his white Coat ceremony and his family came into town. It's been pretty busy but now things are starting to go back to normal. I have made a entire list of crafts I want to make! I'll be putting up more pictures of the things I've made recently on my next post. For now, here are some pictures from Matt's Ceremony. He is well on his way to becoming an awesome and good looking Optometrist!!!

Here are the pillows I made!

pulling the taffy!!! Becca is so cute!

This is what the Taffy looked like when we poured it out. It was so sticky, corn starch was our best friend.

some of my taffy creations

Well this week we made Taffy which was pretty fun. Next time we need to add some flavoring. this past week I went antiquing. Hernando Mississippi is definately the place to go, sooo much stuff!!!!! Almost anything you want you will find in some shed. It was actually a little skecthing in some places, I might actaually have TB from a stubbed toe. Matt also finished his first week of tests. He did pretty well, he is such a smarty! Ceicil is getting bigger and getting into everything!!!!! His new thing is falling into the toilet! He has however, learned to sleep thoughout the night by himself!!!!I also taught myself how to sew! well at least the basics of it. I borrowed a sewing machine and made 3 pillow covers. it took my hours to learn how to thread the dang machine!! but with the help of youtube and the instruction manual I was finally able to get the ball rolling. So what's next? I'm thinking of making a wreath and then starting on some halloween decorations. I've found some cool ideas. I'm still looking for a job, I'm really hoping for next semester or at the very least next fall. I had a phone interview with the Memphis City Schools and it sounds as like getting a job within the next 6 months won't be impossible! well, it's something! Oh yeah!!! I almost forgot, I went armadillo hunting! yes apparently they are all arounf in these parts. Matt and I have seen a couple dead ones on the road but saturday night we saw a real one! i had no idea they were so fast! We chased it around but couldn't even get a picture of it! it was so crazy. Never thought I would see one of those. People also keep telling me that armadillo's carry leprosy...... believe it if you want, it's just what they say. Well, until next time..peace!

Lets see, what has happened in the past week? hmmm, not muchto be honest. I did however fish for the first time! Right here in Churchlake appartments. Becca and Breeann were so kind as to teach me how. I ended up catching 5 fish and releasing them all. None of them floated back to the top so I am told they are unharmed. I'm hope they are still swimming around enjoying life. The weekend was pretty busy and Matt and I attened both sessions of Stake Conference. Matt has been so busy studying for his up coming tests that I barely even see him :( oh well, I just keep telling myself only 4 years!!!! Then I'll be married to a doctor ;) Still no word on jobs, depressing really, but I keep finding things to do. I've decided to learn how to sew and tomorrow I am painting the living room. Talked to my dad today and he reminded me that I'm only being unemployed for a couplw of months and in the grand scheme of things it's not that long. I guess he's right. I need to take this time to do all the things I haven't been able to do or won't do once I get a job and start having children. My brother is officially part of the Army and is in basic training down in Georgia. I keep thinking of him and hope and pray all is going well. Oh here is some good news, I have cell phone minutes again!!!! It's been a long hard two weeks. Alright as usual my husband is fast asleep and I'm still wide awake. We're such opposite people! i'll try and post some pictures og the homemade bagels and fishing.

Well I have now decided to actually use this thing to communicate with the outside world, even though I am pretty sure only about 2 people know I have this thing. Oh well. I live in Mississippi! whoohoo! Actually despite previous feelings I actually like this place. Matt attends optometry school in Memphis so we're here for another 3 years or so. I have not found a job and have no idea when I will actually get one. In the mean time I am taking this opportunity to explore myself, doing things I've never really had the time to do or simply the freedom to. Today I work on some school stuff, made home made bagels (which are delicious) and attended some sort of exercise program at a Baptist church. I think an NFL player was teaching the class and I am pretty sure I will not be able to lift my arms for a week. But it was fun and will probably go again. Then I watched the season finally of Bachelor Pad, please no judgement I think the show is great. Nothing better then watching people fight for love and money. While living in Mississippi Matthew and I have acquired a new family member. His name is Cecil and is 7 weeks old. Probably the best kitten ever! He is my one and only baby for now and probably the next few years. Peace

I read the article : Technology and a House of Learning by Charles and Dawn Graham
I watched a bunch of different videos. Some of them were from netzsmart where I watched about the harmful effects of cyber bullying and jealous friendships. I watched more BPS videos from Frontline that talked about how children and teenagers are spending their lives on the internet. It also brought up the discussion about what parents can do to prevent issues on-line. I also watched 5 videos from NetSafeUtah which also showed videos about cyber prededors, what they say and how to be safer online. I also watch the video on Katie's story which described the Missing game and how is was used to reach Katie and showed her the harmful effects of talking and meeting stranger online. Alot of the videos were insightfull and shows how cunning and crafty prededors can be.

I talked with my mother about internet safety. I explain about the different videos that I watched and we discussed what type of things predetors say and do to sound innocent and to attract other people. I explained to her that I learned about not giving any information out o the internet and how important it is for me as a future parent and a future teacher to teach childen about internet safety. I explained about parents using different safety blockers online and my mom has already used some on our own home computers. We also discussed how to keep the temptation away such as keeping the computer in open areas where no one person is alone and secluded on the computer. Another way was to talk to children at a young age and explain the dangers of misusing the computer. I also talked about the article I read and we both discussed the good and useful qualities of the internet and that we should always be looking for the good in technology. I think my mother will continue to talk to my brother and remind him of the good and bad uses of the internet.

TPACK Lesson Plans

My three lesson plans

Math--Geometric Shapes

Langauge Arts-- Responses to Music

Science-- Animals Around the World