THE BEST SATURDAY EV-AH!

I couldn't fall asleep last night-
and then
I couldn't wait for the alarm to go off this morning!!

The MR couldn't get any sleep either because the clock is on his side-
so I kept saying
"What time is it? What time is it now? How much longer til the alarm goes off?"

{I think he is going to be moving the clock}.

Speaking of clock-
This is a comment from my very sweet friend Reagan:

I swear on all that is good and chocolately- that I would never, ever, ever text someone at 5:30 in the morning.
Unless, I was "sleep texting"....
which I HAVE eaten in my sleep before, but that does not require the dexterity that is needed to send a text.
There must be something screwy in texts from Tn to Tx.
To prove my innocence:

Don't hate on my old phone.

 I sent it when I left school on Friday:) I promise.
I love that you yelled "SQUIRRELS!" though....
I'm always messing with our bookkeeper and I get these one word emails...
"SQUIRRELS!!!!"

hee hee

OK, now on to
THE BEST SATURDAY EVER!!!!!

As we pulled into the parking lot of Demo's, I sent Laura a text
"We are pulling in.." and  when she wrote back "I see you"
I got so giddy...
(and  I had begun to calm down during our 1.5 hour drive)

I hopped right into their van
(the restaurant wasn't open yet).

It was so neat- there I was, in a van with 4 women (Laura, Heidi, Mary, and Kelli) meeting for the first time
but it didn't feel that way!

This was one of the pictures taken at the end- but I am putting it in first, so you can put names and faces together:)

Can you guess who is taking the pic?
It was the MR. You can tell because I am the only one looking at him!!! Which means that I am the only one
NOT looking at the camera that is taking a picture of the rest of them:)

I got to sit next to Jessica from Under the Alphabet Tree.
And that is a big deal, especially because we are in the same district! And this was the first time we met!
I thought it was so cool to know that there are other Clarksville bloggers-
Tangelia is also from our district! (Buggy in Kindergarten)

Laura (Kinder Kraziness) put a lot of work into this!
She had strips with questions for us to answer and then she drew them out of  a cute basket and we
won PRIZES! I love prizes.
One of my answers had the word "fart" in it- go figure!
But look at what I won!

Laminator- here I come!

Here is a picture of us working hard on our questions-

We had four tables that were put together with a break in the middle-

Seeing the food in the pictures reminds me-
Before our food came, I asked our server for "to-go" silverware. (More on my metal affliction)

He looked at me a little weird, but he brought it.
Then after our food arrived, I heard one of the ladies say something about being hard to eat with the plastic fork.
I didn't realize that he brought little to-go packets for everyone!

Ha ha! So i got up and stole picked up some rolled silver in cloth napkins for the rest of the ladies!!!
I had some hearty pasta with sauce and chicken, and it was not
an easy feat to get that fett on that little fork- but because of my "condition"-
I worked my way through it:)

Jennifer and Shana are two teachers from Dickson- they are working on a blog - and we are anxiously waiting more details on that so we can follow!
They brought very sweet gifts for everyone:

They had these cute jars with M&Ms and a sweet poem about being great teachers (thank you)
and a little note saying we are all Tea-riffic!
Laura made us all these cute deskplates with our names!!!
And Heidi put together these wonder reading packets
 (complete with *kid whackers*)
that was for Jessica:)
Kerri had an awesome grab bag o' books for each to choose from:)

We played the purse game- I LOVE the purse game!
I brought these little gift bags for those who won.

(Walmart has some cute little stationary- and who doesn't love candy??)
After the food and games

we traded in our tickets for prizes at the counter
{no, wait- that was at chuck e cheese}

Ok, no tickets to redeem

But we did have some very insightful conversations about our state's new EVAL system-
 Given the choice between dealing with the new eval system or going to chuck e. cheese,
I would choose the chuckster-
 and I detest that rat.
I avoid every party we are invited to that takes place there!
But I would rather go there everyday for the
rest of my life,
 for a month solid,
 for a week,
every other Tuesday for a month and a half
than try to understand the engineering of this new system.

But rather than let all that get us down- we talked about the part we love~
That is why I love my "bloggy life"!

I am definitely loving my bloggy life more than my everyday life right now-
the main reason is because
"Danci" {formally known as "Stan"}
has to finish doing the taxes.
 So rather than be lazy and read blogs all day tomorrow-
I have to wrap that up - bleck!

I leave you with my littlest Little-

This was at Opry Mills after the Meet Up.
We took a look-see now that it is re-opened after the flood.
The only thing we ended up buying was a  Land Speeder from the Lego Store-

He always wears a disguise when we are out for fear of the paparazzi...they are always like
"Miss Squirrels! Miss Squirrels! Over here!!! WHo are you wearing today...? What are your thoughts on...?"

He just can't take all the publicity:) giggle giggle- quack- oops!

Thanks again to Laura-
and I am definitely in if you are planning a getaway this summer- someone just has to come get me!