Idea for a Christmas present

I want to share this with you because now would be the time to carry out this idea. A couple of years ago when my little friend Hallie was just four years old, I came up with the idea to make her a dress up trunk for Christmas. So....when the Halloween costumes went on sale I bought everything I could find in her size from animals to princesses! There were also accessories like crowns and wands and wigs on sale. It was no problem to collect an entire box at sale prices as much as 90% off. We put all this in a pink storage tote and she loved it!

This is a joke that one of my friends told me:



Green-me asking you
red- you asking me or telling me an awnser

Would you remember me in an hour? yes or no
A minute? yes or no
What about a second? yes or no

If you awnsered yes to all of those questions, here is the 2nd part to the joke:

Knock, Knock
Who`s there?
You already forgot me?!

Cool Christmas Blog

Here is a neat Christmas blog I found:  

http://thenorthpoledaily.blogspot.com

I finally got to join the blog! I`m so excited to get started! To start out here are some jokes( I got them from my brother`s 1001 Cool Jokes book): What do you call ............
.....a man who likes to work out? Jim
......a girl with a tennis racket on her head? Annette
.......a boy hanging on the wall? Art
......a man who owes money? Bill

Doctor,Doctor......
.....My nose is running.You`d better tie it up then
.....I`m afraid if the dark. Well then keep the lights on
.....I think I`m a video. I thought I`d seen you before
.....People keep disagreeing with me. No they don`t
.....Everyone hates me. Don`t be silly, not everyone has met you

Food Jokes:
How can you tell the difference in a can of soup and baked beans?Read the labels
Waiter, I`m in a hurry will my pizza be long? No it will be round
Where do bakers keep their dough? In the bank
Waiter, why is this apple pie squashed? You told me to step on it because you were in a hurry
Have you heard the joke about the butter? Better not tell you , you might spread it

You Heard It Here First!

In the next day or so your child is going to bring home a flyer that describes the things we have planned for November. Thought I would give you a head start! Here's what it says-minus the pretty pictures.
(Anyone who wants me to add them as an author on the K8Cooks blog just let me know and you can post directly on the site)
P.S. I think Kim A. has been talking "smack" about how well she can color, so you may just want to challenge her! ( See Cornucopia Coloring Contest)


During the month of November, our school would like to celebrate the theme Giving Thanks for Family and Friends with some learning activities, contests and displays. Below is a list of our planned events.
If you have questions you can see Ms. Alice or Ms. Delilah, the two turkeys in charge of these events!

Homemade Turkey or Scarecrow Contest

Create with your family a homemade turkey or scarecrow and bring it to school for display. It can be made from any type of material. There will be prizes for the best! There will be 2 categories for this contest. One category will be 12 inches and under (table top turkeys and scarecrows). The second category will be above 12 inches. These will need to be brought to school on November 12th so they can be judged and displayed.

Walls of Learning
Ms. Alice will be creating walls of learning during this time period. One will be Turkey Trivia and the other will be the Story of Thanksgiving. There will be questions to answers each day, so read and learn!

Cornucopia Coloring Contest
Pick up your entry form on Ms. Alice's door and turn it in by Nov.19th. Adults can enter too, so teachers grab one and students take one home to your parents!

Guess the Candy Corn
See if you can guess how much candy corn is in the container outside Ms. Alice's door. Listen for the announcement that tells you when this contest is ready!

Turkey Table Manners
Ms. Patricia Garrett will be visiting with classes and reminding them about good table manners and showing how to set the Thanksgiving Feast Table!

Thomas the Turkey
Teddy T. Bear was a huge sucess, but now we have Thomas T. Turkey who will be taking his place! Thomas will be coming home with students and asking them to sit down with the family and make a list of the things your family is thankful for. Thomas will come with instructions and a page to write on. These lists will be displayed in the hallways. If you could send a family picture along with your list that would be great. You can also e-mail that picture to gibsond2@k12tn.net.

Wild Turkeys
Ms. Patti's art students will be creating wild turkeys. She will display them in the halls and on her blog http://mizpattisartroom.blogspot.com
Ms. Cross will be reading turkey stories in the library, too!

Send a favorite Thanksgiving recipe to us!
Send us your favorite Thanksgiving recipe to us and we will post it on a blog we have created just for that purpose:http:// k8cooks.blogspot.com
You can send a hand written copy or e-mail it to gibsond2@k12tn.net.

Sampling Day
Mrs. Lisa Cummings from School Coordinated Health will host a food sampling day on Nov.18th. She will have some tasty, healthy foods for us to try.

Pumpkin Roll

3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup solid pack pumpkin
1 tsp. lemon juice
3/4 cup flour(all purpose)
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Preheat @ 350. Grease and flour a 9 x 13 cookie sheet. Mix the first eight ingredients together. Add nuts. Bake for 12 min. or until done. Turn out onto wax paper. Roll wax paper and cake together. Let cool 1 hr. Unroll and spread with filling. Re-roll without wax paper and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Refrigerate.

Cream Filling
1 cup powdered sugar
8 oz. cream cheese
4 Tbs. butter
1 tsp. vanilla

Giveaway Carnival

I have recently discovered that there are many blogs out there that host GIVEAWAYS!  I had the privilege to win one of them and was a finalist in another larger one.  They are fun and who doesn't like to win something, right?  Well, one of the blogs I frequent is hosting a Giveaway Carnival!  There are HUNDREDS of giveaways linked on this blog!  So,  I just wanted to share it with everyone because I am sure you will find a few on there you would be interested in winning! If you enter any of them....Good Luck!!! Let us know back here if you are a lucky winner so we can share in your excitement! 

***  Click HERE to get started!***

A Trip to the Knoxzille Zoo

We were in for a wonderful (little) surprise at the zoo. A baby chimp was released into the viewing area to play. The zoo keeper told Bailey that his name was George and he was three months old. His mom is having a hard time learning how to carry George correctly on her chest, but she loves him very much.

Been outside on this gorgeous day playing with my camera, since my favorite boy was not here, I had to find another subject! We don't have many colorful leaves here on our Ponderosa, but I did find these and the sky was such a great shade of blue, it made a lovely background.

Everyone check out Cyndi P.'s blog, she been working on it for a couple of months and since she has two teen-age boys and a little blonde-headed tom boy to go along with them she has lots of interesting stories! Her hubby, Jack, has probably provided some interesting tales too! I look forward to seeing her post with us! Welcome Cyndi!!!
I have placed her link in our blog list column on the right.

Rebecca went to see High School Musical 3 today.

Stories in Hand

Some of you mentioned it would be nice to have a writer's workshop for adults, and when I saw this class I thought you might be interested. It's called Stories in Hand click here to go to the site
http://www.jessicasprague.com

Freebies & Deals

I have a few things to share with you.  

1.  Click here to get a free pack of Stride gum sent to you.  It is a quirky sites that mocks a legal trial.  Just click on SETTLE and answer some goofy questions and you will get a free pack of gum.  Just pick from even sillier multiple choice answers to get to the actual form.  Very goofy...but Hey, a free pack of gum!  :-)

2.  I have read on a few different blogs about Old Navy having a Halloween Special this Saturday & Sunday(25& 26).  They are supposed to be offering $1 shirts and giving away free prizes and candy to the children.  They are even having a costume contest. It all sounds very good but I am not sure if the Old Navy store in Cookeville is participating or not.  However, it might be worth it to call them and find out.  It said "in participating stores only." We may not be lucky enough to be part of it...but I wanted to tell  you in case we were. Click here to see they flyer advertising all of this good stuff!

3.  Click here to see how to trade in old cell phones for Amazon gift cards.  

4.  Click here for a printable coupon for a FREE Wallflowers or Scentport Pluggable Diffuser Starter Set from Bath & Body Works!  

5.  Click here for a free mini Magic Eraser to be mailed to you.

I love these little guys!

Keyton & Garrison

I just wanted to share one of my favorite beach pictures of my favorite little guys in the world. We had so much fun on our Dowdy Family Vacation!  If you haven't already read about it, be sure to check out my family blog and see what a great time we had in Florida!

Wow! This Blog Is Great!

I have really enjoyed everything that has been posted to this blog. What a great way for us to commuicate with one another and have lots of fun. I didn't realize that Rebekah's mom was a Bon Jovi van, but I knew that Shelby Gayle's mom was.

Look up top!

I created us a pretty header. I called Delilah and asked her opinion about it. She liked it, so I left it on here. I hope everyone likes it and finds it as a refreshing change from plain text!

Free Samples

I just wanted to share this in case any of you might not know about it.  If  you go to walmart.com you can get free samples sent to  your mailbox.  You will find them by looking on the left hand side of the site for the title IN STORES NOW.  After clicking on that you will need to select FREE SAMPLES.  There you will find many different samples offered.  Just fill out the forms requesting any that you want. (or ALL of them like I do!) PRESTO!  In a few weeks, you will start receiving them in the mail.  They change them often so be sure and check back regularly for different ones.  I always get them and I also have some sent to my mom as well.  She enjoys getting them. Happy Sampling!  

My mom and Bon Jovi

My mom loves Bon Jovi. She went to a concert. She got really close seats. Daughtry opened up for them. That was her Christmas. She got some good pictures. Her and my dad stayed at the Paris Hilton hotel. They also went to the country music hall of fame. We thought that he was staying at the same hotel because the concert was right across the street from the Paris Hilton hotel. They had a great time! 

2nd Blogging Class

Our second class will be Tuesday, October 21 from 6-7:30 in the computer lab. Hope to see you there. Bring a friend!

Free Sandwich

If you sign up here you can get a free Beef 'n Cheddar from Arbys.

https://secure.fishbowllocal.com/apps/arbys/join.asp?sssdmh=dm24.143354

Miz Patti has a new granddaughter

Kali and her big brother Owen

Last week the kids and I went to Cookeville to see the Shriners Circus. I wanted to say "Thank You" to Kim Anderson for the tickets. We had a wonderful evening.

Photo at Twilight!

I caught this with my camera about dusk tonight. Just wanted to share! I love to try my zoom lens and this was the view from my back deck!

We Are Free!

It seems that we are now free from the blogger robots that thought we were violating their service. There is no longer a warning when you come to our site and I can publish items in our layout! I knew when a human looked we would be okay!
Check out the family blog Melissa has created called The Conners . You will see that I also added it to our blog list. She is off to a great start.
Hope everyone is enjoying Fall Break as much as I am.
Delilah

Aliza posts on our blog

Aliza checks her email on her laptop

Okay Ladies, if a 10 month old can do it, WE CAN TOO! I am excited to see this blog take off! Thanks to all for contributing, this should be lots of fun.

My Hobby

I crochet name doilies, I can make 1st names , last names, I can do WELCOME which is a favorite. I made my daughters each one for their room. If anyone is interested, you can e-mail me at kimandersonanderson@yahoo.com or see me at school. Be sure to spell the name how you would like it, and the time you need it. The cost is $3.00 a letter.

Thank you

Kim Anderson

Hello everyone,
It seems we are having technical issues again. When you come to our blog you have to proceed with caution!!! I have ask for a review from a human and I believe that when they look at our blog it will be apparent that we are not a bunch of spammers. Reading our welcome message will explain us. The blog should be reviewed by tomorrow and back to normal. If not there are threats to delete us. Should that happen, "we will just back up and punt." Keep your fingers crossed!

Puzzle

I added a halloween puzzle widget to the bottom of our blog.  I thought I would switch widgets out according to our holidays and seasons.  It is cute and not nearly addictive as that BUBBLE GAME we discussed the other night!  HAHA!  

Loved the class

I really enjoyed the class Tuesday night, I got alot more ideas , learned alot more things and places to visit on the web . Can't wait until the next class. Keep the ideas coming.

Kim Anderson

Excited

I am so thankful for Mrs. Misty and Mrs. Delilah to take time from their busy schedules to teach me how to blog. I am excited to learn something new. I had a wonderful time last night and can't wait to be able to get one of my own going.

Thanks

I wanted to give a special thanks to Delilah and Misty for putting together this class. I enjoyed it and Rebecca did, too. She came home last night and blogged for an hour and a half. Her blogspot is rebeccareagan.blogspot.com Check it out. It is good.

Show Me The Money!!!

OK folks! I finally added an ad to my family blog. Delilah's mention of REAL money gave the push I needed! So, if you don't mind helping me out...please click on it when you drop by my blog! Thanks!

P.S. I had a great time sharing with you all tonight and I am so excited to have this group blog to get to know everyone better and learn all of the neat things you choose to share with us!

Happy Blogging!

Issues!! Already!

Like I said, technology always fails you when you need (want) it the most. When I tried to accept my invitation to join this blog all I got was an error message. I went to the help boards and it seems I am not alone. Try this:
Go to blogger.com and log on to your google account, then go back to your e-mail invitation and click on accept invitation --put in your info and it should work! Hope this helps.

One Size Fits All

Here we are!

We had our first blogging workshop tonight! There were 17 people all interested in blogging!!! We took lots of photos and discussed many things concerning blogging. We hope everyone had a great time!!! Expect to see many interesting posts on this blog.