Kendra's Creations

I've been up to a few things this past month. You know me, I have a hard time giving a "bought" gift to people (unless it's kids) so I made all of my teacher gifts again this year. Here's some of my latest creations.

Summer is here!

Today is the official last day of school. We went in, said our good-byes, took some pictures, picked up report cards & headed out the door. Ahhhhh...I'm just looking forward to no more homework for a while. We started a tradition last year that me & a bunch of my girlfriends take the kids out to breakfast at a restaurant in town. We grow each year & the kids really look forward to it. The last week or so has been full of fun, field days, field trips, parties & fun with friends. Both boys had a fabulous year & great teachers. I'm so proud of them!

Bachelorette: My take

Well, I'm just totally into this season of the Bachelorette. Didn't think I would be, but I am. Last season of the Bachelor, I found this blog and I've been keeping tabs with it this season so far. He's a pretty funny guy & pretty much on target. For those of you who watched last weeks episode of the "David & Juan" drama, this is a quote from this blog that I just can't stop laughing about:

Time for Mount David to begin eruption. Let’s make one thing clear at this point: David has been drunk in every scene so far this episode. I mean, REALLY drunk. You can tell by his speech, his tone, and the fact that it’s been taking him about ten seconds to complete a blink. Never a good sign.

Oh so very ture. I'm glad he's outta here tonight. A little surprised by Juan going home, but obviously she's suspecting something about him & gave him the boot. I know they producers only want you to see the most "dramatic" parts & they edit out a lot of what really happens to make you think something else happens, but seriously, I'm wondering why Jillian hasn't see some of the true stories of these guys. I guess they talk a good game & woo her enough that she over looks all of their fake stuff.

My picks for front runners right now: Jake, Reid & Kiptyn..... Jesse is getting better
I want them outta here: WES! & Foot-fettish Tanner
Eh... take em or leave em: Robby, Ed, Breakdance dude

If I didn't write their name down, they haven't really made an impression on me one way or another. I'm already wringing my hands to see what's going to happen next week.

Neat Teacher Thank You Idea

I know it's kind of last minute... but if anyone needs ideas for teacher thank you cards, this is what I did for my kids teachers. I can't take the credit for it (I got the idea from a Creative Memories website) but it's just too cute to keep to myself. My camera has a function called Color Accent where you can zoom in on one color & everything else in the picture is black & white. That's what I used, but apparently you can also take out the color except for the "thank you" writing if you use Storybook Creator. All I did was write "Thank You" in chalk on my driveway... i do suggest using brighter colored chalk... & take a picture of your kid beside of it. I added the other writing by inserting a text box & used the color picker to find the same color as the chalk. I printed mine & mounted them on cardstock to make it a little more firm & then wrote a personal message to the teacher on the backside of the cardstock. Wallah!

The Sickies

Oh, what a week. The sickies have plagued our house. I was looking forward to a great last week of school with field trip, field day, getting back into the routine of going to the Y again and then, what do ya know... other plans accommodate my days. Last weekend we had a choir social at the Kings Mountain State Park which was buried deep in the woods and we all got ate up by mosquito's... especially the kids. I think we counted 12 bites on Carter that night. Well, you know how you itch a mosquito until it bleeds & then it scabs up with a little red dot....Carter kept growing them, except under his clothes, which I thought was very odd. Every day he had a new bite on his belly or back. I had several people look at it & we all determined it was chiggars. Soooo, that was fine & dandy until Thursday morning he woke up with 2 more spots. I decided to take him to the doctor that afternoon after his field trip. I asked a friend of mine that's a nurse to take a look at him & she said it looked like the chicken pox to her, plus it was going around the school. GASP! Oh no... he can't have chicken pox b/c he was vaccinated for that.... could he? Well another friend was there & one of her kids was home with them, she took a look at it & confirmed it for me. It just never, ever, entered my mind that it could be chicken pox. We were on a field trip, I wanted to take him home, but he was so upset. The Lord took care of that for us b/c about 30 min. into the field trip the rain was pouring down on us so all the teachers decided to call it quits & go home. I called the dr. & looked it up on the internet & sure enough, we have ourselves a case of the chicken pox. The dr. said that the vaccine prevents chicken pox 75% of the time & the others who get it usually have a milder case. He's had it all week long & I had no clue. It didn't really itch, but all the spots were in the "heat" areas of his body & under his arm pits & couple had already scabbed up. Thankfully, Thursday was the last day of new spots & most all of them are scabbed over now. He never ran a fever or even itched bad at all, so I guess his was a mild case. Now I'm on the lookout for the other 2 kids. They've both been vaccinated too so I'm hoping they won't get it, but if they are going to get it, bring it on so we don't have to deal with this during the school year.

As if that's not enough. I started getting a sore throat on Wed. It got progressively worse each day until Friday I thought I was dying. I called the doctor & went in to check it out. Sure enough, I've got strep throat. The dr. even said I got the "WTOTW" award. I asked what that meant & he sais "worst throat of the week". He said it looked like raw hamburger in the back of my mouth. After getting my prescription filled, I went home & went to bed & have pretty much been there until this afternoon. This has totally wiped me out. I haven't felt this bad in a long time. My energy has been completely zapped & even just getting up to fix me a drink has made me tired. I did fix me & Kensley some supper tonight & that took every ounce of energy I had. I'm hoping by tomorrow that I'll start feeling better. I was looking forward to going to the pool this weekend & enjoying this summer weather, but instead, we've all been couped up inside.

I'm tired of sitting up at the computer to type up this post, so I'm heading back to the bed. Here's to wishing for a better day tomorrow.

Spring Pics

Spring pics of the kids. My friend Meagan got a new camera & we were testing it out. I think they turned out really cute.

Carter's many faces... continued

I've posted about this before. He's at it again. It's really self explanatory.