One Little...Two Little...Twenty Three Little Indians!

Friday, each class had a Thanksgiving feast. The Redbirds dressed up as Indians, and I borrowed one of the four year old classes' teacher, Marilyn's pilgrim outfit. This is a picture of Gennifer, the other four year year teacher, and me the day of the feast!
The children had a lot of fun feasting on Thanksgiving food and playing Thanksgiving themed games. They played pin the pilgrim hat on the turkey, blend BINGO, and made turkeys out of oreos and candy corn. I wish I had thought to take a picture of the turkeys, but in all the chaos of the day, I forgot! They were really cute! Most of the children went home after we finished games, and the six children that stayed watched A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving while I decorated the Redbird Chrismas tree. It was nice to get all the Christmas decorations up and ready for when we return after the break! We head out next week to Georgia to spend some time with the fam!

It's MY Birthday and I'll Blog if I Want to!

The Birthday Celebration began last night on my birthday eve. Stephen brought me a pumpkin latte from Starbuck's and a decorated cake to share with my teacher friends at school on my birthday. We watched the Falcons VS Ravens game on t.v., happy to see a Falcons game ACTUALLY air on Who Dat t.v! Then today my co-workers sang to me during prayer circle before school started. This picture shows my lovely assistant Connie holding my cake as I blow out my candles! I, of course, am wearing my birthday tiara that my mom had brought me to school last year on my birthday!

My kids were very excited that it was my birthday. The whole school sang to me at chapel in the morning. My roommom brought cake and ice cream for the class, and we had a party in the afternoon so I could open my presents and cards from them. It was really sweet of them to bring me things. I got some really cute winter socks, a pretty pink sweater, some gift cards, some cute bracelets, some flowers and decorated cards. Lots of fun!

I came home to find some yummy smelling bath and body works stuff and Beauty and the Beast on DVD from Stephen. For dinner, we dressed up and went to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse...delicious! We got a complimentary dessert from the waiter. It turned out the be really funny because when we first me the waiter, he wished me a happy birthday, but the rest of the dinner he kept talking about us celebrating our anniversary. We didn't correct him because we figured he was serving a lot of tables and probably just got confused. However, when he brought out our dessert, it read, "Happy Anniversary." Go figure! Oh well! It was cute either way! I was just happy to eat a great dinner and wear my "little brown dress." The dress was a real find over the summer. Nicole and I were out shopping, and I picked it up on a whim and tried it on. Of course I loved it as soon as it was on, but was terribly disappointed when I saw the $80 price tag. It was on the clearance rack, so I was hopeful that maybe it was mismarked...it WAS! I got it for $20! I was glad to finally get to wear it for my birthday! 26 has been a win so far!

Making Groceries...

We spent our Saturday today "Making Groceries," which is what the New Orleans locals call grocery shopping. Just another one of the interesting ways that people talk around here. It's never a dull moment in New Orleans, and this includes shopping for groceries. Stephen and I had a very entertaining experience, as always! The free sample ladies were giving out free alcohol samples again haha! Last time we went, is was rum and coke; this time there were two ladies--one was giving out wine, and the other was giving out vodka martinis. There's nothing classier than alcoholic beverage samples in a mini dixie cup. Oh the life in New Orleans! I tried to take a picture of them, but I couldn't figure out a way to do that discretely and not get kicked out of the grocery store!

We continued our trek through the store in search of shrimp for Stephen to make shrimp etoufee this week (yum)! We headed toward the seafood section, and boy was that a find! Because we are so close to the gulf, all the local grocery stores offer a wide variety of fresh seafood. However, I did not expect to see some of the things we saw today. I'm going to attach some pictures that I took of those interesting food choices. The seafood butchers were way in the back, so I was able to snap a few quick shots before they could yell at me. It was comical. There was a whole tuna fish with a jumbo shrimp in its mouth on display. It was very disturbing! Then right next to that, there was a whole octopus for sale. If only Stephen would have bought it for me--we could have had a fantastic dinner--NOT! Ewww! I've gotten to where nothing suprises me here anymore!