You're Not Gonna Believe This!

So we started out day at school today with a meeting of all 3-6 graders. We had a Veteran's day presentation where we said the pledge, watched a video and then talked about simple things like what veterans are, why they are important, and why we should thank them. About two minutes before we started the pledge I had a little girl in my fifth grade class come up to me and say "Mrs. Miller, I am not supposed to pledge." I honestly think my jaw hit the floor! I was totally speechless and mumbled something about well do whatever you need to.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! Where in the world does a fifth grader come up with the notion that she does not need to pledge allegiance to the flag of the nation that she lives in and honor the commitment to our freedom and those who keep us free. I know that there is some sort of parent thing behind that but I was seriously appalled and I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of our veterans, thank you to everyone who serves our country in any way, who donates their time, keep us safe, and those who have given their life so that we can have the privileges and freedoms that we have with that said, I proudly pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation UNDER GOD, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all!

When You Are A Fifth Grader. . .

Any opportunity to wear something out of the ordinary is exciting! Due to the need to be politically correct we are not allowed to have "Halloween" Parties so we have "Fall Festivals" and this year we were able to have a theme. Due to the fact that my class did not want anyone to feel left out by not having something we chose as a theme we picked 'hat and scarf day' so that all who wanted to participate could. Well here we are: Little did we know that it would start snowing at 12:30 and continue all afternoon throwing off any chance we had at accomplishing ANYTHING! Can you totally tell we are 5th graders?!

The next few weeks are crazy around here including things like deer hunting, conferences, work nights, and of course financial peace university on Tuesday nights!

Lots to say

So being that I have the next two days off of school I have a few lists of things I want to do (shocking, I know, that I would make lists). Being that I finished EVERYTHING on my have to get done Thursday list I figured that I could take some time and do some of the things on my would like to do list. I baked cookies, read a little, and then started doing something that I am getting kind of excited about. I am not sure how it is going to go but I am going to put it out there. For my birthday I got some really, really cool scrapbooking software and I can make all kinds of things on my computer now. I made things for our wedding like the save the date cards, table numbers, thank you cards, and welcome bag tags. I also played around with a couple baby announcements when some friends of mine had babies. The more I have been thinking the more I have been looking at doing Christmas cards. This is where all of you come in. . . I am thinking that it would be fun if I could make Christmas cards for some of you. I know it is October but if I start now it wouldn't be so crazy later. I took some pictures of Ryan and I and my family and made a few "mock-ups" that you could choose if you would like or I could make a custom one. All you would have to do would be email me a picture (or two or three) and pay me $10.00. I would then make up a Christmas card for you and email it to you to print at costco, target, wallyworld, wherever you can print pictures. I could do pretty much any size and you can tell me what you want it to say or I could be creative with it. Think about it, check out the samples below, and if you are interested email me at ljwhite07@gmail.com. You could also tell your friends that you think might be interested :) Think about it and let me know. Here are the samples:

Mel & Eric Teders

This weekend my friend Mel married the love of her life, Eric. I was blessed enough to be there the night they met and be in their wedding and celebrate with them. It was a beautiful wedding and we wish them many many many many years of happiness!

Mel and her dad

THE kissBuddies!

Mel and her nephew :)

My hubby and I

Wedding Pictures and Video

For those of you who have been waiting as anxiously as I have for the wedding pictures from the photographer and the highlight video from the videographer here are the links to both

The video is http://www.primaverastudios.com/index.html#/leanneandryan/

and the pictures are on Chelsie's Blog at http://www.chelsiekrafka.com/blog/

There will be more pictures but here are the ones we can see as of now. Enjoy!

Who Knew?!?!?!

1. Who knew that watching the sun rise each morning on the way to work would become one of my FAVORITE parts of the day?

2. Who knew that moving from an OLD school building into a brand NEW one would bring so many new challenges and opportunities all at the same time?

3. Who knew that a summer could CREEP by so slowly and FLY by so fast all at the same time?

4. Who knew that lasagna needs TWO jars of sauce?

5. Who knew that one awesome man could snore SO LOUD?

6. Who knew that a one stall garage could clear out one WHOLE room in our apartment and still have room for my car?

7. Who knew that we could make so many trips to TARGET to get 'one more thing?'

8. Who knew that a weekend with NOTHING planned could be so productive and relaxing?

9. Who knew that when your cell phone dies at 4:37AM it BEEPS really loud every 5 minutes until you find out where the noise is coming from, find the phone and plug it in?

10. Who knew that God would provide so many awesome surprises in such a short time and answer some prayers that have been LONG standing?

Wedding and Honeymoon

I don't have a ton of pictures to post but here are the few I do have. Everything went great even with the tornado warning :0)

Me with my beautiful flowers!


Ryan and I after our ceremony

Our Fabulous wedding party!



The view from our room at the hotel on our honeymoon.
We had so much fun and now we are back to reality and I am work work working on getting my classroom ready and at the same time trying to get our apartment together. It is a process but it will get there eventually! Thanks to everyone who made our big day as special as it was!