Dental Hygiene Process Evaluations

In Doreen's Dental Hygiene course they have specific tasks they need to complete in clinic to show they are competent in each area of Dental Hygiene. One of them is they have to work on children.

Who better to schedule than your own kids. (It is MUCH better than being assigned a random one that might not be as easy to 'work' with and get the task done properly.)


A couple of weeks ago, when the girls were off school one day during a Teacher In service day, I hauled them into the clinic for Doreen and one of her classmates, Whitney, to work on our kiddos.



Here Doreen and Natalie are all done and Natalie's getting a chance to pick out her new toothbrush. They both did great!(Doreen and Natalie that is!)









Whitney did some work on Joelle and you can tell by the big grins, they had a ball and both of them did fantastic as well.

Me, I snoozed in the waiting area the whole time.

It was a successful day - for all! :)

Teddy-Bear Tea Party

For Valentines day, the girls school held a Teddy-Bear Tea Party for all the students in grades K-2nd. (I'm guessin' the older kids have kinda outgrown that kinda thing.)

Many parents helped with lots of aspects of the event.

Here's Natalie with Goldilocks getting her recoginition for the 'most cuddly' teddy-bear. It was a tiny little thing! :)








Here's Joelle with Goldi, getting her recognition, and even wearing some her gold locks, for the most "Tennessee Titan Teddy."

A delicious meal was had, and they heard some stories and a song and then did a great big Teddy-Bear March around the inside of the school and all around the outside. (To give the workers a chance to 'reset' the rooms for the other activities.)

They got to play Teddy-Bear beanbag toss, and Musical Bears and do a Teddy-bear craft.







They even recruited Natalie to play a part in a little skit about "My Friend Bear." Oh yeah - the bear on her left (the light brown one), yup - that's me! I was her friend bear.

It was a really, REALLY fun event!

Can't wait for next year's Teddy-bear Tea Party!

B.M.I.A.

Hey, anyone still there?

Yes, I've been B.M.I.A. (Blog Missing in Action) recently, well for the last two weeks. We've been busy, I've been sick and I've been on Facebook.

Hello - My name is Steve and I'm a Facebookaholic.

I don't spend much of my time on FB playing lots of games. I do play one or two, but most of the time I'm commenting on friends status updates, leaving my own, and just spending time re-connecting with friends I had not been in touch with for YEARS!

Got some posts to kinda catch things up with, so I'll just start with a quick sorry, then get back to posting, pics, fun stuff and family news! :)

What Do Joelle & Natalie Think of Mommy!

Answered by Joelle age 7(½) & Natalie age 6 (They were asked these questions separately so not to be influenced by the sister’s answers.)

1. What is something Mom always says to you?
J) I Love You
N) I love You

2. What makes Mom happy?
J) That I love you.
N) When I give you hugs.

3. What makes Mom sad?
J) That I don’t do my stuff when you tell me.
N) When I disobey.

4. How does your mom make you laugh?
J) When you act like a witch.
N) When you do weird faces.

5. What was your mom like as a child?
J) Outside girl
N) You liked to be outside.

6. How old is your mom?
J) 37
N) 37

7. How tall is your mom?
J) A few inches lower than daddy.
N) 39 feet

8. What is her favorite thing to do?
J) Play with me
N) Play with me

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
J) Work, work, work
N) Study Sometimes

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
J) For our Family
N) Being a dental hygienist

11. What is your mom really good at?
J) Hugging me
N) Hugging me

12. What is your mom not very good at?
J) Neat handwriting (J said she said that to be funny)
N) Not cracking my door the right way at bedtime.

13. What does your mom do for a job?
J) Clean People’s teeth
N) Dental Hygienist

14.What is your mom's favorite food?
J) Salads
N) Gluten

15. What makes you proud of your mom?
J) When you say good things about me.
N) When you help me.

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
J) Chip Monster
N) A Silly Monster

17. What do you and your mom do together?
J) Play games
N) Talk with each other

18. How are you and your mom the same?
J) Our eyes
N) Our faces look alike

19. How are you and your mom different?
J) Your ears are bigger than mine.
N) Our hair is different colors

20. How do you know your mom loves you?
J) You show me.
N) You say, “Do you know that I love you” every night.

21. What does your mom like most about your dad?
J) That he thinks you’re funny.
N) That you can help him whenever he needs you to.


22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
J) Los Potros
N) Places that I like to go.

What Do Joelle & Natalie Think of Daddy!

Answered by Joelle age 7(½) & Natalie age 6 (They were asked these questions separately so not to be influenced by the sister’s answers.)

1. What is something dad always says to you?
J) Get your stuff done first.
N) I love you.

2. What makes dad happy?
J) When I get my stuff done first.
N) Natalie hugs.

3. What makes dad sad?
J) When I don’t get my stuff done first.
N) Disobeying

4. How does your dad make you laugh?
J) Tickling
N) Tickling

5. What was your dad like as a child?
J) The same as I am.
N) Baseball?

6. How old is your dad?
J) 39
N) 38

7. How tall is your dad?
J) 75 feet tall.
N) 68 Pounds

8. What is his favorite thing to do?
J) Play with us.
N) Computer

9. What does your dad do when you're not around?
J) Do computer, watch TV and miss me.
N) You do the things you need to do.

10. If your dad becomes famous, what will it be for?
J) Me
N) Working for Little Debbie.

11. What is your dad really good at?
J) Football
N) Catching a ball

12. What is your dad not very good at?
J) Blurt (Board game)
N) Not cracking my door the right way at bed time.

13. What does your dad do for a job?
J) Drives around putting cookies in warehouses and slip on ice.
N) Bringing Little Debbies to the bakery.

14.What is your dad's favorite food?
J) Tuna
N) Cucumbers

15. What makes you proud of your dad?
J) When you give me a hug.
N) When you bring Little Debbies home for us to eat.

16. If your dad were a cartoon character, who would he be?
J) Scooby Do
N) A bear

17. What do you and your dad do together?
J) Play Blurt and football with each other.
N) Play games and things like that.

18. How are you and your dad the same?
J) Our faces look alike - everyone says that.
N) Same color eyes

19. How are you and your dad different?
J) You have big stinky feet and a license.
N) You are bigger.

20. How do you know your dad loves you?
J) You give me hugs and kisses and you tell me.
N) You tell me everyday.

21. What does your dad like most about your mom?
J) That she’s freaky.
N) Because she helps you when he can’t do things by himself.

22. Where is your Dad's favorite place to go?
J) Home with our happy family.
N) Wal-mart.

Growin Up

The other day I was driving home after we picked the kiddos up from school. We had to stop a couple of times and the girls waited so patiently. Well at some point Doreen happened to glance into the back of the car and kinda gave me the elbow to peek - so I moved my rear-view-mirror and this is what I saw.

My youngest looking like she's a 20 something executive reading over a statement. Oh My Goodness! At the same moment my brains laughing and screaming "STOP" at the same time. She is growing up so fast! Wish I could slow it down, just a bit!

Thankfully I had my phone with me, whipped it out and snapped this photo.

My precious little girl! :)

One of those coincidence weird yet cool unexpected divine intervention moments

So I was planning on leaving for the grocery store right after the girls left for school, but I got a couple of things done and then piddled around and then delayed a bit more. Then I remembered I had two letters that I had to take the post office to send so I grabbed those up and headed out the door.

In the parking lot, I saw a couple of ladies and one looked vaguely familar, but I dismissed it because her resemblance was to my Aunt Jane who is the Principal of Newbold College in England. I parked in a spot and was listening to Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio who was making an interesting point, so I sat for a couple of minutes and listened, when the two ladies walked in front of me and low and behold - it was my Aunt Jane and her friend Mimi!

OH MY GOODNESS! What are the odds that we end up in the same place at the same time? They gotta be HUGE. I could have have headed directly to the store on another errand I was planning to run and missed them completely. But it was one of those weird, yet cool and VERY unexpected divine intervention moments!

So we talked for a few minutes then Aunt Jane had to run to a meeting and I needed to get or errands done - so we made plans to meet for lunch.

So I ran my errands, went and pulled the girls out of school and met Aunt Jane and Mimi for lunch! We had a wonderful time chatting and catching up. Aunt Jane had another meeting and so Mimi came over to our house and we continued talking.

What a MOST awesome and yet extremely pleasant suprise.

Family Fun Day OR Spring Fever

Work has slowed a little bit so they've been asking drivers if they have a bit of extra time built up to take some off to make sure everyone who needs time will be able to get it until things pick up again. So I did and Sunday was super nice weather - mid 60's - so we took advantage of it and went downtown with some friends to go biking!




Here's Natalie peddling her little legs for all they're worth on the walking bridge.












After we rode for a couple hours we stopped and had lunch at Subway - yummy. It was nice enough to eat outside too!











Then of course we had to go down the block to Klumpy's, an awesome Ice Cream store! Yuummmmmmyyyyy!












My precious girls sitting on the milk containers they fitted with a tractor seat. How quaint!
















Then we did some more riding to get rid of some of those extra calories we ate! :) Found a nice spot for a good family photo.











We rode a section we hadn't been on before and found this hill where people were doing a 'southern' version of sledding. Cardboard on a steep grassy hill! Man did we have a ball. The nice thing is we didn't have to deal with cold or snow! :)







I love the look on Natalie's face her first time down. After we went though, she grabbed her own cardboard and slid an number of times by herself.

What a fun day!!!