A huge moment!

We went to Atlanta recently for my aunts wedding. She is 60 yrs. old and got married for the first time. We love Frank to pieces! It was such a classy southern wedding! With 7 course meals and the whole nine yards. Very intimate and private though. It was held at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. I have waited with excitement for her for a long time. She means so much to me! She is technically my dad's cousin but much more like an aunt. Since she never had kids, me and my siblings were like her kids. She has done so much for us in our lives.
Also I got to be with my whole family which was a ton of fun. It was like a little get-a-way for Steve and I too! We needed a little Rest and Relaxation after busy season. Here are a few pics!

We went to Atlanta recently for my aunts wedding. She is 60 yrs. old and got married for the first time. We love Frank to pieces! It was such a classy southern wedding! With 7 course meals and the whole nine yards. Very intimate and private though. It was held at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. I have waited with excitement for her for a long time. She means so much to me! She is technically my dad's cousin but much more like an aunt. Since she never had kids, me and my siblings were like her kids. She has done so much for us in our lives.
Also I got to be with my whole family which was a ton of fun. It was like a little get-a-way for Steve and I too! We needed a little Rest and Relaxation after busy season. Here are a few pics!

This is Kay and Frank! Defiantly not the best picture of the night but we didn't get too many pictures. We were having too much fun dancing. Steve was so funny dancing all night. He told a lot of the other ladies... I might act like I am drunk by the way I dance... but really I am not :) Ha Ha Ha I love his sense of humor!My sister in law and I trying to kiss my "germ a phoebe" brother after the rehearsal dinner
Kay dancing near the end of the night! Such a party Queen!
My beautiful sister is the only un-married sister and so we took pictures all over the gardens with her and these frogs! Such a cutie she is!

All of us girls and Kacey the flower girl in the middle. How I do love my sisters and sister in laws!
This is some of my family dancing. We had all of us in there at one point but we only had video of that so here is the one picture
Right next door to our hotel was a huge Deloitte building... Some people just cant get away from work!

What we've been up to... Jazz Game

SO... My students know that I love the Jazz (even though I am seriously frustrated with them right now) Any how... So one of my students came in one day and said "Mrs.Dalton, my dads company has good lower bowl tickets and they aren't going to use them tonight and I thought of you" So she handed them over! SWEET! So steve and I got to go to a free lower bowl ticket game. It was the last home game against the Phoenix Suns. They lost but it was still a lot of fun! I even got a picture with baby bear!

Valentine's Day to a 7th Grader

SO, I have this hispanic boy from Mexico who is just such a funny kid! Very proper, yet a wonderful sense of humor. He comes to visit me every morning before school starts. Well, he comes in this morning for his usual chat and he starts telling me about wanting to ask a girl to be his Valentine . I said "Oh, What do you do for your Valentine?" He say's well (in his spanish accent) ... "I send her two red roses and a card that says... you're my valentine (at school) and then we do something after school" I said "oh, what do you do after school?" He said well... we go out for ice cream and that all (so innocently) . I said oh that is so sweet. Then I asked who is he going to ask to be his Valentine. Well, he couldn't say it out loud because about 3 other kids were in my room. So he got a post it note out of my desk and wrote her name. Just about that time she walked in my room behind him. He turned red and said "Well, I better go". He didn't even say hi to her as he left, he was too shy. She is a sweet little shy girl, not the typical "HOT" girl that every boy wants ( Which makes me love him even more for not going for the popular girls) . Then he came back like 2 minutes later and whispered to me "Mrs. Dalton, please don't talk about it or say anything out loud." I told him my lips were sealed. He makes me laugh!


Just thought you might like a funny middle school Valentine story to make you laugh today!

No more monkeys jumping on the Bed!

So today I have had a really funny day! I just absolutely love my students. I think they are the BEST! They always keep me laughing.

I have this 250+ lb. Samoan boy in my first period. He came up to me and asked if he could go get a band-aide from our hall monitor. He had a cut on his hand and it was bleeding. I said sure and asked him how he got the cut. He said "Well... I was jumping on my bed and I hit the light fixture with my hand" Well... Can you imagine a 250 lb Samoan boy jumping on his bed! Of course I had to laugh. He said... "Mrs. Dalton my mom never lets me jump on my bed when she is home and so I was jumping on my bed this morning after she left for work and before I came to school" Oh well then I had to laugh even more! So then he said... "Well, Lesson learned" I won't jump on my bed any more. AND... "I am glad you can laugh Mrs. Dalton". We all had a good laugh together. I hope this gives you a hilarious visual of a BIG BOY jumping on his bed, and you can get a good laugh out of it too!

Sometimes I need to write more of these funny things in my journal just to keep me laughing.

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas. All of my family came into town and we had a FULL house! It was a lot of fun! I am so thankful for family this time of year. We were also able to spend some time with friends and just hang out. We spent a fun New Years with Steve's family and all is well in the Dalton home. We are happy and excited for 2010!
Meeting Sophie for the first time! What a sweetie she is! I had this hat made special for her in the cold weather.






It is a family tradition to re-enact the nativity. We had the newest member of the family Sophie be Jesus, the twins were the wise men, Jack was the Shepard and my Brother and Sister in law were Mary and Joseph. Definitely a highlight!

Teaching at Christmas

It is Dec. 23rd and I am at School. Well, I would love to be sleeping in but we have school today. So I decided I would make it a wonderful day, even though I would love to be at home with my family from out of town. I came in and started teasing the kids in the hall and making jokes to help them get to class. Saw a few fellow teachers and had a little chat. We will have a faculty lunch today during lunch, and I am sure it will be yummy! I love my job! Truthfully I love these kids! Yes, I have to admit sometimes I could hang them by their toes, but overall I just love them so much. It has taken me a while to realize that I am really in the right profession for me, but I really do love what I do (most days). We all have tough days sometimes right? Overall I am thankful to be a teacher and so blessed to interact with so many students each day. I am so blessed to work with wonderful fellow teachers as well. Education is truly a blessing!

Merry Christmas to all kids and Teachers!

Fannie's Dream

Cool story! I am sooooo excited. If any of you know of the book "Fannie's Dream" I was mentioning it in my teen living class today and one of my student's said "My Mom and Dad wrote that book". WHAT! ARE YOU SERIOUS? I replied. That is one of my VERY FAVORITE children's books. They also wrote Snowmen at night. Anyhow, WAY COOL. So I bought the book and they are going to sign them. I might even be able to go take a tour of their house and see all the original paintings. I was just beside my self! If you haven't read these books you should totally go check them out at the library and read them. Fannie's Dream is the best book ever!