Playing Catch Up (part 2)

So like I said I'm not sure how I sucked into this whole blogging thing but I wanted to apologize for all the weird font changes going on with the last post. It sure didn't look like that in my preview but anyways here is the last part of that post somehow it didn't show up with the rest of them? !

The last thing I wanted to tell you about was our recent Sunday School Outing. We went to Connors Amazing Corn Maize in Hilliard. It started out to be a cold misty gross day but in the end it turned out perfect. There were all kinds of fun things to do besides the corn maze. There were wagon rides, duck racing, pedal car races, a petting zoo, pumpkin patch, farmers market, and more. The maze was broken up into two groupings there were questions 1-5 which we completed without a hitch. And then there was questions 6-10 which were quite harder. We found marker 10 first and then thought well we will just work our way backwards and be done with it. At least we thought that until we found number 10 for the second time. To make a long story short we finally found 6-8 but never found 9. Maybe next time. If you live around here you should defiantly check them out their website is www.connerscornfieldmaze.com

Outside the start of the maze

Off we go

Didn't we just come from here?

Which way should we go? This way...no this one...umm...
I think we should go left, right?
Right! .... Right? I thought you said left!

Fancy Chicken

John liked the pigs

Feed me!

On the hayride

Feeding the cows

On your mark .... Get set....Go!

Duck Racing

John won a few of the races

Go Ducky Go!

Playing Catch Up!

So I am doing a lot of posting in one day! I have been playing with all the fun things you can do with this blog before I posted for the first time. So now I feel the need to update you on several big happenings.

First would be the Race for the Cure. It was on October the 18th. Ms. Noemi, who I have known since middle school, was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. She recently completed all of her chemo and radiation treatments and is well on her way to recovery. She is the reason we formed the “Preschool Pacers”. There were 14 of us on our team, including Ms. Noemi, and we had a blast. Well besides having to get up at the butt crack of dawn (you all know who much I love doing that) to get downtown we had a blast. Six of us actually ran the race. The rest of us had signed up to walk the 2k but then when it came down to it we ended up walking the 5k. Which if you know me I have this underling urge to just be Switzerland and let the group pick my fate. So when they all decided at the last minute for the 5k I thought CRAP! Really? Are you sure you don’t just want to stick with the 2k and all the little kids? But then when I really starting thinking …hmm 3 or so miles that’s like walking around Disney for the day with out all the stops. And I love to walk around that park. I can pretend downtown Jax is like Disney can’t I? If I squint had enough the Modis building could be the castle can’t it? Well when we got the hill I thought nah there are no hills at Disney! I might just die here at this pace! But I didn’t. I walked a 5k and it felt great! And for such a great cause! Maybe next year I’ll run it! Yeah right who am I kidding!

Ms. Noemi our Warrior!

Before the Race for the Cure!

The Preschool Pacers!
We did! We finished the race!

The next event I wanted to catch you up on is that the pre-K team asked John Michael to come and talk to the kids during Safety week. They had police officers, EMT’s and the firefighters. And they asked John to come and talk about being a solider. He planned for the big day for at least 2 weeks. He pulled out all his uniforms and made sure they had all the appropriate ribbons and name plates, he made sure they were spaced and correct in posting. You would have thought he was having a uniform inspection by the Commandant himself! John pulled out all this pictures and gear. He kept asking what all he should talk about and what to bring or not to bring. I of course being the teacher that I am made sure that the pictures of building and things being blown up and any other questionable pictures were taken care of . I reminded him that they are only four and would really just want to see all the gear that he carried in his pack. Well the day finally came I skipped some of my class so that I could be in there during his presentation. No way was I missing John being surrounded by 45 four & five year olds! Oh and the questions those little minds light ask! I wasn’t missing it!

Well talk about socks being blown off! He did so great! He came in wearing full out face paint and uniform to the T. There was this collective gasp in the room. I have never seen or heard so many four years sit so silently! We teachers looked around and couldn’t decide if the mouths hanging open were because the screams and tears were coming or because it was just so cool. It was definitely the latter! He introduced himself and told them that he was a Marine and asked if they knew what that was. They all still been shell shocked shook their little heads no. So he went on to tell them that the Navy (ooh my dad does that) used the boats to protect us and that the Army (I have army men) used the tanks, and that the air force used the planes. But the Marines we use it all to keep us safe. He then told them that when the Marines think something is really great that they say oorahh! And that if they saw anything today that they thought was really cool he wanted them all to shout oorahh! He had all his gear packed up in his backpack and had volunteers come out and pull things out and then they would try it on or what ever while he told the group about it. I was so Proud of him!!! He was amazing! The rest of the day as I took my class to their various activities I could hear shouts of ooorahh! And did you see him our solider he was sooo cool was all you could hear at pick up! I think I might just sign him up to be the solider again for my three year team! Minus the face paint, that might send some of my recently turned 3 year olds over the edge!

Sargent John talk about the Marines vs. Navy, Army and the others.

Addressing the class they were so

fascinated with him...I think it was all the face paint!

Trying on the gas mask

Ms. Kerry's Class gave him the cutest thank you card.

My first post...

So once again I have been sucked into some other type of world. First it was MySpace the land of random commenting and picture posting. And then it was Facebook more of the commenting and picture posting, only with the added fun of flairs, word games and trivia challenges. This time it is a thing called bloging. We will see how well it goes….at least it should be halfway comical! Me telling you the high and low points of my day or week maybe even month depending on how good I keep up with this thing! I mean the whole point of all this is really for you to let me know either how dumb I am or what a genius I could be. All by reading my random ramblings. But what does one really blog about. Their day? The family high jinks? The world news? Well I guess that’s for you to tell me. I mean how interesting do you really think I could be?