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More Snow!

It is seriously snowing! And big wet flakes at that. It's sorta fun! :) I bet we'll have a few inches in the morning.

Nice thing about tomorrow, it's State Basketball and SSHS plays in the AM, so they decided not to start school until 11:30. Nice! We so get to sleep in! Yay! I am excited!

But for right now - my feet are FREEZING! They are always ICE cold. It is pretty painful. I try to put socks on or put a blanket on and that just makes them clammy and even colder! Oh the dilemmas! It's a good thing Dustyn lets me warm my feet on his. And don't worry, he LOVES it.

Another random issue that I have with my feet . . . when I want to go to sleep, they start itching like CRAZY! They never itch any other time, just when I am laying down to sleep. It is like unbearable itching too! So annoying! I spend at least an hour scratching them and trying to let it calm enough so I can quickly fall asleep before I go crazy. It drives me nuts. It just started about a year ago, but I can't find anything to relieve it. I don't have any dry patches, or athletes foot or anything. They just don't like me to sleep.

Anyone have any suggestions? I would be more than happy to help my feet out. I would love to fall asleep an hour earlier! :P Until then, I will survive! :)

Giving it Back

So I was telling you all before about what the High School that Dustyn teaches at does to raise money. They have a program called "Giving it Back". Well it has come to an end and I guess they ended up raising about $5,000.00 (if I am guessing correctly). They had the giving it back assembly yesterday. Dustyn usually dresses up (in a costume the students provide) and sings a song (if they raise like $2,000.00 or so).

Well they raised enough money - so yesterday he stood in front of the student body dressed like this:

And sang "Popcorn Popping". Why does he always tell me the day AFTER! Come on. It wouldn't hurt to let me be there just once!

. . . and MORE suckers!

So you know how we made those suckers for "Taste of Christmas" and then not too many people showed up?  Well we decided to just let them sell the remaining suckers in the office to the students to raise more money.  Well they sold out. . . fast.  So the Student Council came up to me yesterday and asked me to make more suckers.  Really?  Do I have to?  Of course, I can't say no.  I mean it's for a good cause and it's the least I can do.  But that didn't make me anymore excited to make more.  I am kinda suckered out!

So last night Dustyn and I made a little over 400 suckers.  We made them for almost 6 hours.  We had two pots going and were cooking them as fast as possible with the amount of molds that we had.  It was. . . fun.   We finally gave up at 1:00AM and decided that was enough.  We were done.  I am hoping this isn't becoming a routine.  Maybe if I were able to take a month long break or something.  LOL!  

I am happy that it was all for a good cause and that it is helping a family raise enough money for a bone-marrow transplant.  That part makes me happy.

Suckers, Suckers and more Suckers.

Every year during the Christmas Season, SSHS has a fundraiser for a family in the area. It's called "Giving it Back". They have an auction and auction off "slaves for a day" and "principle for the day", etc. They also make an "elixir of death" and you can add ingredients for $5.00 each. In the end they blend it all up and the Student Council drinks it. I am pretty sure you could not get me in the same room as that concoction! YUCK! They raise quite a bit of money though. On the last day of school before Christmas Break, they have the "Principle for a day". They set up X-Box, Wii, Playstation, and different game systems in the Library and then they have some movies playing in the Auditorium and lots of other activities going on through out the day. Each event costs money and all the money goes to the family that they are raising money for. If they want to get out of school all day... they can pay $10.00 and play all day (but of course they have to stay on campus). It is fun for the kids and it is for a great cause. I think that the principle for a day went for $800.00 or so this year. Usually a few students combine all their money and buy it together. In the end if they earn so much money, the teachers agree to do something. Usually Dustyn has to dress up in a costume/outfit that the students choose and sing a song. Some teachers shave their legs and heads or pierce their ears. One teacher usually gets duck taped to the wall for the assembly. It is quite the fundraiser.

They always have a "Taste of Christmas" night where all the teachers submit a recipe and then bring a sample for everyone to try. It costs $5.00 (recipe book and samples) and of course, it all goes to giving it back. Well for our recipe... we submitted a yummy Chocolate Cream Pie and Suckers. We only made suckers because pie would just be too much. But we made around 225 suckers. It was quite the process, but a lot of fun! Here are some pictures of us making suckers!

This is just me playing around with my camera! :)

This is Dustyn's "Do we have to make more??" look.

Dustyn begged and begged me to make Clove suckers for him! YUCK! But I made them for him anyways.

They were pretty . . .

But I made him pour the STINKY strong things! Eww....

And this was just one of my favorite suckers! I thought it looked cool!

100 years of SSHS

Tonight was SSHS's 100th Birthday! They had a huge party and it was lots of fun! They had people of all ages that came to see all the memorabilia from the past 100 years of high school at South Sevier. There were old prom dresses and uniforms. Pictures and old year books, all kinds of fun things. It was like a HUGE school reunion. Most of the people there graduated before 1950. It was awesome! Dustyn was selling old yearbooks for 5 dollars. They were also selling past senior hoodies and t-shirts. They had birthday cake and sprite and had a video slide show. Then at 9:00 they put on some awesome fireworks and lit the SS's on the hill.

It was a great night.

SSHS Girls Soccer

Dustyn and I went to the SSHS girls soccer game today. It was awsome! They did so well! They lost, but they did great. It was 1-0 for Manti. But Manti had like 30 players and South Sevier had 11 and then two more came at half. Since you need 10 players in at a time... most of them played the entire time. They were amazing. The goalie just joined the team this week. This was her second game and she was unbelievable. She has never played soccer before, but you would never guess it! The girls were all so wore out and dissappointed, but they did great. Now the Refs.... that's another story. ;)

Go SSHS Rams!

Dustyn was beaming with school spirit today! He went to a Pep Assembly, Walked in a Homecoming Parade, attended a Volley Ball Game and the Homecoming football game... And I tell you what... it must of paid off. South Sevier beat North Sevier tonight! Woohooo!

Prime Rib

So first of all... I totally hate that Drivers License Picture... but I am trying to keep it there since it is the only picture that i know of with my short hair.

Anyways, tonight we went over to SSHS and attended the Parent/Student FFA banquet. It was pretty fun. We mostly went for the prime rib... but anyways... thanks SSHS for making dinner.

Then Dustyn had to stay for an hour or so for a study group. Fun stuff!

That was our night.

I guess you could say it was a lovely day.

And here I am again on the computer as Dustyn sleeps. Silly kid.