Honey Pie Accessories

Visit my friend Elaine's blog and website and enter her Easter giveaway! She makes the best items for little girls and boys! Lily has many of her items-especially bows. She has been wearing her pigtail bows nonstop. Take a look-you will find something great!

Easter Giveaway information

http://www.honeypieaccessories.webs.com/ (Elaine's website)

More Changes...

There is always a project going on at the Quinn household! For Christmas, my parents bought us all new interior doors to replace the 1950 ugly slabs we have. Jeff went out and bought the hinges and doorknobs today and is starting to replace them one by one. It is a tedious job, but it will look really nice when they are all up and painted. Here is the start...

old, ugly doors

new fresh doors...(Lily's room was done first)

Animal Crazy

Here is Lily: sitting in the midst of her many stuffed animals! She has to have them ALL with her. Just ask Callie how possessive she is over them. Thanks to Uncle Stephen for the latest one, Dr. Seuss. She loves it!

Spring Fever!

What a beautiful day! The weather this week has made for awesome track practice days. Lily and I have gone and walks, and today she broke out her sand table. This evening, Lily played outside on the swingset for a good hour and a half. She threw a MAJOR fit when she had to break for dinner. I am sure this is the first trantrum of many because she loves to be outdoors. If only it would stay this nice...

Happy Birthday Tyler Swan!

Our nephew Ty turned two on March 3rd. He came to town this weekend to celebrate with us! As you can see in the pictures, he had a Mickey Mouse party. It was so cute and a lot of fun! Happy Birthday to our favorite little guy :) We love you!

Busy Bee!

This week, I was asked to take on the head track coaching position at Muncie Central. The coach quit last Friday, and the athletic director asked if I would take it over. After talking with Jeff, I decided to say "yes." I am very excited to have even been considered for this position. I am also very nervous about the responsibilities. The girls seem to be great, and many of them are my cross country runners. My plate is pretty full, but I am trusting that this is a good time to take the opportunity. Jeff is very supportive and has told me he would make sure to help extra with Lily. Now, I just have to learn how to hurdle, long jump, and high jump before Monday :) Thank goodness my grad class is over tonight! As for training for my race, it looks like I can workout with my runners now!

ISTEP!

Dear Lord,

Please help the Longfellow students this week on state testing. We have been working EXTREMELY hard these past months. Help these children to come to school with a good attitude and ready to do their best. We deserve a year of excellence!

Amen

ISTEP officially starts tomorrow. I teach third grade and luckily we only have 2 days of testing. We are a failing school, which puts us in a really bad position. I cannot explain the amount of work my staff has done since August to "revamp" the learning system. Countless hours have gone into preparing our students for this examine. It would feel really good for the rest of the city to see what excellent staff and students we have at our school. I have a really good feeling about the days to come! If any of my readers pray out there, send up a special one for Longfellow. We would really appreciate it!!