Great friends, good sushi!

Love my best buddy, Jenni Hufford! She is such a great friend! We had fun eating w/ our hubbies at a sushi place! I LOVE my friends and I LOVE good sushi!! :)

My Gracie's in 1st grade!

Grace just started 1st grade at a new charter school downtown! She loves it! The first day she was eager to meet her new teacher, classmates, and see what her new school is like! But our "Nervous Nellie" (a.k.a. Grace) got very anxious on her second day of 1st grade! Change is not a fun thing for our lil' girl! She gets really nervous! So, Grace was throwing up all morning on her second day of school. Needless to say, we didn't even make it to school, after pulling over 3 times in the car for her to puke! Poor Gracie! So her MiMi came over and watched her and comforted her all day, while the rest of the Spear's went to work and school! Ever since Grace overcame her nerves, she has loved going to her new school! She can't wait to go each day! She has made great friends, loves her teacher, and is learning a lot! She wants to be a writer when she grows up! She loves to write stories! So cute! Our baby is growing up soo fast!

Oh Boy- I'm a sixth grade teacher!

Oh no! Leave it to IPS that they call me and ask me to teach 6th grade in school number 27 until they find a teacher to fill that spot! School starts this coming Wednesday! And they said they have no potential candidates for this position! That means that I could potentially be teaching there all year! Scary! I don't even have my degree yet! So sad for those kids! I mean, I think I know what I'm doing- but do I? Who knows?! We will find out on Wednesday! HA! I think I'm in for a rude awakening!! Anyways, I have to student teach in January, so I know I can't teach this grade all year. Pray for me! I'll be the lil' white girl teacher in an all black school! :) I have Monday and Tuesday to set up the room, figure out what I'm suppossed to do and teach, and get acquainted with the school!
Gracie will be going to the new charter school in Indy called The Project School. You can check it out online- www. theprojectschool.org ! Very cool new concept to education! God worked this all out perfectly b/c the school I'll be teaching at is around the corner from Grace's school. Plus, there are hundreds of schools in IPS and they placed me in #27, exactly where I will be doing one of my student teachings in the winter semester! God is very clever! Also, pray we get the home downtown! Still waiting on that! The home is a few blocks from Grace's and my school too! It would be perfect! Pray for us! :)

Christina VISITS!! WhooHoo!

My best friend from Jersey came to visit us! Christina has been such a great friend to me! She is so wonderful! We just love her all so much! We really had a great time, between hangin' w/ DMB to playing cornhole- we had a hoot!! My kids also love her to pieces! Wish she could've stayed longer and lived closer! Thanks Chris for coming! We really loved having you!!!

Dave Matthews Band

Holy Moly! Ok, so my best friend from New Jersey, Christina, has a friend that works on the DMB crew and travels on tour w/ them. Her name is Michelle. Michelle is the BOMB! She was able to totally hook us up at the concert!!! Christina flew in and we headed to Verizon for the concert. We got to go backstage, eat with the crew and the band before the concert, have free drinks and food all night, and were given awesome seats! All night we went from backstage and then back to our seats! The concert was amazing!! Christina and I danced like crazies!!! It was so fun! Dave really knows how to get his crowd rockin'! After the concert we headed to the band buses and were treated so well by everyone! We got to go w/ the band and crew to their hotel downtown, the Conrad. When we got there, we were escorted to a private lounge room for the band. It was so crazy!! There were only like 20 people there, including Dave and the band! It was nuts! Christina and I were dying!!! Drinks, food, and conversation till 3:30 am with the band! We had to keep pinching ourselves! I think Dave M. thought I was a lil' weird when I told one of his band members that he reminded me of Reuben Studdard! They looked at me like I was nuts, and then I said, "Oh, Reuben is a lil' friend!" Dave looked at me and said, "A friend???" I was a lil' too much for him, I think! Oh well! We had a great time with everyone! Christina and I laughed the whole night and had a hoot!! So great to be with her! Kind of a once in a lifetime kind of thing!!!! CRAZY! I hung w/ Dave till 3:30am! WHAT???!!!!

Gracie's Kindergarten Connection

Grace started this extra kindergarten program this year. It was so wonderful! The teachers were awesome, so loving and compassionate! Grace learned how to read through this program and also learned the basics of math! We were so proud of our lil' reader! The end of the year program was so nice. Grace really shined! She even volunteered to lead a song! Our bashful, shy, lil' girl turned into a very social, out-going, confident lil' girl! We are so proud!!!

Indy 500

What a fun day we had at the Indy 500 this year! We rented a Hummer Limo, headed down in style with my dad, brother Nicky, Brittany and Greg! Oh and Ali and Quinn joined us on the trip down. The kids got a quick preview of the hummer before we headed out! The race was awesome and we had a hoot! Can't wait for next year!!