NASHVILLE, TN!

As it turns out, the hotel has internet connection and I brought my computer. Yea! Now I can give you a day by day account of our trip. LOL I'm not serious, but...... we are having a wonderful time! Remember those donuts? The girls sold enough that we were able to get tickets to the Grand Ole Opry! This is a photo just before we went inside. I am so proud of these girls! They are beautiful inside and out. I know their parents are so proud.

Inside!

Our seats were directly center just behind the sound system.

PERFECT!

To give you an idea of who was scheduled for tonight, I was close enough to the man running the sound system that I was able to photograph his instruction sheet.

Check out the names!
Ricky Skaggs has just made a new album of old Bluegrass music. We all enjoyed it. Yes Dad, I did see Bill Anderson! I remember when I was a little girl and you all would play those country albums. I saw him in concert tonight! He sang songs I remembered.

You may not know who Chuck Wicks is, but let me tell you...... He was fantastic! He sings the "Cinderella" song that is on all the radio stations. Keep on scrolling down for a dreamy picture of him. I couldn't help it!

Bill Anderson
Chuck Wicks

WOW

Joe Nichols

AWESOME!

My H. took this photo of myself and the girls just after the concert.

We are inside the Opry House.

Everyone had a great time!

I am headed to bed. We have to be at our first session at 8:30 in the morning. For some of you, that is late, for me I need my sleep.

From the Opryland Hotel, I send you

XOXO

Theresa

Happy Easter!

For What I have received I passed on to you as of first importance; that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.

I Corinthians 15 3-4 NIV

I hope you and yours are having a wonderful Easter Sunday. We had a beautiful service this morning. I am so thankful to live in a country where I have the freedom to worship. Thank you Jesus!
Two of my most favorite people in the world! They both are precious. I have two other precious people in my life, but they chose to take a nap instead of snapping pictures.

My Christian tree. I love this feather tree! I am still working on learning to crochet and came across a pattern on the internet to cover plastic eggs. I had a ball doing those eggs. The church ornament is my very favorite. I keep it on all year long.
I am off to Nashville tomorrow afternoon. This will be my last post until next weekend. I'm sure I will have stories to tell. LOL We do have tickets for the Grand Ole Opry for Tuesday night. I can't wait to go!

I leave you with this thought.....

"Christ the Lord is Risen Today" Alleluia

XOXO Theresa

Formal Meals

While this group forgot to choose a "theme" they did choose lovely china, set the table correctly and prepared a wonderful meal. Somehow I didn't get a picture of this group all together. I'm sorry guys! The young lady in the background with the pink apron on saved the day. She and another group member were the only ones to be at school on the day before they were to eat. They pretty much carried their group's menu. Good Job!
I think they had fun. I know I enjoy this project.

Sweetheart Theme.

The afternoon FACS class did a fantastic job with their "heart" theme. One of their group members had to leave school due to a stomach virus. They pulled together and created a beautiful table and scrumptious meal. You may not be able to see the "sweetheart" candies that are in the bottom of the vase. Way to go!

I have the students in my FACS class to do a formal meal as their final in foods. I am always thrilled with the attention to detail they take. The above table is a "Bridal" theme. Notice the heart shaped cakes with the monograms. They created those for their place cards. How original. The students below worked on this table display and menu. They invited 2 guests and I think they did a fabulous job!
This group chose a "game" theme. Unfortunately, 2 members of their group were out sick. The students below rose to the challenge and prepared a tasty and delicious meal. The table was beautiful. They dipped the glass rims into colored sugar for an added touch. Good Job!

Candy theme. Can you tell? This table was so "sweet"! LOL Seriously, I have included three photos of this table in order to help you get a full spectrum of how they set their table. The place cards were extremely large jaw breakers. They found markers with food coloring in them and wrote their names on each jaw breaker. They then placed the jawbreaker into a cloud of cotton candy! It was so cute! They tied ribbon to the stem of their glasses, dipped the rim into colored sugar and had a vase full of jelly belly's and large lollipops. Notice the spring wrapped Hershey bars encircling the vase? Again their creativity always inspires me! I love my job!

The group of girls below are the ones responsible for the "Candy Table". Great job girls!

Formal Dance

Headed for a "Ball"! Isn't she beautiful! What fun today has been. She had nail appointments this morning, both toes and fingers, courtesy of her dates mom. What a thoughtful gift! From there she had her first up do from a hair dresser. She was amazed how quickly he had it up. Less than 30 minutes.
Young love. They are so sweet together.
Someone....didn't want to be left out!

He is home from college on spring break.

He was suppose to be working on the garage. This was more fun!

Fancy shoes. While they are beautiful, they are difficult to dance in. Notice the pretty toes?

She found silver flip flops at Old Navy and I covered them in ribbon. Much more dance worthy.

Oh NO! It is raining! I'm sure she hasn't even arrived at the restaurant yet. Poor baby. I think they will have a wonderful time even in the rain.

I pray you are having a restful weekend. God Bless

XOXO Theresa

485 DOZEN

Trust me, it is darker outside than this picture indicates! My morning began at 5:00. I did 10 deep breathing techniques, while praying, please Lord, let us sell all those donuts, before I ever got out of bed. If you remember from Monday, I thought I was going to pick up 440 dozen donuts. When I went to school on Tuesday, I found out I was mistaken, I was to pick up 460 dozen. I began to panic! The Business Teacher called KK and asked how many more did we have to order to have them delivered. They said 18 dozen, thus 485 dozen donuts were delivered at school before 7:30 this morning. I left my house at 6:15 so that I could be there when the delivery was made.
The above picture gives you an idea of the almost 500 dozen donuts. I won't go into any of the details, but due to miscommunication, we ended up with almost 80 dozen unaccounted for! I agreed to take 21 dozen with me to try and sell tonight. Students were helping me carry them to the van when the buses began to arrive. One of the bus drivers asked me what I was doing with all those donuts and I said, "Would you like one? $5.00 and it's yours". Those bus drivers were extremely generous. By the time I left the school parking lot, I only had 14 dozen left to sell.

I called H. and began sharing with him my "donut woes" to which he began giving me the "sermon" about why he "told" me it wasn't a good idea (Honestly, he was very supportive, but he did have a good laugh). I told him I was going to sit outside of the church and look pitiful and see if I could sell my other 14 dozen. I didn't have to sit outside in the parking lot, 6 sweet people ended up taking those 14 boxes off my hands.

I'm sure I will dream of donuts tonight!

I can't remember how many we have to sell tomorrow, I'm hoping it is only about 20 dozen or so. My friend and assistant principal suggested that I freeze the ones I don't sell and then when we have our "male beauty pageant" ( this will be another story) on Tuesday of next week, I take out the frozen donut, zap it in the microwave and slap a scoop of ice cream on it for "donut sundae"!

Biscuit making.

I thought you might enjoy seeing my Foods class in action. They made beautiful biscuits today.

I am tired. But with visions of donuts dancing in my head I should have sweet (NOT) dreams. LOL

PS. I can add, they ended up bringing 7 extra boxes which is how we ended up with 485 boxes.

God Bless

XOXO

Theresa

DONUTS

Do you like donuts? Krispy Kreme has a bakery here in Kingsport. Not too close to our house, just far enough to make it a chore to go there. That is a good thing! Truthfully, I associate donuts with warm, loving memories. When I was a little girl, my family would go to Owensboro (approximately 40 miles from our farm) and because my dad loved donuts we would stop at a donut bakery. Dad would always give us girls the "donut holes" to eat on the way home. They would be fresh, warm and melt in our mouths! I can taste those donuts while writing about them! LOL

How does this story relate to the above photo? Well, I'm glad you asked. The Business Teacher in my school and myself need to raise money for the clubs we sponsor to go to state meetings. We were sharing our wows on how to raise quick money when she mentioned that donut sales are a good way to make quick money for organizations, but someone has to drive all the way to Kingsport to pick them up. Of course, I replied, I don't live "THAT" far I can pick them up. Now is where the story gets interesting. I am suppose to pick up...... 440 dozen donuts in the momma van on Wednesday morning around 6:30 a.m.!

I came home and shared with my loving H. about this project. He quickly begins making a list of why this is NOT a good idea. I finally tell him to be quiet, it is already done and instead of giving me a list of why it won't work he needs to be helping me figure out how to place 440 dozen boxes of donuts in the van. He says it can't be done and no encouragement is going to make it happen. In our defense we did call Krispy Kreme and the man said we should be able to get them all in there, it would be tight. H is still not convinced.

Stay tuned, this story will continue on Wednesday of this week. If I have enough sense about me on Wednesday morning I will try to take pictures of the story.

Beautiful Weekend!

What a gorgeous weekend! We had three beautiful snow days this week, Wed, Thurs, and Fri. and then...... this incredible spring weather for Sat. and Sun. My baby girl and I decided to make the most of our time together. We opted to make reservations for the Tea Room for lunch on Saturday. This particular Tea Room holds special meaning for us. Our very first visit to Kingsport, a trio of sweet ladies took us here for lunch. We were both impressed! The food was very tasty and the atmosphere was so pretty. We were smitten!
From the moment we arrived in Kingsport this has been our "special" place. How fun to have lunch and conversation with someone you love in a beautiful setting. I am blessed! I don't do well with close up camera shots. LOL Oh well... it was a memory making moment and we wanted to capture it on camera.
Our favorite "tea" is Black Currant. We both love it. A dear friend of ours is now the chef for this tea room and she is an awesome cook. Her talents are many and she uses them to serve others. She prepares meals for our church, wedding receptions and rehearsal dinners. She makes Amish Friendship bread for one of the ministries in our church. It is yum, yum!
I am ready to go back to school. I've had a sweet rest and have spent time catching up with my children. Thank you Jesus for loving me with beautiful people. AMEN

OXOX Theresa