Rock-A-Thon 2010 for CMN

My students are raising money for 
Children's Miracle Network,
this year's national service project for FCCLA.

Rock-A-Thon 2010 is now history! 

We had a great time.  

We started out with a little dancing:

 

(a little Cha Cha Slide)

  

(a little Thriller?)

  

I Tweeted and updated on Facebook:

$466 was raised by 7 FCCLA members!

 

 Michelle said her favorite part was Cranium!

My favorite part was when I posted that

we were eating hot homemade pizza at 2:45 am:

I got comments from 2 former FCCLA officers.

"We want to come!  Plz???? 

If we show up will you let us in?"

You bet I let them in!  

They stayed for about an hour.

They actually worked in my room a little, 

spiffing things up like they used to.

Ate some pizza, of course. 

It was a blast to catch up with them. 

It was just as if they were still in our chapter!

Thanks for stopping by Christian and Crystal!

Please come back again and 

join Alumni & Associates!

Here's a retro photo from 2008:

The money brought in from this year's Rock-a-Thon

brings our total for Children's Miracle Network to

$1566 so far this year.  

We still have a few more plans... 

selling Crushes for your crush

for Valentine's Day during FCCLA Week,

then there's Hot Chocolate & Cappuccino profits.

FCCLA Rocks!

I crashed!

Rock On!

Project 365-2010 Caldone's

Tonight we had some errands to run in town so we went out to eat first.  

I have been following Caldone's on Twitter 

and reading their website, 

but this was the first time we had a chance to go in.  

My photo for today is of our guitar player.  

When we first walked in, 

I thought he was a mannequin!

But he wasn't!

  He serenaded the room all during our dinner! 

Everything was delish!

The bread w/oil & balsamic.

Sweet Hubby's soup:

Sweet Hubby had Pork Florentine:

(really yum)

I had Saffron Scallops with filo pastry: 

I had already taken my first bite when I recognized 

that the pastry was in the shape of a fish! 

FUN!

We will definitely be back!

BTW..

Since I didn't take a photo,

you can't prove that I ordered the cannoli!

Project 365-2010 Dewreathing the Lions

Finally got around to taking the Christmas wreaths off the lions that are at the entrance to our driveway:

They are now NAKED!

Project 365-2010 Surfer Girl

As I drove on our road today, 

the song "Surfer Girl" came on the radio.  

I thought the contrast was hysterical:

This California Girl could go snow surfin' down our hill!

(Sorry it's blurry.  "auto-focus" in a hurry)

Project 365-2010 1-11-10 Buses

Back to school today.

It felt like a long long day.  

A lot of us were weary by the end.  

But one more down!

Project 365-2010 Jan 9 & 10

Yesterday I got out of the house and you know what? 

The roads weren't that bad!

We stopped by the Post Office before heading up to town. 

Here we are parked in front of the Post Office.

1-9-2010

I'm waiting for Sweet Hubby to come out 

from picking up our mail. 

We don't get rural delivery, 

so we have a PO Box.  

The only other establishments in our little town are

a coupla churches (including ours) 

and the convenience store.  

When we first moved to MO,

the convenience store was called

"Guns, Gas & Groceries".  

Now it's called One Stop.

Today's pic was going to be a snapshot 

of the "bearcoon" my son carved

with a chainsaw back when he was in high school.

And then I had a chance to pass some barns.  

You know how I love barns.  

These are 2 barns that nobody loves.

 

  

~sigh~

But when we got home from church 

and our running around,

this is what we found out our window.

I am still appalled that our neighbor,

an adult, started jumping up and down

on the ice right off his dock.

And then he and his friend walked out to the middle.

1-10-2010

They eventually walked all the way across 

and sat below our house on the bank.

That's when I went out and asked who they were.

I thought it was some idiotic teens goofing off.

There have been reports of at least 5 broken ice/lake deaths

across the country that I know of during THIS cold snap.

Sweet Hubby is sick of my ranting 

about the potential for disaster.

At least they are okay.

Front Yard Cicles

Across the country in Upstate New York, 

they have much more snow than we do 
but it's warmer today!

Of course, that's not saying much 

with our highs in the single digits. 

My big grandgirlee finally got her Christmas presents from her Pop and me.  

She was in Cali with her other grands for the Holidays 

so I  mailed the gifts a little late.  

And the only thing Nicolee asked for was a glasses case.  

MAN are they hard to find... 

without looking like granny cases.  

But I found two and this one was the true find!  

I personalized it and she loved it.

Look closely, she already put her glasses inside!

We got her "other" stuff of course.

Oh I miss her, 

but she is pretty adept at texting, 

so we "talk" often.