Summer Flashback: Tell All Tuesday

We are very blessed to have been raised, where family time was a top priority.  Our families took lots of trips and experienced several exciting vacations throughout our childhoods.  Thinking about all of the "flashbacks" from our childhood summers was such fun!  

Ashley's family grew up going to her grandparents' house on the lake each weekend.  They enjoyed yearly family vacations to Gulf Shores, AL.  Brooklynn's family grew up going to her Nana's pool most summer days, and to the beach for a week each summer.  Her family grew up going to Destin, FL…and they still prefer it over any other beach.  Here is a funny picture of Brooklynn and some of her friends in the pool, waaaaaaaaay back in 1996!

Now that we are adults, we have been blessed with some of the best friends ever.  We never imagined the amazing friendships becoming mentor teachers would bring.  We now, enjoy spending our summers hanging out with our "teacher friends" and acting like "real humans" during the summer days.  Thank you, Lord, for your gift of girlfriends.  Cookouts, planning meetings, dinner dates…are just some of the fun things we enjoy doing together.

It was very late and we were sitting around a fire pit, so please excuse the blurriness and red eyes. HA!  These girlies are some of our most favorite peeps!  We love you, Linds, Mer, and Mo!    

Thank you to Jayme and Diana for hosting such a fun summer-long linky party!  We really love Tuesdays because of your "Tell All Tuesday" party!  

If you would like to link up with us, please do so by clicking on their names above to visit one of their blogs.  

Bucket List: Tell All Tuesday

 We are back again with another installment of "Tell All Tuesday!"

 

 

This week, we thought it would be easy to write, but when we sat down to make our list, it was a lot harder than we realized! However, we had a marvelous time coming up with crazy things to put on our Bucket List!  We chose to go with a few things that were actually attainable for us.

 

 

Sadly, we are not attending the Vegas Conference this year.  We had high hopes last year of being able to attend. However, since we both have a bun in the oven, we just won't be making it this year. There's always next year... haha

 

Maternity leave is a scary thing.  This is probably our biggest challenge.  One of the very few things we have in common is our Type A personalities.  So, the though of relinquishing control of our classrooms to a stranger is slightly terrifying.  Ok, lets be real, it's really terrifying! We both hope to survive this gracefully, and to NOT come to our classrooms until our leave is over.  Hold your breath on that one... (insert wicked laugh)

 

We are so blessed to work in a county who is beginning to see the value in developmentally appropriate practices.  We feel like we had, as a system, veered away from that...and are now excited that the pendulum is swinging back the other way. We are hoping that within the next few years, we have the opportunity to teach side by side in a "Co-Teaching" environment. We will keep you updated!

 

Thank you again to MyDayinK and TeachTalkInspire for putting together another fun "Tell All Tuesday!"

 

Summer Snapshot: Tell All Tuesday

Can we just say that we LOVE "Tell All Tuesdays?"  Last week was so much fun! We had such a ball reading through everyone's posts and guessing the lies!

 

This week is "Summer Snapshot."

We love the beach!  Who doesn't? Need we say more?

 

We do have a favorite spot a little closer to home...

Again, need we say more?  Haha

We thought this was too funny!!!!  Isn't this so true?

Hopefully, you are spending lots of time in your favorite summer spot!

We would love for you to link up with us this week!  Thanks again to MyDayinK and Teach.Talk.Inspire for putting this linky together!

An InLinkz Link-up

 

Two Truths and A Lie: Tell All Tuesday

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We hope you are enjoying your summer thus far.  We have been enjoying taking a few weeks off (from working on school-related stuff) to refresh and breathe.

Today, we are super thrilled to be linking up with our friends at Teach.Talk.Inspire and A Day in K to bring you "Two Truths and A Lie: Tell All Tuesday."

We've met some really creative people through the blogging world and we are linking up to tell you about ourselves.

We are two teachers from Birmingham, AL.  We currently teach Kindergarten in a K-2 primary school.  We have 14 kindergarten units!  Can you imagine?!?!  We joined the blogging world a little over a year ago and have LOVED every minute of it.  We have met some of the sweetest people and have learned so much from so many inspiring educators.

Something else that you may not know about us is that we are POLAR OPPOSITES!  We love each other fiercely, but have only a few things in common.   We have different tastes in clothes, music, movies, outdoor activities…basically we bonded solely on our passion for education.  Over the years, we have become very fond of each others' differences and even celebrate them!  (Cue Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract") HA!

Now, let's play a little game…

Below are three "facts" about ourselves.  Two are true statements and one is a lie.

If you are the FIRST person to comment with the correct lie, you will get to pick one of our products (under $5.00) for free!

Congrats to Tiffani Humphries for being the FIRST commenter to guess correctly!  If you also guessed that Number 1 was our lie, we'd like to give you a free product, as well!  To claim your "prize", please email us at markersandmascara@gmail.com and let us know which product you would like for FREE (under $5.00)!  And, thank you for stopping by!  Congratulations!

#1: Both, Ashley and Brooklynn, graduated from the same university. 
THIS IS THE LIE!  
Ashley graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Brooklynn graduated from Auburn University.  *We did graduate from the same high school….one year apart.  However, we did not know each other in high school.  Ashley is a die-hard University of Alabama fan and Brooklynn bleeds orange and blue.  In case you aren't aware, by living in the great state of Alabama- you are required to pick of the two universities: Auburn or Alabama!  You must devote yourself wholly to all things related to that university and you cannot waiver.  There is no in between…it's a FULL commitment!

#2: Both, Ashley and Brooklynn, are pregnant.
Surprise!  Yes, we both ARE pregnant!  The good Lord works in the most AMAZING ways!  Brooklynn and Chad's little girl is due in mid-August and Ashley and Nick's bundle of joy is due in early December.  We are incredibly excited about starting this new journey together.  We just know they will love each other as much as we do!  We've already found them matching shirts…

#3: Both, Ashley and Brooklynn, have only ever taught Kindergarten.
This, too, is true!  Ashley and Brooklynn both interned/student taught in several other grades, but have only had kindergarten classrooms of our own.  We fully believe that kindergarten is the place for us!  

Can you guess which "fact" is the lie???  Leave your guess in the comments.  We'd love for you to play along with us.  You can write your own "Two Truths and A Lie" with your guess and we will try to pick the lie.  

Come back on Friday to find out the lie!

We hope you all have a wonderful week.  Thank you for stopping by!

Again, thank you so much for coming back to read more about us! Thank you to Teach.Talk.Inspire and A Day in K for hosting such a fun linky party.  We can't wait to link up again next week.  If you are interested in linking up- stop by their blogs to find out how!