So I got nominated on Facebook for the Black & White photo challenge so I thought about sharing my photos here as well.

I had an awesome day today! :D

I hope you all had an awesome day as well and hope it has continued into the evening hours!!

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Good evening friends!

I was making icons while my clothes were in the washer.
I'll be going to barn soon and then it's time to watch my patriots!!
GO PATRIOTS!!! :DD

Enjoy some Flash and Supergirl icons! ♥

 

Hello good afternoon friends!!

I've been hanging out listening to my hometown football team. We lost sadly but now we can get ready for basketball season!

I'll be going to the barn soon to help do chores so when can go to a Barbershop Show tonight. I love barbershop shows!!

I made these icons while I was listening to the game.
Enjoy!






Have an amazing night friends!!
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Good morning my friends!



We had our first snow fall last night. It's supposed to be pretty cold today. I think only like 25 degrees. Burr!
I guess I'll be breaking out my warm sweaters and flannels.

Have a fantastic friday my friends!!
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Good afternoon friends!

It's so rainy here! Everywhere is mud and mud puddles. I would love to see the sun sometime again real soon!

I had a meeting this morning for getting the voting materials.
I'll be sitting at the voting polls tomorrow for the fall election. It's usually a long day but the ladies I work help make it go by quick.
We usually basically eat and snack all day long. :)

Later tonight, I have another meeting with my music department peeps. Then I have finish chores at the barn and head to bed.

That's basically my day. Pretty boring I know but I kind of like old and boring sometimes.

Have a marvelous Monday my friends!! :D

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I've been bitten by the icon making bug!
Also I've been really inspired these last couple of days.
I apologize if you're sick of seeing my icon posts. I'll try to stop.

Enjoy! ♥

I made these icons for Round 9 : Pretty in Pink over @ monthlyinspo.
I'm super happy with how they all turned out. :D

(6) Stock
(14) Riverdale

Here are some of my favorites:


- Comments are very much appreciated! ♥
- Please credit if you snag any.
- Enjoy! :D

Good evening friends!!

Cooking dinner(tacos) and making icons.
Such a next relaxing evening.
I just love making icons!

Enjoy some Riverdale Season 2 icons! ♥

Finally got some time to make some icons.
I've been making these as I have been listening to my hometown football team in their first playoff game.
We're winning 44-40 right now!! Hopefully we hold onto the lead.:D

WE WON!!! GO FALCONS!!! :DD

Enjoy some Outlander Season 3 icons. ♥

18 - Multi Fandom Icons
(1) The Musketeers
(2) Rivedale
(8) Misc. Actors/Actresses (Magdalena Frackowiak & Tobias Sorensen)
(3) Misc. Fandoms (The White Princess)

(4) Outlander

These are the icons that made in July before I went on my long hitaus.

These are some of my personal favorites:




- Comments are very much appreciated! ♥
- Please credit if you snag any.
- Enjoy! :D

- musketeerstills // outlanderstills // riverdalestills // outlander_ic

HEY GUYS!! I'm back from a LONG HIATUS from LJ.
I really didn't mean to just go MIA but RL got a little crazy.

I just want to say have missed LJ and you all SO MUCH!!

I'd like to share with you guys about this years marching band season.

Well are numbers were really low this year. We had 20 kids signed up. At the beginning of summer when we did the drill.
We were disapointed that some of the kids that we had last year didn't back. The only reason they really didn't come back was we weren't going a trip.
Anyways but we thought 20 was okay.

So the night we do uniforms came and dieaster hit. One of kid moved away, another literally quit twenty minutes before a uniform night stared, and one quit becasue of football.
Of course that didn't sit really good with us as directors and for the kids that were still doing band were not feeling good with our season but we still try to stay postitive and pump them up for band camp in the a couple of days.

Band camp came and the first day was so bad. Then dieaster hit again. Out of the blue a kid that really likes marching band just says he quits and won't talk to us about why is so upset. So at this point we don't what to do. Our two drum majors really took the news like champs. My fellow directors and I were going to do whatever it to save our season!

The next day our trumpet player returned! We were happy but angry that he let his other band members down. One of drum majors that also plays trumpet offered to help with his music so he felt more condfident about playing it. So after that the rest of band camp went really well. All the kids were working hard and really doing an awesome job for just band camp.

We had a great premiere for their parents and everyone was really impressed with our small but might band.

For the first couple football games we had some little struggles but we over came them but they really stressed me out!



Then it came time for our competition! What a day that was!

First we had to go to a football game in the 80 degree temps and then we had to travel an hour to go to our competition.

We finally made it to Bradford(where the competition was at)! We hurried and got the kids some dinner so they didn't passout during the performance.

They finished getting dressed and then it was time to warm up. The band and color guard never looked and sounded so good as they warmed up. I kept telling my girls if you performed like that on the field we could win this competition. The drum majors gave speeches and they did their good luck chants and it was time for us to perform.

THEY ALL DID AN AWESOME JOB!!! ALL 17 OF THEM DID THIER VERY BEST AND IT SHOWED!!!
Then we watched a couple other bands and waited for the award time.

Award time I was so nervious. The annocnced the first caption a award, Best Music....COUDERSPORT!! All of us were so happy!!
Next Caption Award. Best Visual....COUDERSPORT!! (we got this last year too)!! All of us were so happy again!!
Next Caption Award Best General Effect...COUDERSPORT!! We went crazy!!!

That being said we got 1st PLACE we beat two other bands by almost 2 points!!

Some of are kids were crying and I even cried a little bit. What really got me was to see the kids see the trophies for the first time. They were so HAPPY!! We has directors were SO PROUD!!



This was a news clipping from one of local newspapers.



The upper picture is all of our seniors. They have been with us for 6 years. They literally like my babies or first borns. All five of them are  SO awesome in their own little ways.
I'm going to miss them SOOO MUCH!!
The lower picture is my two senior guradies and myself.(I look like a hot mess, just ignore me) These two were my first ever rookies.
It's been so a joy watching them grow in color guard and into just two amazing young ladies. So proud to be their color guard instructor/guard mom!

So that's the about my last three months. It's been quite a season it's a had a lots downs but also some really good ups.


I hope to ease back into LJ and hopefully make some icons sometime.

AGAIN I HAVE MISSED YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!

Have a great night my friends!

ALSO IF YOU READ ALL OF THIS, THANK YOU! YOU'RE A SAINT

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Look how cool we look! Don't we kind of look like ninjas??

So I wanted to shared what I have been doing for the last month. Well here it goes....


Next up was my dance recital. I danced in my 21st dance recital on June 16th and 17th.
That week I practiced a lot and still went to work. So buy the end of week I was exhausted.
To top it off I was sick and missed dress rehearsal but I was glad that I felt better to do the actual show nights.
Both my dances were pretty intense this year. I was proud of myself for doing them especially my contempary one. (see the pictures)

That same weekend was our Relay for Life. So on the day of 16th I was up over 24 hours while doing a dance recital and helping with at the Relay.
Our team was in charge of games to keep everyone awake.
Then I went home slept for a few hours and then did the last show night for dance.
By the end of the night I was ready to sleep again!


It's was a honor to have danced with this talented young dancers. They are both awesome!

Finally it was Vacation Bible School week. I had that June 19th - 23rd from 6-8:30 and going to work. VBS went really well!
I got to work with 7 little preschoolers they were fun but tiring. :)

So by the time I was done doing all that. I just didn't want to do anything. I just relaxed an chilled.

And for a while know I have been having a lot of anxiety about many different things.
I'm really trying not too but it's hard not to.

I had a very busy month but it was a really good month too. I lot of fun things happened.

Thank you to whoever reads all this! :D

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33 - Multi Fandom Icons
(10) Merlin
(13) Rivedale
(7) Misc. Actors/Actresses (Ariana Grande & Zayn Malik)
(3) Misc. Fandoms (Call the Midwife , A Place to Call Home, Once Upon a Time)

June was a SUPER busy month so not many icons.
All of these icons I have been made in June.

These are some of my personal favorites:






- Comments are very much appreciated! ♥
- Please credit if you snag any.
- Enjoy! :D

- musketeerstills // outlanderstills // riverdalestills // outlander_ic

61 - Multi Fandom Icons
(17) Merlin
(14) The Musketeers
(19) Outlander
(7) Rivedale
(8) Misc. Actors/Actresses (Tatiana Masiany & Colin O'Donoghue)
(6) Misc. Fandoms

May was a busy month but I did have some down time to make some icons this month.
All of these icons I have been made in May.

These are some of my personal favorites:






- Comments are very much appreciated! ♥
- Please credit if you snag any.
- Enjoy! :D

- musketeerstills // outlanderstills // riverdalestills // outlander_ic

51 - Multi Fandom Icons
(18) The Musketeers - King Louie
(18) Outlander
(14) Rivedale
(1) Misc. Fandoms - The Middle (Charlie Mcdermott)

All of these icons I have been made in March and April.

These are some of my personal favorites:





- Comments are very much appreciated! ♥
- Please credit if you snag any.
- Enjoy! :D

- musketeerstills // outlanderstills // riverdalestills // outlander_ic

This was my late birthday/easter selfie.



OUR TRIP TO TENNESSEE WAS AMAZING!!! WE ALL HAD A BLAST!! :DDD
The weather was beautiful! We couldn' t have asked for better weather. It was in the 80's the whole time and sunny.
These are all my band kids that went on the trip.



So the first day of our trip was really fun! All kids loved it!

We went zip lining first. I didn't because I'm terrifed of heights but those that wanted zip line, we played dutch blitz.

After everyone got done zip lining, we all got fitted up with our rafting gear. I'm not a very adventurous person so I was kind of nervous for rafting. Luckly I was with my friend Opie. He helps keep me from freaking out most of the time. During our 1 1/2 trip down the Pigeon River two of our group members fall out but don't worry we got them back in and they were fine. I found rafting fun and terrifying at the same time. I would probably do it again.

When went to dinner in Gatlinburg at Bubba Gump's. They surprised be with the waiters and waitresses singing to me and two other people for our birthdays. After dinner we broke off in our groups and explored the cool little town Gatlinburg. I had a whole group of girls so guess what we did. We shopped! I mean what else would a group of 7 females do. Gatlinburg is such a neat town. There so much going on. After we got done exploring we went back to the hotel and the kids swam for a little bit and surpised us again with a huge cake for me and the other twos birthdays. Then we went to bed. I say my birthday was pretty great. :D



Our second day was mostly in Nashville.

First thing we did when we got to Nashville was get a tour at the RCA recording studio. The band and show choir also had the opportunity to record a song where so many talented and famous musicians have recorded before. Like Elvis and Dolly Parton. It was so cool and our little band sounded great! The Coudersport Marching Band made our mark in music history. (the picture above is in the RCA recording studio)

Next we went to the Country Music Hall of Fame. That's where the band performed outside and the Show Choir performed inside. Both groups did a wonderful job! I was so proud all of our kids! After all the performance were down we did a self guided tour of the museum.

For lunch we went to the Wild Horse Saloon. We had BBQ foods and the kids also got to hear their records for the first time. SO COOL! Then we had a line dancing lesson which was really fun.

Then it was time to head back to Pigeon Forge. We had dinner at cool restaurant and kids had a lot of time at the pool. My three friends and I played Dutch Blitz which was super fun.



Our last and final day in Tennessee. First we went to the Mountain Coaster. I was brave and went on it. Again I'm not an adventurous person so it took a lot for me to go on it. After that we went to Dollywood.

Dollywood was nice. My period decided to pay me a visit so I was kind of crampy and was feeling a litte blah so I didn't end up riding any rides. I figured I really didn't want to push myself too much. My girls had a fun on the rides and of course we did more shopping and had lunch together so it was still fun. Also I got to have Dip'n Dots! :)

After Dollywood we had dinner at Dixieland Stampede. That was a lot of fun to. Was a dinner theater kind of thing. Then it was get on the bus and travel 12 hours to get back to Coudersport, PA.

So that's a pretty shortened version of our trip. We all made some many wonderful memories together. I just love all our kids and the people I get to work with. I'm so blessed!



Well I hope you enjoyed my report. Thank you to anyone who reads the whole thing.

I hope you all have a wonderful day!!! :DD

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I had kind of a free day on Monday and so I kind of relaxed.
The show that I was watched for most of the day was The Middle.
It's such a good, warm, and funny show!!
Is anybody else watch this show?
If you don't you should it so great!
I would love to have a couple icons of this show.
Does anybody know where I could find some.

Sorry for such a random post.

Have a great Friday!!

HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!!

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This icon was voted my best icon of 2016 over @ bestof_icons


These icons were 2nd and 3rd place.

What do you think about the winning icon?




My 2015 winning icon

(picture is the hotel we will be staying at)


Hello friends! Happy Sunday!! :D

I just got the trip itinerary for the music department trip to Tennessee!

We leave in a month!! I have started a C O U N T D O W N
I'm a little excited!! (you probably can't tell)

I thought I would share what I will be doing on the trip with you all.

So here it is:

Tuesday, April 11 - We leave at 9:00pm

Wednesday, April 12 (somebody's birthday ;) ) - 8:00am We arrive in Pigeon Forge, TN and have a breakfast.

11:00 - Zipline in the Smokies - I will not be doing this part becuase I'm extremly scared of heights. So I'll be hanging out with the kids that don't want to do it too.

Lunch

1:00 - Upper Pigeon River Rafting - Hopefully the waters are too wild that day.

4:00pm - Check into where will be be staying - Music Road Hotel

6:30pm - Leave for dinner in Gatlinburg - We'll be eating at Bubba Gump

After dinner we have free time Gatlinburg. Then we go back to the hotel to relax and/or swim.


Thursday, April 13 - NASHVILLE

5:45am - we leave for Nashville

8:30 - We arrive in Nashville at the Historic RCA Studio B
We will be getting a tour and we will also get to record a song!

9:45am - Arrive at the Country Music Hall of Fame

10:00-10:20am - THE BAND PERFORMS!!! (outside the country music hall of fame)

10:30-10:50am - The Show Choir performs inside (after that we do a self guided tour)

12:45-2:15pm - Wildhorse Saloon
We'll learn about song writing and have lunch. Also we will get LINE DANCE LESSONS!!! SO EXCITED FOR THAT!!! I think it's going to be a blast!! :D

7:00pm - Dinner at Harppon Harrys

8:00pm - Moutian Coaster

9:15 - Return to hotel to relax and/or swim.


Friday, April 14

6:00-9:30am - Breakfast and check out of our hotel

9:45am - Arrive at Dollywood

Lunch at Dollywood

4:00 - Leave Dollywood

5:15pm - Dixie Stampede Dinner and Attraction

7:30pm - Leave TN

Arrive back home Saturday, April 15 at 7:00am


So that is the whole trip. I think it's going to be SO FUN!!!
I'm so looking forward to it.

I have been working on some flag routines for the trip all day. My head hurts. I think I will make some icons to unwind and then I'm off to the barn.

Have a great rest of the night, my friends!!!

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