Spring Blogger Meet-up Blog Hop & Giveaway

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So back in January, Holly from Mrs. Ehle's Kindergarten posted this on her Facebook

I was home recovering from surgery, and hurried to google the directions. Hmmm.....only a 4 hour drive.....easy peasy :) Then I forced recruited my friends/coworkers to go with. (Thanks Sue and Andrea)

Going to be honest, Google maps said 4 but it was 5+ (forgot the time zone difference there Google) but we made it.......First of all, if any of you have a chance to go to French Lick...........The place and staff is WONDERFUL!!!

Now, I can't say enough about Holly. She went above and beyond to make sure all of us enjoyed ourselves.

Here is a peek at some of the goodies she lined up for us

Wonderful name tags from Schoolgirl Style
Bags for each of us from Vera Bradley
Hot off the press (not in stores yet) Markers and pens from Scentos
(that was JUST the tip of the iceberg, let me tell you) 

Here is my table mates :

L to R: Em, Amanda, me, Sue, Andrea, Hilary

Just at our table clipart, uno were topics of discussion :)

Now, we were asked to bring an item to exchange with each other .  Here is what we got :

me: Easy Button (ideas found HERE) Sue: Base Ten Pool Noodles 

(Greg did a post HERE) and Andrea :Ink Joy Pens

This was so much fun! I met a fellow container hoarder (we won't say what she called herself, but we were in stitches) I am known to have my own container store in my basement :) 

Then Holly not only line up the goodie bags she also had door prizes.

Andrea and I won great prizes from Crayola (See Holly's post HERE)

My friend Sue won a gift certificate from Crystal Springs (she snuck by Greg w/o getting her picture taken)

So, if you follow you know I am anxiously awaiting returning to VEGAS....my poor friends and coworkers

have been hearing about it since last year.  Holly had mentioned she was giving away a certificate to one of the SDE National Conferences....... Woohoo!

Now I am not a classroom teacher, so I kept telling everyone that would listen at school, that I hoped one of the gals going with me would win. As I was already going for the annual blogger meetup and they would LOVE the conference. Well that was a separate drawing. When Greg was about to pull the name......I said (of course everyone was quiet so it was heard) "Hey Greg do you take bribes" (jokingly I swear) ......Guess what 

My friend Andrea is going to Vegas with me! She is a 

first grade teacher, so she is going to I teach 1st! 

There is not a more deserving person to win this! Thanks to SDE and Holly! Andrea and I have braved new territory lately (we BOTH got our gallbladders out weeks apart) and so many road trips we call ourselves Thelma and Louise ..... LOL.....

When you go to a blogger meetup, you meet so many talented and wonderful people. We talked about clipart, ways to use uno cards for sight words. The other two learned about blogging and powerpoint, clipart.....We are STILL decomposing what we have learned! 

Now the GIVEAWAY ...... one winner (pictures below) will win all of these prizes and MORE(follow the hop and enter at the rafflecopter at the end of the hop)

Head over to my table mate Hilary's Blog for the next stop  (Thanks again Holly! Thanks Greg for sharing your pictures....as for that bribe.....LOL)