I am currently in my 15th year of teaching 5th grade.  I have been at McBride Elementary for 13 of those 15 years.  I am married to Matthew Carpenter who also works in the MSCS school system, and we have two children.  Mattley is 12 years old and is a 7th grader at Muscle Shoals Middle School.  She is a MSMS cheerleader, a member of the Florence Flyerz competition cheer team, and takes dance classes.  Brody is 4 years old and in preschool.  He is a typical boy who loves anything sports related and seeing what kind of trouble he can get himself into...he's very mischevious!  We also have two dogs, Zoey and Brooks.

I love to travel, shop, and spend time with my family.  I also enjoy monogramming and creating things for others in my free time...I have a little t-shirt hobby that keeps me very busy at nights and on the weekends.  We are all big Alabama Crimson Tide fans...Roll Tide!