The Aquarium

I jokingly said this is me on a bad day! This creature fascinated me.
Missy and I underwater with a curious fish!

Cody and I in the same bubble. (Sometimes we share our bubbles).

I took my personal day and enrolled in a Love and Logic seminar. WOW. It was a well used day!! I was going to make it a "me" experience and go alone. When it came right down to it, I knew I'd be lonely in the big city and so I loaded up the family. On Sunday, we went to the Downtown Aquarium in Denver to eat at the restaurant there. We waited an hour for our food..turns out the waitress never turned in our order!! So they gave us armbands to tour the aquarium, which we were planning to do anyway. We were ever so glad to see our yummy food when it did arrive!

I recommend Love and Logic to parents and teachers alike. Check out their website.

STATE CHAMPS!!

They won first place!! Yea Ram Band! This is their fourth in a row and fifth for our school. Cloudcroft won first to interrupt our winnings, a few years ago.

Cody was dancing around when he got word this evening. He called almost everyone he knew. If he missed you, it was only because I cut him off after a while! :)

State Band

Cody's band binky..getting ready to warm up before comptetition.
They did really well in their competition, but we won't know how they placed until tonight.

The band. Cody is under the "U" in music.

ClassmatesCarissa, Cody, Rebecca and Andrew..all 8th graders.

Our family

Summing it all up on the patio at Garduno's. YUM!

Up on the TIDE box!

I was sitting in "traffic"(yeah, that's a concept foreign to here!) I was in the car ALONE which meant I got to pick the music! WOOHOO!! I was waiting for the pilot car, which will be a daily activity from now thru the end of school, clicking through the presets on my XM radio. I listen to Christian talk radio sometimes and as I clicked onto it, I heard that aliens are killing people. WOW. I glanced down wondering what kind of station I was on. The Roswell network?? Sci-fi? Have the men in my family been switching my presets?? When I saw what channel I was on, I..well..I turned it up! Curiosity killed the cat. It turns out, the man was talking about "illegal aliens"(those martians who sneaked in). Who EVER coined that phrase??? People who immigrate to the US are immigrants. Even if they are illegal ones. I think "aliens" should become taboo just like that "W" word we used freely growing up and it is now politically incorrect.

Finally!!

We finally got some sunny days without a lot of wind! We are starting on some landscaping. Our area is SO severely dry!! It took a Backhoe to break the ground!! Yes, TWO tractors AND a workhorse to get this little tiny job done!
Two of the girls enjoyed the sunny day! We are so starved for sunshine without wind!

Easter flashback

Goofy kids! Hickmans, McNabbs, Hughes' and Pittmans

Two pretty girls!

Happy 14th Birthday, Tristan!

My favorite rotten easter eggs! :)

Naming the planets

One of my students was attempting to name the planets. She said, "Missouri, Venus, Earth...".
It hit me so funny! I felt badly because I laughed and she got teary eyed from embarrassment. I think it was just one of those times my giggle bucket tipped over and I couldn't get it contained again! She forgave me....

I had to share that.