Halloooween

This year we went trunk or treating at a local church. Our friends the Reinhards have two cute girls, Rachael and Danielle. Rachael dressed up as Kung Fu Panda. Danielle dressed up as Super Girl. Isabella was a great Marilyn Monroe. It was lots of fun to hang out with them and watch the kids play with Casey. He was so excited at all the attention and activity going on around him. He got to eat up all the spilt popcorn. Here are some pics of the girls, Casey, and our trunk with treats.

Get Your Kicks!

Today was pretty uneventful. I had lots of five-year-olds dressed up to the nines. They can't remember A-B-C, but they sure know who Tinker Bell is and Batman. It was fun though! They are so darn cute in their costumes. I started my day with Mr. H. It was another dose of crazy. He complained about the whole gammet: me, the office staff, and everything in between. It's all good. I just keep my cool and know that it will pass. I do enjoy a good laugh after and move on with my day. Luckily my lunch crowd is fun to vent with and more fun to laugh with each day.

After my busy day and picking up Marilyn Monroe (Isabella) from school, I came home and washed my hands like I normally do every day. As I was washing my hands with the bar of soap, it slipped out of my hands and right into the toilet. This made me chuckle.
Maybe it will make you laugh, too.

My Monthly Blog

I really do suck at this blog writing thing. I am just so darn busy that it's the last thing on my mind. I did think of it the other day and thought maybe I could post all the rediculous antics of my day in kindergarten. So here we go- let me know what you think.

Last week I had a kid glue his shoe to his paper... and his foot was still in the shoe.
I think he used the whole brand new glue stick. This week his step brother who is also in my class, decided to write all over the carpet with a blue crayon.
There is always something to keep me on my toes.

Does shoe rhyme with bun?, maybe tug? how about hut? I tried to think of some reason for this. I'm grasping at straws here people.

Volleyball Season Has Begun

Isabella played her first game as a seventh grader. She served with lots of strength and made it over. Here are some pics from the new iphone.

Time with My Gram

The most special time was with my Gram this summer. She was so happy to have us visit her and just go around the town. We kept her busy the whole week. She is turning 80 this September, but still gets around great. We stayed up late watching QVC, played ten dice, shopped for purses, and ate at some new places in Hutch. We visited the salt mines 600 feet below the earth, studied space at the Cosmosphere, visited family in Abilene, and just relaxed. I appreciate Kansas and being there now at this point in my life. I'm sure Isabella thinks like I did when I was young: that all that's in Kansas is old people. Maybe this latest trip showed her a new side of KS as well. P.S. The Twister poster and "Dorothy" are part of the movie collection stored underground in the salt mines. I love that movie!

The Big O

All I can say is I'm making a list of Pros and Cons for moving. It was a great weekend in Ohio. I love the scenary, the weather, the people, and I love the thought of a simplier life. I will work it out in my mind and come to a conclusion. Here are some pictures of the farm where Shane lives and is growing tomatoes. The fair pictures are from the Canfield Fair.

One more thing and a few more pictures

The thrill of my Disney vacation was getting to use the Dyson Airblade. It's this really cool hand drier that you put your hands through slowly and they come out completely dry. It was really cool to finally get to see and use one. Disney has three sets of them. Two on Tom Sawyers Island and one in the California Adventure bathrooms that have been moved due to construction. I suggest you try em out. Let me know what you think. I know I'm crazy.

Another Year Down!!!

Today was my last day of teaching for the 2009-2010 school year. We finished with students yesterday and today was moving and packing the school. Most of the school had to be packed and ready to go by 3:30 today. It is a big relief to have the whole summer off to relax and get some things organized in my life.

We have been so busy that I didn't post one time in May. Here are some pictures of the cakes Izzy made in her class the last few Saturdays. We both had a lot of fun!

The picture of Izzy in our backyard was taken this evening. She went to her first middle school party with boys and girls. It was a surprise party for one of Izzy's friends. The theme was 80's!

TGIF

Yeah!!! I am so happy it's Friday and the start of Spring Break! When your a teacher you still look forward to all those great school holidays. I packed up my room today and the mover guys came at 3:30 and started moving everything back into my refurbished room. It is going to be so nice to have a new room! They gave us new sinks, cabinets, carpet, and paint. It looks really nice and clean. I am going to spend some time there over the next week. I should have lots of fun posts the next week. We are going to some fun outdoor events this week. The weather here has been hit and miss. Today started off really nice and then the wind got crazy strong and it even rained a little.

I am feeling good about my eating and workouts so far. I just finished my P90X for the day. I am totally excited to use my new pull-up bar. I lent the Cd's to Mr. Bare our P.E. teacher and today he gave me a pull-up bar as a thank you from him and his girlfriend. They are so excited to get the Cd's and get started with the program. So, that was a nice surprise today! I already tried it and I wimped out after six. That was six with my one foot on a chair. Pull-ups are extremely hard for girls! Well, I'm off to finish my workout with some cardio. I am very energized at the moment despite a long week of packing. I think it made a difference that I didn't move anything this time.
Love, Peace, and Hair Grease,
J.D.

Way Too Long!!

I can't believe I have not posted since the end of January. It really has been too hectic lately and I'm feelin it. I do feel a little better though. Thanks babe, you always make me feel good and laugh. :) I had a fun night. Went to Bunko with the ladies. I actually won- $20.00 bucks! It is just a fun time getting to sit and chat. I held little baby Reid tonight. He is such a tiny little baby. So sweet, but I was glad to give him back to mom when he fussed. It's weird holding a baby these days. Feels like I've never done it before. I guess because it has been so long since holding Izzy. I think about having another baby and I'm truly torn. On one hand it would be fun and mean so much to create another little person to love, but it is such hard work. Anyways this post was not suppose to be about babies. It was going to be about how I have slacked on my blogging duty and how I am reaffirming my new mantra and making it know on my blog. I am restarting P90X for I don't know how many times now and making the commitment this time to see it through even if it kills me. I have ten pounds I want to lose and I want em gone for good! So here is my new mantra. So far it's working good. Ignore the posting time on this blog. It's the weekend and I went out! A girl can't be perfect all the time. Geesh!

OK here we go:

1. Eat healthy!

2. Exercise every day!

3. Take my vitamin!

4. Get to bed by 10:00!

And most importantly- Stress Less and Relax!!!

It is working nicely so far. Maybe I should put something on their about writing on here weekly. Nah! Too much pressure. Here are some of my latest pictures. I am seriously bummed because all my pictures from the beginning of the year are gone from my computer. No clue what has happened, but they are gone! The Boston pictures, fireman pictures from school, they are gone! I guess I will have to keep this blog forever to preserve those memories...

My Latest Creative Project

Every beach I visited in Florida I collected seashells. I have never fancied them much before this trip, but there were so many beautiful shells all over every beach I couldn't resist taking a free souvenir. Besides, it was a great distraction from my thoughts at the time. I decided to make some picture frames with them and here's what I ended up with tonight. The three are actually photo albums and the big white one is a frame. They turned out rather nice I think. I don't have pictures in them yet, that's tomorrow's errand to get them developed. I still have lots of shells left over. I think I went a little overboard with my collecting.

Websites Worth a Little Time

I have come across some cool websites and wanted to share. The first one is: http://www.gigoit.org/. It stands for Garbage In Garbage Out It. It is a website where you enter your zip code and see what people are giving away. There wasn't much in Las Vegas, but I thought it would be cool to get it out there so people can start using it and recycling some things that they don't need anymore. Kinda neat I think...



Next is http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/. This one is a funny site where you can read some outrageous "notes" or post your own little passive aggressive gripe. It has some pretty funny things that people have posted. It seems like there are lots of people only willing to gripe if it's indirect and passive. Pretty funny stuff...



My player on my blog comes from a cool site called www.playlist.com. You can click on it on my page and it takes you right to the site. I like it because you can create a playlist with 100 songs and link it to your blog, myspace, or facebook. It doesn't cost anything so me and millions of others may be in trouble... not sure how that works? Give it a try. You too could be in the next lawsuit...



Speaking of lawsuits, we went to Nordstroms, but they had already given away all the free products. I can't believe they had to give away $125 million dollars worth of cosmetics. We were too late :( Apparently every Asian tourist was lined up around the store getting the handouts. Unbelievable!!





OK- back to websites. This next one is another fun shirt site- http://www.snorgtees.com/. You have to have a sense of humor to like these shirts. Some are funny and some are just stupid... Something for everyone.

Here are two sites I found looking through a magazine with cute things- www.bungalowco.com and www.seejanework.com.

Alrighty- gotta go work out now. I'll post some blogs next time.