5/29/09

School's Out For Summer!

Well, I made it through one of the hardest years if school! It has felt like an emotional roller coaster since the announcement of the cutbacks back in January! It still seems like we are back in march to be honest! So cleaning out my office just seemed premature!

I had a good lunch to celebrate my friend, Moo's, birthday. It was yummy.

Then I flew to Las Vegas. It is always nice to hang out with Morgan and Derek. I have a blast just playing with their boys and chillin'.

Stay tuned for lots of pictures! I am way tired. Sleep will be very nice and very soon!

5/28/09

Graduation!




Yesterday was graduation. This is seriously one of my favorite nights of the year. To see my students receive their diploma, often brings tears to my eyes because I am so very proud of them. What a great achievement for many of these students!

One of the graduates was in my Leadership class and actually graduated a year early...that made me feel even more proud. I saw her grow up so much in the past three years and what an accomplishment for this young lady(she is pointing in one of the pics!). Graduation truly makes all the day to day stuff worthwhile! Good night!

Today is yearbook signing. Two hours of sitting in the cafeteria just chilling with kids. Then cleaning my office will be in order! We will also have a staff BBQ this afternoon which will be awesome!

Have a great day!

5/26/09

Human Foosball and Guitar Heros


Today went incredibly fast. It was the last real day with kids. Crazy. It was fun. I made two of my PE classes play Human Foosball. It is just like the game, but you "attach" yourself to a few of your teammates via pvc pipe! Fun to watch. I think some of the kids hate it because it is new and hard for them. SIGH.

My girls PE was lucky enough to go and play the Wii that the History teacher had brought in for the day. Some liked it, and some did not. Again, you cannot please everybody!

I played Guitar Hero this afternoon for quite a while because I didn't want to face cleaning my office just yet. It was fun to play with Kristi, Heidi, and Jane! I think we will be playing a little more tomorrow afternoon. Yipee!

I also did laundry which is always a thrill a min!

Well, off to sleep.

5/25/09

Memorial Day!



Today I went to the Provo City Cemetery for the Memorial Day service at ten this morning. It was awesome as always. It is always fun to see our students from the JROTC program do the 21 gun salute. I am always so proud of them! I also like to be reminded of all the men and women who have given so much for my freedom and our country. We owe them a lot!

What else? I went frisbee golfing again. It was a little more of a challenge today because there were a gagillion people at the park where I go because of the BBQ factor of Memorial Day! It still was fun.

Then I rented The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was a very good movie. Kinda serious but very good.

I haven't done much else. Just hung out and relaxed! I love a good three day weekend. I also love that I only have two days with kids. It is going to rock!

Well, hope you all had a great Memorial Day! Cheers!

5/24/09

Enjoy My Video Blog Below.

I am very excited that I finally found a way to post a video blog! Enjoy!

5/23/09

Last Assembly


Yesterday was our last assembly at school. It was fun to just have all the kids in one room for the last time. I still am having a hard time thinking that we are almost done with school. Where has my life gone? Weird. Don't get me wrong, I am glad it is almost summertime. I do love this time of year; it just feels like it has gone WAY fast this year.

I have a lot of grading to do before grades are due. I am going to head to school soon and get some of that done! I also have a lot of cleaning to do at school in order to check out. I do not look forward to that any year, but this year may prove to be more of a challenge because I am not sure where I am supposed to store all my stuff because of the new issue of shared space thanks to us absorbing two other programs! SIGH.

I have been frisbee golfing quite a bit these days. I think I got sick of biking. I know weird, huh? And have been interested in golfing. I actually do a lot of jogging while playing because I throw the disc and then "chase" it. Wow, I just sounded like a dog there for a min.

I teach a lesson in Relief Society at church tomorrow and am a little nervous about it. I hope it goes well!

Well, just enjoying having a long weekend. I hope you all are doing the same. Remember to check out the video of my Principal and Vice Principal dancing at the assembly below!

5/22/09

Senior BBQ







Last night we had a BBQ for all our graduating seniors. It was way fun to eat and visit with the kids and their parents. We also had a slide show honoring the kids. It was way cool. I sure do love my school. It is going to be weird to see some of my co-workers go after next week and it is always sad to see the seniors go, but I am way excited for the summer of fun! That is Kristi with the flowers. She is one of our counselors and she has been working so hard for the Seniors the past few weeks. It was nice that they honored her with flowers!

5/20/09

Video Blog

I tried to video blog yesterday with no luck. It took over 2 hours to try and download the video. If I can ever get it to work you can hear all about yesterday. Not too much went on. I went to Red Robin. It was yummy. I am going to miss lots of my coworkers and the year end is always a little bittersweet because kids will be graduating which is awesome but they will never be here again! SIGH.

5/19/09

Burger Tuesday



Enjoy the picture of how I came to school today. That is right....socks and flip flops.

Time still flies. Today is the last Burger Friday of the year. Red Robin is my favorite. I bet we will go again as a farewell to me but this is the last payday celebration.

It was hot yesterday. I was silly and went frisbee golfing anyway. Mistake! I was hot and thirsty! I still enjoyed it. It is at least pretty and hot.

What else? Only six days of class left. I am a bit excited about that. Yipee!

I think that is all I have. Have a great Tuesday!

5/17/09

Cattle Drive




I had a wonderful time down in Lynndyl this Saturday "helping" drive the cattle to their summer home in the desert. It was truly an amazing thing to see these cows move along down about 1/2 mile of road and then make a big turn toward the desert. It was also very impressive to see all the farmer men direct them where to go. It is truly an art to get the cows to do what they need to do. I am still a sucker for baby cows and there were a lot of calves that passed by. Moo and I were on one end to stop traffic and her mom was at the other end of the road. We were right by the turn and it was so fun to see this thing of beauty. Cows are not stupid. Okay, so most of them aren't and if you get the smart ones in the front, then the actually know exactly where to turn. It was awesome. Going down to Lynndyl always reminds me of my childhood and the time I spent on the farm with my Grandpa and Uncle. I always thought that I was a farm girl, even though it was only a weekend job for me!

Thank you to Moo's family for letting me be a part of the experience and for supplying me with wonderful food while I was in town!

Other than that, not much has happened this weekend. Friday, I played softball and lost again, but it was as fun as always. I sure do like the beautiful weather of spring and all the fun I get to have outside. I cannot believe that this will be the last full week of school with the kids! Crazy! I will have to enjoy every moment!

Today just plan to go to church and lounge around! Good times. My kind of Sunday!

Have a great week everybody!

5/14/09

Practically Friday!


Hey. This week has been going fast. Have I mentioned that lately? I thought so. I have been out and playing frisbee golf a lot lately so I pulled this classic pic out of me playing last year. It is hard to take pictures of myself playing when I go by myself so this will have to do. I don't think that I have changed all that much since then.

What else? Did you catch the season finale of The Office? It was spectacular. I sure do love that show!

I really don't have that much else to write about. Weird huh?

I hope you are having an excellent day. Later.

p.s. I have been saying "Whatev" a lot lately, so it is now the title. I do have to say that I really think a rotating title is awesome. It just seems to name itself! :) Yipee for me and my genius.

5/13/09

Exciting Eyes!




I went to the eye doctor today. It was thrilling. I will be getting new contacts shortly. Thrilling, I know. I hope they work well because again the eye doc wanted to change brands of contacts for me. I do not know why they always insist on doing this but whatev. I will try the trial pair out and let's hope they easily come out. I have had troubles with some brands in the past. It was hard for me to let them go with a different brand because I kinda feel like if it isn't broken I shouldn't fix it but again: whatev. I did think I was pretty sexy in the fun fake sunglasses they gave me after dialating my eyes. They were pretty big, huh? They haven't changed much. Hopefully, they will go back to normal before I go to work tomorrow.

I am really loving my students these days. I wonder if that is just because I know we are close to the end. I hope not. I sure so love my job.

Not much else to report...well I did get my new satellite receiver in the mail today. My old one erased all the DVR stuff I had in it....twice! So the whole season of The Office. GONE. The past four new episodes of House. GONE. A little upset about that and the fact that I now have to reset all the timers I had on my old receiver. Bummer. Oh well. Whatev!

Tired

Wow. I am tired this morning. Maybe I had too much sun yesterday or something. It was beautiful weather and I took two of my afternoon PE classes outside to play football. Then after school I went frisbee golf jogging again. So nice. I got real tired at about 9:30 but of course stayed up until 10:30. I slept right until the alarm at 6:30 this morning and am still tired.

I am glad time is flying. I am way excited for all the fun that will be happening the next three weeks. This weekend I will be down near Delta to witness what moving the cattle is like for my friend's family. The 30th I will fly to Vegas. (It is part of the fiasco with my plane ticket credit. It is finally figured out now and I still have 250 to use toward a future plane ticket, yipee!). Then I am in Utah for two weeks and get to see Kelly Clarkson on the 11th of June. Then I fly home the next day. Exciting times. Loving life right now!!

5/11/09

Pics and Monday



Today was long and tiring. We had meetings all day and talked about our school for next year. It is all going to work out but it is going to be stressful for the whole staff to figure out all the changes come August. Good times!

Time is flying by. Crazy. Life is just crazy!

Enjoy the slide show from Denver. I guess that is good to post today seeing I don't have much to say today!

5/10/09

Colorado Dreaming...


or is that California Dreaming? I can never remember! The trip was awesome. I still cannot believe that it really happened. Crazy. Sorry about the lack of pictures. They will not load tonight. You will have to wait until tomorrow!

We got to Denver at about noon and then we just checked into the hotel and walked the main street of town. We then rested for a while before we headed to the stadium for the game. It was walking distance from out hotel which was very cool. The game was so much fun even though the Rockies lost. It was so cool to be in a suite behind home plate to watch the game. We even had all the food and drink we wanted for free and got to go to the broadcasting booth for Fox Sports Network. So cool.

We got back today at about one and I didn't want to be back. I like vacations. I went up to the Bills for a little Mother's Day celebration and it was a lot of fun. I sure do love my family away from home. I also love my family! I am so excited to go see them in a month! Love ya all!!!

Must go to sleep now. Maybe I will dream of being in Colorado!

Have a great Monday! I do not have students so it will be a little easier than most Mondays!

5/8/09

Down with Favre!

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My readers probably know that I am a HUGE Packer fan. I think living in Wisconsin requires that you are a Packer fan. I just want to put out there that I am a Packer fan....NOT a Brett Favre fan. I am so upset to hear again the "I am not really going to retire" talk. Farve just needs to make up his mind. He is OLD and STUPID. I cannot believe how he has gone from hero to zero because of his vindictiveness against the Packers. You just don't go and talk with the arch rival Vikings and still get respect from the team that made you, The Packers. Last year was bad enough when the organization tried to save him from defaming his time with them by encouraging him to remain retired instead of coming back or playing for a different team and he went and did what he wanted to anyway. It was time for the organization to move on and develop a new quarterback. Obviously, Favre is getting older and more prone to injury(look at the current bicep issue.) I think the Vikings would be dumb to actually take Favre.

I think that Favre is ruining his legend status in Green Bay and losing the fans that once thought he was king. Idiot. I hope that if he comes back, lots of sacks happen like the pictures above.

And that is how I feel about Brett Favre!

P.S. Getting packed to go to Denver. I am so excited. Look for pictures on Sunday!

5/7/09

Good Day...Again!



I got my Kelly Clarkson ticket today in the mail. Awesomeness! It is going to be a blast to go to that concert.

I also got plane tickets to come home this summer. That will also be a blast to get to be home for a couple months.

I am working on getting that other plane ticket taken care of too. What a fiasco. I may just use it to go home for Christmas. It seems that if you buy the tickets in May for December, they are much cheaper. Who would have even thought to book a flight now for Christmas? Not me!

Well, off to frisbee golf/jog again. Yipee!

Whoa....it's Thursday already!

I woke up this morning and thought it was Wednesday; it is actually Thursday. That never happens. If I wake up and think it is a different day, it is usually Friday and I think it is Saturday and then I am very disappointed by the fact that I have to get up and get ready.

Yesterday went very fast, obviously. School is just flying by right now. I better sit back and just enjoy my students and my school because it really is going to be so different next year. SIGH. I played frisbee golf again yesterday afternoon and it was very fun. I went alone and jogged between throws. Good exercise!

I then just hung out at home. Unfortunately, I could not watch much on TV because my whole DVR got erased yesterday. I also lost my phone at one point during the day(don't worry I found it again). I was thinking that was probably karma getting back at me for winning that awesome trip. The universe is hopefully even now and today will be a great day.

I am very tired but need to go and get ready to face the day. Hope all is well for you all. Have a great day!

5/5/09

I Am Jealous of Myself!

The Field I won a trip to!
Aiden "cooling" himself
River in Rock Canyon
J Dawg
Tulips from front yard...Hey I planted them!

Today was an awesome day. I found out that I was chosen to win a trip for two to go see the Colorado Rockies baseball game this Saturday in Denver. I won two airline tickets to Denver, two tickets to the game, a hotel room and a hundred dollars in spending cash. Crazy huh? So, Kristi(one of the counselors at work) and I will be flying out at 10 on Saturday morning. How cool is that? I am way so excited. I never win things and I have never won anything as awesome as this. I won this by entering a contest through the Salt Lake Bees (minor league baseball team).

I also was able to go on a hike with my friend Christine and her son, Aiden. It was a blast. Afterward, we went to J Dawg for a hotdog(my first time). It was so yummy. Overall this was an awesome day. I am looking forward to Saturday!

5/3/09

Time to Sleep



Here is a picture of my yummy fruit salad that I made with my new fantastic as seen on TV Chop Wizard. Megan bought the chopper for me and it is fantastic. I can see a lot of healthy foods being made in it in the future. I am way tired and going to bed now. It is 9:30. Crazy huh? Only 16 days left of class. YIPEE!

5/2/09

Weekend!




Played softball last night. It was fun as always, even if we did not win. After that I went to Janette's for her birthday party. We just chatted and ate fun food and then played Taboo.

Today Megan came up so we did our usual shopping all over. We went to the mall, Costco, Office Max, Barnes and Noble, and Shopko. Not that you wanted to know all that, but you get to anyway. I got a new featherbed at Shopko. Yes, you read that right, I bought a new featherbed because the new mattress topper actually made me very sore the last few nights, so I decided that it was too firm for my body. Let's hope the featherbed does the trick and that the topper sells on craigslist. Sigh, oh well, life happens like that sometimes, doesn't it?

Well, off to eat pizza, watch movies and hang out with Megan. Enjoy the pic of us "hanging out." We are awesome, aren't we?