Tree Sculpture

This thing was really cool... everything used to make it was recycled from the old school buildings. The detail was amazing.

From India with love

One of my students from last year spent this year studying abroad in India. She came to visit today and brought me a great little purse and some bracelets.

I love these bracelets. Now I just need to get an outfit to wear them with.

Is that what I think it is?

Yes that is yellow snow. Why would I post a picture of yellow snow? Well actually there are two interesting questions to be asked about this picture of yellow snow. First, what is the location of said snow? Second, when was this picture of yellow snow taken?

Interestingly enough I have answers to both of those burning questions.

It seems that Cyan is no longer the only dog who is so lazy they don’t even bother to walk off the deck to go to the bathroom when there is snow on the ground. Bevo has followed in her… well, lack of footsteps. I let him out the door this morning to watch him not bother to walk more than three feet away and squat right there on the deck. Well I suppose if there’s white stuff all over the grass than anything underneath said white stuff must be grass. Right?!?!? I just hope he doesn’t start to confuse the white carpet with snow.

The time stamp on that image is 6:08 am. Why in the world am I taking pictures of yellow snow at six in the morning? It seems that despite the best intentions of the district I work for I am clueless when it comes to being prepared. We have a call system that automatically calls each person on the phone tree when there are schedule changes due to weather (or anything else for that matter).

Me, being the genus that I am gave them my cell number. Actually that has nothing to do with me being a genius and more with me not knowing what my home phone number is. Yeah, I will admit it. I don’t know my home phone number. So of course with the weather we are having they activated the call system. They were even sweet enough to call the two-hour-delay last night so we could sleep in a little and didn’t have to play the waiting game waiting for a call. Stupid me however left their cell phone on vibrate down in the living room. So of course I got up early and started my daily routine before I noticed that I had a voice mail. Good morning Mr. Hamm! So instead of getting ready for work what was I doing?!?!? Taking pictures of the snow on our deck of course! In my bathrobe none the less :o)

Day 1

Day 1 at Dover. I made Richie take my picture when I got home from work today. I don't look too bad after spending 7 hours on the third floor!

Quote of the Day

"Well you see what usually happens with education is we get stupid."

- Dr. Bowman

Gotta love the infinite wisdom I am paying $400 a credit hour for.

Who loves the Fedex man?

That would be me!

Especially when he brings fun stuff from apple. Richie asked if I was going to keep it in the boxes until we moved. Ha! Yeah right! I couldn't wait to play with my new toys.

Softball & Prom

Woah.... I have about a million pictures to post. Busy weekends = lots of photos

Saturday morning softball games... we have to go back when it isn't raining. Al's a beast and throws the ball so dang fast that I can't get a shot where her hand isn't blurry. Maybe some sunshine would help that out.

I missed her only hit because I was complaining about something... I should pay better attention especially when the purpose of my being there is to take pictures!

Saturday afternoon: Fun time with Caiden and getting our hair "did". Loved the fun hair and nails. I felt like such a girly girl.

Saturday night... PROM (number 4 for me, number 6 for Richie)

Note to self

Never leave boys alone with your car and toilet paper. Even if the car is outside and the toilet paper is in building.

I left my car at laser quest for ten minutes and when I came back this is what I found. Of course the crazy boys who did it were proud of their work and hung around to see what my reaction was.

Thank goodness it didn't rain before we took all the paper off. That would have been a mess!!

Finally... a chance to post

Between making, grading and taking tests I haven't had much time to take pictures. Hopefully that will change this week. We have a Pampered Chef party tonight and a Birthday party on Friday.

These are the last pictures I took from a wrestling match on the 11th. I have a lot of respect for sports photographers. It's harder than I looks. I had to delete the majority of my shots due to focus issues. These are the best I could get.

Winter Homecoming

It seems that I shouldn't be going to dances any more since I haven't been in high school for almost 8 years but that hasn't stopped us yet! I wasn't sure how fun it would be since I already had a long day before we even got there but I had a great time taking pictures.

Check out all the cute people!