FOBTY...

we're suppose to blog about the weather.. What about this Okanogan weather? It's been a pretty abnormal summer I think. It's almost mid July and we still haven't had the scorching heat that we normally have. It's been cloudy, windy and a few plain ugly storms. I worry a bit about the dry lightening as we are pretty bone dry up here and that means FIRE.. Fire season is not fun!

Sooo looking at the forecast.. we have some nice mellow days ahead of us :) go mellow days :) Looks like good camping weather or even maybe a day at silverwood (amusement park) :)

FOBTY...

You Are a Pineapple Smoothie

You are adventurous and brave. You aren't afraid of much. You are in love with new experiences. You are usually the first to try something. You get bored rather easily, and you need to be challenged in life. You are turbo charged. Most people find it impossible to keep up with you in any capacity.

What Flavor Smoothie Are You?

camp and room make over :)

Dropped the girls off at Camp last week. Here they are at Camp Four Echoes on Lake Coeur d'alene :)





cleaned up the junk out of Karina's room and then spent two days painting it. Brett helped by putting up the tape on Wednesday night. The next morning... sadly all his work was on the floor :( that wasn't nice of the tape!
BEFORE:



AFTER: rejuvenate green :) (white border on bottom will be covered by baseboard)

School's out!!!

Yipeee!! I had to wait until "I" was officially out for the summer to post this! I said good bye to my 21st class of students on Friday! It's hard to believe I've helped shape little (and big) minds for 21 years! I don't feel that old to have been teaching that long!

We started our summer vacation with a quick trip to the Tri-Cities to visit my parents for only one day. Brett stayed behind to enter the cook off @ Tara and Jeff's. Heard the ribs were yummy but no top 3 for my cooking man :(

My summer will FLY by as I looked at my "overbooked" time. Ana and Karina both have quilt class (Ana next week and Karina the first week of July), both girls head to Girl Scout Camp on Lake Couer dalene for a week. Then we herd them to Brett's moms for a few days while Brett and I play in Spokane for his conference. Ana is working on her silver award for Girl Scouts and will be the big part of the Day Camp that they are putting on in July. I'll most likely be a adult volunteer and Karina will attend :) Then we ship Ana off to cougar Quest camp @ WSU for a week. I have 3 days in July that I'll be at my EETT grant training and this brings us to the end of July before we finally find ourselves with no commitments so to speak! I'm hoping that Janis comes through with my trip to South America to teach Math for a week. If that happens it will most likely be the first week of July. Not going to hold my breath.. was suppose to go last year and it never worked out on the other end either.. *sigh*

SO.. hope your summer is full of fun.. We're having fun whether we like it or not :)

FOBTY...

Sweet Shoppe Designs (SSD) has some cool challenges all month long! One of them is called From Our Blog to Yours (FOBTY) and this one is that you have to blog about your favorite part of the zoo! Gosh.. it's been a long time since I've been to the zoo! The closest one to us is about 4 hours away. Hmm guess we'll have to make time to go with the cousins the next time we are there! My favorite part of the zoo is visiting the monkeys! I love to watch their antics as they play and go about their day in the zoo. Kinda reminds me of my teaching days :) LOL (kidding for those parents who might read this blog)!

:)

Piano Recital

Ana is finishing year # 4 and Karina year # 2 in piano. They don't always like to practice but they do okay. Their teacher always has an end of the year recital where everyone plays one thing and something together. Here is the 6 minutes of fame for the Baum kids.. Karina first, the duet and then Ana.

Enjoy!

Another season over....

and then so begins the busy summer.... School is almost over.. 4 weeks left! :) Yippeee!!

Here is Karina playing Tennis :)


Ana in track.... high jump, long jump, 200m dash and a relay race.





It was Spring Frolic on Friday..Where did my baby go and who is this gorgeous young lady in her place???



Karina came for a few minutes to walk the red carpet!


Hope you've enjoyed my photo journey!!

I'll leave you with a picture of the double rainbow that Ana got on camera!