I'm up to date on my photo a day!!

I took my little point and shoot camera with me to Seattle for the NCCE conference! It was beautiful in Seattle.. yes that is BLUE skies in the last photo! It was nice all 3 days we were there!

Wednesday.. the view from my 23rd floor room in the Seattle Hilton... thought it was funny to look down and see a neon sign that said rock bottom (think it's a eating place)


Thursday.. the view from our table looking up @ the Cheesecake Factory where we ate dinner! :)


Friday 3/5... some flower pictures :) I got a few.. yes that is blue sky you see!

The cake for the Lady Bullpups Basketball Banquet. I did such a good job ordering this one! ;) LOL

This is for you Jordan!!

Jordan said I needed to update my blog! What 2 months since my last update and I'm slacking??? okay, I guess I am! Yes, there was a touch of sarcasm in that remark! :) I'm so bad about being sarcastic!! :)

Let's see.. what has happened to us since the first of Jan? Basketball, more basketball, Missoula's Children Theater performance, piano recital, piano lessons, beginning of rehearsals for Annie Get Your Gun.

I'm glad I never said I'd do the picture a day because, heck I can't even update my blog.. though if I start now, I could post my picture every day.. hmm sounds like a challenge to myself!

***insert brief pause while I take some pictures***
Okay.. here it is!! A picture of Karina's new socks.. the mismatched ones from Grandma's attic! I love them! I debated on which ones to get and settled on these! :)



okay one down.. a whole bunch more to go :)

Here is one picture from our basketball season. This is Ana and her bestie Kendall who plays for Liberty Bell.



One of Karina in her play as the Baird to the court :)


There ya go :)

Happy Jordan??? (LOL)

Happy New Year!!!

I can't say that I'll be better at posting here since I seem to be Facebook obsessed. Any of you family out there on facebook??? Let me know :) We can be "friends" :)

I still have my Christmas cards in my possession that need to be addressed and sent out. I'll need to add Happy New Year to my comments :)

My new job is going well. I enjoy helping the teachers but I miss the daily contact with the kidlets. Lucky for me I seemed to have picked up Ashley's class to hang with and @ North I'm in Nancy and Brenda's room quite a bit so I get my working with kids fix there :)

Through some lucky draw of my name I guess... I get to fly to Seattle on Jan 11th and spend two days checking out the new MSP test and seeing how the questions align with the new state standards. It's one of those things...it will either be really fun and the day will fly by or it's going to boring as all get at and I'll be hoping the day passes quickly!! I'll fly home on the 14th as the only flight after 5 that returns to Wenatchee was @ 10:30 PM.. so I'd get into Wentachee @ after 11 and than have to drive 2 hours home. Umm no thanks! So I fly into Wentachee @ 11 AM and then drive home for the dentist! Yuck :(

Otherwise, it's life as normal... piano lessons, Girl Scouts and Ana starts basketball tomorrow. 2 weeks of practice and then games twice a week. It keeps us busy :)

Take care everyone!

Hang on to your seat....

yes indeed, it's me.. returning to post on the good ole blog!! Did ya miss me??? Life has been cray busy!! but what is new right?

So let's recap the last 6 weeks.. volleyball (posted pics already).

School pics (taken by Tim Patrick photography...awesome job!)




Ana's birthday (14th)



Fossil dig with Karina in Republic





My 2nd great nephew was born. Welcome Kainoa (Noe)


Pumpkin Patch after visiting my mom and dad (Happy Birthday Dad!) 135 pounds of pumpkins later (only 5 pumpkins!)



Halloween
Karina- wood fairy



Ana (old fashioned girl)





Next up is dance team if they get that going again for Ana (coach is having a baby that wants to come early silly thing) and then Brett's birthday, Thanksgiving and oh so much more I'm sure! Eagerly awaiting the return of my D60 as the shutter decided to quit working in the middle of the last couple volleyball games.. :( It's an ouchie fix but needed :(

Hello Fall...

well it's not officially here but it always seems that way after fair is over that fall really officially begins :) We've had our first Volleyball game and we won!! Go Bullpups! A few random shots with my new zoom.. it's almost like being on the court! Lighting always sucks in gyms.. :) LOL






Fair time has come and gone... we brought home tons of ribbons and awards :) 3 Grand champions and 3 Reserve Grand Champions and 2 people's choice awards :) Gotta love that! I got a blue on my scrapbook (no grand this year :( boo hiss) and reds on all my photos. We won't discuss photography @ the fair okay.. makes me hot under the collar :) LOL
Some highlights!
Karina's quilt.. Reserve Grand Champion and People's choice for Sunday



Ana's quilt.. People's choice for Thursday..yes it has a red..they didn't like that all her points weren't pointy.. but I thought pretty darn good for a 13 year old!



All the rest of their Grands and Reserves came in the baking division... my girls like to bake and do a pretty darn good job. Ana's Blondies are to die for.. one of her friends has asked for a pan of blondies for her birthday..that is all she wants! Ana entered 8 photos and Karina entered 3 photos and K had some misc. crafty things running around the booth. Ana sang today and I'm working on uploading the videos now to facebook. The first one I forgot I had the video going as I was also using my camera to take pictures and had the other camera propped up to record LOL

A few random photos from the fair...some by me and some by Ana who hijacked my baby and took off with it... I worried the entire time..called her 3 times to see if it was okay LOL



Harlie's feet


My adopted daughter Kelsie :)


ana's cow says good bye until next fair :)

Offical crazy time has started.....

We'll be trying to cram the last 3 weeks of summer doing as much as we can before we hit the grind of school again. @ the rodeo one of Ana's classmates said goodbye when it was over and that he'd see her in HE double hockey sticks in 3 weeks :) LOL I about died laughing! Ana is about going crazy to get back to the social aspects of school and sports! Karina is so-so about it..but I'm sure when it happens she'll be great! Brett starts back next week, but officially on the 16th. We were going to try to hit the beach with our bonus time for our resort but alas no time available...that sucks. We're going to Twin Lakes with the Headley's next weekend to enjoy some R&R.

We broke down.. we did.. we went to Stampede. We usually try to get the heck out of dodge when it comes to town, but since our ocean plans fell through we decided to hit family night at the rodeo. Of course we had to hit a few rides first, find some grub, get out of the brief downpour before we hit the stands. We went for box seats so we could see up close and personal :) Took my camera and got some good shots. This is where I wish I had my zoom lens :( someday :) Got some good pictures :)
Ana on some rides:



Brett and Jeff Cheeseman hanging with their daughters on the Ball of Fire ride :)


Karina and the streeters on the fury ride.. Lyndsi was not enjoying it as much as Dylan and Karina


Karina and Dylan on the yo yo



Random Rodeo pictures :)







and I'll leave with me...kicking back and enjoying the rest of my summer (until I have to go pack up my classroom and see what my new job holds!)