We participated in a HUGE Karate tournament (which by the way are very different from Tae Kwon Do tournaments). Although Steve and Josh did not win anything (though they both did great), Jake ended up winning first place in sparring. The trophy is taller than me! He is so proud!!
since I posted anything, but life has been SUPER busy. School ended, baseball ended and I've been cleaning house. Since we decided to stay put in our house, I've been rearranging and going through things. We're almost done with the refinance, and then we're going to start painting, and updating. I'm very excited about it. Most of all, I'm excited that I finally have a scrap space again. I took over the dining room- moving all of my scrap stuff (except what's in my closet). It is so fun now to be able to scrap whenever I want. I've updated the kids school albums, and I'm now working on completing online class stuff that I never had time to do before.
The first weekend in June, I finally got to spend the day with Emmy at the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington. I totally broke my no-spend rule, but I got some great stuff. Emmy had an extra Bind-It-All, so she gave it to me and I bought the wires and stuff to go with it. I didn't go overboard, but bought things I thought I would actually use.
Finally, I have discovered the funniest video on youtube. If you haven't looked up "literal videos" yet, you are missing some fun. The best are "I'd Do Anything for Love" by Meatloaf and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler. Here's the latter:
I've always tried to give the boys' teachers something worthwhile, especially since I've always worked with them! Now, instead of 1, 2, or 3 teachers, I have 9 to prepare for! That could get really pricey, so I made the gifts this year. These are little legal pads that I covered. As a teacher, I know that having a SMALL notepad is a great thing- to keep on your desk, to take to meetings, to carry around the building. I had a lot of fun coming up with the concept and making them. Let me know what you think!
One of the best parts of living in Texas is the annual blooming of Texas Bluebonnets. There is nothing prettier than these flowers. This past weekend, we took the boys to a local patch and took their picture. Since we are dead in the middle of baseball season, we went while they were in uniform (both had games, though Jake's was rained out). This is one of the many we took, because the boys were not in the best mood for picture taking. :-)
One of our favorite shows is in danger of being cancelled- we already lost Pushing Daisies. I've never, ever been one of those fans to send crazy things into companies to get them to save a show. But.....tonight we went to Subway and bought 4 footlongs in support- the manager looked at me like I was crazy, but I sent a customer feedback email to Subway.
This has always been my favorite hymn, and now I love the Chris Tomlin version much more.
I've discovered some amazing families through Jody Ferlaak's blog. If you click on the links to the left, you'll find out about them. Please keep Stellan in your prayers. His family needs them.
I began a new class at BPS today, called Wellness Journey. My weight loss hasn't been going so well- I just haven't been focused. I'm hoping this class really steps it up.
On the brighter side, I have gone 3 months without purchasing any scrapbook supplies beyond necessities (adhesive, photo binders for my pictures). This has brought about a great thing- I've had to be creative in my assignments for the (now)3 scrapping classes I'm taking. The pictures are my version of a 6x6 album for the Wellness class- I used a lunchbox I've had forever, and used the file pages for the album pages. It's turned out great- and I feel great for keeping to my goal.
I am a fourth grade Reading and Language Arts teacher, with a MEd. in Reading and a MEd. in Learning Technologies and Library Sciences. I am Steve's wife, Josh and Jake's mother, Pattie and Darrell's daughter, Derek's sister and Emmy's best friend. More importantly, I am a child of God. I consider myself to be a voracious reader and movie/television watcher. I am my family's historian, an avid geocacher, and a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do.
