Stupid Power!

We had a HUGE monsoon last night where the power went out in a lot of areas. We luckily didn't have a power outage at our house! That would have been horrible! No A/C!! Anyway so I get to school this morning, and all the teachers are standing outside. I was like "What is going on?" and they say, "No power, no school today!" I was ELATED!!!!! So the kids that were here, we had to call their parents to tell them to come and pick up their kids, that we don't have power. So like 20 minutes ago the stupid power came back on! LOL And they made an announcement over the PA that there WILL be school now since the power came back on! That's kinda stupid, not because I was a 4 day weekend LOL But because there is no guaranteed that the power will stay on, and besides I as a parent would be mad if the school tells me to come pick up my kid because there isn't school today. And when I get there they say, "Well the power came back. So there will be school after all!" Ugh! I think the teachers are more disappointed than the kids that there is school! LOL Stupid power!

We decided to go bowling a few weeks ago, It was a lot of fun! Who knew my Mom was a regular "King Pin"?? She beat us all!!!!!!!! Alex was really good too! He didn't even complain that he wasn't allowed to play! (o:

I am way too short to take one handed shots LOL

Happy bowlers

My Mom was an awesome bowler!

My Dad was funny! He would get so upset when he
got gutter balls lol

David.... well wasnt a good bowler at all LOL

Jenniffer wasn't good either LOL

I sucked LOL

Mario was really good too LOL

Happy Late Birthday Mom & Mario

My messed up looking cake. I've never
tried decorating a cake besides frosting it lol
I was sitting down when I wrote on it! Who
knew you had to be standing up when
writing on a cake??? LOL

My Mom's birthday is 8/17 and Mario's is on
8/19, so we decided to celebrate their birthdays
on my Mom's birthday. (I put the 52 on it for my
Mom, and put 26 candles around the cake for Mario)

Once they blew out the candles, the smoke hit
Alex in the face, and he got scared. So he
wanted to stand as far away from the cake as
possible LOL

My loving parents

Us. (LOL David looks WAY happy here lol)

Classroom

This is what my class looked like when I got to
school on Monday 8/11/08. Well minus the book shelves
and radio. It was a mess!

Another view of my room. Books and boxes
everywhere!! (Oh I put my calendar up!)

This is the front wall. My first bulletin lol
My class rules and stars to decorate the board.

This is my home made birthday calendar!
All the ones I saw at the teacher
supply stores were way baby-ish! LOL So
I made my own!

This is the wall opposite the window. My
Map Bulletin is crooked and drives me nuts lol
Oh well maybe someday I'll fix it!

I don't have very many good pictures of my class. And I forgot my USB cord! (Oh yeah I found my camera!) But there ya go.

TRAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I lost my camera!!!!!!!!! I am so sad!!!!!!!! I was all ready to post pictures of my classroom, and I can't find my camera!!!!!!! I have so many pictures on it right now!! )o: I'm sad!


(Wish me luck that I find it at home, or in my car!!!!)

Wicked

That was us in 1999! Yikes we were little! LOL

This is us in 2008. (We're like wine lol we get
better with age!)

I agree we are still cute! LOL

My birthday is coming up in about 2 weeks, and my best friend Kim, decided that we should go watch Wicked! I've never been to a professional musical before! Just the ones from High School! LOL So I'm so excited!!!!! So on October 4th, a month exactly after my birthday, we're going to L.A and watch Wicked! Thank You again F.O.M!!!!! I'll see you THIS weekend!!!!!

(Oh yeah, we're going to California this weekend for Labor Day!)

The End?

I'm thinking of not blogging anymore. I don't seem to be good at this anymore lol I remember when it was new and fun to blog. Not so much anymore. Maybe I just need to be more interesting? LOL We'll see what happens with this blogging shenanigans. I don't think anyone reads this anymore anyways lol

(Random funny: David is reading to Alex in his room, and I looked down and saw Alex playing with books in here?! lol I swore he was still in the room with David since David is STILL reading out loud? LOL He must love "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" LOL)

Duty

I hate bus duty!!!!!!! Now they just told me today that my classroom will be the 5th and 6th grade pick up room! Ugh!!!!!!! There goes my prep time! Now I have to babysit in the Morning and afternoon! UGH!


:::UPDATE::: YEY! My VP just told me that if we have afternoon pick up, we wont be required to do morning bus duty!! YIPPE!!!! Still irritating about Afternoon Pickup!

(Pick Up Room means that all the kids that get picked up will come to my classroom until their parents come and pick them up.)

First week of School

I have 35 kids! Last year I have 26 kids! My classroom is a lot bigger this year than last year, but my patience isn't! Which I know is going to be hard! Ugh! ::breathe:: "Patience is a virtue my friend" I just have to keep reminding myself that! Also that just a few months ago they were 4th graders! So I can't expect them to come in an be all mature and non-talkative already! Talking in class is my biggest pet peeve. Doesn't matter if I'm the student or the teacher, I can't stand people chit chatting! Drives me absolutely INSANE!!!!!!!!! As David says "It makes my eye twitch!" lol

Ok ok enough about that! I need to remember to bring my usb cord so that I could upload my pictures of my classroom. I like how it has so many different colors! (o:

Alex-ese

I started work again on Monday after being on summer vacation for 2 1/2 months. It was kinda hard to go back since I've spent the last 2 1/2 months all day long with my baby! I miss him like crazy at work! If he wasn't such a menace I'd take him to work with me lol Alex is so funny, he's starting to talk a lot more lately, you can have a conversation with him! His new favorite phrases are:

"This guy!"
"Hi guys!"
"I don't want to watch this"
"I don't need this"
"I don't like this"
"Yum, my favorite!"
"Good night guys"
"I love you"
"That's not mine"
"I don't want this"
"I like you"
"Alright! Let's eat!" (LOL this cracks me up!)
"Stinky sock bomb!" (got that from his dad)

He is talking a lot more. He comes up with new things to say every day. I love it! LOL See why I miss him!? I love my little kid!

We moved Alex up to a twin bed, I need to take pictures and post them soon. We went to the Goodwill, to see if we could find a decent "temporary" headboard for his bed, and found a really good one for $24! It's made for a full size bed, so its a little big for his bed, but it has three shelves on it so we're going to keep it for him anyways! LOL He picked out a (dun-dun-dun) "Cars" bedding set. (I should probably mention that his bedding was NOT from the Goodwill!) It was nice. We also got the twin bed from my parents. It's so weird to see Alex in a twin bed! His room looks like a big kid room! No toddler bed anymore! Oh well! LOL

Anyway that's my little Alex update! I love my son!

Last Week

This is my last week of summer vacation! )o: It seemed to go by pretty fast! I so didn't even get what I wanted to get done, done this summer!!! I wanted Alex out of diapers! But he thought otherwise lol I wanted to get our house all clean and organized, and that didn't work our as planned either! Oh well!!! Anyway I go back to work on Monday, next week we have teacher prep week where we set our classrooms up! I'm so excited about doing that because last year I didnt get the chance since I started after another teacher left. So I'm excited about that!! YEY! Anyway I have tons of pictures, and stories to post, so I'll do that in their own posts!