Holiday Blur

This Christmas was a super blast. Elizabeth and Jeremy's wedding was perfect. Everyone had a great time. After that we spent a week at David's folks and then a week at mine. We got a digital video camera and a wii fit! Now I can lose weight while playing video games and videotape it at the same time. Here are some pictures from a great Christmas vacation. Ghost ride the Christmas Vacation.

Snow Day

Today we had a snow day. Yes, in Louisiana, we had a snow day. It was very fortunate because I was going to call in sick anyway. Here is a picture of our house, enjoy.

Worst Blogger Ever

Okay, it's official. I am the worst blogger out there. I went to Elizabeth's Bachelorette party a couple of weeks ago and had a fabulous time. It was a much needed break from the absolute chaos of my classroom the last few weeks. I can't go into detail but it did involve broken noses, broken hearts, lots of crying, calls to authorities and so on. I've been totally exhausted. Thanksgiving was amazing. We went to my parent's and David's parents in 4 days. We both forgot our cameras, so I don't have any pictures, but David playing on the trampoline with my nephews was adorable. Jed turned 3 and Ashur turned 7. Christy and David and I took them to see Bolt. That's about it for updates. I'm coming home again soon and can't wait for Elizabeth and Jeremy's wedding. Christmas is also a plus. My job is really wearing on me. I need that burst of home to rest and gain the strength to tackle 5 more months doing whatever it is I've been doing. Love you all. Sorry for the lax blogging. I promise, you're not missing much. :)

This week Ashur (who is 6) shot a deer (on his own) and won a pumpkin carving contest (he got 10 pumpkin milkshakes)

Happy Election Day!

Check out these photos from Michael's blog. They'll make your day!!!!! Also, the last one is NOT photoshopped.

P.S. I'm on the Clinton School Webpage

http://clintonschool.uasys.edu/degree-program/international.aspx

Happy Halloween

We spent Halloween at the opening of the graduate show and the famous Carlotta Street Halloween Party. We had a great time. At the show we were the cast of clue, and then for the party we were Master Shake and Frylock. I think a million people took pictures of us, so look for that on various facebooks around Baton Rouge. We had a great time.

Fall Fest

This weekend we went to the #1 haunted attraction in the United States, the 13th gate Haunted House. I'm not going to post any pictures from their website, but here's the link, if you're brave enough http://www.midnightproduction.com/the13thgate.htm I was terrified. I seriously spent 3/4 of it with my eyes closed. Also I got a horrible tension headache from the whole thing. We went through a crazy hospital, a sewer (with clowns), a Texas Chain-saw Massacre thing, a mummy thing, a pirates of the Caribbean thing, a voodoo thing, a cemetery, a zombie thing, a snake and spider thing, and some other stuff I don't remember because I had my eyes closed. I almost cried, but it was totally worth it. No scary movie has ever given me a headache.

This weekend we also revisited the Angola Prison Rodeo, which was much more fun the second time around. I think the prisoners had practiced this time because they weren't half bad.

Boomer had surgery yesterday. He is absolutely the saddest thing ever, but his hernia is gone. I am also out the equivalent of roughly a month's rent, but I love my dog so it's okay.

Tomorrow is the Fall festival at my school. It is going to be super fun. Also, it's nice to not be teaching for 2 hours tomorrow. One of my students and I are in a battle of wills. He tells me I don't know about 100 times while I say "The short sound for a is aaaa, say aaaa" I keep trying to tell him that you can't say "I don't know" when I tell you to do something, only when I ask. All I know is, I'm the most stubborn person I know, and that includes you, Buster. I will win and you will learn something, so just keep on wasting your energy.

boo....Boo. ..BOo...BOO!

My mom and Christy came down this weekend. We celebrated mostly by playing rock band (thanks for the early Christmas present Mom and Dad) and making Christy's best ever, super secret Halloween costume. I promised I would not post pictures. We had an awesome time.

Also, on Sunday, I got to carve pumpkins with the printmakers. Mine is 4 ghosts in a choral group. Weird, but entertaining.

I was surprised today to learn that I was accepted into the adopt a teacher program I applied for a few months ago. I received a $450.00 gift card to Schoolaids, our school supply store. A big, huge, amazing thank you to the exchange club. My kids are excited about all of the stuff for our classroom. I'll take a picture of everything I got with the gift card. By the way, if you've never been to a school store, and you're a dork like me, you should definitely go. It's the most fun store ever!

P.S. a HUGE thank you to my mom, who, so far, has single handedly supplied virtually every cool thing I have in my classroom right now. The kids are obsessed with those wooden dinosaur bones and the leggos. You're awesome!

Haircut

I chopped all of my hair off. I was going for a Katie Holmes thing. The kids at school hate it, but it's easy to fix. Other than that, I've been too busy to sleep, but not too busy to eat cake for dinner. David is also as busy. I wish I had something awesome to say, but I'm about to fall asleep.....at 8:30pm.