Two Ladies and No Baby: July 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

A little late. don't hate.

Hey people. So I've been pretty neglectful lately. I let my blog pals down. This summer has been wild and crazy. But really I have no excuse. I've had the time. Just not the drive. You know summer, it's hot. All I want to do is lay around and drink Diet Coke. But after several complaints here I am, doing my part. So here goes, it's really not that exciting.

We've been to the cabin a few times this summer. It's one of my favorite places on Earth. If any of you cats want to take a trip, saddle up. It'll change your life. For the first time in a year Cody came out with his family and we had a grand ole time.

All 5 grandkids. This was the best shot we could get. It was chaos.

Henry, Abe, Ruby, Crew, & Noah

Little baby Abe lookin' fine.

Cousin embrace.

Crew is really into this hug. And Hen's hair never let's me down.

Lover of all food.

Classic Noah face.

Now how can you not love this? Yowsa. View from the cabin.

Brother-Sister Love

Ruby digs motorcycles.

Next post... real, real soon.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Cabin, ETC....

Well the two ladies and no baby have been leading hectic lives lately, which is ironic because I'm not working this summer and Kate only works part time. Somehow time continues to slip away at a seriously rapid pace, how can winter crawl and summer fly? Jessie Spano said it so beautifully while on the drug of choice....caffeine pills! "No time, there's just never any time." Yes, Jessie I feel you here girl. I have been out of school for exactly one month, and two weeks of that month I've spent at the cabin. So here's the cabin update. Let's just say I've been getting some serious R&R in. Who needs a spa when you've got Ashton, Idaho people?

We got a lot of stuff done like:

We enjoyed nature

Took Kate's school pic. for next year

Let Rrrosa run loose

Read

Went on walks when it wasn't raining

And read more.

We also managed to eat, watch old episodes of Laguna Beach, and do Tae Bo together (even the Mimi)--that Billy Blanks is a Nazi and also quite the fashionista.

The belt is a nice touch I think.

Let's hear it for cabin 09!

(These only pics from cabin trip 1, Kate your job is to add pics for week 2. Holla back girl!)

Kidz are the Shiz Carner!

Almost in tears 7 year old boy. "Teacher this morning my brother called me a lesbian. And I'm not."

Just after leaning over a 7 year old girl. "Mmmm your hair smells good Miss. C. what do you use? Garnier?"

8 year old boy stays after school to ask. "So....where do you sign up to be a teacher?"

Playing Simon says I tell the kids to put up their two pointer fingers. Boy in the back row instantly puts up both middle fingers and waits innocently for the next command! Note to self...teach kids what pointer fingers are.

I had just asked a couple kids on the way out what they thought the weather would be tomorrow. One boy was talking about what the weather man said and I said, "I don't know how much the weather man knows." A little girl stayed after class and said, "Teacher I know who knows everything about the weather, Heavenly Father and Jesus." Holla Mormons.

We were talking about voting and the elections this past week and I asked my students if they knew who the President was a few knew it was Bush. Then I asked if anyone knew who was President before Bush one kid raised his hand and said confidently "Abraham Lincoln."

A girl in my class read her journal aloud today. It was all about what her Thanksgiving is going to consist of. At the end she said, "P.S. I'm a veggiterian (veggi-ter-ian)." So naturally I asked if she was going to have turkey she replied with, "Oh yes, I am but just because it's Thanksgiving." She's very passionate about her veggiterianism.

A boy came up to me the other day and said, "Teacher my sister has such bad karma, but I always have good karma." (hello, he's 7 how does he know what karma means?)

Today one of my little ladies came up to me and gave me a hug, then she said, "Teacher you are so skinny, my Mom talks about it all the time!" What the....kids will tell you anything, it's awesome, no filter!

A little girl slapping her butt as she's walking down the hall says, "hey Miss C. look, I have a badonkadonk!" I laughed out loud.

I pulled a little girl out in the hall to talk to her about being a good friend. She says, "I'm trying but it's just so hard."

I had them write about love, these are the two best ones:

"Love is like a smoothy, at first you think I really like this and then you think, what have I gotten myself into."

"When you kiss someone, you just do whatever they do."

"Teacher do you believe in the Easter bunny?" I've never seen him, but I believe in him. "Really teacher? I think in college they should teach you that the Easter bunny is NOT real."

Little boy came up to me in the middle of class to report this piece of info. "Teacher did you know that I ate all of my fresh vegetables?"

"Teacher what's our time limit in the bathroom because when I'm going number 1 and 2 it takes me a long time."