Saturday, September 26, 2009

Homecoming

















Zach and Hailey went to Homecoming tonight. They had a big group date that lasted most of the day. First, they went to a friends house and all made breakfast this morning. Zach and Hailey went and got a vest for Zach to wear with his tux. He's actually wearing his great grandfathers tux, which I think is SO cool. He got a vest and bowtie to match Hailey's dress. Tonight, they went to someones house and had a really fancy dinner. He was super excited and it looked like they were all having a great time. So cute :)

Friday, September 25, 2009

Family Photos




Here are a couple family photos we had done last night. My friend Jenne is an AMAZING photographer and we hired her to take a family photo shoot. She has a bunch more that are coming... but she put these on her blog for a quick look. Most were done by the building, but at the end of the shoot, we ran over about 200 yards to the cable bridge to take a few. As we were running over there, she got the shot on top with the sunset behind us... so fun!

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Classroom

I have been working in my classroom for hours getting it ready for school to start! I decided to do a jungle theme this year and I love how it turned out! I have animals for the team names and I kept all the backgrounds for the bulletin boards black with animal prints for the borders.
I had to go over today to file some papers that were copied at the print shop. I had 5 huge boxes of stuff to sort though and separate for the other 4th grade teachers. My great girls came and helped me split each stack of 100 pages into three classes. Thanks for the help girls!!

front door area

side of room with small group area. All those colored papers are the things I have to teach the 4th graders!!

front of room and my desk

front of room and at the back, the carpet area for stories etc. 4th graders are NOT too old to sit on the floor!

desks and door to the outside. Curtains I made over the summer.


backpack area and curtains.

A board I made for lunch choice. Kids get their name on a magnet and place it on the board on the choice they want for lunch that day.


Me- filing all those papers!!

Allison counting all those papers. She worked for hours and LOVED it. She wanted to bring some home! Maybe she'll be a teacher one day.

And Kenzie was a good helper too.

And the funniest pic ever. Em and Rachel were playing with the document camera and you can "freeze" the pose. So they were trying sad faces and Emily can cry on command. How cool is that?!?

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Friends

I love how you can just get back together with old friends and feel like you've never left :)




Tuesday, September 1, 2009

First Day of School

Rachel...first day of 7th grade... sick home with the flu the second day of 7th grade!

Allison.... sick the day before 2nd grade... going to school all dressed in her new clothes the first day of school... and home sick AGAIN the second day of school!

Zach and Emily the first day of school. Emily going off to be a FRESHMAN (I can't believe it!)
and Zach headed off to be a JUNIOR ( I really can't believe it!). He thinks he's all "that". Can you tell?
And Mackenzie... who's missed the first two days of school with the flu.. poor girl!