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Breakfast with my kids :)

2008-12-31T16:29:00.001-08:00

The Boise State Cheerleaders. :)

Ryan and Melissa. Ask Ryan why his new nickname is SS when you see him!

After two and a half hours we had the waitress take a group

picture and finally let some of the people in the lobby get our table!

The little sign says "A Toast to Lindsey" because she couldn't

join us for breakfast and we really missed her. The commute

from Scotland was just a little too long. :)

Ryan ordered French Toast in honor of Lindsey -- her

favorite Smitty's breakfast.

The perfect breakfast: half order of Eggs Benedict and one

strawberry roll-up. My favorite!!

Rikki made the trip from Arizona. I have now known her

for twenty years! Weird!

Ryan the Dentist!

Melissa was able to join us which was very fun. Celby's arm is in the pic.

Celby with a picture of some drunk lady at her wedding! :)

Class of 98 reunited...

We all dressed in black and gray except Melissa. She didn't get the memo.

My new purse charm. Says "love me love my cat". Very cute. Thanks Rikki!

Celby Jo :)

Ryan.... don't know what he is doing...

Christmas Dinner with my new group of kids

2008-12-20T13:49:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas everyone! These are pictures of my current and

future student aides. We had a Christmas dinner the day school

got out for vacation. These kids make me laugh out loud -- they

are hilarious and really really sweet. Devin is our token boy in the

group. He survived the evening because we let him watch football on tv. :)

Hope you all get to meet this group of kids of mine someday if you don't

already know them. They are awesome and I love them all.

Birthday Party: The Sequel

2008-12-04T17:10:00.000-08:00

This was the theme of the party. We were getting Devin back

for silly-stringing the girls at their party. :)

Thumbs up for a fun time had by all. :)

Devin is really shy -- hard to get him to come out of his shell. :)

Present #2

Present #1

Morgan's shoe with silly string all over the bottom.

Devin's "mean" face.

The girls are happy with their revenge, Dev not so happy.

Our favorite pic. He has no idea yet that he is about to be covered with

silly string. He thinks he is about to play pin the tail on the donkey. :)

Twister. Too many pics of this to post.

Devin and Morgan. Aren't they cute??? :)

Finger painting was our first activity. Natalie is a pro. Dev needs some

work on this!

The Birthday Boy.

Emily getting the party started...

Look at all of those presents!

Brooklyn and Morgan helping me get set up for the festivities.

Witches!

2008-10-25T19:32:00.000-07:00

I know, a lot of pictures! But I'm just going to let the pics speak for

themselves. The party was fun and we laughed a lot. Our only serious

injury was Mel burning her finger with the glue gun and having to walk

around with an icebag the rest of the night. Don't you think the witches

are darling? (The people and the paper witches!) Thanks everyone for

coming to the party and if you couldn't make it this time, maybe the next one.

Not a Costume Party!

2008-10-25T19:25:00.000-07:00

Scary Twins! Pam and Lise did not get the memo

that this was NOT a costume party!

Actually, they were dressed for the Emotion Bowl

but I didn't realize that when I first saw them!

Jockey Kelly Gardner also showed up in costume.

Made quite an entrance! :)

Inservice Presentation: Out of Textbook Experiences.

2008-10-25T18:52:00.000-07:00

Along with having grades due and having a Witch party, I also had

to do a presentation at our fall inservice (all on the same day!) Uugh!

LeAnn and I taught two sessions back-to-back of "Out of Textbook

Experiences." One group was just like a typical classroom where it only

takes a few to ruin things for the whole class. Teachers (COACHES...) can be the

very worst students. :( They could at least pretend to appreciate all of the

work that went into preparing our presentation...

Our other group was absolutely FABULOUS and everyone got into the spirit

of things and made the session really fun. Thanks to all of you (and no, I'm not naming

names. You know if you were fun or not!) This session was like an honors class

where everyone goes above and beyond and makes it really fun to be a teacher. :)

LeAnn's pink t-shirt shows our new school motto:

We've upped our standards, now up yours!

We will be wearing stickers with the

same saying at parent/teacher conferences. (Not really but I wish we could!) :)

Future Professional Photographer?

2008-10-25T18:39:00.000-07:00

This is what happened when Kelly Gardner was given camera duty

at Garcia's. Do you think she should change careers and become a

professional photographer? :)

This is what the picture was supposed to be... I'm not sure

which one I like better.... Hmmm. :) Thanks, Kelly!

More from the party

2008-10-15T18:59:00.001-07:00

These are my girls! Aren't they cute!

Opening presents and eating snickers cheesecake from Babe's.

Emily and Natalie :)

Favorite color presents :)

Brooklyn and Morgan.

Brooklyn and me.

The table beforehand. Notice the nametags in

the cheesecake that my sister made for my girls

(in their favorite colors of course!)

Favorite Color Birthday Party!

2008-10-15T18:54:00.000-07:00

These are my girls (and Devin). We had a birthday

party for my current and future aides and we

started with Devin hiding and surprising each

of the girls by spraying them with silly string.

They were not happy... :)

Notecards by Krista

2008-10-11T18:34:00.001-07:00

These are the notecards my sister Krista made for me. I am

having a birthday party for my student aides and the theme is

"your favorite color". Each girl picked their favorite color and

they are getting a bag full of presents that are that color.

I asked Krista to make notecard and they are DARLING!

The toothpick flowers are name tags to go in the pieces of

cheesecake we will be having. Care to join us? More

pics to follow of the birthday party. My aides are adorable

and I don't know what I would do without them! :)

Halloween Party

2008-10-11T18:26:00.001-07:00

These are the paper witches that we will be making at my

Halloween party on Oct. 24th. More pictures to follow of

the party itself. :)

Hobnobbing!

2008-09-27T18:15:00.001-07:00

This is a picture of Babe Ruth's jersey. My sister and her

husband Bruce have friends in high places. They were

invited to a party at Rick Larsen's house. Rick is one of

the owners of the Mariners and has quite a collection

of baseball stuff. Of course, I am jealous that I was not invited!

Olympians

2008-09-27T18:10:00.001-07:00

Bridger and Tani and Rory have won the gold, silver and

bronze, respectively. They have all won GOLD in

being fabulous niece and nephews to their Aunt Jamie!

Rory

2008-09-27T18:08:00.001-07:00

This is my youngest nephew, Rory. He

is a baseball star and will be sending me

an allowance when he pitches for

the YANKEES! :)

Bridger playing football

2008-09-27T18:04:00.000-07:00

My nephew, Bridger, is number 65.

He is the oldest of the kids in a

family of athletes!

Tani

2008-09-27T17:59:00.000-07:00

This is my beautiful niece, Tani, at gymnastics practice.

All of the trophies in the background are hers! :)

Tani is a shoe lover just like her aunt. :)

Jezebel

2008-09-19T20:13:00.001-07:00

This is my baby, Jezebel, having a snack of grass. Later, she will

come inside and throw up on my carpet! Jez will be turning sweet 16

on October 3rd. For her birthday she would like a Bloomingdale's

Gift Certificate, sent to her mom, Jamie. :)

Raccoons

2008-09-15T18:55:00.001-07:00

Give your favorite raccoon a gift card for the Schlechten/Hayashi lawn-restaurant.

My sister apparently has the best grubs in the world. Two raccoons spend their

evenings pulling up the newly laid sod in my sister's lawn, eating the yummy,

yummy grubs underneath. So far, my sister is having a good sense of humor about

the whole thing -- she says they are too cute to stay mad at...

Book Club

2008-09-09T20:00:00.000-07:00

This is my book club (Kelly, me, Julie, Peggy, Jen, and Vic -- making a face).

We seem to spend more time eating, drinking and laughing than we do

discussing books -- but it is great therapy. Our book choice for next month is

Stiff by Mary Roach. This book was originally recommended to me by

Emily Anderson (now Brewster) who is no longer keeping up her blog. :(

2008-08-25T18:22:00.000-07:00

The Nephews (Nate and Alex) looking COOL at Disneyland.

My bro-in-law Tom, my sister Krista and

my nephew Nate (with his mouth open!)

Alex, Krista, and Nate. They forgot to

invite me when they went to Disneyland!

Tom, Nate and Alex.

(Could they be any cuter???) As Chandler Bing would say it...

My Darling Nephew

2008-08-24T18:20:00.000-07:00

This is my nephew Rory standing in front of my sister's new

car. I'm hoping when Kari (my sister) sees this she will send me

more pictures so you can see my other nephew, Bridger, and my niece, Tani.

My First Blogging Experience

2008-08-24T14:16:00.000-07:00

Hello, all! This is my first time blogging. I was inspired to do this after looking at the blogs of Lindsey Zufelt and her family. Lindsey came over and helped me get started and now I am just playing around with stuff. I tend to be the last person on earth to move forward in the technological world, so we will see how this goes. I would love to hear from anyone who finds my blog. And as soon as my sisters send me some pictures, I will post pics of my niece and nephews and you can see how adorable they are. :) I am back at school so I don't know how much time I will spend blogging. I am also the Game Manager for all of our home games and will be starting a new job, teaching an online class, the third week of September. That's it for now! JS

Eye Candy

2008-08-23T12:20:00.000-07:00

My new screensaver. :)