An early Halloween

A funny thing happened in the house the other night. We had a visitor from the "that should only happen on Halloween" category. Let me give you a hint about our unwanted house guest. It has two beaty little eyes, some sharp teeth, wings, and hangs upside down. I think he was living in the house for a few days cause I found a "present" on the window sill that I thought a mouse had left for us. So that morning before school I am busily setting mouse traps before I head off for work thinking that a mouse had found his way into the house but also wondering how he got up on the window and why that "present" was bigger than normal. Anyways on Thursday night Rylan pushes up the blind so that he could see the new truck that Kevin brought home for Colton (that's a whole other story). As he gets the blind up to about eye level I see him stumble backwards and he's trying to mumble something that I can't understand. He takes off into the bathroom and then runs back and points at the window all the while on the verge of hyperventalating. I look over to where he is pointing and see this bat hanging upside down from the bottom of the blind. He doesn't move he just sits there watching all of us. Rylan said that all he saw when he was nose to nose with it is pink, his pink mouth opening up to bite him. He was pretty freaked out. Luckily Kevin was home so he got the pliars, grabbed a leg, and set him free. Meanwhile all of us "chickens" were hiding out in a bedroom with the door closed.


Not sure if it looked this menacing but Rylan sure thought so......

My brother's cute family

So this is a couple of the pics I got of the cute little neices and their mom and dad. Luckily they were in a good mood that morning so we were able to coax some smiles out of them. I took my youngest out there so he could dance in the background and make them laugh. They seemed to enjoy his "monkey dance" the most. Can you imagine my brother's life in 5 years with all those girls? Yikes!! Good thing they have two bathrooms in the house.

Bit of an update...

I've been busy camping at the hills, working outside, and helping Kevin a bit on the farm. Spent all of yesterday afternoon in the tractor baling hay, sound like fun?? Made over 150 round bales in 6 hours. I had that John Deere cruising!! In the morning I took pics of my brothers family when I get them finished I will post a couple, he has some cute girls, though hard to get everyone to smile at the same time and not close their eyes. I took Shane with me so he could do the monkey dance and make them laugh. It seemed to work!! The weather has been pretty good lately and we hope to go up to Many Glaciers camping for a few days. The hiking there is great. Summer is slipping by way too fast and I am feeling the need to get out and do more stuff.

Conference update

The week of Love and Logic is nearly over. I've learned a lot. Hopefully I can use some of it to make me a better teacher, I guess that will depend on which students you talk to. I spent the week with some colleagues from the high school and we had some time to go out and explore the sights of Colorado Springs and we had a great time, but I am also ready to to home. I will post some of the highlights when I get home. One thing for sure is that I ate way too much, going to have to do something about that when I get home.

Colorado Springs

I am in Colorado Springs at the moment, going to a conference on Love and Logic, sure hope that it all makes sense after 5 days of hearing about it. Then we have to go back and teach the rest of the staff about it. I am going to have to take good notes and stay somewhat focused for 5 days, I think sometimes teachers make the worst students. A little ironic don't you think.

We are staying at a pretty nice hotel and the convention is right here but the thing that irks me is that there is no free internet in the room, only in the lobby which is where I am sitting typing this thing out cause I am too tight to pay $10/day for internet. The people in the lounge next to me are having way too much fun by the sounds of it. I've decided that I am way too addicted to the internet, I was starting to twitch up in my hotel room with nothing to do. I will have to share my new found knowledge on love and logic in the near future.

Grade Nine Grad

My oldest son, Colton, had his junior high honor night this past weekend. He is a great kid and we are very proud of him. He made the principal's honor roll which means that he got above 90% in all subject areas on all 4 report cards this year. I can't believe I'll have a kid in high school in a few months, at least I can keep an eye on him. I'm sure he'll be dodging me though, unless he needs lunch money or something.

Finally

Kevin finally got my top off.............of the jeep that is. Summer finally feels like it is here. I got to spend some time cruising around town in the jeep on Saturday. I am looking forward to some more of those days in the future. Here is my new t-shirt that I got to celebrate the occasion. I missed the official date, come to think of it we probably had snow then!!