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!!

Grad

I had the opportunity to attend the CHS grad ceremonies last night. It's only been 21 years for me but in some ways it still seems like yesterday. Except I don't think I could fit into the dress anymore!!
The six girls in the picture with me are the seniors from the basketball team that I have coached since grade 8. What a great group of girls and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life to watch them grow up and become the awesome kids that they are. Definitely one of the upsides to coaching is the relationships that you build with the kids.

Busy Week

The kids have kept me hopping this week. First the 4-H sale and then divisional track meet. The sale could have been better, the kids won't put as much in the bank as last year, but I guess that is the reality of ranching. It is a valuable lesson to learn I think. Now I can plant those subliminal messages of "you need to be grow up to be a dentist/doctor".


It was Shane's divisional meet today and he did pretty good. I was working but was able to slip out and watch him do most of his events. The downside was that I had to run up the Lion's Park hill 3 times today. I managed to actually run up it twice but by the third time I was walking. Definitely got my exercise for the day.