Sai's First Band Concert

They did really well for a 5th/6th grade band that has been playing only since September.

It is amazing how fast life seems to fly by. Watching and listening to the band brought back many good memories of my days in the band. I look forward to watching Sai create good memories.

San Diego

I went to a conference in San Diego on Common Formative Asessments. It was good, and it was nice to get away and smell the ocean.

This is the view from my room. It was most enjoyable.

Halloween

The mermaids...

With their lobster!!

He is sooo cute!!!

The kitty is checking out the booty!!!

Carving Pumpkins

The finished products!!!

Pumpkin Hunting

Sai with the pumpkin of her choice.

Sai offering Matt advice on which pumpkin to choose.

Milestones of Life

Sunday's basketball games were brutle, one of sai's team mates ended up with a broken ankle and Sai offically has her first broken bone as well from the experience. She has a bending fracture on her pinky finger. I think it looks like a little sausage.

Our theory is this is only the first of the broken fingers she will have, since she plans on sticking with basketball. Girls basketball is brutle.

One Year Ago

One year ago today we welcomed Max into our lives.

It is amazing, it doesn't seem that long, but yet again, it seems like he has always been here.

He's so cute!!! Sadly, I really like the dog!

Fall

This morning when I woke up and took the dog out it was the perfect fall morning. It had lightly rained and over night many of the leaves had fallen to the ground. The air was crisp and fresh. I breathed it in and wondered how I could have such differing feelings about this season.

By late afternoon it had started to rain again, Fall is such a beautiful, colorful season, yet it can leave you feeling melancholy at the same time. You can breath in the fresh, crisp air and you feel renewed, but at the same time it is the end. The end of the summer, the end of a cycle of life. Everything is going into a dormant state, waiting, waiting for life to come back. Hmmm...

Ordered Days Off...

Well I have been fighting off a nasty case of Bronchitis for the last two weeks, after 9 days of coughing and no voice I went to the doctor's. It was "recommended" that I take two days off from work. So I took Wednesday and Thursday off. Which is something I really do not do very well, I have too much to do to be sick and staying home drives me crazy. But it worked out because Sai had part of Wednesday off and all of Thursday off of school due to Parent/Teacher Conferences. This is a picture of Sai with Max sitting and reading in the sunlight. It was good to get some rest. And I my voice is slowly returning.

Catchin' Up

Saturday

After an incredibly painful volleyball game. (We are ready to be done with Volleyball, only one more Saturday of it.) We went up into the mountains hoping to see some beautiful fall colors. We saw some, but sadly the time for really beautiful pictures has past. :( Maybe next year.

Sunday

Sai had a double header today down in the south end of Denver. They won their first game, but lost the second. We then came home and did homework and played board games. It was a good day.

Happenings Prior to This Weekend

The above is a picture of my student teacher last year. She is amazing and I swore that I would never have another student teacher because they could never measure up to her. Well, I have agreed to work with a colleague of mine and share a student teacher this next Spring. I get to meet her tomorrow. I'm actually pretty excited. :)

This picture is of the Contract for Success that my Teen Parenting Students created at the beginning of the school year. All of the students in the class have signed it. All 19 of them. I have 3 couples in my class this year which is really exciting. Currently of the 16 girls I have 10 who are expecting and 6 who are already parents. I have to admit that I am feeling a little overwhelmed by the number of them. They take a great deal of emotional energy, but that is because I love them so much and will do what ever I can to help them be successful. They truely are my passion.

Experiments

Sai has been studying matter in her homeroom class. So last weekend we had to perform 2 experiments at home. The above are pictures of them. One worked well the other, not so well. But it was still fun.

Our 1st Weekend of Sports

The 1st Volleyball Game-Saturday

Volleyball at this stage consists of making it over the net and scoring a point because the other team doesn't make it back across the net, or scoring a point because the other teams server failed to get it across the net. This makes for rather painful and dull viewing.

The above pictures are of Sai scoring a point for the team by serving the ball across the net. :)

Post Game Activities

Moe spent the night friday and after the game they wanted to roller blade to the park, play some tennis, climb trees and play with Max.


They Swing!!!! And they miss!!! :) But we still had fun.

While the girls climbed trees I laid in the grass and enjoyed this view. ahhh!

And when I sat up this was my view. He is sooo Cute!!!

I love how she wears her nice shoes to climb in the trees. grhhh!

The 1st Basketball Game-Sunday

Sai is now playing in a different league for basketball and it is definitely more intense. At times she seemed a little in shock, she has nevered really played Zone before. But she did good and even survived being thrown on the floor. :) She liked the game and that is what counts.
( She is number 14)



It was another good weekend, full of new adventures!!!

Weekend Fun

Sunday

Today Sai went boating with her friend Moe's family and so that left me available to join my friend in a drive in her Viper with several other members of the CO. Viper Club. We drove through the mountains to the casino town of Cripple Creek, where we had lunch and then played the penny slots. :) It was great fun.

The pictures that follow are of the Vipers all lined up at one of our stops.

Saturday

PEACHES!!!!!

For a fundraiser we got 100, 20 lb boxes of Palisades Peaches, so a large part of my life for the last two weeks has been consumed with peaches. On Saturday we sold the last of the boxes. Hooray, no more peaches.

A Peach Cobbler I made for a BBQ we went to on Saturday night with Sai new Basketball team. The BBQ was great and I am really glad Sai is on this team, the coach and his wife are amazing people. The parents are all really positive. I am looking forward to this experience.

Sai's Aspirations

This evening Saige informed me that she doesn't want to be the president like everyone else. She "wants to make a difference in the world". Man I love my kid. :)

Labor Day Weekend

Sleepover

Sai's friend Moe spent the night on Saturday and had a great deal of fun in the basement with Max as the following pictures will show.


They fix Max up with a flashlight so they could run around and scream at him in the dark. Max was very tired for the entire next day!

Poor Max.