Today is Frank's (Dad's) Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday, Dad!!

Posted on: Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Today is Mom's (Pat's) Birthday!!
Happy Birthday, Mom!

Today is Leo's birthday!!
Happy Birthday, Leo!!

Today is Kenneth's birthday!!
Happy Birthday, Kenneth!!

Congratulations to Mom & Dad on 33 years of marriage today!

We all love you VERY much!!

Posted on: Wednesday, August 27, 2008

 Thank you!

Michelle and Anthony for posted "back seat conversations" (and others)...and for the pictures Christie!! Good stuff.

Christie, my favorite (still) is the picture of the books that you didn't like the lighting. It has such a calm, warm feeling to it...one of those that just draws you in. Point being...what you see is maybe not what others see :) That is one I really would like to make into a framed wall piece. When we can come up with a cutter, you'll have to come up here and sort through the hundreds of colors and patterns to find the right fit! :)

My Sunday today will be like most..I am heading next door to pour more paint. I don't mind at all...I turn on the tv and just bottle away. It isn't hard work, i just don't get anything else done around the house!

And I still LOVE my electric kitty litter pan! I think once we pull the carpet (previous owners had dogs, not house trained apparently) I think we can rid the house of the 'animal smell'..William got an electric litter pan for his Bubba kitty too, so we are a litter pan free house! Sure makes going into the bathroom a nicer experience!

Ok...time for paints!! Everyone have a great Sunday...give all the kids hugs from Grandma and Grandpa and talk to you all later!

 Conversation while babysitting

I was watching an adorable 4 year old boy today.  He is over playing with the legos set that has lots of little lego men and women.  He walks up to me holding one of these tiny little lego men and says" look Ms. Michelle he looks fly for a white guy"  That comment all by itself had me cracking up, the funniest part was that he was holding a little tiny black lego man.  I was rolling. 

 Okay...

I still can't get to the server, so I posted days 2, 3 and 4 to the my gallery tonight.   For some reason, it thinks Day 2 needs to be at the top, but hey...at least they are there.

I guess I'll just post them there until Jchon can tell me how to get them to post here without going to the server.

I'll post Days 5, 6 and 7 tomorrow.  I hope!

 The photo page on your page on this page

silly! You could put your favorite on the main blog and the rest on your photo album..or...post them all on the photo album and we could vote on the best one to put on the front page!

 I know...

I know the problem is with my computer, but I don't know what the problem is!  It worked the other day, and then all of the sudden it doesn't.  I don't have any idea how it is supposed to work, so I don't know what to try and fix.  Thus the request for help.

What photo page are you talking about and why would I start one?  I already post them twice!

 Good to see the traffic

Christie, it looks like you are the issues with the photos' since Dad and Simone can upload...you will have a weeks worth of pictures to load pretty soon!! Are you going to start a photo page just for them? And put the one picture of the day on the front?

Starting off an ordinary day...other than I burned my finger getting coffee!

OK..family time at the office...

 Remember When?

Remember when? Try 2004!!

 No Upload Problem

Not sure why, but the photo I wanted to post worked fine.

 Christie Makes News

Students at Steed Elementary School are getting a lot of practice counting to 26 as part of the school’s special "Reading, Running and ’Rithmetic” initiative.

The project, coordinated by fourth-grade teacher Christine Paradise and Destiny Warrior, a teacher of gifted and talented students, calls for each participant to master 26 math skills, learn 26 reading skills or read 26 books and run 26.2 miles.

The project winds up April 25, the day of the Oklahoma City Memorial Kids’ Marathon.

One goal is to "get the kids involved in more physical activities,” Paradise said.

Running is a natural fit, Paradise said. "They love to do it anyway.”

Students are running and working on their skills gradually.

"They can run at any time,” Paradise said. They are keeping journals on their progress, with a parent or teacher verifying that each task was completed.

Students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade are participating, she said.

An example of a fourth-grade level math task is mastery of the multiplication table, Paradise said. A reading task on the fourth-grade level might involve being able to understand inferences or main ideas.

Warrior said the project was inspired by a similar event she noticed during a trip to St. Louis.

Warrior said teachers are encouraging students to "keep going and persevere in academics.”

Since the run is being broken down into smaller parts, "anyone can do it,” Warrior said. Some teachers are joining in, she said.

The grand finale will be to run the final 1.2 miles of the marathon at the Kids’ Marathon, Warrior said.

 Day 2 photos

Trying again...

Jchon, HELP!  I still can't access the server to upload photos.  I click on the photo button and it brings me to the box.  Then I click on the server button and it just sits there doing nothing.