Tuesday, December 22, 2009

what a wondrous time of year

Christmas Break is officially here. (Man, I love my job!) We had a class party at school last Friday. The day of a class party is a true test of your classroom management skills. How long can you keep 24 fourth graders distracted and doing something on task until the final hour of school? Luckily, I have some good students. Then I discovered how to get them quiet and perfectly still during the party. Tell them you are going to take a picture!


Looks like I survived and they had an incredible time. And while I was having all of this wonderful fun, my husband was finishing up his finals for pharmacy school. He survived as well!

I always have so much fun during Christmas. Over the years I have collected quite the collection of Christmas socks. This year I got this pair from my secret pal at school. I think these might top all of the Christmas socks that ever were!

The day I got them I was wearing a skirt, so I thought it would be fun to put them on over my tights. That in turn got so many comments for the rest of the day from my co-workers.

As long as I'm posting about Christmas, now would be an appropriate time to share a picture of our tree...




And the mantle...

Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays! May the calendar keep bringing, Happy Holiday to you!

Monday, December 14, 2009

all in perfect taste

Our small group at church has been quite the happening group lately. These guys are just the best. We're all so busy, but we sure enjoy each others company. (well, at least I do :)

Here we took a girl's night out to see the movie New Moon. We got to be all fancy in the balcony of the Warren theater. Plus we got to use the seat warmers on this rainy evening.





Last night we met for dinner at Zio's. Here are shots of each side of the table.




Then the few and adventurous ones headed to the devon ice rink downtown.
Cynda and Clint turned out to be the ice skating champions!