A day at the Oregon Coast

Jason and I spent the day at the coast a few weekends ago and it was absolutely beautiful! The weather was very warm and we had never seen the tide out so far!
A view of Face Rock....the profile of a face that is looking upward...

Jason was being silly...digging for buried treasure...or something =0)I am sure that I felt "sea things" crawling on my legs as I stepped into the hole!

Visiting with Friends

When we went to Portland, I had a chance to visit with some college roommates, Jocelyn and Kendra. Both Joc and Kendra got married this past Fall, but I was unable to go due of work. We usually try to get together once a year. It is so wonderful to visit with each other because it is like no time has passed at all! That is the best part about having good friends.

"Projecting"

When Jason and I first moved in, our master bathroom was unintentionally the place in the house where we made all our "mistakes." Several of them ranged to accidentally using non-paintable caulking along the shower, to drilling the pocket door stuck in place with hopes of having a second towel rack. So, we decided to re-model the bathroom over Spring Break. I wanted to repaint it and use a ragging technique over the base coat of fresh paint. Once the base coat of new paint was applied we had to rag on a colored glaze and re-mask everything that wasn't supposed to be ragged.

My mom and I ragged on the glaze. I was shooting for the effect of gold to be shimmering on the walls. Here I was panicking because the color of the glaze, which was supposed to be golden, was a cross between canary yellow and the yellow color road crews use to paint lines on the road....not exactly what I wanted.....
We went back to the paint store and got a nuetral tan glaze and a pearl glaze....it was stunning when we were finished....just like out of a magazine!!!
Ahh....the finished look (although the camera doesn't do it justice)!

Spring Break

During Spring Break, we were able to visit with family members who live in the Portland area. On the evening of Easter Jason's sister, Rachel, and her hubby and our nephew Michael ( almost 2) came to visit us from Aloha. Jason had given Michael his first golf set. Michael wasn't too sure what to do with it so Rachel and Jason were helping him with the bag and clubs.

Michael needed a little help getting started.

Poor little guy kept using the driver like a hockey puck, but he was determined to hit the ball into the hole!

Uh-oh! Thanks to uncle Jason, Michael found his ball!
With a little more instruction and Michael was on his way to being a pro.



During our trip to Portland, we spent some time with Ryan and went to a Portland Trailblazer game. It was SOOOOOOO much fun! We also visited Mama and Papa, my dad's parents. Below are some pictures of my dad and Mama and Papa.


Here Ryan, Jason, and I with Mama and Papa. My mom was the one behind the camera =0)

Dr. Seuss Week

This past week at school we celebrated Dr. Seuss week. Our goal, as a school, was to find 6,100 vocabluary words. Each grade level had chose words for the students to find. If we made our goal, Mrs. McGree had to eat a bug....a real bug on stage at the end of the week assembly! Various days were set aside during the week such as crazy hat day, "Who" hair, and silly sock day.

Here, my teaching partner and I are ready with our "Who hair." Susan wadded funky braids on the top of her hair and then put twisted pipe cleaners in the braids. I bobby pinned strands of hair and stuck a package of colored pencils in my hair....boy was my head sore by the end of the day. Taking out those colored pencils felt like scalp therapy!!

My mom was subbing for Jason on this day and snapped a picture of Susan and I in his classroom.

I love my Kindy friends! Kindergarten teachers Eileen, Kristina, and I pose with our silly socks! Note Eileen's fashionable shirt too.....

Even though Jason snapped this picture of our feet, we were each posing with a smile on our face.....we had to laugh afterwards and were all gald it was Friday!

Look at those cute smiling faces! Have you seen any sweeter looking second graders (and yes, they do have permission for their pictures to be taken)?

Oh say can you say, "My, look at the sizes, shapes, and colors of their pigglies!"

On Friday, we had a big celebration assembly. Jason and I were asked to help with the entertainment segment. In each of our classrooms we have "Dance Offs" for fun. A dance off is where you have 2 students dance while disco/pop music plays. At the end of the dance the crowd decides by applause which dance off contestant they liked best. It is SOOOOOOO much fun! So here were are "arguing" over who has the better dancers in our classess......it eventually came down to having 2 second graders dance off and then two third graders dance off. The winners had a final dance off against each other.....the crowds LOVED it!

Second graders, Katie and Connor are gettin their groove on to the tune of Everybody Dance Now. Katie is a "professional" dancer and Connor practiced at his parent's gym for days....I'm not kidding....they were really good dancers!

At the end of the student Dance Offs, Mrs. McGree and Jason had a Dance Off. Mrs. McGree had been calling Katie in her office at the end of each day so Katie could teach her some moves. Here they are competing against Jason and two of his students!

Jason and Tucker are working hard to beat Mrs. McGree and her entourage! But, Mrs. McGree and the girls won the Dance Off!!

A Snow Day

So, it rarely snows on the valley floor. We knew that school was cancelled today and we slept in a bit and we woke up to these views of the neighborhood. Overnight we got about 8 inches of snow. Jason teased that the mailbox looked like it had an afro. We bought a snow shovel to clear our driveway. Jason ended up clearing the driveways of 5 other neighbors....and he says he doesn't like the snow...ha!

Winter Wonderland

Well, it snowed at our little abode. Here are some pictures of the house, the neighborhood, and Heather enjoying the weather. I (Jason) say UGH!