Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Tiff the Science Gal

I had a student teacher in the same school as my sister in law, Tiffany and was excited to visit her classroom everytime I went.  She teaches middle school science.   I took some pics of her room while she was working with students one day.










She showed me some of her prized possessions.  I thought her cabinets looked like that creatures store in Harry potter with all sorts of dead creatures in jars.


She showed me her lecture of how eggs don't have belly buttons.  It was hilarious.


Her ceiling tiles are sometimes painted by old students. She is a popular teacher and her room motivates kids to love science.  It's no wonder she wins teacher awards!

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Spring Happenings

To recap our spring... Chaotic, crazy, disappointing, joyful, and life-changing. Doug was diagnosed and all the kids events kept us busy to get through that.  Here's the highlights....

Crazy hair in the mornings.










Prepping for Valentines






Keeping mom company as she does her HW












Playing Xbox backwards



Doing the dreaded lettuce chore.

Director of FHE






Lost his first tooth

We all had bouts of pneumonia.




Spring BBall 




Carter officially is taller than me and won a Jamba.





















Business trip to TX





Carter won the school, district, and placed in state science fair with his project on memory.










Max was sedated for some dental work.  No fun!












Tennis season


Staring contests





Piano recitals











Haleigh was in a wax museum at school.  She designed her costume and had it made herself.







The cousins came over for a Gravity Falls marathon since the show was ending.  













A trip to the zoo one day
















Miles completed a map project about Central America.



Gifts from Gpa and Gma




Cub Scout hikes
















Carter completed a machine project that we enjoyed









Faith in God goal making


























More business trips for Doug, this time to Milwaukee.








Kinder registration

I had a job interview and was stressed out so Doug treated me to a massage, followed up by a lunch out.  Me party!




Doug and I were able to meet a general authority and he received a blessing.





Doug and Carter tried a new pizza place.

Max's primary teacher dropped by lots of gifts to get him to not be scared of sunbeams.  It only took 6 months for him to warm up.





Shots day... their happy here showing muscles... but not for long.













We got Doug a cane. The kids made fun of him immediately for being a grandpa.




More piano recitals.








Saw a doppelganger of my mom









Easter Day!





















Carter won the poetry slam again for the second time with his Bacon poem.




We began the garden.


Haleigh and I attended a mother daughter tea.