"Squirt Boat"

It isn't that I, myself, am terribly excited about this new purchase; however, seeing as Brian doesn't really get into the whole blog scene, I decided to utilize this time to portray what Brian WOULD most likely blog about, were he someone who did...
This Saturday we drove to the Ocoee to pick up what hasn't ceased to be talked about in our household for a long time. A squirt boat. If you aren't familiar with one, let me tell you a little about this contraption. It is a kayak, not built for running rivers or waterfalls, but for catching eddie lines and forcefully submerging yourself beneath the surface of the water, as well as doing other interesting moves in. It is built so that when sitting in it in water, you are actually just below the surface of the water, so it is very small and very form-fitting. When we got home, we immediately set it to the test on our lake. A nearby fisherman exclaimed, much to my amusement, " looks like you just about lost your boat, son."
I have never understood Brian's excitement for this particular type of boat, although I am sure many people don't understand our shared excitement for other kayaks, so I certainly won't press the matter.
In other news, school is steadily winding to a close. I give my final exam tomorrow. I have been working on a slideshow for the middle school's moving up ceremony Thursday night and I'm quite pleased. I have discovered I-DVD on our macs. It is an awesome program. I'm going to making DVDs for everything now! I'm beginning to get really sad. I'm suddenly realizing - or at least I think- I'm going to miss my first little students! I think I'm going to boo-hoo when they "move up" to high school Thursday. Isn't that funny? I thought I would strangle them all year and now I'm all misty-eyed!!
My family is on their way to GA for my cousin's wedding this weekend and I'm looking forward to their stay. June will be a super-freaky-busy month, but lots of things I'm excited about.
That about wraps up my update. cheers!

An eventful week...

My little Indian sister has returned! We got to fly to Omaha last week and suprise my dad on his birthday, and remain to suprise my sister who flew home from her year as an exchange student in India. Unfortunately, our suprise didn't work for Suz because the word leaked out...but I don't think she was dissappointed to see us, and we certainly weren't sad to see her! She looks very different with the hair and the piercings and the henna tattoos, no?

After a lovely family visit, we flew home and into the most stressfull week of my life so far (unless I'm blocking out some big exam weeks in college. A close call). The Middle School play was this weekend! All our hard work looked pretty hopeless at Thursday night's dress rehearsal, but Friday night came, the curtain opened, and they came alive and delivered a WONDERFUL show! I couldn't be more proud of my first students! We performed again Saturday to a less responsive crowd and had a main character get a major nose bleed in the middle of it, but I think I smiled all night I was so pleased with the kids.

The beautiful flowers are what they presented me with at the close of the show. They each had a pink carnation in their hands at curtain call and I didn't even know it! SO CUTE! I will get some still shots of the kids on here soon.

So, now that the yearbook is finished and the play is over, exams are next. Getting through this should be a piece of cake. I am looking forward to the summer and weddings and seeing friends and family.

Feelin' like baking these days...

Our camera is broken and my creativity is oh so limited right now. You'll just have to stare at this pretty photo of a caramel cake because I am baking one right now. I don't plan on having as many layers, but I have to bake the cakes one at a time because I only have one 8" cake pan...do you guys SEE why I need to have some children to blog about????!

Okay, in other news, I planted a garden yesterday. I went to take pictures of it and that's when I discovered that my camera is broken. My next blog will probably be about the camera I'm dreaming about purchasing with our tax return. Anyhoo, I'm very proud of it. We dug it all by hand, which was dumb, but rewarding too. I thought I was going to make it so much bigger, but I decided it will be a piece-by-piece process. We are growing such delicious things as zuccini, sweet potatoes, squash, bell peppers, tomatoes, beets, corn (we'll se how that goes), watermelon...you get the idea. I'm also working on an artichoke seedling.

I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom so I can bake and work in the garden! Meanwhile, I'm reading this great book called, "Get out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall." It's helping me to get inside the adolescent brains of my students and we are having a book discussion group at our house on Wednesday. That brings me to the reason I'm making the caramel cake. So, that sums up my exciting news.

I'm vowing here and now to get better and more creative at this blogging thing over the summer.

Love to you all!