Last Week of School!

Jakob went to a birthday party on Sunday at Main Event.  He had a blast playing with his friends.  After the party, we came home for quick bite to eat and then went to the playground.  Jakob had too much energy still and we were trying to wear him out some more!  I took pictures of everyone bowling, but thought the picture of Jakob and Sara (not the birthday girl) was precious! I sure hope some of Jakob's friends will email or call me this summer since I left my information for the parents.

I planted flowers in the front flower bed on Sunday morning.  I started pretty early and finished around 9AM.  It sure has been hot in Texas this year and we are early in June.  The temperature sure makes it feel like July, not June!

I spent most of the day cleaning on Memorial Day.  It all started because we had found a nice track of ants in the kitchen!  I went to Wal-Mart (and remembered why I dislike Wal-Mart) and purchased a few of the grocery items we needed, cleaning supplies, and bug spray!

After school on Wednesday, I learned my final results of state mandated testing.  97% of my students passed and I was super excited!  All of my students who retook the test passed the test and they made leaps and bounds.  The last week of school I received letters from some of my eighth graders.  The letters were so sweet and they said things like, "You always said we could do it." Getting the results made it remind me of why I worked so hard in the first place!  I am so proud of my students!

Thursday was the last day of school for the kids and Friday was my last day for the year.  I had almost everything out of the classroom on Thursday and had to finish up a few things Friday morning.  I had some meetings and then we had a staff meeting at noon on Friday.  We had an awesome pot luck where I ate plenty including the best chocolate cheesecake!

Jakob had his ice skating lessons on Saturday and he did super yesterday! He skated back and forth and actually was getting faster!  He still is not building his knees too much, but got up on his own multiple times using the technique he learned from his instructors.  After ice skating lessons, Jakob and I went to Hobby Lobby.  We went to look for large plastic plants and boy was I surprised to find out how much they actually cost!  If I still really want one, I will have to watch for their weekly deals!

I started a scrapbook layout on Friday night and finished it on Saturday.  I am currently working on scrapping last years pool pictures using Coordinates Collections Oceanside kit.  I received the kit a long time ago but hadn't used it yet and it is perfect for all the pool and summer pictures!

Today I went to Kroger and picked up the sale items.  I spent $100.13 I saved $44 with coupons and $72 overall or 42%.  Overall, with what I purchased I was happy since I had sirloin steaks, produce, and other items on sale that now have us stocked for a good couple weeks.

Many pictures uploaded finally

I have been meaning to work on uploading pictures for everyone to see but just couldn't find the time between work, school, and everything else! However, I have no excuses because I am on Spring Break. I have included the links to the pictures online, but there are also links on the sidebar on my webpage. Here they are: Roland's Spring 2007 Soccer Season, Scrapbook Pages of 2006, Sleeping boys, Snow Days, and Spring Flowers 2007.

Last week went pretty quickly for me. I had a test on Monday for my "Effective Teaching" course and made a 91% on the test! The test had me really worked up because in the class you have to pass everything with a 70% or you fail the course completely! Even though I knew I would do fine, the anxiety of not passing had many of us in the class worried!

Then on Thursday, I took the 3rd Chemistry test. I can't wait to finish with the course...the teacher gives 10-12 questions on the test. So you cannot really miss many questions or you blow the test. I won't know officially how I did on the test until the Monday after Spring Break.

Friday evening I was able to scrapbook and sure was nice. I think I'll try to do more later today if I have time to pull it all out. I am trying to finish up with Christmas pictures so I can print a new batch of recent pictures. My rule of thumb is I am not allowed to print more pictures from Wal-Mart until the pictures I have already printed are scrapbooked.

Today, we went to Home Depot and I got a few more plants and pots for the balcony. I want to get a few hanging pots, but it's still early and I cannot get everything at once! At Target today, I got a nice new clay pot that I used to re-pot an Ivory plant for $5-6 instead of the $11-12 range. Sure is pretty.

I don't have much planned this week. It will probably consist of relaxing, scrapbooking, a few errands, and homework.