Tie Dye

We did a little tie dying with friends today.  When Hayden got in the car, he said "this was the best day ever!"  I'm going to have to agree with that kid.  It was definitely a great day.

shopping

I went shopping with Harrison today.   I couldn't find what I was looking for and he was getting VERY IMPATIENT!  He told me to ask the guy at Target to help us find what we were looking for and I said, nahhh.  He said, "WHAT ARE YOU A MAN?"  I freaking lost it!!!  This summer is still rocking and I'm loving every minute of it!

Rockies

Henry's team won first place this season!!  It was a great game.  Henry pitched in the open inning and they only scored 2 runs off of him.  I was so proud of him and his entire team.

Big Barrel

I bought Henry a big barrel baseball bat today.  He's going to baseball camp in the morning and he is so excited to use his new bat.  I can't believe the season is almost over.  His Rockies team won first place in their league this year.  The championship game is this Saturday and Henry is pumped.

Ducks

We downloaded Smoovie to make this claymation movie.  I would not recommend this software.  Adding your own soundtrack is a pain in the butt.  The boys had fun making the movie though.

Enjoy....

fantastic

I'm having a fantastic summer.   The days are just packed with activities and I'm loving every minute of it.  I worked out at the Iron Pit today for the first time in months.  My leg is healing nicely and I'm ready to start running again.  I'm hoping that my leg will cooperate.

I took this picture of Harrison while he was driving today.  I love the reflection of his hand in the window.  He's a pretty decent driver.  I can't wait to teach him how to drive a stick.  

blast-o-rama

The twins have been begging me for days to buy clay and a stopmotion itunes app, so that they can make their own claymation video.  I told them to just use whatever we had laying around the house first and then we would talk.  They found some old clay, an old camera and they went to work.  It impressed me enough to buy the clay and the app.

50 pictures

10 second imovie video

3 hours manipulating the clay

2 happy little boys

1 OLD piece of clay

Priceless

work

I went to work today for a couple of hours and got a lot of stuff done.  The other third grade teacher and I spent some time archiving our Artful Learning unit that was due June 1st, oops missed that deadline, but mostly we just talked and told funny stories.  Summer is relaxing like that.

Our boss told us today that there was a very BIG possibility that we will be moving upstairs next year.  We both laughed at this and told her to suck it, but now it's sinking in and the thought of it is making me want to vomit.  Henry overheard me telling Goodwoman about this and he screamed NOOOOOO!  Even my 10 year old knows what a pain in the ass it is to move an entire classroom.

Hungry Snake

Harrison took this video today at Lake Griffy.

Bicycle Song

The freaking fracking Bicycle song by Queen is stuck in my head.  At first, it was only happening when I was out riding, but now it's playing pretty much non-stop.  This is annoying.   I can't listen to music while I'm riding because it's dangerous, so I'm stuck listening to whatever is running through my head.  Awesome....

Hayden drew this picture of a zipline on his itouch.  You should steal his name off of the picture and play Draw Something with him.  If you don't play Draw Something, then you are lame.  This kid is amazing.  He scored 3 goals in his last soccer game of the season this morning.

I've been fretting big time about whether or not Hayden passed the writing portion of the istep this year.  He told me that the prompt said write about a "cool event," so he wrote about killing zombies in the basement with his friend Sam.   Henry told me that it said write about a "School Event."  Henry wrote about the 6th graders vs. the teachers volleyball game.  Got the results back yesterday.  Henry was right, but guess who got a higher score in writing applications??  Yep, that's right people!  The kid who wrote the EPIC STORY ABOUT ZOMBIES!!!!!!  I call this winning.