Happy Father's Day 2010

How about these for some fatherly photos?

Dad and John Sam

Dad and Caroline Grace

Fran's Dad

{Confidential to Sissy:  Don'tcha LOVE cropping?  lmao}

Fran's Mom's Dad

Fran's Dad's Dad

Sam's Dad

Sam's Mom's Dad

Sam's Dad's Dad

**Wishing all the fathers we love
   a very Happy Father's Day** 

xo xo xo

8008 and 90 Percent

My blog has had 8,008 views - yay!

Got 90% on my mid-term exam.  That translates to an A-minus-minus, ha.  I predict my research paper will turn out better than the mid-term because I'm excited that I got to select my own topic.  :)

Tonight is Must-See-Thursday-TV. 

This weekend?  Outlining the research paper and reading the book Prozac Nation for next week's quiz.

TTYL

93.333333333

That's my quiz average in my class. It's an A- and I'm relieved because I thought the grade was going to be lower. I will admit, I looked to the end of the decimal point numbers to see if there was any rounding up I could do.  Uh, that would be a big fat no.  HA!  Anyway  I did great on the quiz we took tonight plus a bonus question, and the lowest one will get dropped. So of course, I'm feeling good about my grades. Woohoo! The prof promises she will e-mail my grade on the mid-term paper by tomorrow afternoon.  Ugh! Another night of obsessing. Just kidding (sort of). Actually I'm anxious to get the paper back so I can read her comments and use them to improve the research paper which I'll be starting this weekend.

Good night - xoxo

As seen by....

one of the kids' teachers at LCE when they had field day.  I like to see how other people compose pictures of my kids; I feel like they show me things I don't see when I photograph them myself.

Here's JS in the zone with the Gameboy:

That white strip on the left side is the reflective strap on his backpack.  I love the furrowed brow!  Of course intense concentration and vanilla milk go together!!    :)

I'm not sure whether CG is throwing or catching the frisbee.  It looks like it could be a dance step, too. When I saw this, I thought, OMG, she really looks older.  Bittersweet, I think they call it.

Still here

I'm still around, just tired from all the running here and there.  Finished my reading homework last night at 11:21 or so.  Only one more book, two more quizzes, one research paper, and one final exam.  All in the next two weeks.  OMG!  You know what they say . . . sleep is overrated, lol.

Took CGB to her summer camp, and she ran right off and left me standing there.  I guess she's okay without me *sniff*

After that, took JSB to reading camp.  He saw a friend from LCE right away, and they sat together.  The teacher was soft spoken but I can tell she's tough.  He'll be ready for 4th grade in no time.

The U-verse is awesome and once I plow thru the manual, I'll be a DVR expert.  WOOHOO!

Don't know when I'll post again, but hoping I get to scrap  and/or take some pictures.  Ever the optimist, right?  :)

June 9, 2010

Last day of school 

Beamer's birthday =)  Here's a dog quote to celebrate.

Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.  -Pablo Neruda

Here are closeups of my current crop of roses that I took while playing with flash/non-flash settings.  The vase was sitting on our white kitchen countertop but looked as if it were floating.  

One Red, Two Yellows

Just the yellows 

Y'all won't be able to believe I found this in CGB's room ;-0

 

xoxo w/ love

Slide Show Up and Running

Finally, after a desperate e-mail to a fellow blogger and a whole lotta messin' around, I finally got the slide show to work!  Can I get a woot-woot?!  You'll see it under the Daily Literary Quote, and it's called "Currently Reading."

If you want to make your own slide show, go here Slide  Easy and fun, and you bet your boo-tay that I'll be making some more in the future.  :)

After I do my essay questions, I hope to post some miscellaneous pix. 

xoxo

Take home exam is in my possession, and I'll commence on that first thing in the morning.  I'll be glad to see the sun shining on a new day.

Slide show is tricky

I've officially spent 52 minutes trying to get a slide show on the side of the blog.  Whoops, now it's 53 minutes.  Still not working.  I keep reducing the size of the pictures, then when I post it, they get larger and larger and more pixel-y.  {insert very annoyed growling sound here followed by the dreaded despondent heavy sigh}

I shall try it again tomorrow.  Tah-tah for the evening.

Wonderful Writer

Caroline won the award for Wonderful Writer in her class!  She got a shiny new pin and her name appeared on the projection screen.  It was a lot of fun cheering for her and all our other friends at LCE.