GRAND CANYON

Last Friday was Porter's Annual Grand Canyon Field trip! It was once a trip that was an overnight event but as the years have past they have limited it to a one day trip. As you can imagine that is a huge task in just one day. Since it was only going to be one full day I decide to have the grand idea to go as a chaperon. At first it seemed like a great idea, but soon turned into a scheduling nightmare. I had a sitter all lined up. The kids all were taken care of and I had paid the money to go. Then as my girlfriends and I were talking about all the upcoming events we all had to attend and exchanging babysitting offers I realized my sitter was going to be on a Field trip with her daughter the very day I needed her. I had also offered to watch another friends child. It was a mess! I racked my brain and pretty much everyone of my friends were busy that day. So my very awesome husband saved the day by staying home from work. Not a common happening in my world but so appreciated.

So that morning we loaded up the bus and off we went. We stopped at Montezuma Castle and had our snack and potty break. We also had this great scavenger hunt that the teachers had created for us to do with our groups. We were each given a camera and we had to take pictures of our entire group with various things in the picture. Ex. Take a pic with a park Ranger. They even had one where you had to lift you leader of the ground entirely! Who do you think they picked for that one. ME. The downfall for being a light person. After our snack we then drove to the Canyon. We had a small hike down in the canyon and then we had the chance to visit the area. My group chose the ice cream shop! The wind was blowing really hard and Alyssa's ice cream actually fell off her cone!

All in all it was an awesome time and I so enjoyed the time with Alyssa. All her friends were great and no one misbehaved at all. We had a great group of kids and had a blast. The only thing I could have wished for was a bit more time. We all loaded up once again and went to Flagstaff for pizza. Then we were off to the long trip home. Its too bad they say that was the last trip because Alex will be in the 6Th grade next year and we really wanted to go to that one too. Maybe we can hope for the best and get them to do it again. We will see!

Glamour Alyssa!

A couple weeks ago Alyssa went to an activity. The girls all got to dress up and get make-up on and really just have an all out fun time getting "PRETTY"! This week they went to the activity to make special frames for their pictures. Alyssa came home with these amazing pictures! She is so beautiful I just can not believe she is my offspring! I know she got it from her dad:) Alyssa is so unbelievable and it is so awesome that she is more beautiful on the inside than she is in this picture. I am so proud of her and happy to she what a great young women she is becoming! Keep up the good work girl. I love you sooooo much!

I Did It!

So its Monday morning and I am stressing out because I have a Lab final in my Anatomy class! I also as most of you know am on the PTA Board at the local elementary school. It just happens to be the monthly Board meeting at 3:30 which is only 2 hours before my final! So I go to the meeting and plan on going straight to class.... Well my plans soon got a huge dent.




Let's just say the meeting did not end well and I left not having all my emotions in check! I was a wreck and at this point had a final in 30 minutes. So I gather myself together as much as I can and go to class. I felt great about the test and thought I did good. Last night I went to class and was hoping to find out my grade. The teacher left the tests on the table to pick up and as I walk up I see a paper that says HIGH SCORE! Mind you I have two people in my class who never even get one problem wrong so I know this is not mine but glance to see who's it was and what do you know it is MINE!!!! I got the High score on the Lab Final!! You do not know how much I needed that. I think that is what has given me what I need to get through this next week and one last final on May 5Th! I have so much to prepare for before then and hope it all goes well. If not then I at least can say I had one awesome test that I kicked butt on right?!

What the HELL!!!

I was driving down the street when I looked over and this is what I saw! Ok now what is this really supposed to mean? You hate men? You have an ex-husband? Your kids do not have a dad? and..... What kind of message is that to their kids? Ok just my observation.. What do you think?

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BIGGEST LOSER!

Ok for all who have not already read Julies blog.... This is what happened on Thursday night at Book club. Here we are trying to enjoy a nice book club when the girls from Biggest Loser walk in. I am sitting next to Julie who has a nice perfect shot of them coming in the door. I can just see her face and knew something was happening but kinda just thought she saw another person she knew. If you know Julie she seems to run into someone she knows where ever she goes! So when I realize her facial expression is a bit different and it was truly the Betty Sue and Ali from one of my favorite shows I kinda was a little teeny bit excited. The other girls really had no idea what we were excited about because they have never even seen the show! We talked for quite some time and got lots of info on the show and how things work and what people really are like there. Alot of what was said and a few pictures are not really supposed to happen until the show is over soooo maybe I will post that later hahaha. It was a great experience and I just wound up liking them more than I had before! So vote for them when the time comes!

Back to school!

Well school started again on Monday. I have officially seen the craziest teacher at MCC. She actually answers her own questions and cracks herself up. Lots of my time wasted in her class with her tangents and stories. I sure hope she gets on the ball. I hope this semester does not make me as crazy as the last. Towards the end of the semester I was not even myself. I felt like I was pulling my hair out and could not go on much longer with the days where I never sat down until I got to bed at night. So far I have not even studied once NOT GOOD. I really need to get in the mode of school again but the little break I had was so good it is hard to realize it has ended and time to step up to the plate again.

I am a bit worried about this semester. I have very little time on my hands and have way to much on my plate to begin school. My PTA position has been OK. Has not been to bad but of course we are just beginning a fundraiser that we thought was going to be easy but turned into a LOT more than we bargained for. Then we are also in the planning stages of the Carnival we are having! This is no easy task. We had a meeting for all parents who were interested in helping and it was pathetic. I mean like 5 people other than the board. Mind you we have 600 students at Porter. Where are all of them? UMMMMM not helping us I do know that.

Not only do I have my school I have 5 kids in school, a toddler, Soccer, Dance, Gymnastics, two book clubs, SIAC (another school committee), Title 1 parent involvement, A Scout position and am a wife hmmmmmmmm. I love to give my kids the chance to get out and try new things but I sometimes wonder if they really need all of this???? Anyway thanks for listening to me rant.

My running update is.... Last Saturday I ran 40 minutes and totaled 3.9 miles. I know why not 4 but I did not measure the distance before my run. I got home feeling like I was on top of the world and got in my car to measure it and about fainted. I could not believe I actually did it! That night my ankle started to hurt me:(. I had no idea why. I had not fallen or twisted my ankle so what could be wrong? I felt like it would go away so I took a day off running and hoped it would be fine. NOT. So off to the Doc I went. It was not my normal doctor and they took an xray and told me it was not broken. DUH! I knew that but I wanted them to tell me if I injured it or not. If it is only sore who cares I will still run but if it is an injury I will rest. So I think they thought it was tendinitis. Told me to rest and take Ibuprofen and to go see my real doctor. Thursday my foot was not to much better so I thought I would go see my Doc. Well they pretty much told me the same thing. Ice, rest and Ibuprofen. So I went running last night to see how that affects it. If it was not worse than I was going to continue to run. If it made my pain worse then that was my clue to rest right? So this am I get up and my ankle is HUGE. I feel OK though. So where does that put me now? I have no clue what to do. I have signed up for a 5k run this Sunday and I have not made a decision what I should do. I really think I will run it but it won't be the best run. I really wanted this to be a great thing to accomplish but somehow doing it while not 100% takes alot of the fun out of it.