12/31/2016

Out with the old in 2016 (old worn out register covers --this one was literally just placed on top of the vent) and in with the new!

I bought these register covers on a smoking good deal (3 for $18.99) and they look pretty sharp with our new flooring, paint, and baseboards.

May today be brighter.... what a fitting end to the year as we aspire to be brighter, change old habits, and begin anew. 

That's a wrap on 2016. I think this will be my last photo a day blog as this year was often a little tough to think of things to add to my regular blog and still have something to post here. I plan to continue posting on my main blog each day but have all the posts in one place instead of spread out between two places.

Thanks for following along!

12/30/2016

Kaden shovelled the snow the plow left behind before he headed off to the Moose game this evening....

12/29/2016

How we looked when our plan to go to Thermea didn't pan out.....

12/28/2016

Kiandra was a cheerful helper as Conrad and I spent some Christmas money on a new dresser for our room:

12/27/2016

Grad dress for Kezia--check!

12/26/2016

I *may* have sat in the house and watched my girls attempt to get to work this morning after the blizzard. They have incredible team work and persistence and a funny story to go with this after they drove around the corner and out of my view...it involves Kiandra driving and not wanting to stop for fear of getting stuck and Kezia running alongside of the car and hopping in as it was going...They made it to work with 3 minutes to spare.

12/25/2016

Christmas morning:

12/24/2016

Christmas Eve Service at church this evening....

12/23/2016

First day of the Christmas break....and here's what I have to show for it:

12/22/2016

Looked at another house today...

...not a winner so we keep looking...

12/21/2016

Like Father, like daughter...they don't like the Christmas crowds in the mall....

12/20/2016

My sister-in-law started a Family snap chat group and today Kaden added this to the group:

He's showing off his awesome Euphonium skills and the new hair cut he got last night...

12/19/2016

When you leave your phone in the Staff Room unattended....you might find this picture of the principal and the gym teacher when you look through your camera roll....

12/18/2016

Fourth Sunday of Advent....Love.

12/17/2016

Kezia has been pretty busy these last few weekends. Today was the first Saturday of "crew" as she works behind the scenes to build sets for the musical in March. She has shopping plans with friends after crew and then works at 4:30. Still, she manages to get it all done....

12/16/2016

It was a different kind of date night tonight...Kaden and I had stopped to pick up the cabinets for the ensuite and then Conrad and I built two of them this evening. Everything is really starting to come together from broken to beautiful!

12/15/2016

My teacher peeps and I were dressed "Merry and Bright" for the second dress rehearsal today!

12/14/2016

Kiandra is an awesome movie maker. After I had filmed all of the staff snippets for the Veggie Tales theme song that we plan to play at the Christmas concert tomorrow night, Kiandra put it all together into an awesome movie. She completed it in less than an hour. She is awesome!

12/13/2016

Every year I tweak and change some of my activities to fit with my students and what they need. It would be much simpler just to do the exact same thing each year but each year brings a different set of skills and personalities to my classroom family. This was a new activity for this year using some of the existing cards I have from a different activity. We are working on learning our higher numbers (and writing our numbers the right way) and this helps them sort them in numerical order and then record them. I love my job.

12/12/2016

It's official! This girl is a certified WSI certificate holder. She now can lifeguard AND teach swimming lessons!