Pics of busy day part 2...

so here's a collage from the girls game...

Texture

this weeks challenge over at i heart faces is all about texture, now i'm still trying to figure out photoshop...really i know nothing about it...but i do love the texture in this man's face...you know he has stories to tell...

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Pics of busy day part 1...

here's a sampling of photos from the boy's game...it was a great game...they lost, but they played hard...

busy day...

well it's been a busy day today...pictures shall be coming...they're on the camera still...

started early with two championship basketball games...girls won!!! boys lost by 3...both were great games...the team our boys played had beaten every other team in the league by 20+ points...and our boys and girls both played amazing!!! good job...

then off to a delicious lunch at chili's...love the quesadilla explosion salad...not as good as hrc's chicken chef...but still good :)

then a quick stop at home and off to a 1/2 birthday surprise party...loads of fun again :) Jenn and Alicia's birthdays are in the summer...we're not all together then so we decided to surprise them now :) had great fun giving them 1/2 gifts and eating 1/2 snacks...

then finished up the evening with grey's :) yea for two new episodes...

and now it's late i must sleep...

hands, feet, and volcanos

what a busy day... we painted hands and feet and washed each others feet,

then we made a volcano...

mix the dough

add baking soda and vinegar

watch it explode!!!

It's all about perspective...

These two pics remind me how small yet big four year olds are.

I love making my students look larger than life... I shot this one from below

 
and smaller than life...This one was also taken low, but my subject was much farther away,

skirts and jumpers!

Exciting...the girls in JrK and K can wear skirts and jumpers as part of their uniforms!!! I love that they have another choice...don't they look cute? :)

A normal scene

for some reason a favorite thing to do is to empty the cupboards and drawers of all the food, dishes, pots, pans, and cutlery and put it all on the table. go figure... at least they're pretty good a cleaning up too :)

A new year, A new class

This is my class.

16 little darlings.

Standing still is hard.

I'm in it too that's rare.

Two cute boys...

so i spent my night watching these two cute boys...

they're hard to capture together...but they sure are cute...Jadon in khaki and Ethan in red

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Best Face Photo

I took this during our December birthday's celebration. These three lovely faces all have a birthday in December.

I ♥ Faces is celebrating their 1st birthday...I thought it would be fitting to enter a birthday celebration photo for the contest....check out other entries at www.iheartfaces.com or click the button below.

Pictures from christmas at my folks house. i know it's been a long time but here they are and there's lots of them.

mom and dad's tree. i don't know if this was before or after it fell over. that was an adventure tho. we ended up completly redecorating it. and we had to weight it in the back so it wouldn't fall again. :)

so the pics are a little out of order. cuz this is when dad picked me up. that's grant, me and nicole in the minneapolis airport. grant went onto tronto and nicole to cleveland.

this is the road almost home...no snow... i waited and waited for snow and then i got home and there was none :(

almost daily we had 6-7 wild turkeys walk though the back yard. i like this shot because of the red apples.

weekend

well.....it was a crazy weekend...it actually started on thursday night. casting crowns was in town and they were free....so i couldn't say no. so i went. it was good great music. great talking. then friday came...the day of our christmas program...we spent the morning at the church for rehearsal nothing like 2 hours with no planned activities and small children. after that finished the day at school and had to be back at the church at 5 and that time got to spend 3 1/2 hours with no plans and small children oh and they couldn't get their costumes dirty nor could they make noise. so sat was going to bum around the house...hoping for one last shot at a tan before i leave for the states in less then 7 days!! actually this time next week it will be less than four hours til i land. sorry sidetracked by excitement. anyhow...i heard that newsboys were in town so went to see them sat night...heard some shotty theology too...to be saved and have the holy spirit in you, you must speak in tongues! not!!! praise god that we don't have to do anything for savation except take it. it's a free gift. so there was a lot of weirdness and tongue speaking and slaying in the spirit so don't think i will go back there... if you want to know what the bible says about tongues look it up its in 1 corinthians 12-14 maybe 15 too. needless to say felt really at home on sunday morning at church and enjoyed the message. it was about eternal rewards and how we are given salvation...it's a free gift all we have to do is ask for it. and we can never loose it...God won't take it away. but we should show him what his gift means for us by living a life that is pleasing to him. then sunday saw the holiday a cute movie...and then was walking to the treadmills and stepped wrong on the drain and ....sprained my ankle :( so i'm hobbling around. hopefully it will be better by monday so i can travel as comfortable as possible in economy class. ok so like 6 days and 3 hours and 30mins i land in minneapolis...will you be there?

vietnam

so here are some pics i promised several months ago from vietnam. i'm still enjoying my long weekend off. and can't wait until it's time to go to bed so i can sleep some more. the haze is bad, but not as bad and i think we're going to try walking to school later so i can pick up a package i've only been waiting a month for...gotta love the postal system :) so the pics are loading very well for me so you get three now and i'll try to do more later. enjoy~~heidi

a street shot

a church we found on the first walk out of our hotel

what a great way to take a nap huh? in your cyclo--a common mode of transport i rode it one it was fun, but a bit scary

sarah's wedding

so way back in May before i even had a blog...sarah and chuck got married. i surprised them and showed up at the wedding. it was a fast but fun trip! don't know if i'll ever make a weekend trip again. i was tired and my plane got delayed so i missed another day of work.

the wedding party

chuck and alex waiting and watching

sarah and her dad

do you take...?

Aww...

the happy couple

grandma, grandpa and all the grandkids

johanna was there too

isn't he cute?

so there's one more pic i'm trying to put on but it won't let me so i'll try later, but i want to get this posted. hope you enjoy!

ahhh

ahhh...hours and hours and hour and oh more hours of time....school is out for five whole days!! that means five days of sleeping in, reading, and playing and doing really whatever i want! i'm a little excited can you tell? well i didn't wake up til 10am that's like a first in a really long time, probably summer!

so for the last two weeks or longer i can't remember singapore has been shrouded in this haze of smoke and smog! it's gross...i can't breathe like a normal person. walking like three steps leaves me winded well ok the three steps may be an exageration but it's bad.

so..plans for this wonderful weekend...read, watch pride and prejudice (BBC version) watch bride and prejudice, watch pride and prejudice(new one), read, clean my room, read, do laundry, read, go to church, read, play games, read, do a little work at school (have to do lesson plans), read, play on the computer, read...oh yeah and SLEEP!!!

2 weeks ago

so i wrote this almost a month ago. hopefully i'll have some time this weekend to update as it's a five day weekend. wooohooo a long weekend.

written 3-4 weeks ago "so i spent most of yesterday creating an entry and then the site wouldn't load it, can i say i'm not happy....so i guess i'll save more often an i wasn't working the whole day just off and on as i was waiting for other sites to load while i was trying to do lesson plans."

our school was officially opened on sat with the ribbon cutting

we made applesauce and enjoyed it :)

i survived

well...the first day of school is over. i have survived. i only had three kids...but they still wore me out. i forget that they don't know how to line up, walk in a straight line, or really do anything...but it was a good day. they were able to play with each other. that was a fear that i had that they wouldn't like each other. i can already see an order. i have one bosy one and two that just take it, although i think that one of them will start to say no to the bosy one. i saw a little of it today. sorry it's been so long since i've written anything. some day i will get on and post pics of my trips and talk about them too. well i'm in great need of starbucks and lunch food for tomorrow. have a great night/morning depending on where you are.
heidi