Neskowin & Proposal Rock

Saturday we hit the beach for some fun in the sun - minus the sun, with our bible study group. I was going to write a blog post, but one of the other girls that went with us, Stephanie, wrote an amazing account of our beach adventures, so you can read her words!

A Lazy Weekend

Friday was Jason's birthday and the last day of school. Jason spent the day fishing with a friend at Lost Lake. I cleaned my classroom all day. We spent the evening in Forest Grove with the family and ate a yummy dinner!!

Saturday Jason went mountain biking with a different friend along the Mollala River Trail, and then went to another friend's moving party. I stayed home and worked on cleaning the house after neglecting it for my first year of teaching. I rearranged our bedroom and cleaned liked crazy, did tons of laundry, worked on a puzzle, and worked on a project (can't tell you what it is cause it's a gift, and maybe it is for one of you!!).

Today we slept in and went to the later service at church. We found a place in Sherwood that makes bubble tea and so we had bubble tea after church! We used to get it all the time at this little place in Corvallis near where Jason lived. If you don't know what it is, it's amazing yumminess! Basically black tea with fruit or flavors and tapioca balls that you drink with this massive wide straw. So good! The ones we got today were more like slushy fruit smoothies with tapioca balls. Jason got strawberry and I got mango! Uh-oh! A new treat we really like... :)

After our bubble tea coma hit us in full force, Sunday afternoon became watching golf on tv and taking naps. After we peeled ourselves on the couch we ran a couple errands. I made a strawberry-rhubarb coffee cake with rhubarb from our garden and strawberries from Jason's friend's garden. We went for a walk while it was baking and now we are...I don't know what we are doing now. I am obviously typing this blog, and Jason is out checking out the garden.

School is out now, but I will continue to work this week. Monday and Tuesday are make-up days from the snow we had before Christmas break. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are additional optional work days, that I am opting for so I can get paid for them!!! Still no word on being recalled for next year, we will keep you posted when we hear something.

The strawberry-rhubarb coffee cake smells sooo good, so we need to go eat it. Hope you all had a relaxing weekend too! Oh---this just in! A photo update from our garden, Jason just planted the lettuce. We also have 3 tomato plants, a rhubarb plant, and an artichoke plant.

From Drop Box

Bye-bye 2nd Period!

I promise to not write a blog after every classes final is over. 

But I am so thrilled that 2nd period is done and over and they are not returning! 

Take your attitude, talking back, slacking, hacky-sack playing, i-Pod listening, i-Touch playing, lazy, swearing, non-listening selves away!! 

Ok, that sounded evil, but I was just being descriptive so you can understand. :)

The End

I can hardly believe my first year of teaching is almost over! We have just 5 school days left, and they will be anything but normal.

We have 2 sorta regular days, and then Wednesday-Friday we have a wacky 'finals' schedule. My classes are spending pretty much all week cleaning the kitchens and classroom after 10 months of use and abuse. Plus, I am cleaning out all my things (posters, books, lesson plan binders, etc.).

Friday is a half day (and also Jason's 27th birthday!!!) so it will be a fun day. Then I am working the whole next week with some extended staff days from the snow - thanks Artic Blast '08 - and some optional paid days too. Why not get paid??

Then, who knows! Hopefully I will be recalled for next year, otherwise I might become a substitute teacher!

Crazy Storm ?!?!?!

What the heck happened today?? It was a beautiful Day until about 4:30. All of a sudden the wind just picked up. It was strong enough to take out several large trees and tons of branches. It also picked up alot of pollen and dust since it hadn't rained yet. This all happened really fast. I was on my way to go kayaking in Newberg while it was nice out. Things sure did change.

Here it is before it started raining but right after the wind picked up. Kinda hard to tell but the trees are blowing alot and in the distance it is really hazy with pollen blowing around.

Some friends and I met up at the river just in time for the rain to come down in buckets. We were hoping the storm would pass and we could still get out... Then the lightning came. It was quite an impressive storm. We decided tonight was not our night for kayaking. Oh well. We're going to go during lunch tomorrow. :)