FIRE!!!!!

So, pictures will come soon but I didn't have my camera on me. Today the music department was incharge of making breakfast for the faculty. We decided to make french toast. We had alot left over so we decided to make the rest for second hour for making such an amazing door decoration. I had an extension cord plugged into the wall, a surge protector plugged into the extension cord and two skillets plugged into the surge protector. I was cookin and all of the sudden I heard and saw alot of sparks on the other side of the table, then I saw a fire probably about a foot high. I was a little worried because our big basses were right next to it. Luckily the one in the cover was the closest it would have caught on fire in two seconds with all that laquer. By the way did I say I was in the music room? Anyway, I called for Lynda who was teaching class and she got one of her students to run to the office. While that happened I mannaged to reach over and get the cord unplugged which calmed down the sparking down, which calmed the fire down enought that I was able to fan it out with the spatula or it just went out on it's own. The student that went to the office told them we had a fire in the music room and they laughed and said very funny. He then told them really there's a fire in the music room and they pulled the fire alarm and then dale came down. We had a fire drill because of me!!! Since it was the last day of the quarter alot of teachers were giving tests and our vice prinicpal alway has fire drills at the last of the month. We went outside and one of our teachers was about to rip into Dwight when I told her it was real and she started laughing histaricly, and started laughing even harder when she came and saw it for herself. The extension cord as far as we know got hot somewhere in the middle and melted the protective rubber and then started to spark resulting in a fire. The surge protector is fine, both ends of the extension cord are new becuase it was new just the middle is fried. So I started my first fire and it was at school and allready the students have tons of rumors going around that I blew something up and some of the kids that were in there when it happened have brought their friends in to see it. One of my students took a picture of it. I told Lynda we could make some real money off of this in the school. They can't replace the carpet it's part of history and the teachers have given me a theme song "ring of fire". I really have one going for me this year.

I Miss Devoitional

Last night when we were enjoying our wheat free dinner and cookies that Janie made us we were talking about a recent devotional at BYU-Idaho that Dallin H. Oaks gave. I read it online and think that everyone needs to read it. It talks about our religious freedom through the constitution and how it is under threat and current attack. I have added a link so that you can go straight from my blog. Again, everyone should read it I would even suggest a good family home evening discussion with older children of course. It's amazing.

http://www.byui.edu/Presentations/Transcripts/Devotionals/2009_10_13_Oaks.htm

Halloween and Update

We had districts on Friday and my boy team got last place by one point and my girls team got 4th by about 15 points. The way it works here is the top half teams go to state and then the top third individually. In our district we have five school so the top three get to go to state (you round up always). This year we got to take the top 11 individually. My teams didn't make it but my freshman got 8th and so I will be taking her to Northern Idaho on Thursday for state which is on Saturday. So, I will be missing halloween. I am really upset about it so Tyson has been given strict instructions to take lots of pictures. He will be in big trouble if he doesn't. But, I still wanted to do something with my kids for halloween so we went to a school carnival in St. Anthony. My brother in law works as an aid in the school district and we went for him even though he was at the hospital with his wife who had a baby that day. His name is Bridger Arnold, born on October 24th (Saturday), 9 pounds 1 ounce and 21 inches long. I am pretty sure that was Natalia at 3 months. They are doing good. I haven't seen him yet becuase of the strict rules at the hospital right now and I just don't want to bother them.
Anyway, back to what I was saying. We went to this carnival and I got to see Natalia in her Tinker Bell/ Fairy costume that Jessica made. I was good at watching. I made the head band and bought the wings. So here is a picture of her in the costume and I promise there will be more to come. FYI Jaden is spider man for halloween beacause he loves spiderman so much, but we saw a bumblebee transformer costume and Jaden allready knows what he is going to be next year. He is obsessed with transformers. For any one getting him christmas presents, we got him the first movie and we are getting him opitmus prime and a new bumblebee beacause he got worn out. All the other ones are free game, he really likes the motorcycle transformers.

Natalia Eating

I don't know if these pictures were her first time eating but she reacts the same way every time. She dives for the spoon. It makes things very difficult and frustrating sometimes. She likes food and she likes the texture but she still hasn't figured it out completely. She hates green beans but so did Jaden. When we gave them to her she gagged but she will eat them she just has this look of, "do i really need to eat this". I hope she likes them later on because I love green beans and Jaden doesn't we always have to force him to eat two at dinner. He'll eat broccoli though he told me they are little trees. I think she was eating rice cereal in these pictures. Hope you enjoy.

What a Week!!!

This week has been insane. It's homecoming week at Shelley High School and Cross Country Districts. Those two falling on the same week aren't good. First, one of my varsity runners twisted his ankle so we will be taping and puting an ankle brace on tomorrow. If it were any other race I would make him sit out. Then today at the assembly my top girl runner was in the milk/pixie stick chugging marathon. That's just the least of my problems right now it feels like. Tomorrow is Districts and I can't wait for them to be over.
Natalia wasn't feeling well again so I decided to take her back into the doctor last night. She has an ear infection in her left ear and a sinus infection. She is doing so much better today after the antibiotics. On Tuesday night she screamed all night. Good thing I didn't have to work the next day. I have to admit at four in the morning I had hit my sanity level and went and slept downstairs on the couch and made Tyson deal with it. He can sleep through alot more than I can. Hopefully it goes away and doesn't come back.
Since it was homecomeing week we had a door decorating contest. We are moving up to 4A next year and so the theme was rocking the conference. (by the way for any who don't know our mascot is a russet potato). I had made some really cool potatoes for the spud day parade that represented the three music teachers in my room. I didn't want to throw them away because I had worked so hard on them. Well, they came in good use. We made the double doors to my room look like a stage. I put black paper on the door to cover it, then I got white paper and twisted it up to make the metal scafolding that the lights hang from. We took a cardboard box and cut it up to make the state pop out and put red duck tape on it to make it look good. Then we took glitter glue and made a whole bunch of light hanging from the scafolding with christmas lights to. We cut out a whole bunch of little russets for the crowd and covered the bottom of the door just bellow the stage with that. We took my awesome potatoes and name tags I made and I was the rock band singer, Lynda was the guitar player and angela was the drummer behind an amazing drum set that one of our students drew. Finally to top it off we put our subs out there and a cd player playing Queen. It was the best door in the whole school and I didn't get pictures of it because my camera batteries died and after a week of being up it was starting to fall down. I hope someone got a picture of it. Anyway, they announced the winner today at the assembly and I got SECOND! Seriously everyone said that mine was the most creative and artistic. Thanks mom but I'm sure it would have looked even better if you were there. I lost to a math teacher who taped a whole bunch of pots and pans to the wall and had drum sticks out for people to make noise with. I don't care what they say, mine was by far the best out their. I don't know how to top it next year, maybe I will have to get my mom to design the next one and just send me everything to tape onto the door. I did have to throw my awesome potatoes away. They had a good life though.
Tomorrow is district cross country and then on halloween is state in Northern Idaho. A thirteen hour drive from this area. Seriously can we just go to Oregon, that sounds so much better than Northern Idaho. Actually Northern Idaho is really pretty but I have never had a runner run an outstanding race there before.
Well I hope you enjoy our blog.

Couches

Tyson got me new couches. Pictures will come soon. We had a sectional in our basement that came with our house. The reason being they closed up the door they had brought it threw. Well, that door wasn't closed up properly so we put it back in. The sectional was nice to have for a while but was old and started to fall apart. It was just recently pushed up against the wall and the tv to keep the armrest and back from falling apart. I had found some red couches that I really liked and they went on clearance so I got my christmas present early. The love seat was gone so I got a black couch also. So I have read and black downstairs. I really like them. Now if we can get the tv to work again so I can start working out again on the wii. I don't know what happened. Tyson was watching football and turned it off to go hometeaching. Came home to watch it again and it won't turn on. I don't want to buy a new tv.

6 Months

Natalia is six months old. We went to the doctor on Thursday and she weighs 14 pounds 3.5 oz. She is 25 inches long. Her weight is in the 30th percentile and her weight I think thy said the 25th percentile but I can't remember. She hated her shots and screamed very loud. Jaden held her hand the whole time and kept on saying "it's ok sweetheart" what a good brother. She rolls over all the time. One day I ran upstairs to put something away and I came back down and she had rolled all the way across the room. We got her a walker and went to put her in it. Well, since she is so short her feet don't touch the ground on the lowest heighth. She still likes it though because Jaden pushes her around and all the toys on it. I really wanted the disney princess one for her but I found the same one except whinnie the pooh on craigslist for half the price. Couldn't really pass it up and it's brand new. I'm sure she is getting closer to walking but I am trying not to notice. She hasn't quite figured out how to get her legs under her, but I don't mind because I don't want her to grow up.

Pumpkins

This year I didn't want to carve pumpkins. I hate the mess it makes and I really hate cleaning it up. My mom sent these felt face things for pumpkins and so we did that instead. It was quick andmess free. As you can see though Jaden made a mess of all the other halloween stuff though. Natalia really liked eating the pumpkin peices. That was her favorite part as you can see. Hers was the puppy and Jaden decided he liked the frankenstein.

Pumpkin Patch

While we were in Boise we went to this fun pumpkin patch and corn maze. This year the corn maze was in the shape of the Boise State logo. Now, it was the wrong team but it was still fun. After Five miles of corn maze I was so tired and you know what I got for getting all the check points. A bag of over salted popcorn. The last thing I wanted. I suggested they give out bottles of water and they said that would cost to much money. They charge $8 for the corn maze but we got a deal for $4 because they are LDS and they had the boy scouts in the stake selling tickets for the first two weeks it was open. They also had this fun train hooked to the bag of a tractor made out of big buckets. Jaden really liked it. Th others are of us in the pumpkin patch. Jaden didn't want a big pumpkin because he wanted to be able to carry it himself. He still dropped it a couple of times and now it has a little bit of a soft spot but he doesn't really care.

Boise

I was trying to get Natalia to hod a cute little green pumpkin.
Janie took this picture isn't it so cute. I think it's my favorite. Natalia is so photogenic.

Natalia on the Hay ride.

Jaden loving the Hay ride.

Earings

I got Natalias ears pierced right before I went to Boise. I was trying to decide when to do it and had talked to a couple of people. I decided now was the best time so she doesn't really know they are there and in result doesn't play with them beucase they have to stay in for at least six weeks. I don't plan on taking them out at that time anyway because it's just easier to leave them in. Also, they have to be 14k gold to reduce the risk of an infection. Jessica went with me to get it done and actually left me all by myself when they did it. We picked out little diamond studs for her birth stone. She did really good. It wasn't a blood curdiling scream like when she gets shots. It was more of a crying squeel. I couldn't really get a good picture of them but here is a cute picture of her. Afterward Jessica decided to piant her toenails. We sat outside because it wasn't cold yet and she stared at Jessica doing it the whole time. It was actually really cute.

The Famous Shelley Spud Day

Shelley is a small town here in Idaho. I teach at the school and last year it finally became a 4A school. Anyway, they are still big farmers in the area and do alot of potatoes, we get 2 weeks off from school just to harvest potatoes. I have to go back tomorrow. I have really been enjoying my two weeks off. The only down side is that it cuts into our Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks a little. On Spud day they have a parade and then a thing in the park with booths. This year the choir did face painting and lets just say I got really good at spiderman. Ugh. I wish you were here mom. I also got requests for Sonic, Tinkerbell, flowers, hearts, horse, cat, dog, and butterflys. I like doing flowers and hearts. They do a spud tug. It's a tug a war but a mashed potato pit. As you can see from the pictures they are real mashed potatoes. What they do is they bring in a HUGE box of those mashed potatoe flakes and a cement truck. The fire department puts bucket after bucket into the cement truck and then they start mixing. Then just like cement they dump them out into the pit. Enjoy the pictures. The last picture is one of my nerdy choir shirts. It has a fermata (a birds eye) and has it's meaning which is, You Can Hold Me As Long As You Want.

Life

I found my camera. My partner in crime in the music room put it in my desk so that it was out of student eyes. I have tons of adorable pictures to put up when I get back from Boise. We went to a corn maze and pumpkin patch, shopping, and more shopping, we went out to eat, I got to see Emily Castleton (Day). I have been having so much fun but am exausted from watching my kids by myself. How do single moms do it? Natalia has had a pretty bad cold and they said if it doesn't start clearing up by this thursday to take her in again because they want to make sure it doesn't turn into a sinus infection. She has been so miserable the last two weeks. She isn't being so fussy now but she is so stuffed up and green goop is coming out of her eyes and nose. YUCK!!!!! She is getting to be closer to six months and I can't believe it. It really feels like I had her just yesterday. Jaden has been having so much fun with Gabe and Yomar, his uncles. He is bouncing off the walls and has been saying the funniest stuf. He asks so many questions lately. He is so interested in learning lately. He is always asking me what letter that is or what letter does that word start with. He asked me this morning if we have bones in our nose. Very random. He is also quite the artist. The other day we were at Tysons class room and he drew pictures of all of us. He had us all pretty proportionate. It was amazing and they actually looked like people. They had the body, arms, legs, hands, feet, even hair was correct. He told me I have boy hair because my hair is so short and it's hard to draw. Girls are supposed to have long hair, except for babies are supposed to have short hair. Well, I will have pictures up soon and you will be able to see all of our adventures from september and the beginning of october which has been a crazy month. By the way, the other day we had a mixture of snow and rain. The day before it was 80 degrees. Today we got a call from Aunt Sue and it had snowed five inches and broke a whole bunch of trees. Somehow we missed fall and went straight from summer to winter. Again, YUCK!!!!!!!