Wordless Wednesday a day early

Since I will be on the road tomorrow here is tomorrow's picture today.

A Trip Through a Wax Museum

Today Chris and I had the opportunity to tour a "Living Wax Museum" For the past several weeks Camden and his class have been researching historical figures. They were able to choose the person they wanted to research and then wrote a speech and a poem about the person. They also drew a portrait of the person, made a timeline of important dates in the life of their chosen figure. All of this information was put on a tri-fold board to display in the classroom. The researching culminated today when all the kids dressed up as their figure and the parents got to tour the wax museum and learn about the historical figures. The kids even made their own buttons with "play", "pause" and "stop" for parents to push to start speeches the kids had written. Some of the figures the kids chose were Lou Gehrig (Camden's chosen figure), Abe Lincoln, 2 Jane Goodall's, Elvis, Duke Ellington, Christopher Columbus, Anne Frank, Annie Oakley, Sally Ride, Teddy Roosevelt, Julie Krone, Kerri Strug, Amelia Earhart,Florence Nightengale, MLK Jr., and Sacagawea.

The kids did a GREAT job with their presentations and boards and they had a lot of fun doing the research and dressing up. This is just one more praise I have of Camden and Grace's new school. I don't think any of the teachers at their old public school would have done anything like this. I feel that they are allowed to be more creative here at Thales and they have taken to the direct instruction so easily. I look forward to what the rest of the year has in store not only for Camden and Grace but for the rest of the students!

Pics, pics and more pics

I have more pics that are on my laptop but it is currently under repair. Once I get it back, hopefully this week I can post some more.

Much to Kathrine's dismay I have taught Addy early that there is nothing like a diet coke!!

I'm Back!

It has been forever since I posted anything and I really don't have a lot to say today. We are busy with school and dance and baseball is getting ready to start back in a couple of weeks. The kids are doing great at Thales, Camden made straight A's on his last report card and on this 9 weeks interims that just came home they both had straight A's! I am so proud of them!!

We are going to Florida next week and I can't wait! We are leaving on Wed which also happens to be the 2 yr mark since my dad passed. It is good we will be gone next week, not sure I want to be around here for that. Chris has a convention he is going to in Orlando and I am going to try and catch up with old friends and family. It seems like everyone will be down there except for my mom and Kathrine, Jared and Addy. Next Wed is also Kathrine's birthday so I know that will be hard for her.

I pray for warm weather too while we are there. We got a taste of it here last week with 70 degrees days but it is back in the 30's and 40's this week, ugh!!!

Chris is still looking at job opportunities down there and I pray that something comes up interview wise while we are there.

We have started The Biggest Loser Bootcamp DVD and I handled the first day wonderfully, day 2 kicked my butt!! I hate Bob Harper but I know I would dislike Jillian even more!

I do need to post some pics, I have some of Addy that I took the other day when I got to babysit and I took her to the kids Valentine parties at school. I will get those up later today.