Just for fun.

Play Time?

Little Sally went to ask her mom a question.
"Mom," said Sally "can I go out and play?"
"Sure," said her mom "anytime you want, except from June-May."

M&M

There once was a short little man
That lived in a very hard shell
He could not break free from this man he had to be.
He had one job to do-
Make people smile and never melt in their hand
I guess that's two.

Breathe

This paragraph is very much me. Often times at night I would go sit outside by myself. I enjoyed looking at the stars and breathing in the fresh cool air...I still do.

Outside it's a blanket of darkness, and the breeze gently wraps it's self around me. The water trickles as the crickets chime in to the orchestra of sounds. The ground proves a restful spot, with leafs as a canopy and the stars are my silent song. The night air calls for me to remember old friends. It gently pulls out old stories with the mellifluous sounds, and the water brings dancing images from my head. The smell of fresh cut grass makes my heart burn for childhood, the time it was easy..before you had things to worry with. My mind wanders like the cat down the street and soon the warmth of the ground had lulled me to sleep.

A little Japaneses fun!

Tonight I got to enjoy a wonderful night with my brother and sister. My parents were gone so we decided to go out. We got our stuff together...I grabbed the camera and the keys to my mom's car. (We took her car so that we wouldn't waste Carli's gas....THANKS MOM!) We headed out to a Japaneses steak house located in Cool Springs called Shogun's. It is one of my favorite restaurants, but I hadn't been yet since being back in the states for Christmas. As we waited to be seated, much to my sisters annoyance, we took pictures. We laughed a lot, and I was instantly glad that we had gone out together. Once seated we were delighted with a good server and the best cook I have ever had at Shogun's. For those of you who have never been to Shogun's, you have a big cook top in the middle of you table and they cook your food right in front of you. The cook we had tonight joked around with all of us (you are often times at a table with other people that you don't know.) Our cook flipped rice towards different people at the table to see if we could catch it in our mouths, and was over all just entertaining! On top of that he was a great cook and I enjoyed EVERY morsel of that dinner. It was a great evening and I was so glad that I was able to share it with Carli and Lawson!

Tis the season!

As I look at these precious pictures of my kids decorating Christmas cookies I long so much to wrap my arms around them. Just hold them for a second, (I say a second because they would never stay in a hug for longer than that, if they're not crying that is...I mean come on they are only 3 and 4 they have to much energy for that!) They had such a great time making Christmas cookies. The past two years I have made sure that the preschool makes Christmas cookies before I come home for the holidays. It was always a tradition in my house growing up to make "beautifully" decorated cookies. So I guess now I feel like my kids would not truly be experiencing the Christmas holiday if it wasn't topped off with some yummy cookies. This year after the cookies were all baked and the kids had tasted their handy work we wrapped the rest up and gave them to other people in the school. Jennifer and Marlon really loved getting to go room to room and give away something they had made. It was a great way to start of the Christmas season!

Suitcase Surprise

Today at about 4:00 I decided that I should probably start packing since I have to leave in the morning. Well, Diasira and Jhoselyn came over for the event, and to help me. OK OK mostly they came over because I told them that I had caramel brownies. Jhoselyn was a big help with packing though, and 'D' helped a lot with Christmas decorations. They came into my room and being the fun person she is 'D' climbed into my suitcase right away and told me that she was ready. Well, Jhoselyn zipped up the suitcase and started rolling the bag to the living room. I called to my roommate Jennifer to tell me if she thought the suitcase weighed too much or not. Jennifer lifted the bag up and said "yeah, I think that it weighs too much...at least 70 pounds." I said "Really?" I knew 'D' was in there and even though she is small I knew that it had to weigh a lot more than 70 pounds. I was like "what should I do?" Jen then went to get her scale saying that she could be wrong. Well her scale is in KG, so we figured out how much I weighed then I stood on the scale with the bag that I could barely lift and then Jen did all the math...her mouth dropped and she exclaimed, "This bag weighs 110 pounds!!!!" I replied "well, can you help me decided what to take out?" We unzipped the bad and 'D' jumped out and screamed. Everyone jumped and started laughing hysterically. It was so funny. Diasira was please with herself and the laughter she caused.

Tractor Fun

One night I coerced Mr. William, one of the men that oversees construction at the Ranch, to let me drive one of the big construction tractors. I had been wanting to drive it for a long time, and just waiting for the right moment to ask. Being the nice man Mr. William is, he let me. I was so excited! He gave me a little run down on how it works, then he let me drive it around this little circle. I took it around a tree and I was surprised how well it handles. He also let me back it up and lift and drop the buckets. After I was done Tammy, the Ranch nurse and good friend, asked if she could drive it. I think that she got to drive it further, maybe she is Mr. William's favorite. Tammy and I both agreed that it made for an exciting night and something to do on an otherwise uneventful night. It was really fun and I hope that I get to do it again.

Classic Shots

It has been a while since I've written a blog. My excuse is that we have had little to no internet over the last three weeks. Things in Honduras have been going well. We are wrapping school up for this semester. It has just flown by! Days seem to go at a normal speed, but months go by in the speed of a week. My kids are keeping me on my toes while I'm trying to keep them on their bottoms. Marlon is my little kangaroo, monkey and parrot all wrapped into one. He jumps around all the time, has more than a healthy amount of curiosity (as in can't keep his hands out of EVERYTHING) and on top of that repeats EVERYTHING that I say. While it can be very frustrating I have fun with it sometime. It's fun to make little random sound and hear him imitate it. Also, it's a great self-esteem boost...all I have to do is say "your beautiful" and Marlon says "Your beautiful." It's great. Outside of school there's not that much going on. I'm working on a dance with some of the girls here. They are doing very well with it and seem to really be enjoying it...despite the fact that they say they don't like ballet:) We have been playing a lot of soccer like always, but besides that there have been quite a few game of American Football, and Baseball being played. Some of the boys have started running in the mornings, which has been fun. I just have to say that I finished first today...not that I care or anything. We had a cold front come through last week and it was FREEZING! It was in the high 50 several days last week. The sun decided to come back out this week and it has warmed up some, but left most of us with colds. Being a preschool teacher I just love when my kids have colds and walk around all day with runny noses, and sneeze all over me. Anyways life has been fun like always and I will try to put some more detailed blogs up later this week. I hope yall are all just pluggin away and loving life. I would love to hear from all of you, so please drop me a note!