Time for a Break

For those of you who are involved in education (student, instructor, or parents), the first part of this video reminds me more of the first of the school year (instead of Friday) and the second part feels more like now (instead of Monday). In other words, I am ready for Thanksgiving break and shortly after, Christmas Break. Can anyone relate?


I am looking forward to a delightful Thanks-giving with the family. Megan, Ty, and Scott James will be here. Lyndsy and Stephen will be working on Thanksgiving Day, although we will have Stephen here in the morning and early afternoon, Lyndsy will join us in the evening, AND of course Brooke and Jack will be here all day. Geoff will come home from BYU (all the way from Provo-HaHa) bringing his appetite and one of his roommates, Nozomu, with him. Nozomu is most recently from Kentucky, but a native of Japan. Bottom line-Amy will be so happy to have her siblings, their spouses, and her nephews and niece here for the day and so will Scott and I. Sometimes it feels bitter-sweet because I miss my childhood Thanksgivings with my siblings, parents, and home. We always had such a great and happy time together. The tide has changed and now I am the main cook and OUR home is the gathering place. It is my childhood memory that sustain me and make it easy to create fabulous new memories, along with my husband, for our children, "adopted" children (Ty and Lyndsy), and Grandchildren!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF YOU.

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Growing up I never understood how come dad and Steve got to have flags put up for their birthdays, but I didn't. Now of course I understand the reasons they do. so with that. Thank you to ALL that have served the United States of America.

This year dad isn't even home for his birthday. I think for a punishment I think he should give me all of his presents (good thing I ended up getting him the Taylor Swift CD ;) )

Well..

Happy Birthday dad!! I hope you have a good one even though you are off to the field. Thanks for everything!! I LOVE YOU!!!!
-AmyKatherine!

A Blast from the 80's

Dallas Robert's hair school had a fashion show last thursday. They asked my fashion team to do a routine as a filler in the show. We had the big hair and the major amounts of makeup. It was a lot of fun though. Of course being the girls that we are we took about 200 pictures. Here are some of the 200:


of course i had to have some fun with my look afterwards.
me and kristee again.
me and whit.

me kylee and karlie!!

urban outfitters.

Whit and me getting some food.
Kristie and me. 

getting ready.





okay so these weren't from the fashion show but i thought maybe you would like to see how i looked exactly one week after I got my wisdom teeth out. My cheeks were huge. Cross that- ONE cheek is huge, the other is just big.

With Love:
AmyKatherine.

More Fashion Photos of Amy

As promised here is a sampling of the rest of Amy's Fashion Team photo shoot.






Amy is at the top right side with the scarf.


Amy is third from the front on the left.


Good Friends. 


Carla, Ana, Kellie, Whitney, Amy, Jenessa and Naomi


Sitting on the tracks.


Whitney, Amy, Kellie.

Halloween Night

It's always fun when the grandkids come! Brooke was a beautiful butterfly. Scotty was an adorable bear, and Jack was a darling giraffe! They came to our home and we went trick-or-treating together.

Brooke, Scotty, Grandma Kathie, and Jack ready for fun.


Grandpa Scott and Jack the Giraffe!


Jazz Megan and Jazz Bear.


Scotty the smiling Bear!


"Come on! Lets stop taking pictures and get going!"


Brooke loves pulling faces!


Once in a while she will give us a beautiful smile.


"Hippie" Amy giving Scotty a "Bear" Hug.


Amy and Brooke satisfied with the "treats" that were secured that night.


Amy and Jack after a long night.


"Look at our awesome Pumpkin! It looks great with candle light."


"I'm not sure what happened tonight, but I have a big bag of candy and mom's letting me play with it and eat it and that is cool!

Dog the Bounty Hunter

My classroom is next to the Kindergarten classes. Every year the students take a paper doll home and dress it as they are going to dress for Halloween. My favorite this year is the following:




I would have loved to see Slade on Halloween night in his costume.

Fun Motivational Bulletin Board

I love creating bulletin boards in my Speech-Language therapy classroom. My boards are actually motivation boards. In other words, the students get a "piece" at the beginning of the month (in this example it would be a bat) and as they come to class and work hard on their goals, they get to move their piece across the board to the next pre-set section (you can't see the sections in the picture)

Whole board. Don't you love the orange carpeted walls in my classroom. You can tell the school was built in the 70's.


Look closely to the right and you can see the white dashed line that divide the sections.


The kids really liked the trick-or-treaters!


I added this house this year along with the witch because the custodian found a larger board to put up. (I was pleased to change my 4 foot board for one that is 8 feet. Anything to cover up the orange carpet on the walls.) I need to add more fence also next year.