George and Sophie on a Wednesday Afternoon

We LOVE these dumb dogs.

New Orleans in 2 Weeks!

Our 4th wedding anniversary is coming up in 2 weeks, so we decided to take a short trip to New Orleans to celebrate! Neither of us have ever been there, so finding a hotel was hard. There are tons of cute boutique hotels, but we needed to find a good deal, because every hotel in the French Quarter has$30+ per-day valet fees. Anyway, we booked a room at the Maison Dupuy and it looks super cute. We are excited.

The Maison Dupuy

The Third Grade

There are times when my 3rd grade students do strange things, causing me to wonder if I did things like that when I was that age. Of course, I wasn't in special education, but my kids aren't all that different from the regular kiddos. Today a boy asked me if he could sharpen his pencil (for the 3rd time in an hour) and I said no, causing him to have a class 4 temper tantrum (4 outta 5 is pretty bad) and cry like a little girl. Then he threw his whole pencil box on the floor, which exploded upon contact, leaving little bits of crayon shavings and colored pencils everywhere. When I told him to pick it up he yelled something in Spanish and buried his face in his hands, sobbing uncontrollably. I felt so evil, but seriously, stop breaking your pencil!!!!

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to look back on my 3rd grade year. So here I am, moccasins and all. Note the hairy legs, which resulted in me being called Chewbacca for the next 9 years.

Timber!!!!

Our neighbors (not tree huggers apparently) are having all of their pine trees removed from their front yard, which bums me out. I guess having been tree-deprived in Southern California, I extra extra like them now. They decided to cut this one at the base, and then use a rope attached to a truck to pull it down. I was watching from the office, upstairs. It was cool, and sad. Here's a pic of the huge LoblollyPine, now deceased.