Chloe's Blessing

(Sorry the picture is oriented the wrong way. I'm sure that Terri will have better pictures on her blog shortly.)

Terri Anne now has a baby named Chloe. I went to her blessing today. It was fun to see everybody and meet the baby.

Color Festival

Last year we arrived ten minutes too late to welcome spring at the Hare Krishna temple. This year we made it on time.

Pre-color

Waiting for the countdown

Post-color

You can tell that Jeni and Zach were in the middle of the crowd as evidenced by their complete saturation with color. Ashley, Hav, and I wanted to be able to breathe so we only went a few feet into the crowd.

We welcomed spring the Indian way. I want to find a Buddhist temple that is doing Songkran so I can celebrate spring the Thai way too.

this is for my mother

I quilted (with paper and paint) and I thought of you.

Rugby Weekend

Tom had the best cheering section at his rugby games this weekend.

Birthday Dinner the Second

Hav got me a free birthday dinner at Tucanos so we went out and enjoyed. The meat was good but the best part of the meal was the grilled pineapple and the guava juice.

Valentine's Day in Boise

Aidan hangs out inside and watches.

Avery takes a ride on the scooter.

While in Boise, we went on a walk. Avery and Aidan took their punch balls that they got from my mom.

We went to check out the animals at the Johnson's. They've always got something different. I remember the ostriches when I was younger. This time they had animals that seemed more 'farmish' : goats and mules.

I think that Lucy is enjoying being mobile. She was pretty intrigued by Moose.

February Craziness

One student's backdrop for the Wax Museum.

February was insane with work. I had parent teacher conferences, the Jazz Read-a-thon, our fifth grade wax museum, my principal evaluation, the direct writing assessment, a collaboration presentation, etc. This was all in addition to teaching the core. I'm glad that March hasn't been quite as crazy.