12 of 12 - December 2010

Started out the morning feeding the fish.

After church we went to the Farrells' house for a youth leader Christmas party.  Always fun to play with the toys at the Farrells' house.

Lots of wonderful food at the party!

Melissa won a prize for knowing her Christmas movie facts.  (Yay?)

Mark showing off his mad stacking skillz!

And some delicious dessert at the party too!

Tonight was pastor Todd's last night leading worship at Elevation.  Sort of an inside joke, but Melissa brought her flag to participate in worship.

Trina also likes to play with mom's flag.

On the way home, we stopped for gas.

Tonight I got to listen to my favorite Christmas song to get me in the Christmas spirit:  Green Chri$tma$.

Before going to bed I finished up a Conceptis.com Pic-a-Pix puzzle.

12 or 12 - November 2010

Unfortunately, today started with waking up several times throughout the night reaching for cough drops.  So, sadly, it was appropriate that the cough drops be the first picture on the 12 of 12.


At school today, in class, we started the Hangman project.  Hangman is not at all a simple project, especially for introductory students.  They seem to be doing quite well on it though!


One of the projects that I got to see some finality to today was this laptop.  The hard drive was not connecting to the mother board properly.  I got to return this one 3 different times before it was repaired correctly.  Today, it seems to be working.


Another project that I got to do today was related to a smart board.  Unfortunately, while the custodial staff was cleaning this particular room, they felt it was necessary to unplug absolutely everything.  It took about 2 hours to get everything reconnected and working properly again.


At the end of the school day, I went into the office and found that the intercomm system was beeping.  They had tried everything to get it to stop.  Eventually, I got to walk to the south building and unplug the intercomm system completely.  That got it to stop.  There's got to be a better solution somewhere.


Another fun moment of my school day was setting up a web site for the upcoming MDA Jail fundraiser coming up.  December 9th, I'm going to an Applebee's Jail unless I raise $1500 bail for MDA.  It should be fun, but the start of this process has been pretty annoying.


Alex and Mom read The King of Pizza today.  It, of course, has a recipe for pizza in the back.  So guess what we had for dinner!


Before we got to enjoy our evening the kids needed to do their chore of folding socks.  It eventually got done so that we could move forward with out night.


This was a fun picture of the kids watching Pippi Longstockings.  Pizza, a movie and a working fireplace.  All in all, it was a good night.


After Pippi, the kids somehow convinced us to watch a little bit of a Tom and Jerry movie.


After the movies, we all got to go upstairs and Mom read us a short book.


After the kids went to bed, Melissa and I stayed up to watch Commentary: The Musical.  I like the Commentary, but Melissa prefers the Sing Along Blog.

12 of 12 of October

12 of 12 - September 2010

The 12th of September fell on a Sunday.  There was an early Broncos game so we missed most of it.  There was also a youth leadership meeting.  Then we went to Elevation (with cafe after - of course!)



Best youth ministry idea ever!




Just curious - where does he park?




The Sneakers




Mom's favorite place




Yeah - I was on Facebook too....




A thriving plant in our house?!?!!




Alex's slider puzzle




Alex's Broncos shirt




(unless is Jesus...  Mendez...  or the other one...)



Pizza for cafe!  (Good and bad - it was supposed to be breakfast night)  :(

 

Now I believe that ANYBODY can change!




The kids were playing in the chapel during cafe.  They thought this rule might extend their time.

12 of 12 - August 2010

  So, I missed a couple of months, but I actually remembered to take more pictures for my 12 of 12 this month.