May 12 of 12 - er 6....

For May, the 12 of 12 was severely lacking.  Not a very noteworthy day of activity, I was only able to get 6 pictures....  At the end of the day I started to manufacture 6 random pictures and decided:  The day was what it was, if I only got 6 pictures, that's what I got....


The day started with a great moment of 6 to 8 inches of snow on the ground.  Over the weekend, I was reading Alex some "Brain Quest" questions and this one came up.  I laughed at the time because in Colorado, the weather shows nothing of seasons.  Today was a perfect example.

When I looked out the window at the snow, I found that my geranium had bloomed.  That was a fun way to start the day.
 
Yesterday I gave my seniors their final exams in the Microsoft Office class.  So, I good chunk of my day at school was grading.

On my way home from school, I picked up our family copy of Office 2010.  Some changes into cloud computing over the past year or so have created problems with Melissa and I sharing our calendars.  Finally upgrading to the current version has fixed our problems.

Today I also picked up my robe for graduation.  This is the first year that they tried to make more of an effort for the staff to actually robe for graduation.

I ended my day with pizza rolls.  Since it was a Thursday, my family went to grammas after school, so I had to fend for myself.
So, grading and installing Office made today not very picture worthy.

The Birthday - April 12 or 12

The 12 of 12 for April fell (of course) on Trina's Birthday.  An odd day overall, so a little weird of a photo montage.

The day started out with the Internet connection being down at home.  So I got to spend an hour or so on the phone with Qwest before leaving for work.

Since I got stuck at home for a while longer than normal, I got to be there when Alex gave Trina her present:  Tangled DVD.

Fairly uneventful morning, so not much to take pictures of.  However when it came to lunchtime, we asked Trina where she wanted to have lunch on her special day:  She wanted us to go have a school lunch with her.  Interesting option.

In the afternoon, I got to spend a little budget money.  This is the resulting stack of POs.

After school, I had a construction meeting.  I sort of miss going to these.  This was my first meeting for Phase III.  (It might be my last - it sounds like there's not a lot of work being done that will affect technology.

After my meeting, I went to meet up with my family at Claire's.  Trina wanted to get her ears pierced for her birthday.

And she followed through.  Fun little present for her!

For dinner, Trina had a little more vision.  We got to go to Chuck E. Cheese's for some dinner and entertainment.

Trina probably spent the most time getting her picture taken for these little ID cards.  I think she walked away with 8 cards!

We also played some of the carnival games.  We didn't really blow away any of the games today, but we got a good amount of tickets in the end.

On the way home, we got caught behind a fatal car accident.  We sat on the highway for over an hour.  It was interesting to see all of the different emergency vehicles that came to the scene, but it was very sad to find out what the result was.  Not a very happy ending to a great birthday.

I ended up with only 11 pictures and didn't have much more to take a picture of.  So, as I ended my day checking my email it gave me something to take a picture of.  (It is  a Blizzard Fan Club newsletter, so it makes it sort of interesting - maybe?)

12 of 12 - February 2011

The 12th of February was a Saturday.  I started my morning by cleaning off the kitchen counter.  It desperately needed it.

Melissa and I went to the Rockyard for lunch.  We didn't get great service today, but the food always makes up for it.

Melissa and I then went to see the King's Speech.  A very good movie - interesting to see this sort of story from the British point of view.

Because of all of the bad weather recently, the windshield wiper fluid needed to be refilled.

While Melissa and I were at lunch and the movie, the kids stayed with Kathryn A.  Among other things, they played Mousetrap.  Since Kathryn needed to get home, I finished up the game for her.  This was the results, Kathryn and I were red.  Trina was yellow.

Before bed, the kids had their bath.

While Alex took his bath, Trina played on the computer.

I had a small snack.

I got my pajamas on.

We read some of our evening book.

We recently added saying this verse to Alex's bedtime routine so that he would be able to fall asleep more quickly.

And Melissa finished the day by reading some on her new Kindle.

12 of 12 - January 2011

The 12th of January was a Wednesday, so I started out my morning by teaching class.  The students used Microsoft Word to create a menu.  Today was the first day of a 2 day assignment.


After class, since it was so close to the beginning of they semester, I needed to run my usual script to create student folders on the server.  This is the list of things that I needed to do manually after the script had run.

On of the projects that I got to work on today was a laptop cart that wasn't getting power even when plugged in.  If you look closely at the plug, there's quite a bit of carbon scoring on the ends of the plug.  So we replaced the plug and all was fine.  And I got this nifty Polish power tester - win/win!


Last night we had undecorated the tree and so it was bare and waiting to be disposed of when I got home.

Through my day, I realized that I forgot to eat lunch.  Melissa had made some chicken salad, so I threw some on some bread and had a small sandwich.



Tonight was youth.  Normally this year, we have been at the Cherry Creek house, however since they had finals this week, it was cancelled.  So instead, we went to the Farrells' house and hung out with some other great students that we hadn't connected with much this year.

A favorite sight for me when visiting the Farrell Casa:  The pile of shoes by the door.  I don't know why I always think that this is so fun, I just do!  And it's my blog, so deal with it!  :)


With the tree gone, the music room was returned back to its standard disarray.

Got to enjoy a little light reading after they kids went to bed.  Still hoping for an upcoming opportunity at becoming the Director of Technology Services for the district.


Heading up to bed, I needed 3 final pictures to round out the 12 of 12.  Here's the set of Christmas cards that we got this year.

This was a Lego project that was on the floor.  Alex is really getting more creative with his creations.


Grab a quick bedtime snack and off to bed!

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.