Amy's First School Award

I already knew she was terrific, but today Amy received the Terrific Kids award for "doing a great job." Her teacher is back now after over two weeks absence, so hopefully things will stabilize. Amy said that someone asked her teacher why she was gone and she said that she bought a new house, had to decorate it, and then had to rest. Personally, I think she had a nervous breakdown and this was her euphamistic answer. I guess we'll never know because I know I won't ask! Anyway, I'm proud of Amy, and she gets to get a free kid's meal from Chick-fil-a. "Eat more chickin!"

Mind Reading

You may have noticed that I was playing around with my blog today and made it more colorful. And I know what you all are thinking: "Shelley really needs to get a life."

Couch Potato Confessions

Here are some television series we have enjoyed lately on DVD that I highly recommend. I know I am very behind the times, so maybe you all have seen these, but I am slowly catching up to the rest of the world. Actually, I should accept that I will probably always be behind.

Monk - I have always wanted to watch this show because I love Tony Shalhoub, and I was not disappointed! We laughed so hard watching the first three episodes of Season One. If anyone is not familiar with this show, Tony Shalhoub plays a detective with OCD who is trying to get his police job back. We should be getting the next disc soon-I can't wait--I hope the rest are as good.

Northern Exposure - I know this show is ancient, but when it came on originally, I used to go to bed at 8:00 or 9:00 so I didn't see much of anything. It used to come on channel 5 when Kaylynn was a baby, and I saw some of them then. So now I'm catching up. I love the way they put each show together and the main idea comes full circle. I don't know if that makes any sense, but I don't know how else to describe it. And I love it's quirkiness. If somethings is "quirky," you can bet I'm going to love it.

The Office - Speaking of quirkiness . . . This is more recent but I wasn't really aware of it until Christina was raving about it, and she lent us the first two seasons. The first season I thought was just fairly funny, but I liked the originality of it and the way the people just look like regular people. It's so refreshing to see normal teeth. My favorite episode was the Survivor-like spoof. Then we got into Season Two, which has been absolutely laugh-out-loud funny, and I'm addicted. We watch a few episodes every night. Hey Christina, do you have Season Three??? You've created a monster!

Catching a Wave

Yesterday we ventured out to Huntington Beach for an afternoon of fun and sun, cold and wind, and sand, sand, and more sand. I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about--the showers at the beach don't quite wash all the sand away. Kaylynn's friend Brandi went with us, and they did a lot of boogie boarding. Anna and Amy played in the waves and drew pictures in the sand. Jeremy did a little bit of everything. Here's a video of the highlights:

Manchester United Vs. The Hurricanes-Game 1

In the first game of the season, Jeremy's team, Manchester United, lost 2-1, but Jeremy played great defense. He was center defender, and likes cheese. (I wasn't sure what to write, so Jeremy typed in the cheese comment.)

Like Sands Through the Hourglass . . .

There hasn't been much going on here worth blogging about, so I took a few pictures this afternoon of usual everyday stuff, just to give a glimpse of the quirky "days of our lives" here in our home:



This is Jeremy's new homework spot. It should help reduce the dust.



This is what happens when you ask Kaylynn to smile. She is making Little Cheddar Meatloaves for us for dinner. It's so great to have a good cook for a daughter!



Here's Amy at the computer. By the time I got the camera, she had already closed Barbie.com, one of her favorite sites.



Whose/who's (Lara, tell me which one is correct) homework do you think this is? Amy's? This is actually the homework of my third grade GATE student! It must be more creative to ignore the lines.