September Currently

 

Well it's been a busy, busy, busy summer. 

The weather in Vancouver has been fabulous most of the summer. 

Of course, the two periods of rain happened to fall during our two camping trips.

Well, we learned that the tent leaks, but if you're warm, you can sleep even if you're wet.

 

I start work again tomorrow.

I thought I'd give you a little photo recap of our summer.

 

We went to the beach a lot.  There's a cute little beach about 10 minutes from our house.

We sometimes met up with my girlfriend and her family, who have a canoe.

 

Just beautiful right???

 

 

I learned that my children can finally swim!!!!!

I mean across the pool without floaties or anything.

Here's Connor after Brad threw him in the air into the pool at my Sister-in-law's house.

 

Teagan can swim too!!!!

 

Next up was a family vacation to the Oakanagan - about 5 hour drive from Vancouver.

It was HOT, HOT, HOT.

And Brad doesn't do so well without air conditioning.

We stayed at a friend's cabin which was very RUSTIC.

 

We cooled down by doing a lot of swimming.

 

And the kids had fun playing with the water toys.

This is after sunset - around 8pm and it's still smoking hot outside.  Too hot to go to bed yet!

 

We spent Friday evenings in our neighbourhood square.

They have live music on Friday nights and the kids love to dance!!!!

 

Connor and Teagan went to lots of day camps, like Bike Camp, Soccer Camp, Hockey Camp...

 

These are their self portraits from Art Camp. 

 

Connor and I did some hiking.  This is about a 10 minute walk from our Front door.

See the suspension bridge on the left with all the crazy tourists on it??

We went to lots of waterparks. 

This one is the free waterslide at Granville Island! 

 

Sitting in the Lifeguard chair at the beach!!! 

 

My brother had his 10th anniversary party at the house that they got married in.

This photo doesn't do it justice - it's a beautiful house.

When you walked in the front door they had all these balloons.  Taped to each string was a photo.

The photos progressed in time over the past 10 years.

It's a really cool idea don't you think?

The first photos were of the wedding, then their travels, then baby #1, then baby #2, then baby #3...

 

We also saw some crazy accidents this summer.

This truck driver didn't lower his deck before he tried to leave the loading dock and took down the bridge over it.  The driver actually walked away from this accident unhurt. 

 

On our way camping, we got stuck in traffic for well over an hour as they tried to clear the highway from this accident.  I have no idea if the driver survived or not.

 

And finally, another shot of another trip to the waterslides. 

 

It was a fun summer!

 

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Currently for July 2013

I find the sound of power tools very comforting.

As a child, it meant that my Dad was home working on something.

As an adult, it makes me excited because it means that some sort of a house project around here will finally be finished.  Today Brad is perking up our front door and adding a mail slot - so much more secure than a mail box.

 

Here's this month's currently.

Farley posted it up a bit early and surprised me.

Hop on over and check out the other entrants in the hop.

 

 

Anyway, back to the blog hop.

 

Power tools - yay!

 

I'm sure you are all not familiar with our flood from 18 months ago.

 

 

Here's our basement bathroom.

It actually had carpet on the floor and by the time I took this photo, Brad had removed it.

It wasn't glued down.  But no, that floor is not shiny, that's 2 inches of water.

 

Well the basement was hideous anyway, and we tried to look on the bright side.

BUT, it's amazing what 2 inches of water can do to an entire house.

Especially when that water was gone after a few hours.

 

Here's what my front yard looked like 2 days later.  It looked like this for 6 months.  You try to keep the mud out when your kids have this to play in...I dare you!

Below is a pre-flood photo of our back yard. 

We knew there had been some settling of the infil and our plan was to redo the yard the following summer, but the November rains changed all that.  The drain tiles blocked up and we had no choice.

 

 

Anyway, the restoration company did the clean up.

And Brad rebuilt the basement.

 

 

Here's what that bathroom looks like now.

And my crafting room went from this.

 

 

too...

 

well, I'll show you in a few days.  Brad is just finishing it up in the next few days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June Currently

I'm just posting quickly to join up with June's Currently from Farley at Oh' Boy 4th Grade.

June is here, which means report cards, tons of family birthdays, and the craziness that comes in the last month of the school year (both at home and at school)

 

Currently and my Latest Creation...

Welcome to March.  I am so happy that Spring will be here soon.

Scroll dow to see my latest creation or

click on my blog header and check out my full blog.

I've posted up a LOT of FREEBIES lately.

I know that some of you have just finished your break, but my March Break starts in 2 weeks!

 

And right now, life at home

 

and at work is,

 

CRAZY!!!!

 

I

 mean really

really

really

 

CRAZY!!!

 

You know, right now

 

 

I have Report Cards Due,

A Student Teacher

A Musical with 75 student to perform in 2 weeks

Packing to take my family to California

(Yes, despite what my hubby believe, I pack for all 4 people in the family - even him)

blah, blah, blah

 

Filling out this form was very easy to do!

Hop over to Farley's blog and check out the linky party.

 

 

 

Here's my latest creation.

 

I'm kinda proud because I made some of the clip art myself.

 

But that cute little leprechaun comes from KPM Doodles.

You can check out her blog here.

 

 

 

Here's a few pages for you to preview.

 

 

 

You can download this off of my TPT store.

 

CLICK HERE

 

to download now.

 

And please, please, please, let me know what you think.

I have been working hard and have a ton of these kinds of units to post up over the next week or so.

Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

Currently for November

A little late, but I actually did remember to hook up with Farley's Currently.  I have to chuckle, because I wrote that WANTING comment above a little tongue in cheek and found out that Farley wants one to.  Well, she called it a Personal Assistant, but let's call a spade, a spade.  I need a wife.
Anyway, I hope all you Americans out there have a fabulous Thanksgiving next weekend.

Currently October

Currently going insane????

I need to vent a bit - but I'll wait to the end of this post. 

 

 

Yesterday my son wasn't feeling well, so I took a sick day and stayed home with him, and actually he's not feeling bad today so we've had a great day together. We enjoyed singing to the ipod.  I just introduced him to the Backstreet Boys.

 

I really am going to try to update this blog more often

The problem is, I'm exhausted.

totally, and completely exhausted at the end of the day.

WHY??????

Well, I have been teaching for 20 years now, and this class is really testing my knowledge and patience with teaching.  

But enough of the complaining

 

I've decided to redirect my energy to this blog. 

Why not share with all of you about life in the Jungle?  That's what I secretly call my class this year.

I actually got a poster that says "welcome to our jungle" and put it up by my classroom door.

Everytime I pass it, I think to myself, "Yup!!  Jungle it is!!"