Riverfloat 2008!!!

This is the first year I have gone on the Annual Girls Riverfloat in Eburg, WA. Due to the contents in the actual river pictures, there will need to be some cropping before publication... So we will go backwards and start with out night out on the town (so to speak)

1) Jeni, Stella, and Maureen at the Palace having a frosty bev...

2) Maureen, Vickie, Jeni, Christy, Stella, and Molly at the Starlite (waiting for frosty bevs)

3) Maureen holding up Mother Mary and St Francis to converse with Stella over breakfast...

4) Stella carries the weight of a Saint on her shoulder... ha ha

Floating the river was TONS of fun and sun, despite being eaten up by mosquitos on steroids (just had to see the top of my hand), being knocked into the river by a tree, losing the oars not once but twice (thanks to Moe for retrieving them) and having lots of laughs with some pretty darn fun chicks!

I can't wait until next year... Thanks Vickie for the planning and a place to crash!

actually working on wedding...?

I can't believe that Jeremy and I have actually talked about wedding stuff in the last week... several times!
He has been researching for honeymoon locales... (yes!)
He made an appointment for getting a tux... and I get to take pics!
He has been asking about my shopping trips with mom... what we need... what he can pay me back for... (YES!)
I check out some florists- (pricey... :( ) so I think we will be getting creative with the costco flowers... but Jer said I can get whatever I want at the florist for my bouquet...
Meeting with dj and photographer this week... I still vote we set up a wii for rockband!
We ordered out invites last week and today I got an email that they have been sent to us... ALREADY! those will need to be put together...
My bridesmaids have been checkin' out dresses... I have found a perfect wrap for them!

Need to do list....
get booze figured out... (come on... it is a Catholic wedding)
practice with some flowers... (costco run)
figure out favors... (have no clue)
finish getting red candle holders (wiped out world market... need to wait)
find cute shoes...
find hair dresser...

Pure Craziness... can I get onion rings with that?

way to go photofreak...

For someone who loves to take pictures.... I am the dork...
I leave for Spokane area for the fourth of july weekend... without ANY camera...
we are on Diamond Lake- it is beautiful...
people spend hundreds... even thousands on fireworks from the reservation...
these people live all around the lake...
they light off fireworks like the ones we see at the big shows in the city... big flowers!! large balls of color that twinkle as they fall...
RIGHT ABOVE MY HEAD!!!
Figures...... no camera.

Job Interview!!!

Got a call- Interview at Decatur High School on Friday....
Keep those prayers a brewin' !!!

First week of summer.... start work tomorrow....

The first week of summer has come to a close... I have attended a training (work), a meeting (work), cleaned out my classroom, attended and won two (count them 1, 2) trivia nights complete with trophies, watched a lot of travel channel and food network, witnessed the Fremont Solstice Parade and Fair (and christened several friends into the tradition... of watching... not riding bikes), and celebrated a friends retirement....

Not to mention ate a lot of junk food... went to gym not very often (will start tomorrow).

Now keep the prayers a going for a call for an interview with a high school teaching job.... and the courage to tell my boss about it soon...

To rock band or not to rock band....

when thinking about wedding plans... one contemplates whether or not to have a dj or have a "friend" hook up an ipod and hit "play"
now pending a totally obnoxious playlist riddled with inappropriate tunes, once would think the later would suffice...
i say bring in the "Rock Band" (see picture featured at right...)
how fun would that be?
my family partakes in such frolics during holiday gatherings...
none of us can actually sing...
will have wine and beer at reception.
bring it!

find me a job...

One can feel very lost when they are not pleased with their current situation. Take my "current" situation... I am a science teacher, who is being assigned math, who was tempted with and teased with the idea of teaching physical education. What a dream job for any coach. To teach physical education all day... I know it could be boring over time, but hey, I could go back to math...
THIS prospect has been the source of my rage as of late.
I want it only because the idea was presented- had I never been asked, would have never been excited about it. Would have just moved to my math job with not a thought otherwise.
I want the PE.
When asked what honors program I was teaching next year (by the principal)... I said PE.
He laughed.
I was serious.
God please bless me by bring a qualified, strong math teacher to my building... so I can teach PE.