Preview to Fright Night

Cruella De Vil
Cruella De Vil
If she doesn't scare you
No evil thing will!

I attended the Gray family Halloween party on the Tuesday before Halloween. There was great fun, good food, and lots of goofy games to be played. Plus I got to try out my sweet costume before the real deal.


Gary helping me get ready























Gary was a Hobo for Halloween.
I couldn't convince him to be a
Dalmation.

Les Miserables

Recently I was invited, by the Gray family, to drive down to St. George to see the play Les Miserables at the Tuacahn Theater. I never knew a play would make my cry, but I wept enough tears to give life to the dessert! Ok maybe that is a little dramatic, but the play and the whole trip, really was amazing! We drove down on Saturday morning with great haste, and old man Gray was caught speeding. Luckily, the fates smiled on us and we we were given but a warning from a kind hearted officer. We we cramped as we drove? And did the noise of the interstate ring in our ears? No and then Yes. For the car we rode in was the ample size of a Yukon Denali, but the hum of the wheels on the road roared like a lion. Have you ever heard of hearding turtles? "Mother, what are those little fences for?" Inquired Brent. The reply came, "They are for the turtles, so they don't cross the road."

We arrived just in time to relax for a time, grab a bite to eat, and head to the play. The dessert came to life that night. Everything from horses to cannon fire was present on the stage and never was there a more enthusiastic applause had as the play closed out that very night. My hands still hurt from clapping. If ever you get the chance to see this wonderful masterpiece, make haste and say my name at the door to get a free snow cone:)


The drive down. In the very back is Gary and I. Up front is Andrea (Brent's date), Brent (Gary's brother), Jaycie (Gary's sister).







Pit stop to gas up.









Not sure what's happenin here.
Trying to impress Gary. Ha








Arriving at the house. FINALLY!!












Dinner at Iggy's before the play.
On the right there are Gary's parents,
Jayne and Ralph







At the Tuachn Theater.
We don't know those two front and center.








Gary trying to steal the show:)









We were told to look like we were enjoying
ourselves while we prepared dinner on Sunday
before we left. (candid shots)







More fun buttering the bread.









Just plain fun!

New Illness Found In Miss Roskelley's 3rd Grade

For reading time this last week my class was reading the book Ramona Forever By: Beverly Cleary.  It is a story about the life of a girl named Ramona Quimby.  One of the chapters we read talked about the Quimby family getting a new baby.  Ramona was worried about what the new baby would be like and who would have to share their room with her.  After the baby is born the family all goes to the hospital to visit and see the new bundle of joy.  Romona however is too young to visit the maternity ward and is left in the lobby to wait while her older sister and father go on ahead.  While in the lobby Ramona starts feeling sick.  She thinks she is catching some sort of disease from the hospital.  She is feeling her forehead and itching all over.  Finally a doctor sees her, runs some tests and diagnosis her to have siblingitis for which she needs a prescription of attention.  As my class and I were reading this, I was thinking this sounded pretty cute.  No one in my class even cracked a smile.  So I asked "Who knows what siblingitis is?"  A bunch of hands flew up and this is what the responses were:  "Siblingitis is where you have a really really bad cold." Says Kate  "I am just guessing but I think siblingitis is when you have all the symptoms of a cold but you are not contagious." Says Tyler  "No. Siblingitis is the opposite of that, it's when your REALLY contagious but you don't even know you are sick!" Argues Courtney.  

I was dying at this point!!  I had to tell them. so I asked "Does anyone know what the word sibling means?"  At the same time most of the class went "OOOHHHH."  and started to laugh.  We then talked about how sometimes in stories we put -itis at the ends of words to make them sound like real illnesses.  So we had some fun with this and the kids started shouting out things like "I have math-itis!" and  "I have spelling-itis!"  By the end I think everyone understood but I am sure someone went home that night worrying that they may one day get sibling-itis.  

Picture Day Blues

Well Thursday was picture day at Sego Lily Elementary.  I had sent home fliers a week earlier to remind the parents to have their kids looking spiffy for the big day, but who's job was it to remind me??  Since I was left to fend for myself, i completely forgot.  The only thing that saved me was that it was also parent-teacher conference night and I couldn't show up to work looking like a total bum.  I went down to the cafeteria and smiled big for my 1st school picture as an adult.  And I will have you all know that as a teacher you get a free jumbo package of pictures.  WooHoo!  Since I have no kids that attend the school, the jumbo pack of pictures will all be of yours truly.  You can all expect your very own picture of me in the mail shortly! :)