PICTURES!!!!

this is mark and me at the junior/senior. that is the delaware river in the background.

much better than those self taken pics. :)

this is the delaware at sunset...definitely not that bad! :)
this was over spring break - we were in ft lauderdale visiting some friends from our previous school - the three kids on the left are students of mark's. (christina, chris, and kirstie and then matt and jodi)
we took a pit stop in greenville. we went to this park and saw these waterfalls - it was really beautiful. although we had to look at them from this suspension bridge which i didn't enjoy too much!
and this is us on that horrible bridge. once again - a little bit better than those self taken pics.

have a great tuesday...2 days down - 3 to go!!! (until friday of course!)

a long weekend.

well i was going to post some pictures of our junior/senior, but i forgot the camera hook up at home. we went to this nice place just over the bridge into new jersey. it was right off the delaware river (i know if you've seen the delaware its not that much to be impressed with) but it was really pretty at sunset - we got some pretty nice pictures - well i guess anything is better than a close up taken by us - you know the hold out the camera type. so we did that friday.

i was so excited to get to sleep in on saturday that i almost killed the dog when he decided to start barking incessently at 6:30 in the morning. so i got up and fed him and walked a mile and a half then put him back to bed. and guess what he decided to keep it up. i was going to shoot him. i told mark that if it continues we would take him to the spca - i don't love him enough to endure the barking. so mark and i did shifts of playing and sleeping. needless to say it was horrible. he was out of his crate a very good part of the day and he seemed pretty worn out. i think that total he probably walked 6 or 7 miles. :) so we put him to bed thinking that he was just mad that we were out late on friday night, but then at 6:30 sunday morning the dog goes off again like an alarm clock. so i did the same thing as before and of course it didn't work. so after church we went to petsmart to look at those zapper dog collars - like on fun with dick and jane. they are ridiculously expensive.

so my question for the few viewers that i have is this: how do you keep your dogs from waking you up at the crack of dawn? how do you keep them quiet? we are open to all techniques - humane or not. :)

well - i hope that your weekend was much better than mine. and of course the work week has arrived all too soon!

ps - i must say that mark is fabulous. i was so tired on sunday that he played with the dog for 2 hours while i took a much needed nap. and then before church he put my desks back in the correct arrangement in my classroom!!! he's is definitely without question my most favorite person! thanks babe!

HAVE A GREAT MONDAY!!!

I HATE INCOME TAXES!!! :)

well - i must say that pride does go before a fall. i was so proud of myself this year cause i didn't wait until the last minute to file our taxes. the last couple of years i have waited until right before to get them in the mail. but this year - i did them in february. and i was so proud of myself. sunday i was even chuckling about how my sister in law was still doing hers. then yesterday i was talking with some of my fellow teachers and realized that i had not done delaware state taxes. ugh!!! so yesterday was panic. i also had no time to do them because we had the first time home buyers class from 7-9. so i raced to target after school to get a tax program and them raced around finally after the class i was able to get started at around 10:45. then it wouldn't let me finish cause it had to update. stupid program. so this morning we got up at the crack of dawn to come to school to use the internet. then i had all kinds of problems thinking that we owed 1200 dollars. but it all worked out and hopefully i did it right. and they should be in the mail today. lucky! anyway - so this morning i'm all a mess of nerves and yet still have to teach my class. thank goodness its over.
well- we had a fabulous spring break. it was so relaxing and warm. i'll have to post the few pics that we have. but that might take awhile. anyway - i hope that all of you are doing well.
have a great day!