What do an airline stewardess, camping, and a vampire movie all have in common??

...That would be my friend, Laura.
She is my compadre', my bestie, my wing man. (yes, I have a wing man!)

So...I'm gonna blame her for not blogging very much lately.

You see, she has been keeping me busy. (Not that I'm complaining!)

First of all, we both taught summer school ~First graders coming into second. Most days we taught separately, but on those days that we thought the end would never come. We taught together.
Here's Laura demonstrating how to do an art project.

She seriously looked and sounded like an airline stewardess when they are demonstrating safety features...

How they keep repeating in monotone.

She kept saying, "Please follow along with me... and fold...and fold."

Maybe I am easily amused. But I was cracking up!!!
(Yes, she is going to kill me for putting these pics up of her, but she knows being my friend makes you fair game! )

We also headed out camping a couple of weekends ago.

Everything started out great (including me spending 50 bucks on food just for the weekend.~yeah... never go shopping when you are hungry!!)

I have only been camping with my children once.

I went all the time as a kid and in college, but camping with kids is completely different! The prep for it is insane!!!

We survived a huge thunderstorm that decided to roll in.

...and got to see a double rainbow because of it.

I, personally, was entertained by Laura and Hans' synchronization.

The only real complaint I had about the whole weekend (beside the hour long down pour) was the fact they stuck me with the little lawn chair... something about me forgetting to bring my own...

Lastly, Laura and I headed out with two of our fellow teachers (Laura W. & Michelle) to see Eclipse.

(Michelle, Laura W., Me, & Laura E.)

We have all read the books...yadda, yadda, schmackity schmack.

I'm not a huge, gagga, going-stir-crazy-for-the-movie type of gal, but any excuse to hang out with the people I teach with on a daily basis outside of the school walls...I'm in!

Yeah, here Laura E. and I are making fun of the Laura W. and Michelle because this is what they did at the 2nd movie... and why wouldn't you want to make fun of someone holding a popcorn bucket??

Now mind you, we stood in line for over two hours. We had to keep ourselves entertained one way or other. (Trust me, not a problem for us!!) I pulled a fake snake out repeatedly just to watch Michelle jump out of her skin. (Man...I wish I would have gotten it on video)

I got a few other people in line as well. (*clearing throat* not on purpose, of course!)

Good times. Good times.

If I was rating the night, the movie = 7.5 ...the entertainment from my friends = 10!

And there you have it... the reasons why I haven't been blogging lately... Don't kick Laura's a** she's just trying to be a good friend! :)

More Pogueland pics

Nothing like cuddling in a tent on a cool summer morning.

You can see I was VERY happy to see Andrew and Steve cooking breakfast! Thank goodness for coffee!

The kids decided this vine was a perfect way to travel like Tarzan! :)

We took a trip down to the water. Everyone had lots of fun!

I did till a snake swam around my legs - YIKES!!!

Steve and Andrew took on the task of cliff diving.

The sun setting on a GREAT weekend as we head for home!

Pogueland Pics

Here are the pics I promised from our weekend at Pogueland!!!

This is what we were greeted with first off - a black widow spider - I love nature. I love nature... Okay... I don't love this kind of nature!!! The kids didn't seem to mind though.

Anyone for chopping some wood?? The guys took this duty on - thank goodness!!!

We had an AWESOME dinner of pork steaks (or hot dogs), corn on the cob,

and who could forget the s'mores!!!

After dinner, the kids had fun swinging in the tree swing.

It was Fourth of July, so we of course had to enjoy some fun and some fireworks! Jean provided us with these lovely decorations - Thank goodness she bought them on sale last year!! I had the "priviledge" of putting them together.

Michelle provided everyone with glowing bracelets, "So we could find our loved ones in the dark." She even color-coordinated families. She's so good! :) (Our color was green!)




Then it was time to head down the hill to enjoy the fireworks!! I think the adults had more fun than the kids did - but it was TOO dark to get pics of the adults :)

***More pics to come****