January Landscapes

January 5th, 2012 57 degrees!!!

Is it just me or are the sunsets this winter better than usual?

Merry Christmas!

I think Gracie was in the chocolate!  

Hope yours was merry too.

My Poor Neglected Blog

Here are shots of the Christmas Day sunset.  They are not in order and the colors just kept intensifying so I had to keep running back outside to capture as much as I could.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

5th Grade Art

These turned out awfully cute and I wanted to share them on Pinterest too so I decided to post here so I could pin them.  Kind of crazy.  The one on the top is my very favorite, she actually braided the paper, isn't that creative?  She also did plaid mittens and a hat.  After so many years of teaching first and second grade, 5th graders impress me!  What might take 2 hours or more in first grade can take 20 mn and that's about how long it took us to make these.

This is the big window in our school's commons area.  The Christmas concert is on  Monday and these will be perfect.  I found the music paper in the recycled paper box in the copy room and turns out they were the 5th grade Christmas songs so I had to make these.  I got the idea from Shari's Pinterest craft category.  If you aren't into Pinterest yet, what are you waiting for?!

Outdoor decorating

I added ornaments, lights and deer to the little tree out front this year.  The ornaments are the plastic variety from the BB.

November Sunsets 2011

This photo is a mid Nov sunset

This and the following were just a couple of days ago, there was a fire and the smoke enhanced the color.

The reflection in the windows was pretty too!

Thanksgiving in Sioux Falls

Four generations-Tim, Tyler, Tanner and Jim

It was a beautiful sunny day, almost 60 degrees so some of us went for a few walks around the block.

Tanner is very fun to hold-very sweet little guy!  He has a cute little mohawk!

Kenzley loved her walk, she's wearing the kitty hat I found for her at the BB.

The walkers stop for a photo-op.

Meanwhile back in the kitchen, Deb is working hard at the dishes.

It was a wonderful meal, turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole and so much more!

Finally Deb gets to rest!