The New Year Begins

The rest of that week of Christmas we all rested and locked ourselves in the house til pretty much Jan. 2. We were totaly homebodies other than going to Donnie and Terri's for New Years Eve, and to Lisa's house then Mom's house on New Years Day. The view in my house for the first 3 days after Christmas looked pretty much like this:

Seriously, they did that for about 3 days solid I think. I did a little bit of everything. Some minor cleaning, nothing like the cleaning that I NEEDED to do. But I did a good bit of nothing too, which I really needed. Rusty was off work until Jan.2. The rest of the week after Jan.2 I did a whole LOT of nothing - watching the talk shows and court shows that Rusty hates and I had not watched the week before lol. Here are some pictures from New Years - we were all together again at Donnie's and we had a really good time. But for some reason I did not get a single group picture where someone was not shooting the bird. At least one person did it in every picture lol. But here is the one with the least number of "birds being shot".

The going back to work part really sucked this week. But the kids always behave well for a little while right after a big holiday. They are always best right at the beginning of school, then agian right after Christmas. Either that or I'm just a more refreshed teacher.

Ok, trying to think of any interesting highlights.

*Tanner made the A/B honor roll this semester - whoopee! Very happy to have a kid on honor roll again. Been making a real big deal about it in front of Tyler in hopes of inspiring him. His report card is yet to be seen. TAnner did have a "needs improvement" in conduct though. The teacher comment said "Tanner plays and jokes too much. It's great that he has a sense of humor, but he needs to learn to use it at appropriate times and not during work times."

*I finally gave in and got one of the cable box set ups for the local digital cable. It's a noticeably better picture. They gave us free HBO and everything else for 3 days. The kids fell in love with HBO, and I kinda did too. When it was cut off on Monday they were depressed. So I called and ordered HBO as well. So much for a New Years' Resolution to lower my bills lol.

*Tyler's play practice schedule went from 2 or 3 times a week to every day of the week for the last 2 weeks. This coming weekend is the play and I'm totally anxious to see it! I can't wait~! I just get tickled to death when one of them does something "artsy" lol.

*We watched the Boise State vs Oklahoma game - MAN what a game. Watched numerous others as well, seemed like a totaly football week that week.

I'm sure there's much more. I waited too long to post so most of the good stuff isn't fresh in my mind. I've waited too long, so sitting here trying to pick my brain is too time consuming lol. Will have to do better next week.