Spring break in Arizona

This past week, the kids were in spring break from school. We decided to do a family trip to someplace sunny and warm! The desert is good for that....and it helps that there's a lot to do there too. We flew in early Monday and returned to chilly St. Louis last night. While we were there we checked out the Phoenix Zoo where the kids loved the camel rides. We saw two spring training games at Goodyear Ballpark (the Reds and the Indians share a facility). Our resort had a great pool with a lazy river, water slide and mini golf. We were lucky that the weather was in the 80's and 90's! Here are a few pictures from our trip. These are just the highlights- I'll post more from my camera soon.

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Birthday Party at Chuck E Cheese!!

Brady decided he wanted to have his birthday party with his friends at Chuck E Cheese. He invited his best buddies from school and we had a great time. He scored tons of tickets in the ticket blaster, had a Star Wars cake and had a great time playing games with all his friends. Here are some highlights from the awesome party! Playing guitar hero with his buddy Logan Playing basketball with Andrew Blowing out the candles Cool dude Doing the birthday dance with Chuck E Cheese Inside the ticket blaster - he grabbed 1,618 tickets (some were bonus tickets!!) With his best buds (Gram, Logan and Andrew)

Project 5 Task 1

What are the benefits of blogging for students? There are many benefits of blogging for students. Students can use blogging to express what they have learned about a specific topic in the classroom. For example, students have been learning about marine animals in science class. Students have been following the nesting of sea turtles in Hilton Head Island. They have each chosen a nest and have been following it on their website. Every few days, students read the progress of the nest online and then create a blog post on what they read and include images to share with their classmates. Another benefit to students blogging is for them to be able to express themselves creatively. Students can create a weekly poem blog post where they find a poem they like, copy it to their blog post (citing the author and resource where they found it) and then summarize the poem and write about why they chose it and what they liked most about it. Click the link below to access the Pr...

12 Days of Pinterest: Day 8

Day 8: 12/17/12 Ok, so I apologize for the break in my "12 days of Pinterest" posts. My parents were in from Ohio the last 5 days and we were busy celebrating Christmas (early) and doing all the St. Louis holiday things there are to do (lights, train displays, Christmas concerts....you know!). Today I am doing a something that when I saw it on Pinterest - I knew I HAD to do it! We have a ton of ornaments. They are currently on our tree (duh) but when they are in storage the other 11 months of the year, they are kept wrapped in tatty tissue paper in shirt boxes that are falling apart. Every year I say "I am going to get one of those "ornament organizers" (the ones you see at Target and Home Depot)....and every year when I go to buy one, I go into sticker shock! How can a piece of plastic that holds 12 ornaments be $20! Of course we have more than a dozen ornaments, so I went on a hunt for something cheaper! Here it is! It cost me $2.50 to make. I used cardboa...

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