What a relief...it looks like Typepad finally fixed their "technical difficulties" or whatever it was that made a week worth of my posts disappear and access to their site unavailable. Glad it is fixed now, but I have been too busy to worry about it anyway, to tell you the truth!
I am now on vacation! Yayyyyyy! It started Friday evening after a wonderful last day of school before the break. We had a schoolwide enrichment day (organized by yours truly) in which all of the teachers and support staff taught a mini-class of some kind to a mix of grade levels and the kids signed up for classes of their choosing. The classes that our staff taught were really fun... friendship bracelets, beading, mini scrapbooks, volleyball, creative dramatics, learning to play Cribbage, Jeopardy, holiday craft projects, making quesadillas, Mardi Gras Masks, senufo cloth drawings, hmong culture, cardmaking, etc.
I did cookie decorating for 1st & 2nd graders. We had a blast! They loved frosting the cookies and putting lots of sprinkles on! This pic of me with some kids and our cookies was taken with the school camera...my camera battery had gone dead. ) I got a ton of positive feedback about the day from both my colleagues and the students and we will be doing it again on Valentine's Day. It takes me many hours to get everything organized, but it is totally worth it!
On Saturday I went to Fashion Bug and took advantage of their latest sale....got about $500 worth of sweaters and tops for half-price. Not bad!
Came home from shopping and scrapped these two layouts. This top one is the first one for me to use Prima flowers and no large silk flowers! My stash is getting low...I need to head to Michael's to get some more sometime this week!
This next one is of me and Susan when we went out for Mexican a few months ago. I love the bright colors of this one! Don't tell anyone but I accidentally made a mistake in my journaling and totally had to move the picture from its original location. Live and learn, I guess!
Saturday was spent helping Rich transport all of his drumming equiptment to THE ROCK in Maplewood, where he was going to have a show with his band, XERO late Sat. night. This took us a few hours of running around, etc. We stopped for a pizza and then went home to change before going back to the show. Poor E...he has been really sick all week but has put in 50 + hrs nonetheless...still made time for his buddy and a night out at the bar to hear the band!
We had a lot of fun during the show....
Xero is a band that has been together on/off for like 10 years. This was Rich's first band, in fact. We was with another band for a significant amount of time before getting back to jam with Xero. This is Xero's first show together in a really long time...and my first time seeing them. Here is Richie Z on the drums....this boy is a bad-ass drummer! 
And here is Matty playing his guitar!
Even though I am not into this really heavy headbanging music, I still enjoyed myself. I had a ton of fun with Heather, drinking beer all night. Here we are with Richie after the show...
Here is one of our friends Becky & Miles....they leave for Costa Rica on Tuesday (staying in a Tree House) and I am soooooo incredibly jealous! That is my # 1 dream destination. I have wanted to go there for at least 10 years now, but that is a different story!
And here is Pods, sportin' the new Xero tshirt
Good times!
So much fun, in fact, that we stayed out until 3am. Went out to eat and then hung out with some friends and watched The 40 year Old Virgin. I LMAO!! I thought it was very funny throughout most of the movie. Don't watch it unless you don't mind lots of sexually humor....it stars Steve Carrell and he did a great job of playing this role. It is very, very funny.
I still have a lot of catching up to do on all the blogs and stuff, but I will do my best this week! Who am I kidding that time off work means relaxing? hah! I have too many things to do and people to see this week!
Catch ya'll later :)
LOVE all your LO's!!! Looks like you had a wonderful time with the kids....and yes kids LOVE TONS of sprinkles!!!! I hope you enjoy your vacation!
Posted by: Adrienne | December 19, 2005 at 08:40 AM
yay for vacation! yay for fun weekends & awesome scrappy pages, ms kristi!
xoxoxoxoxoxox
Posted by: April | December 19, 2005 at 11:52 AM
Vacations rock!! I'm on my two week break from school too!! YAY!! Love the scrap pages!!
Posted by: Valerie | December 19, 2005 at 04:56 PM
I'm on vacation too!!! Yipppeee :) Love your layouts, especially the Mexican themed one :) The band looks like fun! Just send the CJ to my Toronto address. I will be home on the 30th and they hold my packages for 2 weeks after they receive them. I need to send an e-mail out to everyone to tell them to mark it as a gift on the green customs slip, otherwise the Canadian Gov't is going to treat it as a purchase (when it's not) and charge me taxes.
Posted by: Alexandra Wieckowski | December 20, 2005 at 09:24 AM
I wish I was on vacation too...but I will next week :) I get a week off after x-mas. Awesome layouts! And I love the picture of you with your students. Priceless!
Posted by: Maria | December 20, 2005 at 12:44 PM