Pizza Hat

Today was the last day of school, and I'm feeling a little jealous of Joe Adrian.  He gets all the best end of year teacher presents.  No one ever gave me a cool pizza hat like this.

M & M Math

This is the last week of school.  In an effort to keep everyone engaged and off the ceiling, I am pulling lots of tricks out of my bag.  Our homework for last night was to buy a small individual bag of plain M & M's to use for math today.  There are lots of great activities available on line.  Here is a link to some of the things we did today:  M&M Activities.  

If you buy the big bag, you will have a lot more work to do.  Some of the boys generously offered to help eat the extras.  

The Graduate

Kendrick graduated from Southeast Polk High School last Sunday.  He will be attending Drake this fall.  We all turned out for his graduation at the Knapp Center.  It was beautiful weather.

Cover Photo

I was trying to put together a photo to use as my Cover Page on Facebook.  I started with the one above, because it includes some of my favorite people (and dogs), but when I uploaded it kind of chopped people's heads off.

Instead I went with this photo of yarn that I took at Knitting Next Door.  Not as important to me as my family, but no yarn was offended when it got chopped off.

Decorating Graves

Today is Memorial Day, so Mom and I went out for a breakfast, and then to decorate graves.  Our first stop was to Highland Memory Gardens where Loren and his family are buried.  It really was beautiful with all the flowers and flags.

This city cemetery with it's ground level markers is quite a contrast to our country cemetery outside Altoona.  While I'm sure they have regulations too, people can customize the way they commemorate their loved ones.

Neighborhood Flowers

Tonight I went for a walk without the dogs.  This gave me an opportunity to listen to my iPod and use my camera. These are just some of the flowers I saw along the way.

Roses From Michael

Michael sent me these beautiful roses for Mother's Day.