last night was pumpkin carving night!! :) it was lots of fun and several awesome pumpkins came from the evening....i even stayed up past my bed time! :)

cody and i bought some pumpkin stands this year for halloween....my was a skeleton and his was a vampire...his was much, much harder than mine!

Cindys pumpkins are her own design...and very cute!

And now for the political pumpkins....my vote with the Obama symbol..

And the pumpkin that takes the cake....and whitney worked very hard on!! OBAMA!

Some of the pictures are kind of blurry because i was taking them without a flash so that the light would shine through! And the last picture is obama and vote together.

Last Saturday we did the "memory walk"...our team raised about $1,300 (whitney worked her ass off) thanks to generous supporters! Whitneys mother, a great women, was diagnosised with Alzheimer's not to long ago, we walked in honor of her and in memory of cody's great uncle who died recently and had Alzheimer's pretty bad. We are hoping they find a cure soon so that we don't have to force whitney into the shower when we are older :) Anyway...some of our pictures...

Go Team!

I am currently sitting outside in my drive way with a bunch of crap sitting all around me. Yeap...you guessed it....i'm having a garage sale. This things are boring....especially early in the morning on a Friday when no one is even up let alone coming to a garage sale. Other things working against us.....its not very warm right now....actually i'm pretty damn cold. We don't have any very large items to sell....as a matter of fact....we have the most books of any garage sale EVER!! And we have lots of vases and picture frames! Today i'm here by my lonesome...tomorrow Cody will be here to share the love! So needless to say.....fall break is going to be TONS of fun! :) But it is all for a new couch...i have to keep telling myself that!

I am taking pole dance lessons tonight though...hehe! bachelorette fun-ness!

I pretty much don't have anything else to say :)

So todays art project is listening to music...we are listening to the string quartet arrangement of the cures lovecats....and talk about what we think when we are listening to it and then paint what we think. So i had a student come up to me and say....

"Mrs. Bounds, This music reminds me of Thanksgiving and indians because indians love thanksgiving!" Maybe its just me but i found very cute and humorous!

Something that is driving me nuts here though is the students that aren't able to say the name BOUNDS....so several students call me Mrs. Bowlands....i'm not sure why that bothers me so much but it really does!

So school has been EXTREMELY busy.....Tuesday we had talent show auditions after school....it really was a nightmare. We had about 35 acts actually show up....45 signed up....and we cut it to 13. All day yesterday i had students crying.....some of my biggest pains in the butt were crying....but after October 10th it will be over.....but it will be really cute...there are some very cute acts going to participate!

Okay...i'm going to go set up for my next class! Happy Thursday!

work: yesterday i about had a breakdown. i went to the school, and my room was the catch all room for the painters....so it was a disaster! i was about to walk out of the school, because there was really nothing more for me to do...and i met some of my fellow teachers. they were nice...but all three of them had cars full of stuff so i helped them move it all in. then i realized, i have NOTHING!! thats when the panic set in! now i realize, i'm a music teacher and music teachers tend to leave the stuff the school bought at the school and i haven't taught in 2 years and at that time i taught strings, not general music. so i was still in a panic and decided to go see what lakeshore had in the way of music things for bulletin boards and decorations! NOTHING...they had nothing! so i truck it over to mardels.....who has a quarter or a section of music decorations and really nothing i could use!!!!! this was even more frustrating. its a good thing i'm creative and have awesome friends who can help with figure out how to accomplish my ideas....hopefully on monday i will have a pictures to show you of what we are about to do to my classroom!

this morning i was a little on the nervous side. i'm sure most people are when they are starting a new job...but it went well (other than being a little boring)!! i think it is going to be a great year...and from what i can tell of the staff they are going to be awesome too. i think it will also be fun to have such a small school and a smaller group of teacher and administration to get to know!
so i will keep you all informed on how things are going!

for now...more wedding pictures! :)

So i just have to say that Josh is awesome....i received my pictures in the mail on Saturday (right before i had to go play a wedding :( Cody put them in the computer for me while i was gone and i haven't been able to stop looking at them!! I love them....so i will post a few here for you guys to enjoy too! hehe!!






I will only post this many for now!! But i know i will post more later!

Here is the slide show Josh made from the wedding!! I love it!!

Jenn and Cody's wedding slide show!

So this morning on the way to work i was thinking about teaching music....and wondering what i'm going to do to keep from going completely insane with childrens music...surely their has to be something out their that is okay. Then it hit me....They might be giants has a childrens album....although i haven't heard it, i'm very excited about this idea....i did look at the song list and it seems like something i could work with...and it looks as though they have at least 3 childrens albums and are coming out with another. Then I got to thinking....Jack Johnson, he has the album Sing-a-long and lullabies based from the curious george soundtrack...this is awesome. And i'm finding all kind of musicians that have made childrens albums...including the barenaked ladies. I'm going to check them all out and i'll let you know if they any good!

Yesterday...i got the card that states my last name has officially changed....its weird. I decided to practice before signing it...i signed my last name great....but i totally messed up my first name....isn't that how it always is! :)

1.5 days of work left...woohoo!!