Puzzle and a Movie ~

 The Thanksgiving break has been so relaxing...well maybe not for Justin...he's been working on the new septic and leach field up at Ken and Kristis, but Jordyn and I have certainly enjoyed the break!  Today we slept in and then we finished this Doctor Who puzzle.  We decided we all needed to get off the mountain too, so we went to see the movie Justice League while it was still in 3D.  I know folks have mixed feelings about the film, but we loved it!  We were totally entertained and had a great time!  Olivia and Vicente joined us at the theater.  Thats right, they both live in Colorado now, so we were glad they could join us!  We enjoyed dinner at Old Chicagos, and then headed over to the theater.  It was a nice ending to the long weekend!  Soooo much to be thankful for!

Happy Thanksgiving from Whoville ~

We had a super relaxing Thanksgiving up here at Blackbear cabin!  I made all the fixins for turkey day...turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and a cranberry sauce...along with an apple pie courtesy of Schwans!  We had only one minor incident...the stove went out on us midway through cooking the turkey, so we ran it up to Aunt LeAnns and finished cooking it up there...hahahaha.  Then we decided to relax while Jordyn did our hair; hence the Whoville look!  We enjoyed playing a game of Forbidden Island and then we watched the movie Grease (Jordyn's first time watching it).  I hadn't seen it in years, so that was a lot of fun!  A perfect ending to a wonderful day!  Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful too!  Gobble gobble gobble!

Mountain Schools Media Tech Team for 2017

We had a rare opportunity to get all three of us together for a meeting, so I had them get a photo of us!  These are the wonderful media tech ladies I work with in the mountain schools.  Thats Stacy on the left and she works at Livermore, then me in the middle and Im at Stove Prairie, and then Karianne on the right.  She took over for me at Red Feather.  What an awesome group of ladies!

World Origami Day ~

I woke up this morning to a pile of origami paper cranes on my nightstand!  Apparently Jordyn was in the "origami zone", and was up late making all of these :)   I love them!  Happy World Origami Day!

My New Commute ~

 It was a very frosty and foggy morning on my way to school today!  I thought you might like to see what my new commute looked like!  No moose on this route, but more big horn sheep and lots of wild turkeys now instead.  Gotta love the mountains :)

 Yay!  The sun came out for the last stretch of the drive!  Have a fabulous day...and stay warm!

Catch and Release ~

 The annual catch and release happened today...well, actually it happened over several days!  All in all they probably moved around 25-30 fish, but these were the only photos I captured this year.  Our pond is really shallow this year, making it impossible for them to survive winter, so we moved them over to the main river channel where they can feast all winter.  See you guys next summer!

Super Connected Conference ~

 Had a great time at the Super Connected Conference today with Jo and Stacy!  We learned all kinds of cool new things!  The keynote speaker was Mark Schreiber and he was truly inspiring!  We did this fun activity where we wrote down one of our favorite memories from school on a paper airplane, and then shared it with the room!  He took this photo from the stage of us throwing our planes.  Thats us in the forth row on the left!  His example was used to point out that kids never remember the "worksheet", but they remember an activity or event!  This inspired me to make my classroom more fun and full of activities to remember!

 For lunch they had food trucks out front...no surprise I picked the taco truck! 

 This kit was fun...we had to take spirulina and mix it with candies, etc, to make it taste good so that you could get folks to include it into their diet.  Look at this gross mess...not very appealing, but didnt taste too bad :)

We walked away with lots of ideas, including one of working on a mountain school grant as a team.  Should be fun!  We'll see how it goes!