My Favorite.

Posted on November 15, 2009 by thefasteryoupedal

I’ve been blogging a lot lately. One reason is Mike has been gone a lot this week training in Artesia, so I lost my playmate and somehow I feel like journaling like crazy. Another reason is when he is home, he actually has the ability to sleep in. I am insanely jealous of people who could do that, but unfortunately my body wins every time by waking me up.

P.S. Those darn dogs are barking again in our neighborhood….we are SURROUNDED by dogs. And they howl in unison. And then try and see who can be the loudest.

Anyway! The point of my blog was to discuss my favorite time of the day. I came up with this conclusion last night when I fell asleep on the couch watching some random show on TV and then got woken up by Mike to invite me upstairs to sleep in a normal bed. We have this game to see who can be the nicest about waking eachother up. Haha. I think we both have had that abrupt wake up too much from someone yelling, hitting pans, or just shoving you…..that we appreciate the times when someone comes up on you all nice and gentle.

I am so rambling today. So back to the subject. Everytime Mike comes to get me we will lay there and talk..sometimes for an hour…a few times we have even talked for two or three hours (I’m sure it’s no surprise to our friends and family.) Mainly about things going on, or things we like, friends, family, or about what we love about being married, or even things that bug us and how we should handle it because of our personalities. It’s so nice because it’s just talking and enjoying eachother. I love it.

I decided last night it was my favorite time of day.

Marriage & Divorce

Posted on November 14, 2009 by thefasteryoupedal

Check out this talk by Dallin H. Oaks on Marriage & Divorce. I love how cut and dry it is. I was on the church website looking up my sunday school lesson and came across it. I love to hear advice from the apostles. It makes darn good sense!

Balance Tricks

Posted on November 14, 2009 by thefasteryoupedal

My kids and I were having a good laugh yesterday after watching a video on balance. One of the questions that was asked is “who has a lower center of gravity, boys or girls?” and supposedly the girls have a lower center of balance.

Well to prove it, they tell you to distance yourself three feet lengths from the wall, turn around, lean your head on the wall. While doing that, you lift a chair from underneath you, and then you try and stand straight up. The girls should be able to do this, but the boys shouldn’t.

You have to try this. We were laughing so hard. We did prove its not a boy-girl thing, but its hilarious to watch.

Brainstorm.

Posted on November 13, 2009 by thefasteryoupedal

So for the last five year I have been brainstorming a job I could do from home when I have kids, or when I take a little hiatus from teaching. I’ve always wanted to have a business out of my home…nothing too big..but just a little side job to earn a little extra money. Here are some of the ideas I came up with since 2005. If you can help me with any ideas, or suggest anything, let me know!

Writing Trade Books or Children’s Books

My mom writes science books for a publishing company. Ever since I went to BYU for the summer and studied Children’t Lit, I have been dying to write these things called “trade books”, which are picture books that contain nonfiction information. As a science teacher, I use these types of books all the time.

Painting/Sketches

I used to paint and sketch all the time. I’m not a really good artist, but I like to make patterns and stuff. I was tempted to try and see if I can come up with some sketches to work on.

Clothing

Liesl and I had this brilliant idea when we roomed together to come up with a modest clothing line. She had more connections, but it would be so fun to revamp my sewing skills and try to come up with some modest fashionable clothingwear.

Pampered Chef/Avon

A lot of my friends work for these companies and make a lot of side money hosting parties for these companies. The only problem is Las Cruces is kind of small, so that may be a problem.

Things I Love As Of Late….

Posted on November 11, 2009 by thefasteryoupedal

I’ve been having so much fun on my days off just vegging and doing things around the house, recuperating after having two VERY HARD weeks at work. Here are some things that I am enjoying as of late:

Even though its cold…I still love walking around the house barefoot.

The beautiful weather and sunsets we are having!

Shopping!It makes me so happy!

Wearing ponytails…

I love HGTV…gives me such good ideas for around the house.

So You Think You Can Dance.

Making homemade salsa…

Burning candles and their amazing smells.

Dreaming of the beach..

Happy Halloween!

Posted on November 8, 2009 by thefasteryoupedal

For Halloween, we went to a friend’s house and ate some good food, carved some pumpkins, and watched some scary movies. We had such a good time just getting out an enjoying ourselves. Mike dressed up as a…well you can guess…and I was trying for Hermione, but the blonde hair throws it off, so let’s just say I went I am a Harry Potter character. 🙂

Happy Halloween!

Mesilla Valley Maze

Posted on November 3, 2009 by thefasteryoupedal

So for the last year I have been wanting to go to the corn maze during Halloween. We made it and spent Halloween after noon over there and lots of fun!

At the end of the corn maze…

These cars were so fun! They were tricycles and were really hard!

These were some heavy pumpkins!

My favorite shot.

Albino pumpkin.

Mike’s new ride!

I was so excited! Thanks for taking me Mike!

Professional Mountain Bike Pictures 2009

Posted on October 24, 2009 by thefasteryoupedal

A sweet picture of Mike.

This is one of my favorites! At Cedro Peak.

Not very flattering…but I was working hard!

Even better when someone is behind you..

The hard hill climb at Cedro Peak.

He made it!

Gallup, New Mexico

The guys started a minute before us. 🙂

Good one!

Welcome to the World of Eighth Grade…

Posted on October 9, 2009 by thefasteryoupedal

Since I spend most of my life in the classroom, I figured I would blog about it. Every day, I walk in my classroom, set up any labs, computer equipment, print wordsearches (my kids love them!), and wait out til about 9:30 for my first class to come in.

I was laughing the other day at the MANY different personalities I have to deal with. I’ve been doing this for eight years, but for some reason I think eighth grade has to be the strangest grade, hands down. They are either extremely bitter about life, extremely awkward, or they have it all together. It’s like everyone is at a different level in life.

The Sleeper. Gotta love those. Every day in third period, I have a student who comes in and immediately naps. Of course, my deal with him is if he can get his work done, I’ll let him sleep. And he does it. My sub left a note on Wednesday and said that the sleeper was snoring so loud she had to do something about it. Haha.

I have this girl that has full on attitude. I have never yelled at her for anything, but for some reason she feels like anything I have to say, she has to roll her eyes and give attitude. I don’t think I have ever seen her smile.

What the girls wear. Our school is a little loose on the dress code. I have seen outfits like this a lot andwhen you send them up on it, they come back with a jacket and then proceed to try and take it off. I will NOT let my daughter out of the house looking like this. Hello, they are fourteen!

For some reason my eighth period thinks that its cool to wear nerdy 3d glasses in class. At least one or two students a day will be wearing these in this class.

Just one question. Why do all the football players have to be in my biggest class and in the same class together??

The fashion diva. There is a girl in one of my classes that totally reminds me of a fashion diva. She was excited to see I went to UNLV. She wants to go there and get a business license, then go to cosmotology school and get her license. She wears pink leggings, heels, and carries a Victoria’s Secret bag around. So cute.

Then I have a lot of boys that are “one of a kind”. There is really not much to say but that they march to the beat of their own drum. In fact, I got the term from one of them asking me the other day, “Mrs. Barrow, I am one of the kind aren’t I?”

Yes. They all are.