Ryan’s Graduation

Ryan had his Kindergarten graduation today. Erin blogged about it, so here is my addition: video! It’s just a few clips of the hour long program, but I tried to get the highlights. However, the really cute things happened after my stoopid video camera stopped working (batteries died). I least I got him getting his [...]

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Yay, Us!

9th Wedding Anniversary!

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My Movie Review…

I was going to write a review of the new Star Trek movie that was out this weekend, but I can’t. It was just too awesome for words. So I thought a visual help would be better:
Now it’s time for another good idea/bad idea:
Good Idea:
Casting Chris Pine as a young James T. Kirk:

Bad Idea:
Casting William [...]

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Jonah and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

I’m in a Hebrew module this week, and it’s been awesome and refreshing! We are translating through Jonah and Ruth, and possibly something else will be thrown in there by the end of the week. On Monday we translated Jonah, and on Tuesday we translated Jonah again, and then got about half way through Ruth.
Jonah [...]

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1 Zoo + 22 Kindergartners + No Sleep = Fun Times.

This past Tuesday was my last day I had off since Gracie was born. I had volunteered to be a driver/chaperon for Ryan’s kindergarten class and their field trip to the Des Moines Zoo. I was kind of dreading it because the night before I only got a couple of hours of sleep, thanks to [...]

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I, Hammurabi, am, like, totally AWESOME!!!

Well it’s all done but the crying! I finished my final project this morning for Akkadian, and that class is now done with. It resulted in some very cool learning, many sleepless nights, and several people questioning my mental health as I trudged through this class with a stupid and excited grin on my face. [...]

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