Thursday, August 30, 2007

Blue vs. Red

Okay I know this is really silly but I've always gone to a school with blue as the school color (Bulldogs, Vikings, Cougars) and my rival was always red (Sailors, Utes) anyway the school I am teaching at has red as their school color...how am I suppose to react to this? I feel so icky wearing red but I need to be a wonderful supportive health teacher so I will proudly wear my red Waukesha South Blackshirt (what kind of mascot is a Blackshirt???) sweats, t-shirts, sweatshirts etc. Oh the problems I face! :)

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Mrs. Luke

Well today was my first day of school...actually it was just a teacher prep day so that doesn't really count, the students come on the 4th. It went pretty well considering I was the only one dressed up. People were probably like "oh she must have gone school shopping and wants to wear all of her new threads."

I have to be careful about what I post you know now that the whole world can read our blog. I really like my mentor teachers (I have two) and I think it's going to be a fun semester. I'll be teaching 4 classes that are primarily freshman. I think it'll be great! I REALLY need to get in the habit of waking up again. I'm an avid 8 hour sleeper and I only got 6 last night. I know I know you mothers are probably thinking that 6 is a real treat. Anyway today was a killer for me getting up at 4:45, David and I are getting old and are shooting to be in bed by 9:00-9:30. Well enough rambling. Happy Tuesday!

Monday, August 27, 2007

Rad Brad

Saturday was the Brad Paisley concert. It had been raining all week but luckily it was a beautiful night. Taylor Swift, Jack Ingram and Kelly Pickler opened for Brad and they were all so amazing. I was having a hard time focusing on the music because the batteries in my camera thought it would be a great idea to die the first 5 minutes we were there!!! Talk about frustrating...I promise we were really at the concert though ;) I finally blocked it out of my mind and had a great time. Brad is a GREAT performer, he had so much energy and was enjoying himself. The only bad thing about the concert was the fact that EVERYONE was drinking...grandmas, teens, everyone. Brad has a song "Alcohol" and I swear the locals think it is the National anthem because when he sang it everyone was on their feet singing along-probably with their hands on their heart and a beer in each hand. Oh it was ridiculous...that's Milwaukee for ya!

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

4 down eternity to go



Well David and I had our 4 year anniversary yesterday. Can you believe it's been 4 years??? Man how the time has flown by. It was great he came home for lunch (nothing beats leftover pulled-pork sandwiches!) and he surprised me with some beautiful flowers, I loved it! Inside the flowers there was a candy bar that had an ad for the Brad Paisley concert this Saturday...this was his cute way of telling me that we're going! I was so excited. We are both huge lovers of music, especially country, especially Brad. It was funny because I knew he was planning something for us to do on Saturday and then I heard on the radio that Brad was coming this weekend. I put two and two together but I didn't want to get my hopes up-what a great hubby! It's just a fun way to celebrate our anniversary and the end of summer. I'm looking forward to more fun years together!

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Day with the Brew Crew



Yesterday was Kohl's annual BIG EVENT for corporate employees. They took everyone to a Brewers game (ok I had to pay $7) and paid for parking, gave us t-shirts, peanuts, cracker jacks. etc. It poured the whole day! Thankfully there were tents set up and the stadium was covered. The best part of all was that there was FREE food before the game. I mean remember we are in Wisconsin so we MUST eat at every occasion and it MUST be the worst food for you. Even with that knowledge it didn't stop us from chowing down on free fries, cheese sticks, bbq sandwiches, ice-cream, roasted corn, brats, hot dogs, italian beef sandwiches, fried ravioli..the list continues! Oh my! They even allowed the employees to walk the field before the game. David brought a football to play with before the game, unfortunately they wouldn't let us in the stadium with it so we had to make the trek back to the car (we probably burned off a few fries!) and took it back. By that time we realized that if we were to walk back and stand in line to see the stadium we would have missed the food...decisions decisions...I guess we'll see the stadium next year! The free food was definitely worth it!

Miller Park



Not sure what David did wrong at work for us to deserve top row seats!!! Just kidding...there actually isn't any "bad" seat in the stadium!

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Mountains???



A few weeks ago I went on a High Adventure camping trip with the 14-16 year old girls in the stake. I'm not in young womens but hey let the blessing pour down on me! I had such a great time. The girls were so helpful and sweet, I couldn't have asked for a better group to go with. We went on a few mini hikes, a 10 mile canoe trip, saw the Mississippi river, had picnics on the beach and played in the river not to mention numerous fab meals in the dutch oven! On one of the hikes we saw some "mountains", I guess I'm just a little too blessed to have lived in Colorado and Utah...ya know the ROCKIES!!! Oh and we also saw a "waterfall" which is also known as 2-3 rocks stacked on each other in the river! Hey atleast it's green here right?