Spirit Week – Hall Decorations

The hall decoration theme for Spirit Week was board games.  The staff wan’t assigned a game (we think the students knew we would win and were running scared), so we chose to decorate using Chutes & Ladders.  Mr. Bense and Mr. Matz our administrators made the ladders, slides, and squares.  I used a few digital images [...]

Gaston . . .

40 7th through 12th Grade Students
3 Chaperones
2 Yellow School Buses
14 hours (11 of which were driving)
1 Softball Game
2 Teams
1 Dream Season
1 Broken Down Bus
2.5 Hours Stranded

Yesterday was the IHS Softball Team’s Semifinal Game against Gaston, and they won 3-1!  The Lady Knights rocked it out again, and they are on their way to play at [...]

More From The Game

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Jessica made an awesome catch, but I was so excited watching the game I didn’t get my camera up in time and I cut off her head!

Kim waiting for a throw for the final out to win the game.  Look at that smile on her face – she’s [...]

Connections

For the past day and a  half, I have been at a conference in Bend with several co-workers.  We are part of a great program called GEAR UP.  It is an acronym meaning Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs.  Our school is finishing the first year of the six-year-program, and we are working [...]

For Laughs

 
Someone sent me a picture of me playing Donkey Baksetball.  You can\’t tell very well in this picture, but I was pulling as hard as I could on the reins trying to get my donkey to move.  Fun times.

An Eventful Thursday

Aaron had surgery on his eyes Thursday.  He’s been wanting to have LASIK surgery for many many years, and we were finally able to have it done.  Unfortunately, Aaron didn’t have enough corneal tissue to have a second surgery if it were required if he were to have LASIK surgery, so he had a procedure called PRK [...]

A Conversation With My Sister

Let me preface this post by saying a couple of things.  One, I absolutely ADORE my sister, and I cannot imagine my childhood or adulthood without her.  Two, we are as different from each other as night and day.  Three, she is probably one of the best mothers, sisters, daughters, and friends I’ve ever known! 
For [...]

Surprise!

I’ve mentioned before how amazing the school spirit and community support for IJSHS is.  The community has rallied around our school and they put in countless hours volunteering to make it a better place.  With each passing day, the students pride in their school increases tenfold.  Students you neve would expect to have great school [...]

The First Day

The first day of school for our girlies was yesterday, and they all had a great day!  We delivered Harley, Katelyn, and Reagan to AC Houghton Elementary, and we really had to try hard to rein them in to stay with us on the way to their classrooms instead of running off with all their [...]

Back to the Grind

Summer Vacation is officially over for me.  I return to work tomorrow to prepare the school for the coming year.  I am actually excited to go back to work – new teachers, new administrators, and a brand new school year.   As much as I am looking forward to returning to IHS, I am also a little [...]