A note from Isaak

Isaak, a second grader came to the office late in the day today. He has been there before and I guarantee he will be back. He was to sit on a chair and wait until his teacher came for him. While he was waiting he was sitting right by the door and he would while sitting there open the door and lean out into the doorway and look in the hall and then sit up and the door would whoosh shut. I would look up from working and see no one that had come in so I would look back down and work again. He would open the door, look down the hall and lean back and let go of the door, whoosh, and it shuts again. I look up no one there. Probably this happened 7 times, I kid you not. I said could you please stop it with the door. Sweetheart I keep looking up when I hear the door but it is just you playing around. Few more times it happens. I stand up, put my hands on my hips point to a chair away from the door and say move there now!
It is decided not by me but by my coworker that he can wait in the nurses room until his teacher comes to save my sanity. She comes to get him and I tell her why he is in the nurses room. They leave and in about 5 minutes he comes in with this note, leaves it on my desk, smiles and walks out. Never says a word.
At the end of the day the teacher comes in and I tell her that I feel a little bad that I got mad at him and he had to write me a note. She says don't worry. It's good for him he was naughty all day. Perhaps I will see him again and I will put him on a middle chair to start!

Should I be offended or laugh?

A fifth grade teacher who I like, well I did, kidding, came into the office and said he had a Michelle moment:

He saw kids walking back to class after lunch and one had picked up an orange cone in the hall and had it to his mouth and was using it like a bull horn. He yelled put that down you idiot!

Then he felt bad for calling the kid an idiot. But he told us in the office, which we already know but it was so darn funny coming from him that he said under his breath that cone is used in the hall to cover throw up and it put in the toilet when it needs to not be flushed and that idiot had it to his mouth.

So funny but I don't remember calling anyone an idiot!

I am loud

Ok I am loud. It is not news to me. There are a few instances that come to my memory:
One is my mom telling me that she walked down the hall of church and whose voice did she hear clear out in the hall? Mine!

Another is that when I was newly married I would go to all those fun events with couples and girls night out and things like that. I remember everyone talking and filling in ideas and me chiming in but then later I would hear this: Michelle Brydson said.....What I would say? I was there but I did not say that, it's because I was loud there that night.

When Colby ran track for Kentlake I would make a fool of myself yelling for him and there was no way he could hear me on the other side of the track but oh, no, guess what is horrible? Me hearing myself on the video!

So this leads me to my newest loud story: When we have to do an all call at school we press #09* and there is a bell that goes ding ding ding and when we say it, loud and clear over the intercom system.......Kim heard me all the way at our house while he was out checking the mail!
Now that's loud!

Hanging in the Hall

A third grade class made artwork for the hall. It all has a patriotic theme and they drew pictures and wrote. One that is so cute has an American flag and has red and white stripes. On the white stripes they have written this.

Read it out loud it's better that way:

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of amanca

and to the rebublic for witch it stands

one naction

under God

in the visible

with liberty and justis for all.

We just love the in the visible part!

Track Meet

Kelsi and Logan ran in their first tack meet of the season. It was held at Orem High. We took Colby with us and Jake came over from his track practice from UVU. We were all together!
They both ran the 400. Logan also ran a relay team 4 x 100.
So cute, so fun and such a nice day. Sun and no wind.
It's a day for the memories of a mother!



Sidenote:Today UVU breaks ground on their outdoor track. Jake says he's going to use a golden shovel and turn over some dirt. He gets to take part in that before practice.

It's called Skyward

The new program for the schools to use this year is called Skyward. Previously it was called Powerschool ASD400.

I am very familiar with Skyward, I have been to training classes and I use it every day. Elementary schools were the first to go live with it, then the Jr highs and then the high schools and then all the schools will be using it in the Alpine School District.

This year the High School students are registering for their classes using Skyward at home on their own time with their own computers. They have an assembly and then the portal opens and they have one week to sign on and register for their classes for next school year.

9th grade was the last to do this and Kelsi had her assembly on Friday and Monday the portal opened. She had heard that the good classes were filled up and it would be hard to get what she wanted.

I switched shifts with Kjristina so I could get off at 1:30 and Kim went and got her at 1:05.
She wanted to be right on to get her dance class with Janica Hayes, Kadens mom, and she is the the dance teacher at Westlake and the dance team coach.

She did it. By 2:30 Kelsi was done and had all her classes. She was smart and signed up for her electives first. That is what goes first and then she hurried up and signed up for her math class. She got one of the last 3 seats. She heard that her friends did not get into Geometry and they have to take Algebra again.

These are her classes for next year, Earth Sys, Foods 1, Photo 2, World Civ, World Geography, Geometry, PE Skills, Seminary, Comp Tech, English and Dance 2.

She is happy to get her classes but has friends who are staying at Willowcreek and then going on to Lehi and she is unhappy about that. She wishes the boundary lines were different. She will be attending Westlake which is a brand new school this year graduating it's first senior class in May!

Quote for the day

Someone that I know has the potential today for a bad day.
I was dusting in my room and I found this great quote.

It's one we can all remember and think about:

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow
yet we forget that he is someone today.

Colby is here for his spring break!

He came in last night on a delayed flight, pretty late so only Kim went to get him.

We will have fun visiting, I will have fun cooking for him and it will end all too soon.

He gets to be here when WillowCreek has its first track meet. Both Kelsi and Logan are running for WillowCreek. That will be a fun day.

There is alot of practices and they only have 4 track meets and then Alpine Days. The season will go fast.

When University of Wa played in their last game Jake was wearing a UW T shirt and then they started losing. Then losing worse. He says I ran into my room got out my Jake Locker Jersey, blew the dust off of it, put it on and the team turned around and won. He said I think the neighbors even heard me yelling.

UW is playing again right now followed by BYU. It's a great basketball day and I have all my boys watching.

I don't know how we won't get sick this time!

Thursday afternoon around 2

3 children in office sick. 2 throwing up in our trash cans and toilet


Friday before 1

We sent 8 children home sick. And yes we saw that they were....need I say more!

Everything Green

Today it was fun to be at an elementary school.
So many kids wore green, from green sweatshirts, T shirts, dresses and skirts. All the girls had their hair done with green ribbons and headbands.

I was really enjoying the day. Near the end of the day the parents came in for the class parties. They brought pots of gold with treats (very creative idea---use the Halloween black cauldron), one parent had magic drink mix that Lucky the Leprechaun left outside the class room door-white mix that turned green with water magically.
Lucky Charms were the treat of the day.

Around 2 30 a cute girl in a cute green t shirt came in and said I don't feel very well.
She coughed a few times and up it came....
The best green I saw all day....
green volcano out of her mouth and onto the carpet by my desk (why is it always by my desk?)

Yep, best green of the day, certainly the funniest. Not her by any means, the experience.

Child got hit

Today at the end of the school day something horrible happened. A first grader running through the parking lot got hit. Luckily the driver was not going fast at all.
They rushed in to get the principal but he was out today so the vice principal went out.
She came in and we paged over the speaker in the whole building for the first responder to go to the front of the school. Then when I did not see him coming (you know how time goes so slow in an emergency) I paged the other first responder. By that time he was coming running down the hall. He shot through the hall going so fast. Both of them are very well trained.
They called the 911 which brought 3 police cars, a fire truck and an ambulance. Quite a show.
The boy got his feet run over and then he was hit by the front of the car on his mouth and then tossed back onto the grassy area.
He will be ok, the driver of the car was not going fast at all.
We (they) (I held down the fort in the office) worked together and I liked how smooth everything went.

3/04/2010 UPDATE- the child has a broken leg and bruised feet. When a child gets hit by a car they get knocked out of their shoes. This was true in this case. He was wearing Crocs and they were left on the pavement when he was hit. By the way the shoes were left the police could tell that he hit the car more than the car hit him. The person driving the car was not given a ticket. The teacher of his class went to see him yesterday during her lunch time. She took him cards that the class had made for him and 2 of her class books from her own class library that she does not let any child check out to read. She said he was doing well.

Bring in the new, say goodbye to the old

We bought this cute little dresser when we lived in Bothell in 1985 at Fred Meyer. It came flat in a box and we put it together, glued it and then painted it white. It used to have yellow knobs and it was for our first baby. Our first baby is turning 23 this year and we still had the dresser and Kelsi was using it. It was small and falling apart. It is with great sadness that we are giving this old dresser to Desert Industries. When I look at it I can still feel the excitement of becoming a parent for the first time. I can still smell that sweet baby smell. I can see their little feet kicking out of the nightgown. They say they grow up too fast and that is true!

Kelsi needed the space of a newer, taller dresser. With the knobs on it will look better but I wanted to get the pictures before the old one was gone.

3/04/2010 UPDATE- This is too funny not to share---her new dresser also came out of a box and Kim put it together- not much difference there!

Jake and his team did well!

Jake and his UVU track team took 2nd at the GWC Indoor Championships held in Vermillion, South Dakota.
He ran in the Distance Medley Relay on Friday. He ran his part of the race, the 400, they took 3rd place and received a medal. On Friday he also long jumped and took 15th and ran the 200 and took 9th.
Saturday he triple jumped and took 5th and the best part.....his team running the 4X400 relay took 1st. He ran the second leg of this race.

Jake left on Thursday at 8 30 am, Flew to Denver and then to Omaha. Then they drove to Vermillion. He competed on Friday and Saturday with very full days and a team dinner each night. When it was over on Saturday they drove to Omaha, spent the night and got up at 5 00 to fly home to Las Vegas and then to Salt Lake City. Jake said there was terrible turbulence on the way into Vegas and wants to stay home awhile after that experience.





We had a nice steak dinner waiting for him to celebrate his good doings. He ate alot and then had to do homework!





You can see his pile of clothes he brought home dirty and the sweat circles on his tank. He was nervous and worked hard!

Outdoor track season is now in full swing and this weekend he travels to Las Vegas!