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Happy Birthday Ken!!!



I'm sure you were hoping we wouldn't make it quite so public. But I had to do something. There's no way anything I do will compare to the birthday gift you gave me this year. I hope you have a great day!

Thanks!

Thanks to Ken and all my friends who helped me with Senior Breakfast this morning. It was a lot of work and I couldn't have done it without you. THANKS!!!

Hot New Video, Hot New Sound

Not to be out done by Liz (my sister) I have to post something about one of the most exciting events in the last four years. Okay, we've had other exciting events, but this one I've been waiting for since I saw them live November 8, 2005. U2 have a new album coming out and they've just released their first single and video for the single. Check out their performance on the Grammy's!

Note: U2's performance on the Grammy's was taken off of YouTube. If you want to see their new video or listen to Get On Your Boots go to www.u2.com.

Cool Classroom

Two of the school board members toured our school yesterday. They came into the computer lab and liked the way I have it decorated so much they asked me to take pictures for them. They want to show other schools that you can have a computer lab that is fun and inviting for the kids to be in. They said they have been in so many computer labs that are boring and they would like to encourage other computer lab instructors to make their rooms more inviting and fun.

Weird Science

It was the science fair last night. Alyssa and her friend Brianna put together a project and displayed it yesterday at school. They didn't win anything, which Alyssa was happy for. Last year she won and went to the district science fair and it was "boring". But they had a lot of fun doing their project. Their project was on invisible ink. They looked up different things that they could use as invisible ink. They used lemon juice and milk. They wrote messages on colored paper, photo paper, index cards, and computer paper. They discovered that the message could be seen best on the colored paper and the photo paper and when they used milk.

Obsession

So we're officially obsessed with one of our games on Wii. To bad the game is 17 years old and we need Alyssa to continually supply us with more lives so we can try to get throught the next level. That's right, we are obsessed with Super Mario Brothers. We bought it with Wii points and downloaded it. Ken and I used to play it 17 years ago (Shelisa was a baby) on our dearly departed Super Nintendo gaming machine. Our family has even gone so far as to for go watching American Idol (don't worry we're still DVRing it) to play Mario Brothers. Had I known Super Mario Brother's was going to be such a family hit, I would have kept the old Super Nintendo around and saved us a lot of money. We're calling our new gaming adventure our family bonding time. Everyone has been playing and we're having a BLAST!!!