Thanksgiving Celebration at Brooklyn H.S.

We had a Thanksgiving feast at school on Wednesday. The students love to have their picture taken! As you can notice there are lots interesting hand signs. I thought they were just creative interpretations of peace and love. Nope. They're gang signs. I'm still very much naive.

TWILIGHT was the HIGHLIGHT of our weekend!

Twilight, the movie was everything I dreamed it would be and more! The characters were cast perfectly! The Cullen's are as beautiful as I pictured them to be except for Carlisle. He's not quite hot enough and the fact that he played Mike the jock from Can't Hardly Wait kind of ruined it. Bella was exactly was I imagined. The story line didn't stray from that of the books, which I am pleased with. Some say it was cheesy, but I am not that some one. I'm totally happy with having paid $25 to see it with my sweet husband (whom also enjoyed it). Gabe was a bit embarrassed to see the show but he wanted to see it just as bad as me. Has anyone else seen it?

See Gabe run.

Gabe and I are officially running partners. If you are wondering what makes us "official" it is the fact that we have run 3 miles, 4 times together in the last week. As most of you know, Gabe has never expressed much interest in the sport but now that he is well over the 25 year+ category he is finding that his metabolism is just not as forgiving and the fact that he doesn't love to work out is over-ruled by the fact that he loves not being fat. We wanted to solidify our commitment to running by signing up for a race together so on December 13th we are going to run a 4mile Fun Run. Wish us luck!! (especially Gabe;)

Field trip to National History Museum

Michael, Quandell, Henry, and Tyquan acting all hard

Quandell, Vidal, and Henry adding a little bit of entertainment to the mineral exhibit

Representin' outside of Central Park

Dimitri, Cameron, and Mazin trying to hide from the camera

Quandell and I bonding

Quandell, Henry, and Cristina standing inside of an exhibit

Danasia, Henry, Quandell, and Vidal giving me their best poses

On Friday I chaperoned some of the students on a field trip to the Museum of Natural History. I really enjoy being able to bond with the students so it was nice to go out into the community with them. We had a great time at the museum although I don't remember learning a thing. I probably let them get away with more then I should, as you can see they are breaking multiple rules in these picture but I'm certain we couldn't stand out any more considering most field trips to the museum are taken by 4th graders.

Political Pumpkin Response

We finally got a response out of our political pumpkins, very respectfully I must say. Notice that whoever did this left our McCain & Palin pumpkin intact. It seems that they just wanted both sides to be represented. Fine with us! We just completed our civic duty as voters and now we anxiously await the outcome...