Everyone's Favorite... Pictures!

Here are a bunch of photos of things that have been going on. The first few are from a little day trip Michael and I took to San Francisco right before school started.

This was taken at the Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield on our way to the bay area.


Here I am at Fisherman's Warf. Those seals were stinky!


Mikey and I tooko a cruise around the bay. It was very windy! Can't you tell?


We took the trolley to get from Union Square down to Ghiradelli Square.


Here's a typical sight in our house. Megan working at the dining room table with Cooper in his bed next to her. Even now as I type this at the dining room table, Cooper is in his bed keeping watch.


Every Saturday we do the same things: clean the house, yard work, clean Dr. Dresser's office (part of our rental agreeement), go grocery shopping, mow the lawn at the Dresser's (another part of our rental agreement), and hang out at home catching up on school work.
Here's Michael doing the usual Saturday thing: mowing the lawn in flip flops. That's probably dangerous, but our little yard takes literally 2 minutes to mow.


Cooper usually helps with yard work. His job: fertilization. He's a pro.


This picture didn't turn out well. But another part of our Saturday is eating breakfast at the counter looking out the window at all the neighbors moving about.


Cooper gets worn out easily. Here he is collapsed (asleep) on our bed.

What's going on...

I don't have any fun pictures to post, but I can update you on what's going over here in CA. I've been teaching third grade and loving it. I've got some darling students and enjoy hearing their stories and connections to their learning.
Mikey is also teaching now. SURPRISE! He started teaching algebra and business at Rosemont high school. At the same time, he is completing a teacher credentialing course. He is crazy busy and is tired often. He's hanging in there. He works in a more ghetto area of Sacramento and so he deals with students who act like thugs (though I don't think they really are... wannabes). A lot of his students have failed algebra once or twice so they've pretty much checked out of the class. It's a hard position, but he's dealing with it well.
Cooper gets to have a lot of alone time since Mikey and I are working long hours. He's still a fun puppy and has started to settle down and cuddle with us more. There's hope to finally have a real lap dog, not just a play at your feet dog.
That's what's going on with Mikey and I.