Celebration & Santa

Wow! Life is good. I had the best week ever!
On Monday four of my friends and I learned that we were awarded a grant from Qwest in the amount of $7,400 to go toward some new technology at our school.

Then a few days later I learned that I was also awarded another grant from Wildhorse in the amount of $7,602 to go towards more technology for our school. With these grants we will be a very "high tech" school. I can't wait to see what kinds of great things come of this opportunity.

Then I went to work the next day and my fabulous friends surprised me with these beautiful flowers. See what I mean by it being the best week ever?

Then Saturday rolled around and I got to be the photographer for "Pictures with Santa" at the Family Activity Day (Festival of Trees). Kylee helped out too and even posed with Santa.June is in charge of this event and she swung by to see Santa too.

In four hours of non stop picture taking only a handful of kids cried.

This little boy was fine until his mom set him on Santa's lap. The mom knew he was going to react this way and asked me to snap the shot anyway. Think he will be traumatized forever?

Here is a picture of a family I just love. I had BL in my class a few year ago and she remains to be very special to me. (She is the oldest on the left).

This is L who is in my room this year and she also is a wonderful person. I know she will be just like BL above and always be a part of my life. They are all beautiful inside and out!

On our way out of town to see Kylee's basketball game, we were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Vickie and her carriage in the Christmas parade down Main Street. After the parade Tayler helped her give carriage rides for the next three hours. This was a big hit and people lined up for a long way to get a chance to have a ride.

Kylee's basketball season has started and they played in a tournament today. Here are the girls ready to introduce the starters.

Kylee listening to the coach during a timeout.

Kylee has all freshman on her team but today they were playing a varsity team. They didn't win, but they scored over 30 points.

Kylee got this rebound and put it up for a bucket. She scored 4 points in today's game.

They ended up getting second place. Not bad for a young team.

Kylee says she doesn't like to play and this will be her last year.

She is really pretty good though, especially on defense.

All smiles after the game.