Summertime in San Diego

We've been having beautiful summer weather in San Diego and one of our favorite things to do is taking Kelly to the dog beach in Coronado. He LOVES going to the beach and seeing all of his friends. He likes hanging out with the small dogs, but also holds his own and runs with the big dogs.

Cruising the shoreline

Flying down the sand to meet up with some friends

One happy pup

Luna also loves the warm weather. Everyday she hangs out on our balcony and soaks in the sun. She loves when we put ice cubes in her water bowl and can't stay away when the ice cream comes out. Recently she has taken over Kelly's dog crate. Kelly started sleeping on a big boy dog bed, so Luna decided to move in.

Luna's new hangout

Relaxing on the stairs

Nick & I are doing great. On our days off we like to ride bikes at the beach or relax at the pool. Nick's been enjoying his golf game and I've started practicing yoga again on a regular basis. Only 3 1/2 weeks until school is out for summer break, then we are off to Maui for our honeymoon! All is well with the Carbonne family.

Kelly's Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!

Dustin & Wendy's Wedding

Our very good friends Dustin & Wendy got married in San Diego this past weekend. It was a beautiful ceremony & a great party afterwards. Here are a few pictures.

Dustin & Nick - bff's

Just Married!

We rode a double-decker bus to & from the reception

Nick's toast...cheers!

Arkansas 2011

Last week I went to Arkansas for the first time to explore our family roots. My Uncle Sonny has done an enormous amount of research on the Phillips/Clark side of the family and he was our tour guide. Arkansas was very beautiful and I learned so much about my mom's side of the family and where they came from. Below are some of my favorite pictures from the trip.

I've never seen rolled hay, only square.

Feeding the geese at the War Eagle Mill

The swinging bridge over Little Mulberry

Mom, myself & Katie

The only spot for lunch & gas for many, many miles

Little Mulberry Creek

On the side of the road, dirt road that is...

On the original steps of my granny's 1st childhood home

Granny's childhood barn

Katie, Mom & me by the barn

The Chinquapin Schoolhouse

One of the many creeks

At the swimming hole

More Wedding Pictures 1.13.2011

1.13.2011

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

He's Scottish, but he still celebrated!

Kindergarten kids made "Leprechaun traps". This is mine.

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Love, Room 21

Read Across America Week

This past week was Read Across America Week, when we celebrate literacy and Dr. Seuss' birthday. It's one of my favorite weeks at school because there are a lot of activities, dress up days and guest readers, as well as a bulletin board contest. It's a very busy week, but it is also a lot of fun!

The Kindergarten bulletin board. We won 1st place!

Monday the teachers and staff dressed up in their favorite Dr. Seuss outfits and the kids made Dr. Seuss hats.

Room 21

My BFF Kristina (aka Thing 2) and me

Tuesday was dress like you favorite Literacy Character Day. I was the panda from the children's book "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See", my co-worker Kristina was the brown bear from "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See" and Jen was the polar bear from "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Who Do You Hear" all written by Bill Martin & Eric Carle. Some of the kids also came to school dressed up as the favorite book characters. Room 21 also made more Dr. Seuss hats.

Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?

The 3 bears

The kids who dressed up in Room 21

Room 21

Wednesday was "Nerd" day (because Dr. Seuss created the word nerd), but I decided to have "Wacky Wednesday" instead. Some of the kids wore silly outfits and we made wacky hats.

2 Wacky chicks

Room 21 is WACKY!

All week the school had guest readers. Room 21 was lucky to have our local weatherman, a manager from the Vons supermarket (who brought all of us waters, apples & granola bars), a female football player and a firefighter. BUT our favorite guest reader was Mr. Nick! The kids love Nick, especially since he just went to the zoo with us, so they were very excited that he came to read to room 21. He read 3 book and the kids loved it!

Mr. Nick

Friday was the 100th day of school, so we invited the families to come to class and make art projects with us. In the afternoon we made special necklaces with 100 pieces of "O"cereal and also made 100th day hats. I wore a special shirt, made all by myself that had 100 pom-poms on it.

Room 21 on the 100th day

The kids loved the shirt

The week was super fun and reminded me of how awesome my job can be.