Bookin' it to the Beach

**Special Day, Special Edition**

**Photo credit - Ken Myers**

I'm willing to bet that a last day of school/work picture is waaaay more exciting to take than a first day of school/work picture!

So tonight we're going to do things a little differently. In preparation, I asked Susan to send me some pictures of her day and offered her a guest blogging spot, since today was her last, last day and all! Well, after all of the craziness I think she got a small taste of why there are some days when this blog is kind of a pain, but she was a trooper and held up her end of the deal. She passed along a few pictures and also included an e-mail summary that I'll use parts of in combination with some of my commentary to make up "her" post! Here we go!

"I had a great day today...well pretty much. We had field day this morning and I had problems with several of the boys. Those behaviors were really annoying today...but all the other stuff was great.

This morning the 4 retirees were given gifts...a rose plant and a bracelet. The staff had a potluck lunch...very delicious."

If I may interject...A stellar plan was devised to use the cute mini's in the family (Kate and Will, Will and Kate, whichever you prefer) to deliver a surprise retirement gift in the classroom just before dismissal this afternoon. After a bit of fire drill timing confusion things didn't go completely as planned but the overall mission was accomplished shortly after the bell rang. If you know Kyle and I you know punctuality isn't our strong point, so who are we to judge! Haha! Ok, back to Susan!

"Ken had organized a little get together (as I had asked for NO party) from 4:30-5:30 (that he told me about at 4:00). There were about 10 people here. Then I left about 6:15 to go to the country club for [a friend/fellow teacher's] surprise 60th birthday/retirement party. When her husband saw me, he handed me a bouquet of flowers since I was retiring also. Right now there are 4 "bouquets" of flowers in the kitchen.

Both boys called. Kate handed me a card at school and said we're going to the beach. My retirement gift from the boys/girls and Ken is a vacation at Sunset Beach, NC in August."

**Photo credit - Susan Myers**

Door decoration on Susan's classroom at school...it's as if she knew!!!

Retirement goodies and flower collection!

So there's a little run down of the day...I know speaking for Kyle and myself we think Susan is going to be awesome at retirement and couldn't be happier for her!!

Congratulations, you made it!! We can't wait for our family vacation at the beach. It will be the perfect way to help you relax and get ready NOT to go back to school!! :o)

Race for the Rocket!

I apologize that this picture isn't very good, but I'm lucky I got one at all!!

I was ready for the launch on all those nights and tonight, when it actually happens, I almost forgot!! I was filling my water bottle at the fridge when I heard them cut to the 3-2-1 countdown on the 11:00 news. I yelled NO!!! Grabbed the camera (only had the little lens on it) and tried to screw it on the tripod as I was running frantically across the dining room to the door, but was unsuccessful - haste makes waste! Anyway, after nicely asking whatever fire ants I may have been stepping on in the backyard not to bite my bare feet this is what I was able to get of the new Air Force GPS satellite on its way into space. Not my best work, but still not something you see every day! Good thing I didn't go to Walmart with Kyle, I would have missed the whole thing! (Yes Kyle is at Walmart at 11:00 on a Thursday night). Funny how when you get rid of cable it suddenly "requires" you to have different cables to make all the TV, video, audio stuff work correctly. Oye!

In other news, while tomorrow kicks off a long weekend for some it kicks off a REALLY long weekend for Susan! Have a wonderful last, last day of school!!! Congratulations!!

Cable Cutback

Well, it's official. We got rid of cable tonight. Now it's all about the antenna and our trusty laptops! We have also added a long white cable to the floor decor in the living room and dining room, awesome! Look at us being all grown up. It's fine for now, we'll see how things go come football season!

Hello Yellow!

All of this yellow has appeared around our yard and it's quite sunny! (Except for the one on the bottom right, that's a weed!)

Soo...today, after a Skype session with Amy and Grandma I managed to clean up the house a bit and get the lawn mowed. Nowhere near as productive as Lady's day probably was, but it'll do!

"You Want the Moon?"

The night sky wasn't lit up by a rocket tonight but the moon certainly is taking care of it!

Yet again the launch was scrubbed, but while I was patiently and unknowingly waiting outside with the camera ready to catch some space flight in action I shot this picture of the moon. (with the zoom lens of course) It might not be full but it sure is bright!! Anyone have a lasso?

Scrubbed

Today consisted of reading, paper writing x 3, a quick dog park trip, spaghetti pie and some simple crafting - nothing very exciting and not much to take a picture of. I was saving up for the rocket launch!! (It was supposed to go up on Friday, then Saturday, then tonight) It was scrubbed! Sorry to disappoint! I'll try to have something fun for Monday...maybe the rocket, but no promises!

Study Date

Since we both have a lot of reading and school work to do and we didn't have any exciting plans for today, Kyle suggested we go to Azalea Park (one of my favorites!) and do some studying. It took a few tries to find the perfect spot - shady enough, out of the way of wedding pictures and bird poop and far enough away from rejected baby cranes on the ground (apparently it's baby crane season judging from the hundreds of them up in the trees and the handful who were not so lucky!) Anyway, we both managed to get a decent amount done and then headed to the driving range to hit a couple bags of balls before the sunset. Now I just need to write my 3 papers to turn in by tomorrow night...UHG!