End of Calendar and Weekend with Rachael

Here are the rest of my calendar pictures (finally) :) Now I just gotta figure out how best to use it. Lol.

September

The picture on top is of a moth that decided to visit the school during recess. You can't tell from the picture (because of how I cut it), but it was as long as the brick was high (so... 3"?) He just sat on the wall and soaked in the sun. He didn't stay long, but he was definitely the hit of recess while he was there!
The bottom picture is of the waterfall at Cascade Springs up American Fork Canyon. I love waterfalls, and this one is no different. I could sit and stare at waterfalls for a very long time and not get bored.

October

I chose only one photo for October - it is a picture taken from Halloween. The office staff like to have Halloween themes; this year was Western. From left to right: Lisa, our head secretary; Cami, our new principal; Klara, I can't remember what she does; Dean, our head custodian; Janay, our lead sweeper; Janet, our assistant secretary.

November

Top left is a picture I took on road 056. The contrast between the blue sky and the gold leaves was amazing. This picture does not do justice to the scene.
Top right is a picture I took while I was walking to work. There are so many beautiful things I see, I wish I could get a picture of all of them :)
Bottom is a picture of fall leaves on a tree in my backyard on a day it was raining. The water seemed to really bring out the vibrancy in the colors. Here again, the photo just does not do the leaves justice.

December

Last, but not least, we come to the end of my calendar pictures. Top left is my former roommate, Allison, and her baby, Boone. I was lucky for the chance to see them while they were in Utah for Christmas.
Top right is a tree in my backyard that, incidentally, is the same tree which provided the leaves for the picture earlier...
Bottom is our office staff on the last day of school for the year. Janet, Lisa, Cami, and myself. I feel like the jolly green giant standing by them, but Janet and Lisa are squatting just a little... and the three of them are wearing matching socks that I gave them for Christmas - it's hard to see that, but I wanted to pass around my sock-wearing awesomeness ;)

And here is the stamp on the back. Not very creative... but that's me for ya!

Last weekend, I was able to have Rachael stay with me while her family was out of town. I picked her up from school on Friday and had her until Monday night. We had many fun activities:

Pizza Pie Cafe
(this is a true laugh picture)

yummy dessert pizza

being silly after we ate

Saturday night, we made corn bread muffins

Voila!

Sunday dinner, cheesy ham and hash browns



YUM!!

Monday, being Valentine's Day, Rachael and I wore matching socks ;) See, I'm spreading more of my awesome sock-ness around! Hahaha.

After school, we went bowling



First game scores:

Second game scores:

That night, we played Just Dance 2. It was a lot of fun!
It was fun having Rachael over for the weekend. I learned a lot of things, and have decided that maybe at this time of my life, it's ok that I'm not a mom. It is still the deepest desire of my heart, but I can wait until the time is right.