Long ORANGE scarf

My life is busy. Pack up the house, pack up the classroom, take care of the girls, teach my class, and be in charge of most of the end-of-year activities for the entire fifth grade. Ha. There are a few things I'm behind in posting.

First off,

Happy Mother's Day,
Mom and Janet!

This last week was Teacher Appreciation Week. I received quite a few lovely gifts from my students.

The strawberries were delicious.

One of my room moms made this for my door--well, it was actually too big for the door so she put it on the wall.



"Mrs. Wampler,

You know we've had a jolly time being in your fifth grade class this year! We've loved meeting your little chiclets and mastering poptropica.com. Our Nova class has helped us make good choices now and later. It's been crazy Fun Dip-ing and Twizzler-ing our brains into our new math book and timings.


We will be fireballs next year when we score so high! We started this year as airheads but now we are smarties! Our reward parties are our PayDays. Now the school year rolls over and we'll take 5 for the summer before we look to middle school.


This year was definitely not a dud! We hope you've been paid 100 grand for all you've done for us this year! Love your 5th grade Goobers. P.S. Thanks for all the Extra help--you've taught us good and plenty!"


Congratulations, Britta!

Britta had her second baby on May 6, 2010, at 9:12 AM (Or 9:14...I heard both...)

Charlotte Ruth
8 lbs 9 oz
21 inches

"Lottie"

Congratulations, Heather!


Heather graduated with her bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Doesn't she look excited?

When everyone was down for the graduation, we took the chance to get a few family pictures.



Chris also discovered a new toy at the park.


Megan seemed a little iffy about the whole thing.

Blast from the Past

One of the fun things about moving is discovering all kinds of things that you forgot you had. Like, for instance, 30 rolls of undeveloped film.


Maceys was running a special last week. One roll of film onto CD for $1. Ideal for me. I had no idea what was going to be on the film. I didn't want prints--digital is much better. And you don't get much cheaper than a dollar apiece.

Please keep in mind that these pictures were taken by a cheap point and click camera. Forgive the poor quality.

A few rolls were Girls' Camp. Oh, geez. That was a long time ago.



Yes, that's me. My group was the "Harriet the Spy" group. We were in disguise.


Yes, that's Mom and Amy. Yes, Mom is wearing toilet paper around her neck. It was good to be prepared--you never knew what you would find when you got to the bathroom.

Britta

Everybody...can't remember the two girls on the far left, then Caitlin Chapman (Blott), Katie Rasmussen (Strong), Kirsten Forsberg, and me. I don't actually think this picture was taken at girls' camp, now that I look closer, but whatever.

This was the "hi-cap" class in junior high--highly capable, supposedly.


Can you find me?

I don't specifically remember this, but I apparently had a very exciting birthday party one year!





Some shots of the family in Marysville.
















There are not many pictures of my brother Michael when he was very small. I was excited to find all of these.








This last one does have some photographic quality.


And finally, as promised, here is my favorite car that I have ever owned. I drove this car for only two years, before it died six days before Chris and I got married. (Thanks, Amy, for letting us borrow your car that week.) It sat in the parking lot of our apartment complex for nearly six months before we scrapped it.


I loved this car. The window handles weren't attached--I kept them in the ashtray, to be easily accessed as needed. The windshield wipers only worked when it wasn't raining. The stereo was possessed--it wouldn't let go of the CD that was in it. When I had the radio on, it would randomly switch itself to CD. Towards the end, it would start playing the CD even when the stereo was completely off. The best part? The CD was John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album. All year round.

Rest in Peace, Todd