Glencoe High School Boys Soccer: STATE CHAMPIONS

My baby brother Erik is a senior this year and they finished their soccer season undefeated and state champions!! Today was their big game and they won 2-1 in a real nail bitter, heart pounding and stressful game. We really get into it around here. They took out Bend (number one team in the state last year), Hilhi, Woodburn and many more teams along the way. We are all very excited and proud of him and his team.
Way to go Erik! We love you...

New Changes...

Our district is in the process of opening three new elementary schools this coming school year. Because of that, they have allowed teachers in the district to play a part in the planning committees for the new schools. They asked people interested to apply to be on the planning teams. So, I decided that I couldn't pass up the opportunity and applied to one of the new schools to be a team leader. This position is going to work in a small team with the new principal of the school making decisions about the new school. As far as my understanding, they will assist in hiring the entire school. And, if you are accepted you will automatically be working in the new school. Well, after interviewing and feeling really good about my interview I was able to get one of the team leader positions. What does this mean? It means, one, I am no longer going to be at Henry next year, and two, I will not be teaching in Spanish for the coming school year. I have mixed feelings about getting the position. I am really excited for what this is going to do to my resume. It isn't too often around here that you have the opportunity to open up a new school. I am excited about teaching in a place with brand new everything. I am excited to be working in a school that won't have brown water coming out of the pipes at school. But I am sad that I won't be teaching in Spanish. Not to mention the fact that Matthew will be applying to D.O./Med school this year and I don't really know if I will even get the chance to work at the new school. For now though, I will for sure be doing the planning for the new school and helping in putting it together and the rest I am going to put in Heavenly Father's hands.

What's a blog without a picture in my opinion.

The Untraditional Halloween for 2007

I don't know how many know this but I am in the process of getting my master's in administration. So, because of that I have classes every Wednesday night from 4 to about 8:30. Well, since this year Halloween fell on a Wednesday I had to miss Eva's first actual Halloween. However, because of that we made sure that the entire month of October was filled with Harvest /Halloween like activities so I wouldn't feel so left out on Halloween. Eva went trick or treating with her dad and abuelito this year. Matthew said she was scared by the whole process. In fact, Matthew had to hold her the entire time they knocked on a couple of my parent's neighbor's houses. But, what she did love was the candy. Matthew gave her a cherry sucker and she would not let that thing go. He said it had dog hair on it, was wiped on many couches and all over her face but she wouldn't let go of her sucker. We now have to hide any and all traces of candy we have in our house because she tells us that she wants it. She is getting smarter by the minute, but I will leave that for another post. These pictures are from a harvest festival that we went to at Portland Community College. It was fun and she was able to wear her little costume. The only thing that was scary was the attacking pigs! There was a petting zoo and the pig scared the bageebers(sp?) out of her.