where in the world have I been???

Friday night, we attended the Ecology Festival at my school. It was amazing!! For the first time in the history of my current teaching career, my class had 100% attendance at an out of school hours function. The kids totally rocked at their song. I was so very proud of all of them. I packed a picnic of Publix subs, chips and brownies. They were so yummy! The weather was perfect and I really had a lot of fun!!

Backtracking, Friday morning at 4am, Mr. D. woke me up from a deep and restful sleep to see if I could hear this cricket. I couldn't while I was sleeping but once he pointed it out- then of course that is all that I could hear. We determined that it was somewhere near the dining room window because whenever Mr. D. would bang on that window it was stop for a few minutes. After the Eco-Fest, we were in the driveway talking to Matt and we heard the noise. Matt informed us that it was not a cricket, but a frog. Sure enough, I looked at the pond and found this.

I scooped this noisy frog up in the fish net, covered the top with a magazine and proceeded to relocate. I left our yard, crossed the street, walked 4 houses up and dropped it off. we had a peaceful nights sleep. The next morning, Mr. D. had to work so we were up getting him ready to go and I heard the frog again. You have got to be kidding me!!! I can't believe that the frog had found it's way back. Upon investigation I found that not only was the frog back- but apparently it invited a friend to the yard as well. ***Warning, following photo may not be suitable for young readers***Upon further investigation on Sunday, I found that this little rendezvous produced a few hundred million of little frog eggs in the pond. Fortunately for me, the fish were eating them like crazy. I am just glad that we aren't going to have the plague of the frogs in my own back yard.

Other random things I need to catch you up on are:

Ceci is out of the hospital and gaining weight. She has now exceeded her birth weight. We are all very excited to hear this.

Tiffani is making it the best that she can. She came home last night and went back to work today. It is a hard process, so please keep her in your thoughts. We actually got to go and pick her up last night from Montgomery, so I got to spend some time with her in the car.

Mr. D. and I are getting geared up for a busy summer. We have so much planned!

The baby bird in the nest on the porch hatched on Mother's Day--- much to Mr. D.'s dismay. They are a noisy bunch!!

Mr. D. drew the winner of my Blog-iversary contest. He drew #2 and that happened to be Tiffani. Congratulations- you have won a trip to Sonic.

I downloaded my first I-tune for our Ipod Nano, it was Sunshine Days by the Brady Bunch for my class. And yes, my kids know every word and LOVE the song.

Mr. D. took the day off today. He had his first golf lesson- which was a Christmas gift from his Mother. He said it was great and he got lots of good pointers. He has 5 more lessons to go. Watch out Tiger Woods.

Since 3pm this afternoon... I:

drove home

talked to Mr. D. , Julie and Tiffani

went with Mr. D. to Home Depot for the rest of the mondo grass and a new trimmer

cleaned the pond filter- super yucky!!

got the 3 dead fish out of the pond

got the old dead plants out of the pond

picked up all of the Brady poop out of the yard

swept sand into the cracks of the patio

deadheaded the petunias

finished planting the mondo grass

put black mulch around the mondo grass

washed off the patio

picked up dinner

watched tv/blogged/read other blogs