teacher protest

The DVUSD teachers will not be receiving a raise next year. The salary ladder was disbanded a couple years ago, and raises are all dependent upon what percent the district decides to increase salaries for the next year. They decided upon 0% for this up-coming year. The teachers here at DVHS decided to not give extra help this week so as to spur the parents to call the school board to complain. I do not know how much of an impact this silent protest will have, but I'm all for it. Insurance premiums are going up next year, too, so that means I will actually be paid less next year than this. Doesn't make sense that someone with more experience would receive less money, does it? How is the education of these students being treated if the district is not willing to pay it's teachers? What do you think?

fifty-three and seventeen

The Suns (53 - 17) came out strong and ended well. The second quarter is where the lead was built, though, winning the quarter by 11, 27 - 16. The Suns went on to win 105 - 87. Stat, again, was the only double double on the Suns with 27 points and 12 rebounds (all defensive). Nash had 11 points and 9 assists. Raja Bell had a big night with 29 points, going 6 of 8 from downtown. The Grizzlies (17 - 54), like most teams, beat the Suns on offensive rebounding, but the Suns simply outplayed them. The Suns now sit 5 1/2 games behind Dallas. We just can't seem to put the winning streaks together that they do this season. The next game is in Golden State territory Thursday, at 7:30pm AZ time, against the Warriors (33 - 39), who just got embarrassed on their home court against the Spurs (50 - 20), losing by 37 points. GO SUNS!

fifty-two and seventeen

The Suns lost to the Kings , whom they had just demolished by 18 points on Thursday when Amy and I went to the game. 107 - 100 was the final score. It was a sad end to a small two game winning streak. Stat had the only double double on the Suns with 23 points and 11 rebounds. Mike Bibby just shot lights out the entire afternoon, scoring 37 points in 38 minutes. Nash had an uncharacteristic 7 turnovers. It was just not the full effort that you would expect from the number two team in the NBA. The next game was against the Memphis Grizzlies (17 - 53), pretty much the exact opposite record of the Suns. This should be no problem, but, then again, the Suns do play to their opponents level a lot. We'll see. GO SUNS!

balloons and bubbles

So, yesterday we celebrated my mom's birthday, which is on Tuesday. We got her a movie and some other stuff and we got her a balloon, a Mickey mouse balloon. We let Aidan hold it while we were in the store and he thought it was the coolest thing ever. He kept pulling it up and down really fast and hitting himself on the head. Then he was playing with it later and it was up really high above him so he figured out that he could pull it down if he kept pulling on the string, he is a smart kid, what can I say. We were going to let him give it to grandma but he wanted to keep it, He finally gave it up and then tried to take it back. OK it's your now, can I play with it?
This afternoon we were again hanging out with my parents and grandma (Adam invited himself over to watch the Suns game in High Def) Mom had a piece of bubble gum and was blowing bubbles while Aidan was watching. He just looked with really big eyes and tried to figure out was what going on. He thought it was really funny and kept doing his fake laugh, the one that sounds like a horse and woody woodpecker. He thought that maybe if he chewed something (his tongue) in his mouth maybe he could do it too. He was occupied by watching the bubbles for about 20 minuets. It was really funny. My cheeks are tired from thinking about chewing the gum.

spring break

Well, it was spring break last week for Adam. And now its over, too bad. I really liked having the extra time to spend with him over the last few days. It was a really nice and relaxing week. My grandma has been in town for her annual spring training fling, so both Adam and I got to go a baseball game last week. And I didn't have to cook very much either, which was a nice break for me too. We just kind of hung around and did whatever. I was sick with a cold again, courtesy of Aidan, thank you very much. Both of us were sick together but it could havebeen worse, we are both at the end of the sickness and only have remnants of a cough and maybe some allergies now. Adam did some work on the yard this week, it was in the 100's at the beginning of the week (groan... earliest 100 on record) but it weather finally cooled down and we even got some rain at the end of the week. So Adam seeded the front yard a couple of days ago and the birds are very happy about it. Adam, on the other hand, is not so happy about the birds. He had been chasing them out of the yard for the past few days. Every so often he will open the door really fast and run into the yard clapping. He then passes around the yard for a few minuets and the comes back in. Recently, he has resorted to shooting the birds with the air soft gun that he has. The down side to this, besides for the birds, is that the gun is really big and looks like a real rifle, who knows what the neighbors think of us now...
We got to go to a Suns game on Thursday night, thanks to my parents for Adam's birthday present. It was a really nice time, we dropped off Aidan at my parents house and went to dinner. We stopped off at my old work to say hi to some people we hadn't seen in a while. It was cool and rainy. We went to a good game, despite sitting so far up I was having contractions from the altitude. We had to walk to the car in the rain because the umbrella was conveniently in the car. We got some things for the baby announcements and came home. Adam seeded the yard at 11:30 or something, I finished the announcement prep while he was doing that. We watched some movie or something and then went to bed. I didn't have to get up to feed Aidan the next morning, that was nice. Anyway, it has been a very nice week and I wish that Adam didn't have to go back to work and all the busyness but that's the way it works for now.