More Amazing Stuff My Wife Does

So on top of being pregnant (and pretty sick from that) my wife just keeps on doing more and more amazing things. This week was a very busy one for her because of school. First on Tuesday she spent almost 14 hours straight at work with the students because the school choir had a performance at Abravanel Hall which is home to the Utah Symphony and part of the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts.Then on Wednesday she spent another 13 hours at work doing school, having meetings and then taking care of her kids while they performed in Hope of America. Hope of America is a very large musical presentation put on by a couple of school districts and involves thousands of students. Danielle had her whole class there and I was able to watch from the audience in the Marriot Center. I sat on the upper most seat in the building so the pictures are a little far off but here are a couple of pictures/videos from the performance it was quite an amazing production.

This is a picture of the "Living Flag" that the students made.

This is the kids performing on of the songs, they not only sang, but had lots of hand movements that they had to learn and perform, they have been spending a lot of time and my very cool wife has been helping teach them.

Okay, this might not look like much, the picture is not the greatest, but let me tell you about this person dancing, well the only thing to tell is that yes she is doing the splits and the end and yes, this lady is 92 years young.

This is the last song that the students performed it is pretty cool, they did a great job, and so did my wife(I know the bragging might be getting a little old, but she makes it so easy by being such an amazing person, so I will just have to keep doing it) :)

Married to Possibly the best Teacher Ever :)

Well, I have to say that I just might be married to the best teacher ever. This past week Danielle was awarded the "Golden Apple Award"

She got this award from the District PTA. Danielle, Joe and Alice(Dani's Parent) and I(Bryan) all got to go to the award ceremony and luncheon. It was a pretty big deal. They had a nice lunch and then they called up the winners and the shook hands with all of the School District big wigs and she got a nice award. Since I don't think that Dani would go around telling people (and this might reach a couple of people that Alice did not tell) I just wanted to let everyone know (and just brag a little bit about how amazing my wife is.

To know or not to know, that is the question!

We finally made the decision. We are NOT going to find out the sex of the baby before the baby comes. It will make the delivery day that much more special, and maybe help me keep my mind off the pain! :) But we have heard some interesting theories!
Theory 1:
Look at the father of the child and how many siblings he has. Which ever one there are more of is what the first baby will be. So Bryan has 5 kids in his family. 3 boys and 2 girls. So that is making it seem like its gonna be a boy!
Theory 2:
An old wives tales says the baby's heartbeat while in utero can tell you the sex of the baby. If the heart beat is less than 140 than it is a boy, and if it is above 140 than it is a girl. Well, our baby's heart was 168 at our last check-up and that is making it seem like its gonna be a girl!
So those are the theories we've seen so far...do you know any more you want to share and in October we'll see which ones come true and which don't!

Redhead or Brunette?

Big news! We are going to be parents! I am due the beginning of October, and and we are so excited about it!! We were playing around with a website, and put in pictures of us and they made a composite to see what our baby could look like. Cute huh! I definitely think that Redhead is the way to go! :) But I'll love any color, even green!



We don't know if we want to know what sex it is before it comes so whenever it is that we find out is when you'll find out! Wish us luck! :)

Cellphone MANIA!!!

I teach 5th grade, and I run into such problems with CELLPHONES!! I teach 10 and 11 year olds and these kids are over run with cellphones!! I have had problems with kids at school and cellphone ranging from such things as pornography to death threats!! All on my student's cellphones! Let me reiterate one more time, I TEACH 5th GRADERS!!! Does this not seem a little much to be giving a 10 year old a cellphone and unlimited texting and just think they are going to know how to handle everything that comes their way. This is the new aspect of parenting that parents are forgetting! You have to explicitly teach your kids cellphone "rights and wrongs" Am I the only one who thinks it is plain CRAZY to give a 5th grader their own cellphone!?! Vent with me if you will.....