My husband Kelly and his dad like to play the game Animal Farm on their wii’s together. We both have microphones so they can talk at the same time. Tonight Kelly is playing with his dad and I’m next to him on the couch on my laptop. Kelly happens to not be wearing a shirt. I turned to Kelly and loudly said,

“I love summer time because you don’t wear shirts!”

in a somewhat naughty sounding voice. Kelly looked at me with panic on his face and points at the tv screen. Then it hit me, oh yeah his parents can hear everything I say. Doh!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:46:30 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [1] Trackback

Today was my final in my Math Methods class. I was supposed to learn how to teach math to kids. During our final today we had some unexpected visitors.

I wanted to make faces at them but then one of my friends kindly told me that they could see us. They did a great job cleaning are were super fast.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:30:38 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

I stopped in the Bellevue Puget Sound Blood Center to make a deposit. My mother-in-law, Betty has donated a TON of blood in her time. When someone donates a TON of blood (I forget exactly how much) you get a gold leaf with your name on it on a big “tree of life” at the blood bank. Betty told me her name was up there. The last time I looked for her for a long time but couldn’t find her name. Today I walked in and there she was!

Betty J. Keeton not Gifford F. Thomas.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:28:02 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

I was going through pictures on my phone and found these pictures of myself.

I was at a bbq for the school bus driver’s last day of school and Kelly told me I had something in between my two front teeth. I didn’t have a mirror so I used my camera.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:23:41 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

I was watching NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams tonight and they did a story on the US Army First Brigade in Afghanistan. Apparently Zachary Boyd woke up and jumped into a fire fight with the Taliban. He put on his helmet, bulletproof vest and grabbed his automatic rifle but he didn’t have time to put on his pants. This is the picture that followed and made national news.

What you see is Zachary Boyd in pink, “I love NY” boxers. Priceless!

To read the whole story go to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/15/pink-underpants-us-army

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:19:51 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

Our neighbor Bob comes over every once in a while to have Kelly fix his computer or to talk about ham radios. I overheard him ask Kelly when we were going to start having, “little bambinos.” I hadn’t heard the kid question asked in that way before.

Monday, June 29, 2009 7:08:31 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

I have the take the West E test in Elementary Education in a few weeks. I started studying and some of the questions I can’t quite remember and some I have no clue. One question asks about finding the range of a set of numbers. It’s been years since I’ve done anything with range or mean, median or mode. So I searched online for definitions. The most helpful one is actually a rap.

The MMMR Rap

The M, The M, The MMMR Rap.
The M, The M, The MMMR Rap.

Now Mode, Mode, I've been told,
is the # that you see the most.

Median, Median, Median, is the man.
The man in the middle, the man in the middle.
Just line up the #'s the best you can
From smallest to largest,
From smallest to largest.

Now Mean, Mean, he is the best.
Of course he is better than all the rest.
Just add, add, add all your #'s,
and when you divide
you won't believe your eyes-
you'll only have one # to your surprise.

Last but not least is our friend the Range-
He isn't the best, but he sure is strange.
You start with the Hiiiggghhhh and subtract
the Loooowwww!!!
You've got the Range and there is no mo'!

The M, The M, The MMMR Rap.
The M, The M, The MMMR Rap.
When you sing it out loud--it's all just a snap!

Thank you to whatever teacher came up with this because it helped me remember.

Monday, June 29, 2009 6:39:05 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [1] Trackback

I have great friends. One of these friends, Brandi was sad that I never had a birthday party for myself (my birthday is May 9^th). Well last Saturday I invited her and some other girlfriends and my sister over for a girls’ night. Everyone was supposed to come over around 7pm.

My sister came over early around 5pm. At about 6:30 Kelly left for the grocery store for miscellaneous stuff. Then he called at 6:45 to say the the belt on his truck broke and asked if I could bring him his tool box. I was a nice Katie and drove it down to Fred Meyer then drove back home. I opened the front door and all of my friends yelled, “SURPRISE!” They decorated the whole upstairs with birthday and teacher'ish banners. My Kelly was in on the whole thing and faked that the belt on his truck broke. It was pretty cool.

Here are some pictures from my “birthday” party.

That is my pretty, pretty princess birthday crown (on loan from Brandi).

They got me a barbie cake! When I was little I always wanted one. I finally got one when at 27. Dreams really do come true

Kelly and me with my hair in my face.

Me and Emily talking about something very important.

Me and my sister, Kelly.

Brandi and me.

Brandi, me and Emily. I think we are looking at different cameras…

Sunday, June 28, 2009 7:39:28 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

Today in my Math Methods class (how to teach math) I presented a 2^nd grade unit on measurement and three of its lessons. We weren’t supposed to teach the lessons just tell the class about them etc. Well I wanted to make my lesson fun. So for one lesson where I was talking about teaching measuring to the nearest whole unit I planned for the kids to break into partners and go outside and draw a chalk outline of each other, then measure their outline (we’d make a bar graph out of their data later). I had Kelly pose for me so the class could get a better visual of my lesson.

Step One: Outline your partner with chalk

Step Two: What a great chalk outline!

Step Three: Measure chalk outline

The presentation went well and people giggled because I used Kelly. Then when I sat back down in my seat for the person to present after me the guy next to me asked, “Did you mean for that to be funny?!” I responded cluelessly, “What, um yeah well some parts were funny…” I thought to myself, whatever, I don’t know what this guy is talking about. Well we went to our local bar after class and apparently the whole class thought I was measuring Kelly’s um, nether region on the last slide.

Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:35:29 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [1] Trackback

Happy Father’s Day to my dad and dad-in-law!

Sunday, June 21, 2009 10:21:55 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

Last Wednesday was my brother-in-law’s 25^th birthday. My mother-in-law made the best cake – EVER for him.

If you look closely your noticed the hand crafted monkey feet made from tootsie rolls. Soooo tasty!

Sunday, June 21, 2009 10:16:03 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [0] Trackback

I was sitting on the couch in our basement and I heard Kelly grunt something I couldn’t quite understand from the downstairs bathroom.

“I just dropped a magazine I was about to read in the toilet.” He said.

I asked, “well, is it icky?”

“It’s soaking wet.”

“Um was there anything in the toilet except for water.”

He replied, “well, I had just peed in it.”

Ah, good times at the Keeton house.

Sunday, June 14, 2009 5:40:30 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)    Comments [0] Trackback