Congratulations Brad and Maggie!!

Baby Parker has joined the Ingram family! He is adorable! Check out Brad and Maggie's page for pictures. :)

Better uses for the laundry basket...

I love sitting in the laundry basket. It's a great place to relax and drink my milk.





The laundry basket also makes a great car! Tobey doesn't like my laundry basket car, but I love it!! I have the best daddy. :)

Maxed Out

This movie really made me not ever want to use my credit card ever again. If you haven't seen it, I definitely recommend your watching it. Personally, we have never had to deal with debt collectors and I hope that we never do. The debt collectors in this movie make no apologies and seem to love what they do, which is very disheartening. Here's the trailer for Maxed Out:

Donald Duck is funny!

I like Donald Duck. He's funny.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Next American Idol

I like singing. It's one of my favorite hobbies. I can't wait until Mommy and I can sing in the car on roadtrips!

My toy basket...

Not only is my "Cars" toy basket great for holding all of my toys, but it's also fun to crawl into and watch Elmo through.

2nd play date with Vivi

I'm so glad we stayed with Vivi and her mommy and daddy for Mommy's 10-year high school reunion! We had such a good time playing together!

Fun at my great granny's house...

I've got talent!

New Computer!

I posted the question of which computer to get in January, and after a long debate with myself, I am now the proud owner of the Dell computer below. And yes, it's red. :)



I'm still getting used to Windows Vista (that was not an optional feature). However, I have enjoyed my first hour with my computer. I'm setting up my electronic grade book and attendance records, and I'm being such a nerd about this thing. (Richard will probably continue to tell me how superior his Mac is to my PC.)

I Can Has Sweet Potatowz?

My 10-year high school reunion

Here is a picture of Richard and me at my high school reunion last weekend. It was interesting to see people from high school again. If you haven't gone to yours yet, I urge you to go. I really didn't want to go at first, but I'm glad I did. The old clicks still exist (I stuck like glue to mine) and I think I talked to the preps more over last weekend than I had the entire time we were in school together. However, I owuld like to believe that everyone really wants to know what you are doing, where you are living, etc. Well, at least I wanted to know. I wanted to compare.

New pictures!

I can help pack!


Are we ready to go yet?


Hanging out with Mommy and Spike (my dinosaur).

8th grade and 10th grade reading lists

I am updating the current reading list for the required book report my 8th and 10th graders have to do during the fall semester. In my opinion, the lists they have need to be updated. I have a lot of freedom at the Ed Center, but I don't know what I can and cannot change about the course just yet. I am hoping that once I present these lists to the principal, she will not make any changes. Here are my lists (if you have suggestions for additional books, please post a comment).

8th grade reading list:

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

10th grade reading list:

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Forward mobility, Check!

"From God, the Machine" - A Studio Thesis by Richard Swayze

Thesis (cont.)

Thesis (cont.)

Double Decker

Here are some pictures from my weekend in Oxford...

Happy Family

During our walking tour of Ole Miss.