Thursday, August 21, 2008

Urban Dictionary

Another interesting piece of internet importance was delivered today from Molly (along with my black shorts). This was a clipping from her paper describing the Urban Dictionary and one entry in particular. Follow the link and find out how a "mouse potato" is defined - could she be describing me??

Highland started this week and we have ben SO busy. Between photography for the nursing wing fundraising campaign and teaching brand new students how to use our instructional technology, I'm exhausted at the end of each day. Oh, how I miss Eric Welch, my old boss.

Our enrollment is up 3% this fall and we have more brand new, traditional students than we have ever had before. I'm impressed how faculty can lecture for four hours/day. It's HARD. Thankfully, they are also very experienced in crowd control. These new students can be a little rowdy at the beginning of the semester, but magically they turn into mature students who assume responsibility for their own learning. While we have physical disturbances at our high school, I have never witnessed (or heard) any of that at Highland.

We are having a great time with events for our internal fundraising for the new nursing wing. Yesterday, was a Survivor event with Karaoke and American Idol to follow. You can see lots of images from the groundbreaking ceremony right up to what's happening today at the Highland website. BTW - I take most of the middle photos on our home page. Thanks for looking.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Hiptionary


hiptionary
Originally uploaded by NmB Photography
OMG we have had so much fun with this little black book that Molly brought when they came home a few weeks ago. Lots of terms in here to help 50-something year-olds stay kewl with our peeps (grandchildren).

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Into the Clouds


Into the Clouds
Originally uploaded by NmB Photography
From a recent session of Andrew climbing to the top of the 13th green behind our house. I was drawn to the huge bank of clouds that I often see above the green from my kitchen window.

The very next night, my husband called me to grab my camera to shoot a huge mama doe and her two tiny ones in exactly this same place. Alas, my camera wasn't ready in time -

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Cousins


Cousins
Originally uploaded by NmB Photography
Another photo from last Friday in Dubuque. Erin was quite happy and adept at orchestrating this "session" and the following one with just girls. She is very good working with Grandma and the camera. Katherine (on the left) isn't usually this outgoing but who can resist Erin's smiling face here. Click here to see the slideshow

Saturday, August 09, 2008

Ann Marie


Ann Marie
Originally uploaded by NmB Photography
I've experienced a couple of firsts in the last couple of days. Last night I finally met my great-niece, Ann Marie, and today I'm watching the olympic opening ceremonies in hi-def.

Both events are amazing!

Friday, August 08, 2008

Just the Five of Us


Just the Five of Us
Originally uploaded by NmB Photography
Got some good ones of all five kids this time: from left Nic, Erin, Kelby, Paige and Jason. We had an incredible time last weekend with everybody home but Andrew. We went to Cannova's Thursday night and to the lake on Friday with just Molly's family. Saturday morning, eight of us (not me) ran in the Lincoln-Douglas 5K with Lars getting first in his age group. There's a video on the Journal Standard website of Dawn and Dinna finishing. That night we went to the UD and Cruise Night. I just could not believe how many people were downtown for that. Saturday the whole group went to the lake.

It was eventful, too. Jim had to spade a ground hog to death in front of Jason. Our dog, Bogie, had him in a death grip and neither animal would cry uncle. Then, at the lake, Jim and the two girls made the mistake of all sitting on one side of the picnic table and it tipped over spilling them all onto the cement. Each one of them got scraped up but were able to laugh about it. We did SO much laughing ...