Professional Mountain Bike Pictures 2009

A sweet picture of Mike.

This is one of my favorites! At Cedro Peak. Not very flattering...but I was working hard!

Even better when someone is behind you..






The hard hill climb at Cedro Peak.







He made it!

Gallup, New Mexico

The guys started a minute before us. :)

Good one!

Welcome to the World of Eighth Grade...

Since I spend most of my life in the classroom, I figured I would blog about it. Every day, I walk in my classroom, set up any labs, computer equipment, print wordsearches (my kids love them!), and wait out til about 9:30 for my first class to come in.

I was laughing the other day at the MANY different personalities I have to deal with. I've been doing this for eight years, but for some reason I think eighth grade has to be the strangest grade, hands down. They are either extremely bitter about life, extremely awkward, or they have it all together. It's like everyone is at a different level in life.

The Sleeper. Gotta love those. Every day in third period, I have a student who comes in and immediately naps. Of course, my deal with him is if he can get his work done, I'll let him sleep. And he does it. My sub left a note on Wednesday and said that the sleeper was snoring so loud she had to do something about it. Haha.
I have this girl that has full on attitude. I have never yelled at her for anything, but for some reason she feels like anything I have to say, she has to roll her eyes and give attitude. I don't think I have ever seen her smile.

What the girls wear. Our school is a little loose on the dress code. I have seen outfits like this a lot andwhen you send them up on it, they come back with a jacket and then proceed to try and take it off. I will NOT let my daughter out of the house looking like this. Hello, they are fourteen!

For some reason my eighth period thinks that its cool to wear nerdy 3d glasses in class. At least one or two students a day will be wearing these in this class.

Just one question. Why do all the football players have to be in my biggest class and in the same class together??

The fashion diva. There is a girl in one of my classes that totally reminds me of a fashion diva. She was excited to see I went to UNLV. She wants to go there and get a business license, then go to cosmotology school and get her license. She wears pink leggings, heels, and carries a Victoria's Secret bag around. So cute.

Then I have a lot of boys that are "one of a kind". There is really not much to say but that they march to the beat of their own drum. In fact, I got the term from one of them asking me the other day, "Mrs. Barrow, I am one of the kind aren't I?"

Yes. They all are.

Favorite Things About Fall

My favorite things about fall are....

Pumpkins! (Already found around the house!)

Leaves. I can't wait to go to Cloudroft and see the leaves.

Hoodies. I love being covered up.

Speaking of covered up...fall coats...amazing.

The smell of cinammon.

Boots. :)

And best of all...blankets.

Get Your Kicks On Route 66...

We just got back from Gallup, New Mexico where we raced this weekend. It was really fun to

drive up to Northern New Mexico and see the country. We stayed at a hotel on Route 66 and

pre rode the trail. It was so pretty!

Mike and his gallon of water.

Our attempt to go to the temple...so sad it was closed!



Mike coming in at the finish line.

Latest Happenings

What's been going on? Just little things here and there...

Proof that my husband has good taste. :)

My mini landscaping project.

Where I buried Noodles the snake. R.I.P. Noodles. You are missed.

Silly cat enjoying our overgrown backyard.

What I want to be for Halloween. Hermione from Harry Potter.

I went to the Brittany Spears concert with Christa.

Good times!

Even in New Mexico they have RULDS2 license plates....

Mike reading is mountain bike magazines...we've been all about the mountain biking lately!

Horny Toad Hustle

We did it! We finally participated in the Horny Toad Hustle (the race we have been preparing

for all summer)! On Sunday, Mike raced sport and I raced beginner and he got fifth out of 35

riders and I got 3rd out of 8 riders!

Sidenote: Mike was very close to getting fourth. The people

in front of him will be expert next year. Also, if he raced 19-29, he would have gotten first

place!

Liznote: I let the second place girl go ahead of me and could have totally gotten her!

Anyway, we rocked it and had a lot of fun!

Confessions of a Twenty Nine Year Old

The things I am noticing about myself while I am here in Vegas...

1. I bought a Miley Cyrus shirt from Wal-Mart hoping none of my students have it.

2. I am taking the Flinestones Gummi Vitamins because I can't handle the big horse pills.

3. Inside the bathroom cabinet at my mom's house is a whole collage dedicated to NSYNC and Paul Wasilewski that I made at one point in my life.


More to come...