Cam's Class Hike/Josh's Flight

It's about time we combined Cam's job and my hobby.

Cam took her class (with another fifth grade class) to hike to the Pawnee Buttes, in the Pawnee National Grassland.  (Location: http://g.co/maps/2694r).  I got to do some flyovers to take some pictures (Dad flew while I took pictures).  All in all, a fun flight!

Here's some pictures.

What's for Dinner?

Last Saturday my church had an event called Super Saturday. About a week before, we each signed up for different crafts we wanted to try. Then Saturday, we got to make the crafts. The one I made is a What's for Dinner board. It is a cookie sheet with magnets, labels, a pocket, and sticky notes attached. The little red circles are magnets, that have the days of the week, to hold on the meals for the week.  The sticky notes are for the shopping list. The pocket hold dinner ideas. It was alot of work, but I am very proud of it!

Adventures in Haircutting!

So Josh has always gotten his haircut by his  mom, so as a rite of getting married I got the PRIVILEGE of cutting his hair.  I had watched my mother-in-law, Pam, cut Josh's hair a few times and then I tried with her supervision. As Josh's hair got longer and longer, I knew it was time to step up to the plate.

We went to the store and Josh selected the "perfect" hair clippers.  We got them home and opened them only to discover that they had been used and were missing the cape (you know that thing you wear, when you get your haircut, so hair doesn't get all over you).  So it was back to store.

30 minutes later we were back home and ready to try again.  By this point it was 10:30.

First, I had to cut the whole head to 1 1/4".  This went fairly well, other then having to stop, use my ruler, and check the length every 30 seconds to check my work.  Then I  cut the next layer at 3/4".  This was easier, but my line started a TIDGE uneven.  Don't worry I fixed it.  Finally I moved onto the bottom layer at 1/2".

By this time it was about 11:30 and I was ready to move onto the scissors.  Poor Josh was getting sore from sitting for so long and was covered in hair.  The so called "cape"was a tiny bit of plastic that wouldn't even cover a midget! Anyways, back to the hair.

So next I used the scissors to even everything out.  These were VERY helpful to even everything out.  As I was clipping away, one side of Josh's head looked a lot more bushy and just would not behave.  I clipped here and clipped there and eventually evened it out.

Then it was onto neck and ears.  This went by smoothly with no problems.  I took off the cape and admired my work.  Josh went to go shower and I was left to clean up SO MUCH HAIR (man does that boy have HAIR).  Not more than 5 minutes later did Josh get out of the shower and show me plenty of spots that I had missed or were uneven.

Finally, it was about midnight and IT WAS FINISHED!! I know I still need lots of practice, but I was very proud of my first attempt.

Tasty Failure

Pizza was the decision for dinner.  We started off making everything together, but disagreed on a couple of points.  Spoiler: Cam's turned out better.

We attempted to make the dough together, though both batches ended up being a different consistency.

My pizza went in first (and was not as good as Cam's).

Cam's Pizza is just about to go in the oven, mine just came out.

We obviously didn't want to let the pizza cool off, so mine was eaten first.

My dough was super sticky, so it ended up being a misshapen blob style pizza

We found as we began attempting to eat this forsaken (yet pretty tasty) pizza was that it was not willing to part with the tin foil it had gotten to know for the last little while in the oven.

The crust was think, so it still worked....

 Cam KNOWS mine was the best

(disregard the sausage bag right there, we made the sausage from scratch...honest.)

This is Cam's pizza that went into the oven next

The conclusion is: Cam's pizza actually came off the tin foil, so it was more of a pizza than the modified pizza I had.

Cam: 1 - Josh: 0

Spins

I had a great opportunity the other day to practice some spin entries in a nice little Cessna.

(For those who don't know what they are, see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxBQBEMyuUw)

We didn't get into the fully developed spin, just about a 1/4 turn entry and then recovery.  All in all we loose about 1000 feet.

We took off, and while we were climbing and talking about the spins (I was a little nervous having never done one, and pilots hear all day long during training about how dangerous they are).  As we were approaching the safe altitude, I looked to my instructor and said "If you kill me, my wife is going to be furious."  He laughed and said "Mine too."

When he first showed me how to do the entry, I have to admit, it did make me reach up and grab the dash.  He then had me try one.  Natural reaction for me was to correct before the entry barely started, and I had to keep telling myself not to after I already started the recovery so the spin could develop.  It made me pretty queasy, which surprised me, but was definitely worth it!  I'm going to try and get up and do a full spin one of these days.

The Temple is one step closer!

Larimer County approves land-use change for LDS temple

http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20110907/LOVELAND01/309070001/Larimer-County-approves-land-use-change-LDS-temple?fb_ref=artsharetop&fb_source=home_multiline

Awesome

Greeley approves airport improvements

Utah Trip

Cam and I went with my folks out to Utah to bring a bit more furniture that they were getting rid of.

Dad in the trailer

 Bobby looking to see what he wants

Lindsay and Cam playing Deca Sports on the Wii (Cam's birthday present from them).

All in all, a fun time!

Rock Springs Delay

Blown tire on the work trailer at 9 p.m. in Rock Springs.  Perfect.

But now getting ready to go to bed four hours later.

Cam the Teacher

So as many people may know, I am a first year teacher at University Schools in Greeley. I am teaching 5th grade part-time. This is the school where I student taught last spring.
As you may notice the author of this post says "Mrs. Heidbrink". The reason for this is that I also use this same gmail account for my classroom blog and don't want my students knowing my first name.
Anyways, back to teaching. I have a class of 26 students, 8 are new to the school. I teach Tuesday thru Friday in the afternoon and then all day every other Monday. I teach Math, Science, and Social Studies. My class has lots of personalities and are really fun.
University Schools is a K-12 Charter School. The school was orginally  UNC's labratory school and then got their charter. It was the first school in Colorado to have a Kindergarten program. The school is very advanced in technology and teaching methods.
It's been a busy first few weeks. Lots of fun times and stressful times. I'll share some of those stories next time!

See, first picture already

Skipper likes destroying things.  He got caught in his pillow sometime at night as he was ripping the stuffing out.

We found him limping around on one leg.

First Post

Here is our blog. Cam and I will update this one more often, our wordpress one was a joke because of how difficult it was to post to it, just became a hassle.

Feel free to leave comments, that's the purpose of a blog.  Hope to hear from you!