This Just In...

A serving of Coke may be better for your heart than a serving of Cheerios.
Extensive research done by me in my apartment involving actually looking at
various labels has proven that a serving of Cheerios has FOUR TIMES the sodium content of a serving of Coke.

If you don't believe me, look at the labels.

The more you know...now you know - and knowing is half the battle...knowledge is power

an incredible journey

The moment you've all been waiting for - pictures of our trip across America!

LET'S GO!

Day #0

Here we see a picture of our chairs, ready to go.


A picture of all our stuff ready to be loaded onto the U-Haul.


Dad Snow and Andrew efficiently packing up the truck.


The final product.

Later that night!






That's about all I can manage for now...don't want to upload too many images in one go.

Also, be looking for my review comparing and contrasting two books on vocation and calling:
Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer and
Holy Discontent by Bill Hybels

random reflections.

1. i have officially survived the first day of school and am on my way to conquering the second day of school-it's officially been planned out.
2. 2 students made it to yellow today on the stoplight...they know who is in charge here :)
3. I have super cute kids-i took their pictures today and they are all adorable kids. they even brought me flowers and a plant.
4. here are some pictures of my classroom in the deconstructive stage...don't worry it looks MUCH better now. and i really do mean MUCH better...those pictures will come later this weekend :)

The First Day of School

It has come...ready or not-it has arrived. After numerous "Teacher To-Do" lists, I feel I am finally ready for the first day. It's been difficult to get everything ready and make sure I'm not forgetting things along the way. This year is going to be a great learning experience as well as a great start to my teaching career. I am trusting God to lead me through this and trying to be confident in the skills which he has blessed me.

PS The picture of me is the picture from the San Jose Christian School Website :) I'm pretty much famous now---too bad the kids (and parents) are having difficulty saying my new name :)

first try...here it goes

hello everyone. i'm trying this blog thing out for the first time...and will be keeping it short and sweet. first of all we are really enjoying life in san jose-we just got back from a staff/school board social and had a really good time hanging out with a whole bunch of really cool people. second of all-i am getting a bit nervous about the amount of time (or lack of time) before school starts!!! prayers would be appreciated! thirdly, i really am enjoying my new macbook-provided by sjcs (san jose christian school). to give you a preview of what is to come(video chats with me if you like) i am including a picture of us in our apartment. have a great weekend! adios
[ps there will be even better pictures later-it's kinda late and we are tired :)]

Finally!!

After over a week-and-a-half of moving activities, everything is beginning to fall into place.
It's a beautiful thing!

The advent of the internet, provided by our friends at at&t and yahoo!, is only the latest step in this process.

As much as we wanted to chronicle our trip out west in "real-time," long days of driving and limited access to the internet sapped any motivation we may have had to do it the way we wanted.
Now that we have the internet at our apartment, this process will be facilitated much more simply.

That's all for now.
Here's a picture to give you an idea of what's ahead...or rather, what's behind -