Articles in the news Category

Summer school
By James
Posted in news on 25 June 2009
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So 4 days into summer school. It’s pretty fun I have 9 second and third grade students that i’m instructing in math and reading and some language as well. I only work from eight to non so it’s a really quick and enjoyable day. The kids are fun and I’m learning how to balance [...]

Famous Dave’s Field Trip… and more
By James
Posted in featured, news on 12 May 2009
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I know the what more important is the “and more” so I’ll start there.  About 8:45 this morning I was told I needed to call my father at home.  In my mind I immediately knew what I was going to be told.  My Grandmother was just recently diagnosed with Lung Cancer and had been under [...]

Entirely Way Too Long
By James
Posted in featured, news, pictures on 7 May 2009
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It has been a long time since the last time I blogged, especially since I said I was going to blog the day after my previous post.  I guess I should make promises I cannot keep.  I will admit I have been working on redoing Bethel’s website. Although the final version still maybe upwards of [...]

Spring Festival and Iron Chef
By James
Posted in news on 25 April 2009
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Last night was Bethel Baptist School’s Spring Festival 2009.  It was a blast.  We had a 30 ft. inflatable slide,  a jump house, a splash zone, can knock down, ping pong ball toss, dunk tank, and a ton of food.  I was asked to volunteer for the dunk tank, so why not…  just 15 minutes…  [...]

Three 3.0+ Earthquakes
By James
Posted in just for fun, news on 23 April 2009
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Probably my first memory as a kids was an earthquake.  The Loma Prieta Earthquake 10/17/1989,  I was not even 4 years old yet.  My mom was cooking dinner, my Dad was doing some work in a library, and my older sister and I were probably playing.  And it shook hard.  Nothing broke in our house [...]

Spring Break
By James
Posted in featured, news on 16 April 2009
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So this week has been spring break.  A chance to just relax before the last 8 weeks of school,  yes it’s coming to an end quickly.   Monday Renae and I picked her brother Tim up from the airport, and then hung out with her parents for the evening and had coffee with ruth a little [...]

Strawberry Chocolate Pizza
By James
Posted in featured, just for fun, news, recipes on 7 April 2009
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So this last Saturday Renae and I were going to a get together with several other young married couples from our church.  It was going to be a potluck were everyone brought a separate course of the meal.  I was given the responsibility of bringing the dessert.   This is quite the challenge, I make some [...]

Ooops I crashed my site
By James
Posted in news on 31 March 2009
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ok this is is a temporary flash back to an old theme while i fix the mistake I made on my other theme.  did i mention i don’t really like this theme so i hope it won’t stay this way for long.
sorry

Field Trip
By James
Posted in featured, news on 27 March 2009
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On Tuesday, March 24, the fifth and sixth grade classes went on a field trip to the California Science Center (CSC) in LA.  (It’s right next to the Memorial Stadium, home of the USC Trojans and I believe the 1980 Olympic Games.  Correct me if I’m wrong.)  It was a lot of fun.  There were [...]

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
By James
Posted in featured, just for fun, news on 17 March 2009
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For as long as I can remember I can not stand eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  Yes that is right I utterly dislike the classic PB&J.  All of my family including Renae can attest to this.  Growing up, for lunch at school I would just have a jelly sandwhich, until after a few [...]