MPRA Conference

Every year I take some students to the Missouri Park and Recreation state conference.  It is a great opportunity to network, learn about current trends in the industry, and find potential internships and jobs.  This year the conference was at the Lake of the Ozarks.  I only had 5 students go but they all loved the conference.  I only wish I could get the other students to realize the benefit of going.  In addition to the education sessions, there were free socials every night and on the last night, some of my students challenged me to bowling.  I have not bowled in a couple years but all I have to say is it seems the students have not yet become the teacher:)

Snow Day

SNOW DAY!  We love our annual snow day in February.  This year, as with all the years we got a huge snow storm for the area.  Sadly though, the snow was an icy snow and would not cooperate with our idea of building family snowmen.  It just wouldn't stick together.  But we still didn't loose the opportunity to play in the snow.  We all got bundled up and headed out to roll in the snow, some more than others:)

 Celeste decided to show the kids how to make snow balls and continued to instruct them to practice throwing them at me.

 My revenge came shortly thereafter as indicated by the picture above.  I wonder why Celeste is covered in so much snow?  WHITE WASH:)

 We proceeded to the backyard and started to create snow angels.  Brindi thought this was a pretty cool idea.

 Following the leader, the leader, the leader.  Following the leader where ever she may go.

Front Room Camping

Brindi has been asking to sleep in the front room for the past few days and keeps trying to negotiate by saying she will go to bed early the next night, or she would give up songs at bedtimes for that night.  She we negotiated her kindness for a night in the front room.  To make is more interesting I decided we could all sleep in a tent.  We needed to pull it out anyway for its spring cleaning.  The girls loved the idea.

Mom decided to sleep in her own bed as she was on baby duty that night.  Brooke couldn't decide where she wanted to sleep and kept going back and forth between the tent and our bed.  She finally came to the tent to stay at about 9:45.  Bedtime is usually 7:30.