New Job!!

Posted by: Jennifer

This is the first time I've known at the end of the school year what I will be doing in the fall, and it feels great! Let me fill you in...

Last Friday (the 12th), jobs were posted for Round 1 of the job application process here in Lethbridge. These jobs are available to anyone who has either a continuing contract or a probationary one, like me. Jobs opened on Friday, and closed the following Monday, so it was a very small window of time. On Tuesday, I was phoned by two principals, and set up two interviews, one for Wednesday, one for Thursday afternoon. The next day, I set up three more interviews for Thursday! I was feeling pretty good about myself, but also quite overwhelmed with having to face four interviews in one day. My first interview was at Galbraith Elementary for a Grade 4 position. This is the school I did my internship at, so I'm familiar with some of the teachers and the principal. The interview went really well, and the next morning, Cynthia (the principal) called to offer me the job. I told her I still had some more interviews, and I'd let her know by the end of the day. One of the interviews was at my current school, Mike Mountain Horse. This was my first choice, only because it's on the west side, and is super close to our house and the babysitter's house (it also happens to be a great school). That was my first interview for Wednesday. I decided I'd cancel the interview I'd set up for lunch time because I wasn't familiar with school at all anyway, and I'd still be left with two more to do after MMH. I had to leave my class early to get to the one interview, which was a grade one position. The next and last interview was for four different positions at Fleetwood-Bawden school. That interview lasted an hour! Once again, I knew the principal somewhat, this time from church. She even gave me a tour of the school, which led me to think that I had a very good chance at this position. The second I got home, my phone rang, and it was my current principal on the phone telling me I was "not the successful candidate" for MMH. So I immediately got on the phone to Cynthia, hoping the job was still available! She picked up on the first ring, and told me she had been nervously waiting all day, hoping that I'd accept the position! What a great feeling. The next morning (Friday), I was phoned by the principal at Fleetwood who offered me a job there! I think it would have been a great school to work at, but I'm familiar with Galbraith, and know how the school works, and know that it will be a great fit.

So I'm super excited, and unbelievably relieved that this whole process is over. It was a whirlwind few days, but one upside is that it wasn't a long, dragged out process. I only had a couple of days of pent-up nervous energy, rather than a couple of weeks or something.

 

Jennifer

Independent little boy

Posted by: Jose

As promised here are some videos & pictures of James & Granddad.

James Talking to Granddad	Lounging after hard labor	Sitting up to Granddad

 

Check out this video of James Feeding himself

Here is James doing some Cleaning

Jose out

Busy Week

Posted by: Jose

It has been a pretty busy week, I'm looking forward to the LONG weekend. I have a few pictures from Granddad's visit that I will be posting on the weekend. Speaking of which, Grant and I went golfing on Wednesday afternoon. It was a beautiful day, with a couple of nice shots in my part. We had a great time, we had been talking about going out and playing but never had the chance.

Keep an eye on the site, I'll be posting some more picture on the weekend.

 

Jose out

"Nice Teddy"

Posted by: Jose

So This morning I went to get James from from his bed. He seemed in a bad mood. I noticed he was looking down onto the floor where his Teddy Bear was lying and pointing towards it. I picked him up and then picked Teddy from the floor and gave it to him. When he had it in his arms he pro ceded to give him a big hug and said "Nice Teddy". I was shocked. We have heard him say Teddy before but never put two words together like that. It was amazing. Jen and I usually say "Nice Teddy" every time he hugs his Teddy bear so I guess he remembered.

I'll see if I can get him doing that on camera.

 

Jose out

Video Test

Posted by: Jose

Here is a new video of James. I'm Just testing a new video format. Please e-mail me if you have problems viewing it. If the browser wants to download something to watch it it should be safe.

Here is James reading his favorite book.

 

Have a great weekend.

Jose out

98% done

Posted by: Jose

The Archive has been updated to the new look, and all the picture in the archive also have been fixed. I finished about 98% of all the pages and I don't think I will do the rest. The can look ugly for all I care.

I'm looking to get a new laptop, actually I've been looking for a while, and I'm thinking about the Macbook Pro laptop. The only problem is the price tag. It is a bit ridiculous when I can get the same laptop (with better hardware) from Acer for $500 bucks less.

I'm working on a new way of showing video on the site which will make is super easy to watch. I'll try to have one up this weekend. It should be a nice weekend so I will get some golfing done.

Have a great weekend.

Jose out

As Promised

Posted by: Jose

I don't know how many of you know what is going on around here, so I will start by telling you why we are going crazy around here.

Jennifer started working again, teaching of course, so we had to get a baby sitter. We were lucky to find that some friends of ours who just had a baby also had decided to stay home and have a day home. They were very happy to have James and we were very happy that we knew them since it made the separation much easier. They have a little girl two weeks younger than James, and they love each other. As if that didn't make us busy enough, Jennifer decided so sell Mary Kay. Getting to work in the morning & getting James to the Baby sitter with only one car is quite stressful. We are thinking about another car but it wont happen until next fall.

This stressful schedule has made us get a joint Calendar. Google has just come up with an online calendar that works amazingly well. The only problem is that you cannot synch it with a PDA (Hand Held computer). You need a Google account in order to use it, so if anyone is interested in using it let me know I will send you an invite. The new schedule is also making Jen too busy to update the web site, so I will be updating it more often. Like I said in my last post it will not be as funny but I will make it up with more picture of James. There will also be some more Tech Talk but I can't help it. It is what I do.

Well, enough talk, here some of the latest pictures:

Easter Sam	Easter outfit from aunt Nat	Easter Bunny
Some more easter bunny	Expensive taste	Like father like son
Some summer fun	ok, "like father like son" doesn't apply here	Like I said, like father like son

 

update: The Archive is not working 100% yet. I have only managed to fix 2006. Also I just watch the Trailer for the new Superman Returns movie, its looking very good.

Jose out

New look

Posted by: Jose

I'm working on a new look for the web site. The reason for the new look is so the web site has a better chance of being found under Google without looking too weird. It might take some time for all the links to work properly but this should make it easier to navigate & in theory should speed up the site. Any problems viewing the site let know

I will also start updating the site more regularly. I do apologize for the lack of updates but between Jen's School work & Mary Kay, here time is 110% taken. I'm not as funny as she is but I'll make it up with lost of pictures of James.

Jose out

James First Birthday!

Posted by: Jose

Yes, it is a very, very late update. Please forgive the lateness but as you might have expected we have been a bit busy. Without further ado here are some of the best pictures of James on his first Birthday