Quick Successions: New Mexico Edition

Mary went to San Antonio this month to participate in the National Council of English Teachers annual meeting where she had been invited to speak. San Antonio is a beautiful city with loads of really nice people and the conference was great. She is trying to figure out how to get to NCTE in Philadelphia next year.

Mary is glad to have finished teaching her classes at BYU until next semester. She does, however, still have to take some. Brian's big news is that he shaved his face for the first time in almost three years.

Karl Malone asked us if we would take a picture with him, so we thought about it and said okay.

Mary was very excited to find out that she was being honored as the Teacher of the Year by the Utah Association of Bilingual Educators. Of particular delight was the fact that some of her students were present at the dinner in her honor and one was allowed to introduce her.

It is Brian's turn to get older for the year now, starting at midnight. He wants to go and get chicken tomorrow and then go out for the weekend. He never asks for things for his birthday. For my birthday I got House, Season 4 and we finished watching it last night. We also went to Delta for the weekend so I could speak at a conference and Brian could visit the site of Topaz, the former internment camp during World War II.

Happy Birthday to me. Brian made this cake!

Well, we have been back for several days now and everything is going well. Students are in the middle of caucusing about which texts they would like to read for Mary's class. Brian is busy setting up his tennis program for the year.