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Entries from November 2010

Family Thanksgiving Photos

November 28th, 2010 · No Comments

We had a great time at Divine’s house for Thanksgiving this year! Technorati Tags: thanksgiving

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Tags: brother · dad · littlesister · mom · sister · travel

Good VoiceThread on Anti-Bullying

November 25th, 2010 · No Comments

Sarah: One of my students created this excellent VoiceThread about stopping bullying. I thought you’d enjoy this and might want to share it with others. Technorati Tags: bully, bullying, education, ethics, school

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Animal adoption resources and VoiceThreads

November 25th, 2010 · No Comments

Rachel, I’m thinking the following resources would be of interest to you since you are very interested in animals and helping animals. Pet Finder is a website that shows pictures of animals available for adoption. The Social Animal is a website and group created by Emily Garman of Oklahoma City to promote adoption of pets. [...]

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Tags: dad · littlesister

Rules of the family dance competition

November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

I’m not sure when this is scheduled to begin. I don’t have a costume (yet.) Just saw this today on the girls’ whiteboard / easel. I’m glad hair is required. That may rule grandaddy out, however, from formally entering. Sent from my iPhone

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iGrow Santa: Amazing Hair Growth!

November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

9 days ago Rachel started watering her iGrow Santa. His hair growth is amazing us all! After Thanksgiving Rachel is considering giving him a haircut. She is talking about giving him a mohawk. Stay tuned for mor iGrow Santa updates! Sent from my iPhone

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We didn’t win any Creativity Awards

November 17th, 2010 · No Comments

Award winners for the Creative Oklahoma Student Creativity Contest were announced today. Alexander, Sarah and Rachel didn't win anything in any categories. http://stateofcreativity.com/events/cwf/creativitycontest/ PRIZE WINNERS: Overall Grand Prize Winner: Brian Andrew Powell, Grade 11,  Teacher- Tillanie Franks, Yukon High School Grand Prize Winner (7-12): Chandni Raman, Grade 8, Teacher- Jill Willhoite, Oakdale Elementary School Grand Prize [...]

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A mysterious message

November 15th, 2010 · No Comments

Shelly hasn’t been able to explain this yet.   Download now or listen on posterous Memo.m4a (238 KB) Sent from my iPhone

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Yellow Cards

November 14th, 2010 · No Comments

A nice thing that my church does is we have a concept called yellow cards. What you do is you get a yellow card and write either an encouraging word to ….. or write on the prayer chain. Also in the bulletin they have a special section just for the people who need prayer. I [...]

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Tags: christian · sister · writing

Halloween 2010 Costumes

November 14th, 2010 · No Comments

We had some pretty good looking trick or treaters in our family this year! Rachel and I were in Manhattan, Kansas for Halloween. Shelly posted two photos of Sarah and Alexander in their costumes, so we were able to see them when we were in Kansas, even if we didn’t get to trick or treat [...]

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Tags: brother · littlesister · sister · travel

Sarah’s Fine Arts Camp Underwater Self-Portrait

November 14th, 2010 · No Comments

This is a self-portrait Sarah drew in the summer of 2010 at our church fine arts camp. She's underwater!

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