Babies

So there are pictures of two different kinds of babies in this blog. The first is a picture of my future niece or nephew! My brother, Marco and his fiance, Shelly are having a baby! It's due in January. I can't wait!




Here is a picture of the other kind of baby. They're baby foxes! This guy who was parked next to me at work had them in the back of his truck. Apparently, he rescues wild animals and takes them to an animal services shelter. They were so cute!

Movie Update

I saw two more movies this week. The first was Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Movie (I saw it with my niece). It was super cute and historical. It was about a young girl living during the Great Depression era. It stars Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin. She looks so old in this movie! Anywho, it's a good one for any of the little darlings in your life.

The second movie I saw was The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale. He is super hot, too! Oh yeah, and this time, Rachel Dawes (Bruce Wayne's love interest) is played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. I think she did a better job than Katie Holmes. OH! I'm missing one of the best things about this film! Heath Ledger as the Joker!! He was so good and creepy. I was sad watching him, thinking it's such a shame he won't get to make great movies anymore. Yes, I loved him in Brokeback Mountain. :) Anywho again...Go see The Dark Knight! You won't be disappointed!

I'll keep you updated on anymore movies I see!
P.S. When did I become such a late night blogger???

Blowing Off Some Steam

So, I just had an annoying conversation with someone and I figured blogging might make me feel better (it's like writing in a journal) and since it's also been so long since I last posted, I thought it'd be a good idea. Although, what to write about, I'm not so sure.

Well, I guess I'll start by writing about some movies I've seen recently. Two of them are really good and one was horrible- almost as bad as when I saw Jeepers Creepers. I'll begin with the bad one. It's M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening. By the way, if you ever go see a movie with my friend Catherine, don't let her pick it (she picked this one and Cloverfield...enough said). Anywho, whatever you do, DON'T spend money on this movie. It sucks! I was warned, but I went anyway. It's pretty bad. We were laughing at how dumb it was...not getting scared.

Ok, on to the two good movies. The first is, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class). I don't care how old you are, this movie really is perfect for all ages. WALL-E is just so lovable. He just wanders the Earth alone everyday, doing his job, which is compacting the trash on Earth. Sometimes he finds things that are interesting to him, like a Rubik's Cube. Just go see this movie. My writing doesn't do it justice. You'll heart it!

The third and final movie I'll be writing about tonight is Wanted. It stars Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and the guy from The Last King of Scotland (I could easily look his name up, but I'm not since I provided you with the link). The story line is great and the acting is great. The Last King of Scotland guy (ok, I did it, his name is James McAvoy) plays his part so well. The movie really had me all anxious and on the edge of my seat the whole time. Go see it!

Oh wait! There's another movie I've seen fairly recently. Kung Fu Panda. I won't go into too much detail about this one. Just that Jack Black is so cute as pudgy panda bear, Po. There's a quote from this movie that I love. It's, "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present." I loved it so much, I made it my MySpace headline (dumb, I know).

So, obviously I've been on a movie kick lately. It's only going to get worse too, since I've recently become a member of Netflix again. They now let you watch movies instantly. How cool is that?!

So, thanks for letting me blow off my steam. It helped! :) Good night!

Another Hodgepodge of Sorts

Last week, Annah had a jewelry party so I got to hang out with my niece, Karlee. Look at her lips! She takes after her Aunt Lotty. :) You can't really tell in this picture, but she has her ears pierced too! I love it!

Ok, next, here's me on my last day of kindergarten. :( I'm reading a card from the kids and opening a gift from my cooperative teacher. I already miss the little darlings! That was last Friday though and I already got to see them today for a field trip to Capitol Aquarium. I forgot my camera, though. :( I'll see them in another two weeks too, for their kindergarten graduation. Can't wait!

Next day, Saturday, I had my credential program graduation. Here are some pictures. It was so much fun! Graduation was at Arco in the evening, then I went to Leatherby's for dinner, then downtown to celebrate.

Sunday night, I had a dinner at The Spaghetti Factory. After that, my friends and I went to R15 and Whiskey Wild to continue my graduation celebration.

Finally, here is Trevor giving his Akita, Chivas a bath. It was cute! Chivas is named after the alcohol, Chivas Regal, not the soccer team. (Trevor always tells people that, so I thought I'd share it too.)

On another note, I got "Carried away" last night and saw Sex and the City. I kinda had a love/hate relationship with it. (SMALL SPOILER ALERT!) I thought it showed Carrie and Miranda as way too forgiving. At the same time, I am happy with the ending. I don't know. If you're a die-hard SATC fan like me, you'll have to let me know what you think about it.

Camera Fun Part 2

I told you to frequent my blog to see more "camera fun" and I've pulled through. Here are two pictures and one video for you to enjoy (most of you will be creeped out by the last two "camera fun" items). I might be taking this camera stuff too far. You'll soon see why.

My little darlings and me.


This cockroach (or whatever it is) was getting eaten alive by ants! Trevor took this picture and it's like, the best picture ever. You can see all the individual legs of the ants!


Video of Trevor trying to put the cockroach out of its misery, complete with music and dialogue. The name of this video is, "Poor Lil' Bugga". Get it? :) Yes, one cockroach was harmed in the making of this video.


We'll soon see what the camera captures next!

Camera fun

I have a new camera. Well, I don't. But my Mom does. She's letting me use it though and I love it! I want one just like it. It's a Sony Cyber-shot, just like my old one, only this one is way better because it's 8.1 mega pixels. I've been playing with it a lot this past week, taking pictures and recording random video. Here are some of the pictures/video I've taken.

My decorated graduation cap. UTEC stands for Urban Teacher Education Center.

Our kindergarten classroom pets- silkworms.

Yes, those black things are silkworm poopies.

Silkworm video (I just had to.)

Our Ocean Life wall (The rainbow fish was my own lesson and the fish turned out great!)

There will definitely be more random pictures/video to come so come visit my blog more often. I'll probably post some pictures of my credential graduation coming up this Saturday.

Oh yeah, on another note...Nia, I just want to tell you how proud of you I am. Everytime I visit your class, I feel so proud. I really admire all you do in your teaching. Keep up the good work and please help me out when I get a job! :)

I'm done

Yay! My 2-week solo is finished! Only one week left until I'm a fully credentialed elementary teacher. Next week will be easy though because I don't have to teach much...Only about an hour each day. Also, it should be fun because I'm going to be observing other grades. I'm excited because I'll be observing another kindergarten and since I've been teaching this grade all semester, it'll be interesting to see how another teacher does it.

So, all in all, I'd say my solo went pretty well. However, there was only one really stressful day and it just happened to be today, my last day. It was not only the hardest day of my solo, but maybe the hardest all semester. The kids were crazy and because I had to stop and manage them so often throughout the day, I didn't finish all of what I had planned for the day. This was also the first time that happened. I felt like I was being so mean to them because they were acting so wild. We have story time each day, but that was one of the things we didn't get to today. One of my students asked, "Ms. Bautista, why didn't we read that book?" I said, "Because we were crazy today and we had to stop too many times so we didn't have enough time." I felt bad about this, but they were driving me crazy!

Anyway, I feel that my teaching career is off to a good start! I'm planning on applying to my school this fall because we have a kindergarten and first grade position opening up. There is also a long-term sub position because a teacher will be going on maternity leave. Wish me luck on getting a job!