Dear Mrs. Walton,
Thank you for teaching me! I couldn't have asked for a better teacher than you! Your such a great teacher because your not like other teachers your "EXTRAordinary!" And I remember at the beginning you said you didn't want to be like other teachers. You wanted to be different. And the first time I wrote you in my reading response journal I said I like that your different. You will always be my favorite teacher. Hope you have a good time in California! Keep in touch on Facebook!
Love,
Destiny S.
p.s. I'll miss u!
Dear Mrs. Walton,
You are an amazing, great, awesome, good teacher because, you make learning fun. Your caring, your nice. You do so much awesome things. You make learning easier to understand. Everything you do is fun to me. You don't make us do a lot of hw. To be honest I thought learning this year was going to be very hard with learning. Thank you for putting extra time into music, learning, and the video's. I love the video of the day. Thanks for everything you have done. Good luck!!
Sincerely,
Mariah M.
Dear, Mrs. Walton
You are an awesome teacher because you are always in a great mood and are so happy every day, and I like when your grandma gives us cookies and other things. You are really nice and make shure we are learning. You try your best in everthing you do and you try to teach us to do our best in all we do! You are the best teacher I'v every had!! You try to make work fun. Have fun in California!
Love,
Aliya B.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
A List of Things to Come
Yes, this is a blog post about things I need to blog about. Redundant, but important, because sometimes I sit down and completely forget what I was going to write about.
1. New job
2. America's Got Talent
3. CF photo shoot
4. Valentine's Day
5. Super Bowl Party
1. New job
2. America's Got Talent
3. CF photo shoot
4. Valentine's Day
5. Super Bowl Party
Monday, February 6, 2012
Tinkerbell Half Marathon
I am a runner. I don't love it. In fact, most of the time I really have to gear myself up for it. But I just finished my 5th half-marathon, so I don't think I can avoid calling myself a runner anymore.
On January 29, I ran the Tinkerbell Half-Marathon at Disneyland. It was by far the best half experience I have ever had. Oh my goodness, it was amazing!! Disney definitely does it RIGHT. The race was so well organized. I never felt lost or frustrated at how things were set up. I was able to get my race packet and shirt with no problems. During race day, there were hundreds of very friendly volunteers that made everyone really excited for the race. Each corral had its own big screen, so you could follow along with the start of each corral. The first 3 miles were through Downtown Disney and Disneyland, and a bunch of characters were out, and you could stop and get pictures with them. The lost boys and Captain Hook were riding the carousel. :) You also run "behind the scenes" for some of it, and they had all of the trains and classic cars out, with the conductors in their full garb, ringing the bells and cheering. The train engineers were out, too, tooting the engine horns for us. They also had some of the Halloween decor out and lit up, and the Christmas stuff, too. The middle part of the race we ran through downtown Anaheim. Lots of fans out and about, cheering us on. Not as many as the Pig (when there's nice weather), but still a lot. Then, the last 2 miles we ran through California Adventure. Again, more characters out, and they had all the rides going. They had a big grandstand set up at the finish line, and people were everywhere. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Chip, and Dale were at the finish line. I heard Goofy was there, too, but I didn't see him. There is a HUGE family reunion area with all kinds of yummies to eat, and a big stage where they did the awards later. The medal is amazing. Really big, and really heavy. Makes my marathon medal look tiny in comparison!
People running the race were all dressed up. I wore wings and a tutu, and was totally comfortable--and definitely fit in! Even the guys that ran were dressed up. A few dressed as Peter Pan, and a whole bunch were dressed in tutus and wings! :) The girl who won the half was wearing a tutu and wings--pretty impressive.
Overall, it was my favorite race I have ever done. You definitely don't go for time--there's too many people, and too much to see. But it is so. much. fun. (I also got my 2nd best time ever, which is great, since I didn't train very well!)
Here are a few photos I took with my phone (hence the bad quality). The first is the shuttle on the way to the race:
In my starting corral, waiting for the start:
Got someone to take a picture of me at the beginning:
Oh! Forgot to mention I saw Sean Astin! He was running in the race, too. He's in marathon training, and mentioned that he did a 20-mile practice run on Wednesday (insane!). I passed him when I started the race--then found out he finished 20 minutes ahead of me. The guy is a beast!!
So cool running down Main Street before the sun rose:
Post-race!
The only negative part of the whole day was that Nick missed me crossing the finish! He took a shuttle from the hotel, and it got stuck in traffic and he missed it. :( Thankfully he brought the camera and took a few pictures post-race.
Here are my wings--and you can see the people in the background dressed up, too.
At the medal podium:
Went back by the starting line to get some pictures.
On January 29, I ran the Tinkerbell Half-Marathon at Disneyland. It was by far the best half experience I have ever had. Oh my goodness, it was amazing!! Disney definitely does it RIGHT. The race was so well organized. I never felt lost or frustrated at how things were set up. I was able to get my race packet and shirt with no problems. During race day, there were hundreds of very friendly volunteers that made everyone really excited for the race. Each corral had its own big screen, so you could follow along with the start of each corral. The first 3 miles were through Downtown Disney and Disneyland, and a bunch of characters were out, and you could stop and get pictures with them. The lost boys and Captain Hook were riding the carousel. :) You also run "behind the scenes" for some of it, and they had all of the trains and classic cars out, with the conductors in their full garb, ringing the bells and cheering. The train engineers were out, too, tooting the engine horns for us. They also had some of the Halloween decor out and lit up, and the Christmas stuff, too. The middle part of the race we ran through downtown Anaheim. Lots of fans out and about, cheering us on. Not as many as the Pig (when there's nice weather), but still a lot. Then, the last 2 miles we ran through California Adventure. Again, more characters out, and they had all the rides going. They had a big grandstand set up at the finish line, and people were everywhere. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Chip, and Dale were at the finish line. I heard Goofy was there, too, but I didn't see him. There is a HUGE family reunion area with all kinds of yummies to eat, and a big stage where they did the awards later. The medal is amazing. Really big, and really heavy. Makes my marathon medal look tiny in comparison!
People running the race were all dressed up. I wore wings and a tutu, and was totally comfortable--and definitely fit in! Even the guys that ran were dressed up. A few dressed as Peter Pan, and a whole bunch were dressed in tutus and wings! :) The girl who won the half was wearing a tutu and wings--pretty impressive.
Overall, it was my favorite race I have ever done. You definitely don't go for time--there's too many people, and too much to see. But it is so. much. fun. (I also got my 2nd best time ever, which is great, since I didn't train very well!)
Here are a few photos I took with my phone (hence the bad quality). The first is the shuttle on the way to the race:
In my starting corral, waiting for the start:
Got someone to take a picture of me at the beginning:
So cool running down Main Street before the sun rose:
Post-race!
The only negative part of the whole day was that Nick missed me crossing the finish! He took a shuttle from the hotel, and it got stuck in traffic and he missed it. :( Thankfully he brought the camera and took a few pictures post-race.
Here are my wings--and you can see the people in the background dressed up, too.
At the medal podium:
Went back by the starting line to get some pictures.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Books to Read
These are the 100 books on my list to read this year. The average American has only read 6 of these. The titles in BOLD are books I have already read. (to be technical, yes, #4 is actually 7 books, #14 is over 30 plays, and #33 and 36 go together. I didn't make this list!)
I am currently reading #3. I have a MAJOR Brit Chick Lit obsession.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I am currently reading #3. I have a MAJOR Brit Chick Lit obsession.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Weekly Hikes
I have been doing weekly hikes with my friend Melissa for the last month or so. I enjoy spending time with her and her little man, Alex. This week, I brought the boys with me, and Melissa realized she had to bring her girls with her. I was nervous, because Waldo tends to not be dog-friendly. But I introduced them in a controlled, calm-submissive environment, and he did great! Melissa's girls, Bella and Allie, are such great dogs, and it was nice to be able to spend the morning with ALL of our kids!
Typically we eat lunch after our hikes, but with all 5 of our kids, we decided to skip it this week. :) We went to the NIKE-Ajax site, which is one of my favorite local hikes. Excited to explore more of the LA area with my new friend!
Typically we eat lunch after our hikes, but with all 5 of our kids, we decided to skip it this week. :) We went to the NIKE-Ajax site, which is one of my favorite local hikes. Excited to explore more of the LA area with my new friend!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Notes from Kids - February
Dear Mrs. Walton,
I love how you let us do fun things insted of makeing us read from a big book, or making us do worksheets. You make the school smile and laugh. I will miss you so much. I hope you can find a house in CA before you move down there. You are the best teacher I've ever had! You make me excited to go to school and learn.
Love
Abby
Dear Mrs. Walton,
You are the best any your only getting better. You take pride in everything you do. You show respect to me and my friends. And when we come to school, you rock the day away!
Signed,
Joe T.
Dear Mrs. Walton,
This was my first year having you as a teacher and by far are the coolist and the most funniest teacher ever. When you go I will miss you a TON! I love the way you teach us!
<3,
Logan C
You are the Best teacher EVER
I will miss u
Twibutawy
I love how you let us do fun things insted of makeing us read from a big book, or making us do worksheets. You make the school smile and laugh. I will miss you so much. I hope you can find a house in CA before you move down there. You are the best teacher I've ever had! You make me excited to go to school and learn.
Love
Abby
Dear Mrs. Walton,
You are the best any your only getting better. You take pride in everything you do. You show respect to me and my friends. And when we come to school, you rock the day away!
Signed,
Joe T.
Dear Mrs. Walton,
This was my first year having you as a teacher and by far are the coolist and the most funniest teacher ever. When you go I will miss you a TON! I love the way you teach us!
<3,
Logan C
You are the Best teacher EVER
I will miss u
Twibutawy
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