Back to School

Well, Monday was our first day back to school and we have hit the ground running!  James is back at the grind with 5th grade and I have subbed the last 2 days in 2nd grade!  It has been interesting and fun!  Since they are coming back from break it has been a fairly easy two days!  We are hoping the teacher is back tomorrow!  Her husband had surgery and was supposed to go home from the hospital today!  

Among other news, my volleyball team is looking good and excited about their first game next Tuesday!  They got their jerseys today and that was really exciting for them!  

Yesterday, near the end of volleyball practice, we noticed a large plume of smoke coming from the other side of the building! ¬†So being the curious girls that we are we all went running to the fence! ¬†One of James’ students mothers had pulled into the parking lot and the engine of her van was on fire! ¬†Fred, Daniel Henry, and Eric go running over there with fire¬†extinguishers¬†and a few minutes later we hear sirens! ¬†Yes, the fire department came to Bethel and put out the fire! ¬†there was a huge plume of thick, black smoke and then the sky went clear! ¬†For the next 30 minutes the fire men tore the van apart to make sure the were no hot spots! ¬†Because of were the fire was nobody could come in or go out of the parking lot! ¬†It made for am exciting evening! ¬†Thankful nobody was injured! ¬†I should have a link to the school’s web-site with the news story soon! ¬†

Yesterday was a great day for Steve and Sarah Jones!  Sarah gave birth to Chase Danger Jones!  Yes, that is his name!  He was 8lbs and some odd ozs and 20in long!  Our Congratulations go out to them!  :)

So besides all of this we have had a fairly uneventful week! ¬†Well I guess James’ birthday is important! ¬†On Sunday, James turned 23. ¬†I threw a small party for him on Saturday night because his mom, Ruth, and my parents were all able to visit us! ¬†On Sunday, Mom A took James, Ruth and I to Red Robin for lunch! ¬†Other than that life has been normal! :) ¬†Ummm Define Normal!!!! ¬†:) ¬†lol Life is going great and God is good

Well I hope you all have a great week!

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11 Responses to “Back to School”

  1. Daniel says on January 7th, 2009 at 1:25 am :

    how can you mention a car fire in the parking lot and uneventful week in the same post. that doesn’t make any sense. :)

  2. james says on January 7th, 2009 at 9:04 am :

    good point daniel.

  3. Becka says on January 7th, 2009 at 9:51 am :

    lol Yeah, good point, but that is my sister for you! lol Love you Renae, and I enjoyed the update regardless of the alleged contradiction. :)

  4. Renae says on January 7th, 2009 at 11:23 am :

    Well It wasn’t my car! :)

  5. Becka says on January 7th, 2009 at 11:38 am :

    true, but still, lol.

  6. jamespashton says on January 7th, 2009 at 12:48 pm :

    I’m very glad it wasn’t our truck. but sad it was one of my students. keep them in your prayers!

  7. Jen says on January 9th, 2009 at 2:47 pm :

    His name is not Chase Danger, are you serious? Sheesh, poor kid!!!
    lol, my coworkers almost caught the place on fire yesterday. We were on east campus for a day long event and were eating lunch catered by sergios (yum!) and one of my coworkers took off the paper from a plate of food and it fell down below the cooker and into the fire. When i looked across the table, there were these flames leaping up from the table and I was like “oh my goodness, they are going to catch us on fire!” But somehow they managed to put it out. It smelled like a bonfire after that!

  8. Becka says on January 9th, 2009 at 2:55 pm :

    Very funny, Jen! Sergios, yum. lol And my husband said the same thing about the name.

  9. Renae says on January 9th, 2009 at 9:49 pm :

    i think everyone said the same thing about the name! At least he can say, ” Danger is my middle name!” lol but Chase Danger is a little extreme! :) oh well it isn’t my child!

  10. Jen says on January 10th, 2009 at 1:28 pm :

    They might have jinxed him with that name! :)

  11. Becka says on January 12th, 2009 at 12:06 pm :

    lol about the name comments. :)