Sunset at Hopi Cultural Center

Here are some photos I took when we switched drivers at the Hopi Cultural Center.  If you ever get the chance to go there by the way the food is excellent and the gift shop, while too expensive, is still worth seeing.  A few things like the pictures they sell there do have very good prices.  The internet at the hotel is also the best internet I've gotten at a hotel here in Arizona.

Cute/Fun Stuff

The baby's room is looking really good.  Xander Michael Paul Maynard will move into this fine cradle in just a few months.  We are very excited for this new addition to our home.  Pam really liked the name Paul and I wasn't too convinced.  I liked the meaning of Michael better.  Then, right after we found out that he was a boy the thought occurred to me, Michael Paul, those names sound good together.

His name, when you combine it all together, means Defender of men who is like God humble strong and hardy.

Xander - Defender of Men

Michael - Who is like God

Paul - Humble

Maynard - Strong and Hardy

I love the name, it is a very powerful name.

We tease the kitten that he has a crack problem.  Twin beds pushed together make our king size bed.  There is a crack between the beds where the kitten likes to be.  So here is what a kitten looks like when he's on crack.

Oh look, he's on another crack.  The kitten and Shadow have started to get used to each other and to get along.  Although sometimes the kitten is too hyper for Shadow's liking.  The kitten will even try to box with Shadow and my shoes.  The kitty loves to play, a little too much sometimes.  He will dive onto a random part of my body and bite.  This morning he decided to wake up Mom and Dad who are here visiting.  He flew from Dad's face to Mom, then from Mom to Dad's knees, and then flew off the bed.

Monthly projects dealing with culture are due at the end of every month in my Spanish classes.  I've been fiddling with the idea to do the same thing for History.  Here is one such event where a student made a pinata, filled with candy and everything.  I have a lot of those projects either up on my walls or stored to go up on my walls in the future.  This one won't make it on the walls but was certainly blog worthy.

This kid is brave, I have to admit, this kid is brave.

Big Spider

I decided not to get closer to this hairy two and half incher.  Didn't know we had tarantulas in Pinon.

Temple Trip

It was a fun trip with the branch and it was a great experience for those who went. The only way it could have been better would have been if Pam had been there.

Hopity Hope Hope

Here Hope plays with the kitten in the mirror.

Here Hope starts to look for the other kitten.

Homecoming Game

Pam and I were at the game excited for the kids but worried about the weather.  Pam and her friend Emma sang the National Anthem since the student that was supposed to do it never showed up.  Soon into the game it was 14 to zero, three timeouts had been used and it was pouring rain.  All that happened within half of the first quarter.  I quickly decided that this wasn't going to be a good enough game to be in the cold rain.  Before we left it was 20 to 0.

We won the game 54 to 16.  Considering how the other team was playing I was very surprised that they had scored any points at all.  My reaction was, "Good for them."  I am very happy for our team this year, they are 4 and 2.  If things continue the way they are this will be the best football season that Pinon has ever had.

Homecoming Parade

Pam was in charge of one of the best homecoming parades that Pinon High has ever had and I was able to drive the truck that had the Grand Marshals in it.

The truck below is the one I drove.  It's Pam's truck.  The kids had a lot of fun painting it though the paint didn't stick very well.