What??

So about a week ago someone came to me at school (one of my LDS band kids) and told me that someone scratched "I love Ian Cobb" into the bathroom stall at church. How funny.

Our school resource police officer here at BMHS (Paul Dunn) is also in our bishopric. He came and talked to me today to see if I'd heard about it. Evidently they also scratched a pair of lips into the stall and wrote "kiss me." The bishopric had a good laugh about it at their meeting last night. Bishop said, "Well, he is a ladies man."

It's strange, because you see things like that at school or in a public restroom, but I've never seen it done at church. Paul said they don't even know if they can paint over it because it's scratched in so deep.

I'm not ready for this!!

I'll try to sneak a camera into the bathroom Sunday to see if I can take a picture of it. If I do, I'll post it.

Improve the Shining Moments

I really love my job. It gives me a great deal of satisfaction to know that I'm making a difference.

Today was a "teacher in service" day--normally pretty lame for me. Today we started working on the process of accreditation for our school. Basically, it's what we have to do to ensure that our students' credits are accepted...it proves that we're a viable school. Whatever...

Anyway, we're starting a new "cycle," and there's a new process we have to do. As a result, we're doing everything different, including a new set of chair people (or is it chairpersons?) As a way to get the ball rolling and remind us why we were doing this, she had us write down three of "shining moments" we've had as teachers.

Here were my three:
1. I love it when the students start to really love the music. When I first hand out a piece of music, they don't especially like it. They hate it if it's hard. I love the moment when they start to feel successful and then start to really love the music.

2. I love it when one of my students asks me what they need to do to become a band director. They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery, and this is very true!

3. I love my students' faces after a concert, when I can look them in the eyes and know that they feel good about what they've accomplished.

After the meeting, I returned to my room and was working in my office when a former student walked in. He graduated 2 years ago, and we had a pretty good relationship when he was in the band. He's a goofy guy who has had his fair share of ups and downs.

He gave me an invitation to his wedding in July. I was so excited for him. He looked so happy...he has a plan for his future, and I'm really glad. We ended up talking for about an hour and a half--just talking. It was great...another "shining moment."

Here's to more "shining moments" in the future!

Life on the farm, part 2 (the sequel)

Courtnie is afraid to pick up her goat herself, but she'll hold it if Ian gives it to her.
Ian loves having the responsibility of taking care of his pet.

He gets up at 5:45 every morning to feed him--I don't even have to ask twice!

A few of our chickens. You can't hear it, but the rooster was crowing right when I took this picture. We hate the rooster, but don't have the heart to kill it. Maybe someday...
The goats are really playful, and the kids love being with them.

Life on the farm

Here is Ian getting the bottles ready for the goats.

They have to be fed three times a day, and boy do they love it!
Okay, so I didn't mean for this photo to be in with these photos, but here's Courtnie with her HUGE gap where her two front teeth used to be. She lost one on March 20 and the other exactly a week later. The first one Gordon had to pull out with pliers--it was SO wiggly and she refused to pull it out. The second one came out in her Taco Bell taco! How strange! :)
This is our "big boy" goat--Basil.
Speaking of big boys, here's Ian feeding our two baby goats. Left goat is Midnight and the right goat is Spot. Midnight is Ian's goat, Spot is Courtnie's.
They CHOW DOWN on the milk! It's gone in less than a minute!