Sidney's T-Ball

Sidney has been loving Baseball! I recieved my mommy's day gift, an awesome camcorder on Wed and Thur i used it to take some home movies of Sid's game. Here is the end result.
Tell me what you think!

History history History

Ok So as y'all all know i'm a BIG time history nerd and is currently in my last hisrtory class before recieving both my 8-12 History Teaching Certification and a Bachlor's in history. My class is 3390, Historical Research. In this class i have to write a 20 page research paper over any topic. I love the Tudor Dynasty so naturally i was drawn to it, also i wrote a bunch of papers over it last semester with Dr. Gwin.

My biggest problem is trying to find enough Primary Sources for her reign and her nickname 'Bloody Mary'. I would like to explore why and how she recieved that nickname. I would love to talk about how the commoners  saw her at the start, during, and end of her reign. I have found a few books that look VERY promising, but i'm always looking for more.

Family Pictures

For my christmas gift to my mother in law I had the whole family take pictures. I was able to get Janis Ryan from PNG to take them for me and she did a wonderful job! Here are my Favs

It's 2011!!!!!!

Well 2010 is done and 2011 is here. Time flies so much faster now than it had when i was young.
Well here is a summery of what happened to the Bertrands during the second half of 2010, since i last posted ( i know it was awhile back wasn't it)
Well Of course the biggest news is that I'm Certified to Teach 8-12th grade History..... Not! ... Some how i have missed one history class. This class is Historical Research... more on this later.

-But I did finish my Student Teaching, which I truly L-O-V-E-D! I was at PNG- Port Neches Groves

Go Indians

High School. My master teacher was Mrs. Nichols who teaches U.S. History (11th graders) and is the head sponsor to the Indianetts (their Drill Team). The kids at... i mean young adults ;) at PNG are great and made the semester very memorable for me, oddly i have no pictures though, Ohh well. I may not Bleed Purple i did enjoy them. Afterall i was able to experience the biggest Rivary in Texas... well second according to Foxsports... they even have a website dedicated to the game http://midcountymadness.com/ too funny, right?? Well it pulls you in and I loved it!! GO INDIANS!!!
 I was able to be the Sub for my classes as soon as I finished student teaching. The students were all i little shocked to see me thinking that i had finished the day before, Nice surprise... although with me they had to work and could not get away with as they could a normal Sub. Now i just need a Job to open up at PNG and I would be very happy... a job that isn't connected with any coaching ;)

-I also took an extra class while student teaching, an Independent Study class with Dr. Gwin. We picked to do 8 papers on Mary I. We ended up with 6 and decided that we had done enough on the subject. As most of you know I'm a BIG fan of the Tudor age in English History and having this as a subject made it more interesting. I'm very thankful to Dr. Gwin for doing this with me and i learned a lot about Mary Tudor that i did not know before. I really feel sorry for her and the obstacles in life that were placed before her, how can you not.

- Lets see what else happened, Ty and I had our 5th anniversary, I just can not believe that its been 5 years!!!! Man i feel old....



 Dec 09- David and Angie with baby Elizabeth

 - The Month... well Week that Sucked!!!! The week of November 17th was the worse week imaginable. On my way home from work at PNG i got into an accident totally my wonderful Yaris. When I finally got home around 6ish i learned of the death of my cousin Davey. I just could not believe it.. still can't... I pray for god's guidance. Some of my students noticed the change the next few days and i had to really try to keep myself under control. But i totally lost in in church the following Sunday, and I mean l-o-s-t it. David was and is a great man which i wish i had keep it contact with more than i had... I was able to see him Dec '09 for his wedding, and I am thankful for that.
This same week my brother in law Marc also got into a wreck and my older sister's car committed suicide (although it did get better)... it was a crazy time.

-Christmas this year was great!!! We actually drove up and saw my folks for Christmas and quickly came home the same day... in my new car. Its a Hundai Eantra 08! I love it!
Well the Kids recieved more toys than we know what to do with, so for Sid's 4th birthday we will be headed out to Rusk to ride the train and not buy him more than a couple gifts.

-And for New Years we just went to bed.. i know it makes me sound like an old fuddy duddy... ohh well ;)