It's not much but it's mine and it's great to finally feel that way about a school.
Check out my teacher page at www.dysart.org -> Schools -> Elementary Schools - El Mirage Elementary School Page -> Teacher pages -> and look for my name.
Ok so i am doing this grave yard project and part of it is knowing the ethnicity of all the people so i found this web site that tells you surnames and their meanings. they didn't have rench but they did have wrench and her is what it had to say about that:
There are some very interesting surnames and this is one of them! In our opinion the surname is in a sense 'job descriptive'. It definitely derives from an Olde English pre 7th century word 'wrenc', and this word always translates as 'trick'or 'wile'. It was probably applied to a magician, one who performed acts of magic, and probably in the popular travelling theatres of those early times. However 'The middle ages' were also a period when robust humour was at its peak, and people were often given 'nicknames' which would not be acceptable by modern standards. It is therefore possible that the original meaning was 'a bit of a lad'. Many of these surnames are to be found in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, although 'Wrench' as far as we know is not one of them. What is also interesting is that the name has retained its original spelling over the many centuries, although it is sometimes recorded as 'Wrinch'. Early recordings include Edwin Wrench in the Norfolk county pipe rolls of the year 1199 in the reign of King John, which John Wrench is recorded in the register of Cambridge University for the year 1585. A coat of arms was granted to the Wrench family of the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire in 1588. This has the blazon of a red field, charged with three gold cross crosslets in bend. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Alnodus Wrench, which was dated 1176, in the pipe rolls of the county of Devon, during the reign of King Henry 11, known as 'The church builder', 1154 - 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
hope you all enjoyed that as much as i did.
love you all
shannon
Which one do you like. I think I'm going to use one for an invitation thing. Plus i'm bringing some home to give out but I only have a few right now.
I hope all of you are having a great Thanksgiving Day. Wish I could be there... I'll be thinking of you and will call later. See you in a month from tomorrow.
i just thought i would tell you all that i can switching my email to supercoolshannon@gmail.com
i decided that i didn't like my yahoo one anymore because i get about 300 spam messages a day, and that is irritating.
so yeah
new email
spread the word
thanks
These are the rings we got. I am so very excited to have them now. Matt really likes his and I love mine but the pictures really don't do it justice. We have 8 months left until the whole thing happens. So what do you guys think?
here are some pictures of me and chris at the harry potter club halloween party, needless to say it was pretty sweet. i hape you all enjoy the pictures. oh and also last week me and kristen decided to make a fort in our living room so here are pictures of that too. we called the fort candy mountian. in tribute to charlie the unicorn.
Its just sad I could barely open the driver's side door when it happened and the hood was folded in half. Honestly as accidents go it really doesn't look that bad. Matt now realizes that even if they had straightend the frame out it would have been weak. I miss it after the 5 years I spent with it I feel like I have lost an old friend, good memories, and Otto hair. I am now making a new friend that will have more good memories and no dog hair because Rosco does not shead. So here are the pictures I promised Dad. I hope they fill in some blanks.
This is my new car and its pretty cool. I like it alright. It feels so HUGE! Matt loves it and he loves the color. I wanted something a little more unusual, like orange or purple. I don't think they make them that color. Oh well. You'll all get to see it when we come up in July! (or come here in July).
shannon and i are here at school, as we have been.
here are some photos of our exploits in the fountain, before the weather turned cold:
(cut it out! you and your dirty minds!)
or better yet, i think they're dressing me up in drag for the halloween party on thursday. there's bound to be some photographic evidence of that.
but shannon and i have a pasttime of wandering around the ravines and taking pictures, so i'll do my best to drag us both out there and get some pictures before the weather drops below freezing.
Matt talked me into standing at the edge. It only happend a few times and I back up to the fence so I wouldn't look down. It gave me virtigo.
This is my little guy. He's at the sitter right now because Matt and I will be gone He has work and I have class so we thought it would be nice for him to have a little vacation. He needs it, it was so hard for him to go back into his pen after my fall break was over. He's a good boy.
I think this could be fun. We can post pictures to each other and stuff. Plus its a good way to see what everyone is doing when we're far away...
Love, Erin
