Merry Christmas!!!!

Hey guys hope everybody had a great Christmas !!!!

I miss All of y'all.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Julio, Carlos, Maria && I are all doing fine.

Julio is now working for Bank of America.

Carlos has left to San Marcos for school.

Maria && I are working hard at school.

We miss all of yall.

We will all come in together soon enough :)

For now.. enjoy more pics!!

Maria, Julio, Pam && I

yea.. idk wat went on here, but look at Carlos's face.
Priceless.

Siomara Marisela

Julio's daughter

My Goddaughter :)

Pictures from the banquet!!!!

Here are some pics frome the Banquet. Sorry it took me so long to get them on here.

We love you Pam!!!!
All of the awesome Hampton-Illinois teen volunteers and their awesome leader PAM!!!!

What is this about ? Sarah punching Sarah? Not a very nice way to say goodbye. :)

"Don't cry because it's over; Smile because it happened." --Dr. Seuss (and Pam)

A special Thanks to all of the staff of Hampton for providing a great meal and putting on the banquet!

Just wanted to say a personal thanks to all of the volunteers and staff for making my summer soooo special!!!

Rebecca

Hey everybody! Just wanted to say this summer at Hapmton was so awesome. Miss y'all. Thanks to everybody who helped make the volunteer program so fun!

Sarah :)

How's Everyone?

Hey everyone! It's Cindy! Well school feels like i never went on summer break! I like most of my classes and teachers. I have a bunch of homework. Well i guess that's just the way school is. I just wanted to say hi! So i guess that's it. Can't wait to meet up with everyone.

New Volunteer

Please welcome our newest volunteer, Chloetta Annalyse Anderson!

Volunteer Luncheon

Thanks again to everyone for helping with the volunteer luncheon, making it a special afternoon of great food, friends, family and thanks. Your energy, enthusiasm, creativity inspired me and the staff of Hampton each and every day this summer. Thanks for making my summer a total blast, for making the library a fun and exciting place to visit, and for sharing the joy of reading with so many kids!

As Dr. Seuss said....

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

Thanks for making it all happen!

p.s. if anyone has pictures to post, please share!!!

p.p.s. i'm trying to get videos copied, stay tuned!

I'm Back!!!

hello everyone this is Erika just sending some love....having a great time back @ the library

TODAY!!!

Today was really fun!!! I learned how to make buttons and I made them for almost everybody. Except after a while I couldn't get it to work. It made me so mad. But oh well. I also got to do storytime with Cindy and we read the "parts" books and made paper mr.potato head paper crafts. They were fun!!!

Rebecca :)

Lost or not?!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/business/02ping.html?_r=1

FUN!!!!!!!!!

Today I got to hold like part of a snake (EEEWWW)and cary an aligator outside (in a bucket) for the unhuggables progam it was totaly awsome. Then I got to be mean for the scary movie. (It was surprisingly fun :) I absolutly love being at the library.YAY for Hampton

Rebecca :-)

Really awesome morning

Wow! This has been an awesome morning. Today at 11:00 the "Unhuggables" were here. I actually held a snake!! Ok so Cynthia held most of it while I let it wrap its upper body around me. But hey, I don't normally like stuff like that so it was an accomplishment for me. (Actually it was really cool :)! After the program, a lady with really cute kids came to sign them up for the MSRP. It was so funny. When they were about to leave one of her little boys refused to leave the library until he had read 25 hours! He REALLY wanted his circus ticket!!! She finally convinced him that they needed to go home. It's great that kids want to read that much!
Hampton volunteers are awesome!
Sarah :D

Wow! This has been a really looooong day! It's also been really fun! So this morning we worked on rehearsing the puppet show. I'm not actually in it but Pam made me the head critic :). It was so awesome to have permission to boss and criticize everybody!!! :) No but seriously all of the puppeteers are absolutely amazing. We did several rehersals and then at 1:30 the Lopez kids came over to watch and then give their opinions of the puppet show. Of course, they loved it! Afterwards Julio, Harry, and Carlos started singing and dancing. They're crazy!! It was hilarious when Harry made a puppet out of Carlos. All of us girls were embarrassed to do anything but we had fun watching. I can't wait for the puppet show tommorow.
Hampton volunteers are awesome!
Sarah {:D

...MY FINGERS ARE ALL RAINBOWY

Don't you hate it when technology just seems hates you?

Okay so yesterday we (Me,Maria,Mariana, and Pam) were going to watch a movie. Simple task, right? Wrong!!!! We tryed EVERYTHING!!! First the dumb laptops wouldn't connect to the InFocus machine. We tryed three different laptops. THREE!! Then we decided to just use a DVD player and coonect to another projector but the movie still wouldn't play. Pam said that the movie better be worth all this trouble because we were only going to be able to see a few minutes because setting this thing up was taking forever. I kind of laughed but I agreed with her. So we finally decided to ask one of the librarians to help us with it and he figured it out. We were so happy! It was funny though because then we only got to see like the first ten minutes of the movie because it was time to go and the library was closing. So yeah, technology sometimes sucks. But what can I say, sometimes that's the way life is.
-Cindy

Crazy Mexicans && all their Dang-On kids.

Today i met Carlos. No but today him && i were at the MSRP table when this mexican lady came up to us with all these thousands of Reading Logs. We were like OMGOSH!! Ahh.. and then funny thing is we only had enough supplies exactly for the number of kids she had. We had to refuel. And then when we fiinally gave her all the stuff i had forgotten to give her back the logs and i was all stressing out about it but then i realized that they had finish. What a relief.
-Ivette

July 17

Today...I liked it very much. I met a ton of new people who were extremely awesome! lol. We had been able to set up the Wii to the over head and played a bunch of games on it. As nearing the end, we had a fun group of teens. Everyone seemed to have been enjoying their time. Pics will hopefully be upload soon onto here. :D Can't wait for Monday....another Game Day. :D
---Had a Fun Day!!
-Chi :)

Storytime!!!!!

I did Storytime today and it was really fun I can't wait to do it again.Some kids even came back for more stories. It really made my day!!!! :D Sorry I don't have any pictures. :(

Rebecca

harry & carlos storytime debut!

rockin' good time had by all with Leonardo the Terrible Monster, by Mo Willems, and Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

interesting article about information future....

Atlantic Monthly

FIREMEN!!!!!

ok the firemen were awsom today I absolutly loved them :)!!!!!!!!!
The paramedics were great too.To bad they had to leave so soon.:(
I learned how to do the sound stuff today that was exciting and it gave me a great veiw of the program.

Rebecca

MSRP-READ ON!

Dallas Museum of Art Presents "Go Van Gogh!"

Puppet Love

While planning for the puppet show, Ivette and Daisha fall in love....

...umm...

It was hot outside today. ugh. i had to ride my bike to the library...again. not the first time. but i tend to complain frivolously. But anyway... there was an astronomy program today. o_e wow. it was so cool! -.-" yeah a billion slides of fun on a powerpoint. and not to mention the highlight of the event. we all got buttons. haha. button. funny word. anyway. it was still cool. hanging out with chi, ty, lupe, and a girl i just met. her name was something with an m. so i'll just call her emm. SORRY EMM!!!! I FORGOT YOUR NAME!!! there's was this cute guy too. but i can only look...i can't touch. :D cause i have ricky. lol. well now ricky, aren't you just special? you get mentioned in this blog post. Ivette. [[there i mentioned you too]] ;) jk. well see ya! i'm texting my bloodsucker friend, caius. [[mentioned you too!!!]]

-Bells

Random Days at the Library :D

Ivette - July 8

Wow. Today was a looong day. Harry, Maria && I took the bus && train ALL the way downtown to the Central Library to pick up some puppets for the puppet show coming up. Boy was it HOTT!! All I thought about on our way was the cold Dr.Pepper in my bag, begging for me to drink it. But I didn't because I knew I wouldnt finish it by the time we got to the library. Plus that meant I had to hold something else in my hand other than my purse. Did I forget to mention about the super cute guy sitting next to Harry on the train?? Well when we got on, Harry sat next to him && Maria && I sat in the seat besides Harry. Me and Maria came up with a lame excuse to talk to him. We "needed" a pen && he happened to have one :] lol. So he let us (well Harry because he asked) borrow one, but Maria && I gave it back to him, but this time we were sitting behind them since the seat got empty a few min later. After that, he wasn't as cute any more. Only from a distance. So sad :( lol. Omgosh!! On our way back from the library, Harry && I were carrying some red boxes filled with puppets, while maria's loser self just carried the purses && the wolf puppet, to the station. Well Harry went to this restaurant to order some food && while he was in there... Maria && I decided to prank him by getting on the other side of the train station to make him think the train && us left him. Man, you should have seen his face!! One of the most terrified, confused faces ever!! His eyes just opened up wide && he looked so hard. But then we caught his attention. Ahh.. Classic :]
buah hahahahahahahaha
toodlesz!!

manager meeting

I was asked to attend a Manager's meeting this afternoon to share best practices on providing teens resources and services that will bring them to the Library. I chose to focus on teen volunteerism at Hampton due to the fabulous teen spirit being shared with our community this summer. Instead of sharing my thoughts on why teens enjoy volunteering, I asked both staff and volunteers to tell me why....well, actually not me, but Chi! Chi interviewed staff and volunteers and the words that came up most from staff were: Teens bring creativity, life and fresh ideas to our work! The theme for why teens enjoy volunteering is a belief they can inspire others to read, something fun to be involved in, and to not be bored at home during the summer!

After I presented the feedback I asked to take a few pictures in order to share with the teens on their blog, so here is your management team!

Teen Meeting Today

There will be a quick teen meeting today, around a little after noon or so. FRIDAY, SATURDAY &&&& MONDAY-THE LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED. :)
Have a great July the 4th

Police Department :)

June 25

Hmm, today? It was pretty low key, I liked it, went pretty well as usual. We gained three new volunteers today. I made the brochure to the Teen Center Events, but when i got home, I found out that I didn't save it correctly. I sure did learn a lesson. Be sure to post an entry about your day :D
Have a happy Friday tomorrow :D
---SillyChi

MSRP

MSRP has had some great sighnups!!!!
OK A funny story.A little girl came to sighn up and she was soooo excited but she didn'tknow all of her information so she asked her brother for help.He just got mad at her for not asking first.So shd didn't sighn up.Two days later she came back to sighn up.She was all excited again.So this time she knew all her information and really sighned up.She was so excited and had a ton of questions. She asked when she could do it, and if she could do it when she is old.My reply was "well you aren't going to get old this summer .Are you???"So we finnaly answered all of her questions and she left .But not for good she was back in a second to ask another question."How do you know I actually read it"I said "We don't but it's not verry nice to lie".She said "oh I won't I was just wondering."then she left again.but then she was back for the last time and with an adorable smile she said "Bye I going home to read!!!!!!!!!!"

Happy 18th Bday