Penny’s birthday

This morning I went with Alec and Kelly to get pedicures. Alec got a fancy one so we had lots of time to talk. After we went to Val’s and ate and hung out until Penny’s party.

Everyone went to Coin Crazy. The kids had a great time running around! It was fun to have everyone there and celebrating together.

After the party I went to Dani’s and Penny and I made a paint splatter device and made some pictures. 

Dani, Jenna, Hannah and I went out for ramen this evening. That was fun too. I sure love those girls. (All my kiddos of course)

Ezra is so cute. He toddles around and is the sweetest little guy. He likes me to hold him and to give him snuggs. 

Whenever I am in Utah I wish I lived here and that we could spend time together regularly. I am grateful for the time we do get though and I really try to keep my focus on that feeling of gratitude. 

 

We love weddings!

 

Wedding weekend!

Craziest week. I worked on Tuesday. Tuesday night was book club. Wednesday morning I had to take off and go to the dentist to get a crown on a tooth that had been hurting me (still hurts), then Wednesday night was mutual. 

Today I flew to Utah for Kenzie’s wedding. (Let’s review a some of the things I don’t like: going to the dentist, flying)

Anyway I landed and it’s awesome to be here. It happens to be Penny’s birthday today, her golden birthday! We made cupcakes and she opened presents! So much fun!

Jenna and Hannah went dress shopping and o got to hang out with the three little ones for awhile, then Papa and Grandma came over and Greg got home…then everyone got home. It was a fun afternoon.

After celebrating we went to the church to help Brandon’s

mom decorate for the family luncheon. That was also fun. I enjoy the prep part of big events.

 This is us practicing “Fancy Like” and it’s something!

Labor day

Nothing like a Monday off to make one happy:)

We were going to go to the beach but Jon got his new boat and asked Rob to go fishing. Of course he wanted to go so I said to go. 

It was a hot long day on the water. I guess the boat was fun but the fish weren’t biting. 

Meanwhile Grace had Loki. We went to run a couple of errands and then walked around disney springs. She had homework and I had lesson plans and sub plans to make so we only stayed a couple hours and then we came home. 

I have always enjoyed being home. Especially now I feel like I rarely am and I welcome it. There are always chores to do, books to read, things to bake. 

I sat outside this evening with my book and enjoyed the more moderate weather. I like listening to the bugs and frogs and the dinosaur like calls of the sandhill cranes at dusk. I like watching the lizards climbing on the screen and putting my feet in the cool water. 

Ethan hurt his ankle this week. It is a repeat injury. He said it doesn’t hurt to walk on so even though it looks bad it’s probably okay. 

 

Weekend

 

Saturday morning Janice and I went to help set up for Marissa’s wedding. It turned out so beautiful and it was fun to help. 

Next I went grocery shopping and got a flu shot. 

Rob and I cleaned up and then I had work to do. Progress reports are due. After I figured out everyone’s grades I emailed the parents of the kids that are not doing well. That took forever.

When I was done Rob and I took dinner to a family who had a new baby. Then we prepared a Sunday school lesson for today since we were substitutes.

Grace had band all morning and it was hot and sweaty! Then she had a lesson and in the evening she went to Kaylynns to hang out.

Today she is babysitting Loki (Lincoln’s younger brother). She and Katie also went with Belle to her youth group. 

Rain

There was traffic on the way home from work, for literally the first time since I started teaching there. 

And there was rain. 

And a game we were missing.

But we went to the temple anyway and it was so nice. So good to be back! The chandeliers sparkled a little extra, and the smiles hidden by masks beamed brightly, the peaceful feeling I love was there and it was a sweet night. 

Meanwhile the rain didn’t cancel the game but it did cancel the band:( They we’re all dressed up with nowhere to go and we’re feeling sad about it.

Luckily some Coldstone could turn those frowns upside down and it looks like they had fun!

 

As planned 🤣

Life never goes as planned. Just throwing that out there. My plan for the mornings is get up, pray, get ready for the day, listen to the BOM on the drive to work and then work (obviously). Today I got to work and got to my desk when I saw this picture on my phone and realized I forgot step 1. Luckily I had time before class was going to start so I prayed then. I believe that Heavenly Father is disappointed in me when I forget. I know He is there and hears and answers my prayers, since I know this if I don’t do it it slides into the category of sins I need to repent of. I was grateful for the gentle reminder. 

These two had their first ballet class today! How cute is that?!!

3rd period, right after lunch, I was standing at my door greeting the kids as they came in. It’s typically a rowdy time of day, they have just eaten and are energized that time of day. (7th period is also rowdy…everyone is ready to go home!) Anyway Ms Ius (the API) came up and said mind if I visit? Then I had a surprise “informal” observation. I had no idea but fortunately  I had a fun lesson planned and the kids enjoyed it. We talked about theme since we were starting our fable study. I then introduced fables and gave the kids sentence strips to play literature  tea party to guess what the fable we would read would be about. It involved jazz music, a steaming tea cup scene in the smart board, and walking around the room sharing sentences and coming up with ideas. The kids were into it. Then we gathered back to our seats to hypothesize and read the fable. 

I got a good review. Phew!

Tonight for YW we had pizza and planning. We only hold planning activities once a year so the girls had fun coming up with lots of ideas. Laurie did a great job preparing for the evening.

 Ezra is going to be a lobster for Halloween! He took his costume for a test drive and he looks so cute!!