Back to school!

Wow, we have been so busy. I was really dreading going back to school especially since it came so fast. I went back to meetings on Aug. 12. School started for the kids on the 18th. Sammi is in fourth grade and Joe is in 2nd grade. They are growing up so fast. I am still in kindergarten! This will be my 11th year teaching kindergarten. My first group of kindergarten students are now in 11th grade. I can't believe that.

This year I have 27 kids in my class. They are pretty cute. Two days before school started we had 33 kids in each class and we finally got approval from the district to hire another teacher. The principal asked me if I wanted to go full time. It was a bit tempting, but I decided that it was more important for me to spend time with family and little Jacob. So we hired a teacher the Friday before school started. We had twelve more kids register during the first week so we still ended up with big classes. Oh well, we will do the best we can to teach all of those cuties.

Mark and I went to Lagoon with my brother and sister, Nathan and Shelly on my birthday. Grandma Linda watched Jacob for us. We had a fun day. We rode on the new roller coaster Wicked and it was really fun. I realized that I can't quite handle the rides like I did when I was younger. I was feeling a tiny bit sick. Next time I go, I think that I am going to take a motion sickness pill just to take the edge off. We are going to take the kids to Lagoon and stay in the campground during UEA break.

We went camping at Payson Lakes last weekend. We took a canoe and boy did the kids have fun. They rowed all afternoon. We tied a bunch of ropes together and tied the canoe to the shore. It was like a dog on a leash. They would row out as far as the rope would go and then they would circle back around. They got really good a steering and paddling. We tried to fish, but we didn't catch any. There was a bear in the neighboring campsite, but we didn't know that until the next day. We felt safe in Shelly's trailer, but if we were in a tent I probably would have packed up and gone home.


We are doing piano again and Joe will be starting this year. It will feel good to get back in a normal routine.