SUMMER

It's been a long time since I've actually sat down at a computer. Here is a quick update on what's been happening in my life.





I have been making a quilt. This is taking up a ton of my time since I am hand quilting it. It's hard to tell but I'm putting a cute little flower in each plain white square and then I'm quilting around the color blocks.





I visited my brothers in Wyoming here are a few picts:

Feeding time at Matt's.

Swimming at Cody's.

I brought Cody's girls back with me so I've been spending lots of time with them. I've got to go and help the girls scrapbook now.

End of the Year

End of the year madness has commenced. I have been at the school the last couple of weeks until the wee hours of the night trying to get everything ready for the kids to complete there Kindergarten year. This includes cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, working on porfolios, sorting through some stuff, and hauling stuff down to my new room. You would be very impressed with how much stuff a kindergartener can carry. Free labor! My afternoon class hauled my huge green carpet "the grass" down and my big book shelf. You should see these kids, muscles galore.

Today we had our A is for America program and I started crying while the kids were singing The Star Spangled Banner. I HATE the end of the year. Even this year when I'm so excited to be moving to Fourth Grade. These kids are mine now and I don't know if I trust their parents to take care of them. ;)

I am so fortunate to be able to be a part of these children's lives. I am truly grateful.

Land

Monday night Jade, Shannon and Jesse, and I met with Dusty to put earnest money down on 3 lots. We will be living next door to each other Jade and Claire, Me, and Shannon and Jesse. I get to be in the middle so the little kiddos don't have to go far to be grounded to Aunt Emmy's house when the moms are frustrated. I'm excited I just wish we were already started. I also have a builder biding my house plans right now so I can turn it into the mortgage company. YEAH!!!

House

I have been living in Vernal for eight years. Of these years I have spent 5 of them renting from someone else because I haven't felt like I could afford a house. That seems more true now than ever. If you live here you know that you can purchase a lovely 2 bedroom 1970's house that is in desperate need of all kinds of repairs for $190,000. The dream of owning one of these lovely homes can never be part of my reality because I wouldn't have a nickel left to fix the house after purchasing it. Well, in the Nickel Ads a few weeks ago was an ad for lots that are only $25K. This is so cheap. We went and checked them out. They are up in Painted Hills, dun dun dun, however the seller said that the big problem up there is that people didn't put in engineered foundations. If they would have their houses wouldn't have moved. So I started looking up house plans and found this really cute, little house plan:

My brother, Cody, said that I could easily build it for under my budget. Yippee!!! So, Erika, my sister, is drawing up official house plans. With a few "minor" changes and we are working on some bids and hopefully I will get to stop throwing my money away. Someday I may even have a house that looks kind of like this:

I am so excited at the possibility.

Colorguard

During high school I was on the colorguard. I loved twirling flags. At times I get a little nostalgic and think about how much fun it was learning the routines and practicing for hours in front of the window so I could see how I was doing. I miss it a ton. A couple of years ago I purchased myself 2 flags. One is sparkly and the other is a practice flag that makes an awesome noise when you whip it around. Anyway, people notice these flags at my house and my mom's house and they love to play with one. One person in particular really got into this: Ashley, my niece. She would tell to pretend that I was watching a parade and would all of a sudden see her. She cracks me up. Here are some pictures of Ashley in the colorguard.
I wish the high school would start a colorgaurd. I would love to help with it.

Alise

Every once in awhile God sends us angels to make sure that we are staying on the right path, to remind us of what is really important in this life. One of my angels is Alise. She just called me and asked me if I wanted to go out to eat tonight. Now let me tell you a little about Alise, she is a firery red headed hadicap girl that I go to church with. Here are some things that she does to keep me righteous:

1. She is my visiting teaching companion and every month she bugs me about doing our visiting until we get it done.

2. If there is any activity that she knows about she calls and asks for a ride, natually that makes me have to go.

3. She is bold.

4. She is always wispering to herself.

5. Last Sunday she was sitting about 8 pews in front of me and she started looking around and she caught my eye and she waved at me like a little kid and smiled the cutest smile.

6. She is always stroking her hair. I asked her once why she does that and she told because it is soft.

I love her.

Change

"The only thing that stays the same is that everything changes." ~Time Marches On. My plans for next have changed one more time. I will now be teaching fourth grade next year. I will be working with Judy Foley, Dorraine Robbins, and Mary Schmelter. I am really excited about going back to Fourth grade. I already know the curriculum so it should be an easy transition. The other thing that is changing is the time that school starts. We will now begin at 8:30 instead of 9:15 and we will finish at 3:15 instead of 4:00. Yeah!! No getting out of school as the sun is setting.