I wonder how it’s July already?! It’s going way too fast! It looks like everyone is home safely from Europe and the reunion. Im sorry to have missed out on both, but I FINALLY broke through my sleep problems and have slept solidly 12 hours a night for a week. that's worth its weight in gold!!! I think everyone else though is exhausted and I think Ellie’s picture sums it up best!
Marisa and Riberas looked like they had a fantastic trip the British Isles. I've added Scotland and Ireland to my bucket list! Glad everyone is home safe and sound!
Bob and ALayna flew out to the Hart family reunion and Kayla’s family was able to go. I barely got any pictures from them but I assume they had a great time? This is my favorite pic that bob sent me! Im very sad I missed time with Ellie
Alayna is now in Missouri heading to her 1st EFY tomorrow! Bob will pick her up on Saturday and then she goes straight into girls camp!
Tyler finished one class, is working on the other 2, and has registered for fall classes plus a CNA class.
I went to Ames for the Reading/ School Librarian Conference. As always I loved my 3 days there and learned a TON! My presentation was a huge success and I even got some great feedback! Like this one: “Kristina, you have so much energy! This was great fun! I feel like I just took a world tour in 50 minutes! You've given me so many ideas to expand my students' world as well as my own.” I had 3 speakers I loved the most. One was the author of Mr. Lemoncello’s library. He was extremely entertaining and my students are obsessed with his books. The 2nd one was an incredible lady who spoke on “Chasing Imperfection.” While it may not seem reading related, I think we all needed it- me especially. I wish I could have recorded it! The last one I also posted about on fb. His name is Dean Jacobs. It is amazing and thrilling to hear him speak and I kept thinking "OMGSH he is living my dream life!" After a way-too-close-to-death accident happened, he sold everything he owned and has literally been traveling the world ever since. He spent 7 months with the gorillas like Dian Fossey. You should see the videos he took. His pictures are breath-taking, his videos are riveting, I just can't say enough! Now traveling with him to the tribe he works with deep in the Amazonian Rainforest is now on my bucket list! Wouldn't that be amazing?!
While I am not even close to perfectly balance in my life I have done much better this week. Sleep makes a world of difference for me. I have been able to tackle projects I have been wanting to do forever. I have worked out every day while watching a Star Wars marathon in chronological order. I did tons of sewing projects including new decor for my reading area and new fleece liners for all the guinea pigs while watching the full Hobbit/Lord of the Rings marathon. At night I have been watching some other movies that I highly recommend.
The Promise: When our students skyped this year with author Marsha Skrypuch (who write "Making Bombs for Hitler") she mentioned that she had even received death threats for a book she wrote on the Armenian genocide during WWI. It intrigued me...and I just finished a movie about it that all of you should see called "The Promise" released in 2017. Based on the true story of the Armenian Genocide- an event that the Turkish Govt still deny happened.
Partriots Day: True story of the Boston Marathon bombing. Watch edited on vidangel though!
A quiet Place: My absolute favorite new movie of the year!!! What an intense thriller!
I organized ALL our pictures, photo CDS, video DVDS and family treasure boxes. All that cant be replaced are in our fire safe box. Then I went through all of it and organized piles of the years we dont have blogs for. Again a huge thank you to Grandma JO for saving all those newsletters. My goal is to get these all into books into the next few years. We Gave kids digital copies of all the blog books, family videos, and year slides shows at Christmas. I am SO EXTREMELY GRATEFUL that I have been taking pictures and writing blogs because there is no way I would ever remember this stuff! I was also thinking that this is a perfect way ofr grandkids, great grandkids and so on to learn about me when Im gone. Our family history is so very important! So I hope you kids are all recording your lives now!
I got through all of our food storage and 72 hours kits. They are cleaned, updated, and ready to go.
Got my ring resized (as it was cutting off my circulation) and even though the picture doesnt show it- it sparkles now like Ive never seen before!
And here are some pics of the new guest room. The new bedding isnt on yet til I kick tyler out. But all the posters on the wall (except ellie and batman) are photos either Corey or I took on our trip to the Caribbean and I blew them up to poster size. Im pretty pleased with myself. Alayna and Bob did the painting. We also have a crib and changing table and new baby bookshelf.
Dont worry- the green “curtain” goes with Tyler lol
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