Happy Week

Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mothers who have in our lives.  We love you!  Thanks to my girls for my beautiful birthday surprise!

Happy Birthday to me!

Well, I turned 43 this week and I had what I consider a perfect birthday!

Half price books
Michaels
Barnes and Noble (with a giftcard- woot woot)
Gordmans (bought myself new jeans and earrings)
Lunch with Bob at Panera Bread
Scholastic warehouse book sale. Took Kayla with me for a mom/daughter quality time while we spent over $1,000 of scholastic dollars on brand new books for both schools and got paid as a professional day.
Went with the family to Pancheros for dinner and cold stone for dessert.
Wore my new super comfy workout clothes watching the new season of 24.
Yep. Perfect Birthday

(Some of the 140 books I got for the middle school)

Megan’s Wedding

We went to Megan Sherwood's wedding reception last night.  Their family used to do survivor parties with us!  It was beautiful and once again reminded me how fast time goes.

I held the 1st AMS Battle of the Books on Friday and it was a huge success!

We had our very 1st Summer Reading Kickoff (that I got everyone registered for)  Huge success and we were covered by the paper!  We already have 20,000 minutes logged!!!

(Look closely- I am mentioned!)

Spent all yesterday on yard work and putting our garden in.  We found a surprise…We tried to rebuild their next but their mom hasn’t come back.

Best news?  We get to talk to Marisa tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Special visitors

Kayla had to take the baby home this week for parenting class.  I got some good laughs in.  It is much more realistic than the egg I had to take home and I sure am glad I am done having babies!

The babies hatched at the high school…

A cute puppy came to visit…

Students at the middle school know me well…

A couple other items of interest…

Mike Ritland, author of Navy SEAL dogs, wrote me back and said he would be more than happy to do an author visit with his dogs! I 'm so excited I can hardly stand it!  I will call him this week to set it up.

I signed up all of my students for a summer reading program.  I have partnered with the public library and we are reading with the global scholastic team to try and break the world record at 200 million minutes!  The Anamosa paper is coming in the morning to cover our kick-off.  Nervous but excited.

Mormon prom

Kayla went with her friends to Mormon Prom on Friday night and she was stunningly beautiful!!

More Chicago…

Chicago: Museum of science and industry and Sears tower

Happy 21st Anniversary!!

Bob and I celebrated our 21st anniversary this week.  It is crazy to think it has been that long and how wonderful it has been!  We went to Olive Garden one night and Fiesta del sol for dinner on another day!

We finished Tyler’s room and it I think it looks so cool.  Also including Alaynas that is coming along slowly.

(Hard to see the color but its beautiful mint green!)

I had a special visitor in my library this week…

And Spring is finally here!!!

PS- Tennis

I forgot to add in the blog that Kayla had her 1st meet this week and won!  Go Kayla!