Blog 10-29-17

Blog 10-29-17

Way to go Bob, Tyler, and Alayna on all the amazing apple juice you made yesterday!

Cant wait to try it!

Happy 19^th Birthday to Tyler!!!

This is the best “cake” I could do after the long day we both had.  8 Minions plus 11 for the candles makes 19 right? When he saw it he burst out laughing and gave me a hug!  And for the record it tasted awesome!

I spent 2 days at the PLC conference (Not by choice). While most of it didn’t aply to me, the speakers were amazing and I now know the guys we need for secretary of education!

Long story short- Im in Utah! Kayla went to the doctor on Friday and she is 80% effaced and 1 cm dilated.  They decided to induce on Monday so she will be admitted tonight!!!

My trip went smoothly. I was exhausted from the 2 day PD but so excited to come! The girls picked me up in the morning.  We went out for brunch at IHOP since Bob never takes me!

Then we did some pre-baby pedicure prep!

Then we went last minute shopping and then all the cousins went to the Escape Room!

SO excited for tonight!

Catching Up

I cant believe it has been a month since the last blog entry.  I feel like time is just flying and I cant keep up with it all! My school picture actually turned out

We had a fun visit with my cousin Alyssa and her family!

I made some Literary Pumpkins

We usually have the twins every weekend

Got SOOOO many apples yesterday!

Happy Birthday to Grandma Hart and Grandma Cunningham this week!

Less than 2 weeks til Ellie comes!  Kayla says she is looking healthy and everything is going great so far!

9-24-17

Busy Busy Busy is the theme for the year.  How are we almost to October??

Yesterday we canned 24 jars of salsa, plus I helped Leah pack for 3 hours and we took the twins for 8 hours, plus I had to prepare my talk. It was a crazy day!

Last weekend we got to puppy sit adorable Leisel!  She claimed the guineas are her new BFFs but they wanted nothing to do with her!

We also babysat the twins

I worked extremely hard on the Houston Hurricane Project.  The truck ended up coming this week so I was in a major panic to get it all done, but we did it!  The truck is on its way to Houston with 35 boxes packed with 1,727 books, filled with over 1000 handmade bookmarks by students, 5 large boxes of hygiene supplies, and 8 boxes of textbooks!!! So grateful for 2 of my friends from high school that helped with the transport and finding a school!

I also worked to coordinate a students 4H project and our church youth to get ribbons with kindness letters onto stuffed animals and gather  books to go with them that I will deliver to Operation Underground Railroad at Christmas!

Grace was helping

Kayla had her baby shower up in Hooper yesterday.  Wish we could have been there too! We also love the 3D picture of Ellie.  We are so glad all is well!

So glad Marisa got to go and it looks like you all had fun bowling too!

Happy 70th Birthday to my mom!  Wish we could have been there to celebrate with you!!!

9-3-17

This was our view of the eclipse.  Still waiting on pics from the 2 who had the best view in the nation!

Im back to school and it has been extremely busy! Kids are loving the new activities and new areas we have. I think my new media assistant is wondering what she has gotten herself into!

We had a fun skype with Sean Fay Wolfe who wrote the Minecraft series- the Elementia Chronicles

My friend who got 2 rescue guinea pigs for her classroom, gave them a bath last weekend and realized one had gotten super fat on the sides.  She called me in a panic and I said I would take her until the babies were born and weaned.  Good thing she brought her over!  Alayna got a super bad cold with fever aches and chills.  She was home on Wednesday, went to check on Zoey (the mom) and found 2 happy healthy babies there!

Tyler is really enjoying working at the daycare and the kids love him.  We also brought zoey and the babies one day for show and tell

Here is alaynas new school picture:

We have been canning tons of tomatoes!

Who wants to see Bob in a new light? Lol

Very exciting News!

So Tyler has been applying for jobs and going to interviews with no luck!  One day he applied at Kids Inc. and they wanted to interview him right away.  He got dressed and ran out the door.  He came back saying he got the job!  The boss knew him from 10th street because her son had been in it when Tyler was in it.  He said it was part time working with the before and after school kids.  So, one night, he goes to the training meeting and they say, “Welcome directors”. Tyler raised his hand wondering if he was in the wrong room!  They said he is actually THE director of the before and after school program! He has his own room and assistants that work under him! He has been going to many trainings and working many hours already. The 1st day with his kids is Wednesday (when school starts. )  He is so excited and taking this position very seriously.  I am super proud of him and the efforts I have seen so far.  He also signed up at the Rockwell athletic center and I hope to see him go every day.

He told us he needed major help in his classroom.  I truly didn't imagine what we would have to do.  Alayna was there with him 3-4 hours Friday night. Bob and I were with him 6 hours Saturday (while Alayna was at Youth Conference). Wow!  That room has been neglected for many many years and must have gone through several directors!  It reminded me alot of the hoarder house we tried to help out with in LA.  Alayna and Tyler spent most of Friday night just cleaning garbage and stuff off the floors and moving things.  When Bob and I came we were cleaning out closets and areas that were nasty dirty as well as full of garbage.  We took out 7 bags of trash on Saturday!!! Im kicking myself for not taking before pictures because truly you would be shocked to see the difference!

Again, you should have seen the before pics

He made a display of dog books to go with his trivia question and theme for his 1st week

Bob has made it clear that germs cannot be transferred from all those kids to him.  lol

And the kids love him already! He has 22 students enrolled.

So proud of you Tyler!!!