Marisa is on a wonderful trip and break from school to Monterey California. She went with her friend Mitch to check out the grad school there (Middlebury Institute of International Studies-the translation and localization management program) , stopped in Santa Barbara, and now they are headed to St. George.
I hope Brandon and Kayla made it to Idaho safely!
Alayna has been doing awesome on the tennis team. She won her last 2 matches and really seems to enjoy playing. She has also been practicing driving with Bob. We hope to get her a school license so she can drive to and from school next year. I will try to get some pictures at her next match.
Kayla has been pretty sick with the pregnancy so far. I was hoping she would be lucky and not go through what I did. She started school last week for the spring semester. She and Brandon will be moving up to Idaho next week for the summer. Brandon will be working and she will keep going with school.
Marisa is moving into Brandon and Kayla’s apt next week. She will stay there while she does spring semester and then she heads to Brazil for her internship June 24- August 24ish? She is pretty excited and I wish I could go with her!
Tyler still doesn't have a full time job but is subbing for the daycare. I am still not sure if he will be out to Utah this summer. He has applied to the MATC for the digital media program (in Lehi, Utah) but we haven't heard back if he was accepted yet.
I have been dealing with an awful cough and hardly slept the past month. Finally couldnt take it anymore- went in to the dr and found I had an upper respiratory infection. So I am doing MUCH better now that I have meds to clear that up. I am still LOVING my job. I am so happy there ar]nd there are so many awesome things going on. I have connected with Wehrenberg and the Marion Public library to help push our summer reading program. I have been training to take over all pf the NWEA testing for the whole school. We have had more skyping fun and I just love it all!
Since I have no pics of my kids- you get pics of the babies!
Obviously we have been pretty busy and I have missed a few weeks of posts. So I will try to catch everyone up on the last month.
1st and most exciting news is that Brandon and Kayla are expecting their 1st baby and we are so excited to be grandparents for the 1st time! They went to the dr this past week and everything looks great and they set the due date as November 4th. I am planning on flying out as soon as she goes into labor. This is so exciting!!!
I’m even teaching myself to crochet!
Happy 24th Anniversary to Bob and I! We went out to dinner Friday night and enjoyed the day together on Saturday. Next year to celebrate we will be on a cruise ship in the Caribbean!
Have you ever tried Cheddar’s buttered sugar croissants??
The weather has been gorgeous! Our trees are blossoming and we are starting our garden.
There were even giant turkeys at the school tennis courts Friday morning!
Yesterday Alayna helped me make Peeps in a jar to thank the teachers who help me with Battle of the books!
This has been a very crazy week. We had the book fair and 3 parent conference nights. The book fair was a huge success but exhausting. I started coming down with a massive cold, cough, and laryngitis. I have been down since then. Called the dr because I thought it was strep, but it turns out to just be a super bad cold. I am super tired of Tyler bringing home germs. We have all been so sick this year. Alayna missed a day, this week, Tyler was in bed really sick for 5 days and Bob has both ears completely plugged again. With his ears plugged, and me with laryngitis, we have been like an old couple who cant communicate at all- if it wasnt so frustrating it would be funny…
Alayna started tennis and is now in her last quarter of school. Tyler is done with his long term subbing job. Not sure on his plans now.
We also got to Skype with Dani in California who saves many animals including Brown Pelicans. We were able to talk to the pelicans and see them live. This technology is so cool!
Marisa went to a military ball. She also had a mission reunion this weekend and her Mission President was called to the Seventy during conference.
I know Kayla and Brandon headed up to Idaho for conference. I would LOVE to have some pictures to share…hint hint. We do want to wish Kayla a Happy Birthday! We wish we could have been there to celebrate!
Not the most flattering picture but its how i spent my 1st day of spring break…
Still trying to learn how to relax…
Also teaching myself to crochet
Alayna was able to go to her YW leaders home to watch the Face 2 Face broadcast with President Eyring and Elder Holland.
It has been another busy week as we start the countdown to Spring Break! Bob, Alayna, and Kayla will all fly down to AZ. I am staying here to probably sleep the entire time. Brandon will fly down to meet them later.
Marisa is getting all her paperwork done to head to Brazil this summer
We got Tyler a car for work since his work is about 25 minutes away on the other side of town. He is paying for half of it plus the insurance. I have nicknamed him “Heap-o-junk”. Its a clunker but it gets the job done. He still likes the job but after his 1st 40 hour week , he was pretty exhausted and thinks he needs to get to school to make something of himself soon.
I had an awesome busy week at school. We skyped with one of our students visiting Haiti (His aunt and uncle are missionaries there)
My Ozobot classes have started and the kids are loving it! This week I start bookfair previews as the book fair arrives 3 days after spring break! I may need to sleep the whole summer too!
Plus, I have a friend who used to be in our ward who is a weatherman and I contacted him and he was more than willing to talk to my classes about weather and being a meteorologist!
This week we connect with the turtle hospital. I also found out we were accepted into the Everest Skype next year. What an incredible experience that will be!
