The End Has Come...

Well folks it is official the summer for me is over. Yesterday I started back to school :( Sad times, because it feels like my summer went way to fast. Oh well at least my summer made me really appreciate my real job- BEING A TEACHER. I love teaching and cannot wait to get back into the swing of things. The only thing is I cannot remember what it was like at the first of the year. What am I going to do? How am I going to teach these little ones? Can I handle the tears, from both the parents and the kids?

Those questions will soon answer themselves, wether I want the answer or not. The first thing is I need to put together a classroom now for the third time, and this is only my second year teaching!!! When I got to my classroom Monday morning this is how it looked....

Nothing has been done. I have not stepped into my room since the last week of school. (Though I did try on three different occasions to go there but to my frustration either the custodians were leaving for the day- at 12:00- or they had already left- at 12:30- . Needless to say I was not a happy camper, especially since I worked my day around going to the school.)

Here we are two days into work and it is at least looking a little bit better.

So hopefully I will get it all together come Thursday for our back to school night. Which by the way I have not yet had the opportunity to be involved in one yet. This will be my first experience with the whole back to school night thing. Wish me luck, because I am going to need it with all of the work that still needs to get done!!

What time is it? Summer Time!

I cannot believe how fast the summer has gone. Between Justin and myself working full-time and taking a couple little trips the summer has totally zoomed by us. So let me update the blogging world on our adventures over these past couple of months.

We had the great opportunity to go to Heber/Park City for a weekend with some of our good friends, and now their little babies. Needless to say having the little babies around put me in heaven. Yes I was the one holding the babies all weekend and I loved every minute of it. The girls took the opportunity to go shopping at the outlet mall while the boys played a rousing game of golf. This has become an annual trip for us now and all couples involved look forward to it every year.

Along with taking a weekend trip with our friends we have had the great time of just hanging out with all our friends through BBQs or visiting them in the hospital after having beautiful babies.

But for me the best thing that we were able to do this summer was to go and visit these little sweeties:

We went down on Thursday to St. George to visit my sister and her family and got home this morning at 1:30. Justin had to go down for work and so my mom and I went along for the ride so that we could see my sis and help her get ready for her new baby on the way. I felt bad that Justin had to work so much but it was so much fun for me to be with my sister.

The company that Justin worked for before school and a little bit during school has an office down in St. George so he has gone down there a lot. Many times without me because I had to work. So our niece and nephew love him to death. There for a while they would see him at least once a month. The totally look forward to the times when he would come down and it was a great surprise if I could come down and my mom.

This trip we basically just played at her house each day because it was St. George and hot outside. Though on Sunday we did take the opportunity to go to Zions and walk through the park. -While Justin finally took the opportunity to go golfing (he usually takes his clubs with him but never finds the time to golf). Yes, my husband did golf on Sunday and he told our niece that he could not go to church with us because he was going to another one. He is such a bad influence :)-

I have never been to Zions before and I was taken back at the beauty that was found there. Here are some fun pics from our adventure.

Group picture.

Drink time.

Say cheese!!!

Chasing the squirrels.

Look, I am at the edge!

It was tons of fun spending time with my sister. I love every minute that we spend together. I just could not help but take pictures. My nephew got to point that whenever he saw the camera in my hand he would say, "I say cheese."

Our summer has seemed short but it has been tons of fun. I am super excited for my second year of teaching and ready to get back in the classroom again and for Justin's second year of Law School to start. I'll keep you posted on this new year!