Break, Test, Relax

It has been almost a year since I last posted.  I'm pretty good at this year thing.  I guess I just think my life is surely not that interesting in needing to post more than once a year.  But then I got to thinking and realized that my sister-in-laws blog is something I look forward to viewing all the time.  I love looking at the pics of her kids and that's pretty much how I stay up to date on what's going on with them.  So here's to starting posting more!  As many of you know, I have decided to take a break this semester from school.  I will be doing my Student Teaching in the Spring now and I hope it's in Cedar City this time.  I was going to be travelling to Parowan High School this semester and it would have ended up being ok but I'd rather not have to travel so far.  We'll see hopefully this week where they place me.  I finally passed my Praxis test (which tells you if you're going to teach or not) and so I can take a breather from stressing about that!  I have been substitute teaching at the High Schools and a couple Elementary schools here in Cedar.  It has been a blast!  Most of the time I feel like I'm spoiled for even getting paid to do what I do!  It is so fun to spoil the kids.  With Christmas coming I'm so excited this year to decorate and get things going!  I'm one to put it up in November and take it down mid-January!  I love it.  Hopefully I'll have some pics soon of events in the kids lives!

Christmas fun for little girls!

I wanted to get Emma some dress up clothes for Christmas but the cheap ones fall apart too fast and the "nicer" ones are just too expensive.  All I wanted were some fun skirts she could slip on and off as she changes her clothes 80 billion times a day.  I went to JoAnn's and found some of their Halloween material at 70% off and got enough for 4 skirts.  With all that I got it all cost me under $10!  I also made little hair clips to clip onto the skirts or go in her hair...it was tons of fun!

Yellowstone Falls, the Animals, and Random Pics from a 5 year-old!

The second day at Yellowstone was tons of fun too. We needed a whole week to adequately see the park but two days was going to have to do!

David, Parker, and Braden at the top of the jaunt down to the falls.


Isn't that just stunning?

This picture was overwhelming for me to see the amount of water that flows off that cliff!

The kids at the top of the falls!

This is what you get when you let the five year old be in charge of the camera!

Another random pic!

Grandma and Grandpa! She did pretty good on this one!

Beth and Dan! This one too!

Tatanka!

This elk was amazing! It's rack was almost as big as mine! hahaha

A herd of elk.

Yellowstone!!

Old Faithful isn't so faithful and reliable anymore! Here are the kids waiting so patiently for it to go off. It took a while before the dang geyser committed to geysing!

Like father like son. I was afraid for my dad's life though with his Glenn Beck shirt on!

I had to take a picture of this Jass Honk! He and his family were sitting by us and then he got down to sit on the boardwalk with his retarded dog and I asked him if we could use the seats he freed up and he said, "No, I'm going to sit up there when Old Faithful goes off." So most of my family had to stand. He never got up on the bench when it went off!

Emma and Grandpa

Parker getting up on the logs to walk the whole way across them!

Peanut on the run!

The New Old Faithful visitors center is going to be opened at the end of August...we just missed it!

Skish and Daddy!

Preggers and Braylee!

Nice fishing hat buddy!

We had to stop in good ol Rexburg to take some pics of the loverly temple. It's so beautiful!

The Beach!!

We went to Huntington Beach in Cali and it was so fun! I'm not sure if David liked the Beach or Disneyland more...I think in his previous life he was a little fish!

Brett and Emma building a sand castle.
Burrying Cozy!

Doesn't he just look pleasant!?

Boogie Boarding!

Just Chillin!

Disneyland!!

I was so stressed for the first couple of hours at Disneyland...TOO MANY PEOPLE!!! After a few calming deep breaths we were able to enjoy the two days of magical fun Disneyland had to offer. The funnest most memorable thing was being able to be in the parade and ride on Walt Disney's personal truck! We videotaped that one!

Lightning McQueen

Cinderella and Mickey

Elastagirl

Handy Manny

Pluto

The Green Army Guys

Waiting to get on Toy Story III

Tumbleweeds

The kids were in a cute little musical this summer...It was so much fun for them!

They were little poohawk Indians!

Here they are in one of their numbers.

Darling pose!

David's looks like he's been drinking some hooch!

David's Portfolio Party!

This is David's self portrait (pretty close, huh?)

David had a portfolio party today in his classroom! We got to go and see all the progress he has made throughout the year!

This is his awesome rendition of William Shakespeare! (Lookout Del Parsons)

This is his emaciated cow!

This is his first picture of himself.

Emma's Graduation!

I've often thought it ridiculous to have a graduation program for preschoolers, but when it's your own....it's just tons of fun! They were all so excited! I can't thank the amazing women who taught Emma this year. She has learned so much more than I ever could have taught her on my own!

The graduates with their diplomas!

They had the cutest little graduation song they practised so hard on.

Emma was so nervous but she did so awesome! She sang the loudest and was so cute!