Catching Up

I have been too busy with school to update my blog lately, so these are pictures from a while ago, but I thought I would just add them anyway.


First off, here are the pictures of my two classes. The school year has been AMAZING so far. I have two wonderful classes of students. Things could not be going any better. Other teachers will talk to me about some of their trouble children and I almost feel guilty because my classes are so awesome. As you will notice, one of my classes as 18 boys! I don't know how I get stuck with all the boys, but I don't mind because they all have been pretty sweet so far. I am just so happy to be back in Kindergarten. I LOVE IT!



The next couple of pictures are from a stake achievement day activity that Makenna had a couple of weeks ago. We went up to Camp Easton and did some kayaking and just played around. I don't know if Makenna will want to go kayaking again any time soon. She got pretty frustrated that she couldn't control the kayak. The first picture is of her after she gave up and didn't want to move anymore. After that we just decided to go canoeing !



Happy Again!

Kyra is a Teenager!

Even though it has seemed like she entered her teenage years long ago, Kyra finally turned 13 last week. She is such an incredible girl and I am so grateful to have the chance to watch her grow and mature into such a wonderful young women. For her birthday we thought it would be fun to throw her a surprise party. So for her actual birthday she probably thought it was pretty lame (we had to throw her off track a little). We took her to Polk A Dot Pottery and then just hung out at the house. Then this weekend we had her surprise party and she had a blast. These are all the pictures from her birthday.


Tie dying t-shirt at her birthday party




Kyra hates Justin Bieber, so we thought we would give her something she could really appreciate and wear all the time!

Opening presents on the morning of her birthday.

Family Pictures 2010

So every year I drag the girls and Brett to a beautiful spot and make them smile at the camera for about an hour. The result are some awesome family pictures taken by my wonderful mother...and normally a fight of some sort between member of the family. I love taking family pictures because it is so fun to see how much the girls have grown in just a year! I know my mom already posted this like two weeks ago, so I am a little behind. But thank you mom for taking such amazing pictures!

Moanin For Motrin

That's what I was doing last weekend when I finished the Coeur d' Alene to Sandpoint Walk Relay Race! My BF Beth asked me to join her team to walk with her during her legs of the race. I thought, "Cool it will be fun to walk with Beth while we catch up." But it was way different than a leisurely walk with a friend. First of all, it was actually a race. So we were speed walking the WHOLE time (you got disqualified if you ran). It was so intense. There was not one part of my body that wasn't in pain. Beth and I did awesome though. We averaged about 12.5-13 minute miles. We had three legs and totalled about 15.5 miles! Our team won by a long shot. But we can't feel too good about it considering we were about 20 years younger than anyone else walking in the race. Here are some picture of our fun adventure. PS, the pictures are very out of order.


Beth and I relaxing on the grass after a very long night of walking and trying to sleep in a car.

This is on our second leg of the race. 4.7 miles of constant hills. This was definitely the worst part of the race.

This was after we finished when we were announced the WINNERS!

Mine and Beth's first leg was also the Wildest Wig contest. We had to walk 6.6 miles with these huge wigs on our head. Not the most comfortable, but it was beautiful scenery.

The team before the race began

This is us finishing our first leg on the Coeur d' Alene lake.

Me and my BF Beth

The race was a ton of fun and I can't wait to do it again next year. Maybe we will even try the Spokane to Sandpoint Run relay. It was pretty freaky though when you are walking at 2:30 in the morning on a dirt road in the forrest with animals howling around you. It was quite the adventure. Thanks Beth for inviting me to go.

Hats Off to Leavenworth

The girls and I were able to take a quick trip over to Leavenworth last week and we had such a great time. My mom and niece Madyson joined us for some nice relaxing and fun filled days. Going to see Gloria and Pat is always fun, but we also spent some time downtown, went swimming a lot, jumped on the trampoline A LOT, ate great food, and watched some interesting movies. I have a lot of pictures to show what a good time we had.

These pictures are from the Hat Shop in downtown Leavenworth. It is a famous shop that has a lot of crazy hats. Makenna and I had some fun modeling the hats for my mom.





The rest of the pictures are just the random things we did while visiting Leavenworth.









Believe it or not, Kyra did come on this trip with us, but you know how much she hates taking pictures! Oh well.

The main reason we went down to Leavenworth was to FINALLY put the grave marker in the ground for Annabelle. Brett came down Friday night and we put it in Saturday morning, then had to leave Saturday afternoon. Poor Brett only got a quick trip. It is weird that I am posting this? I hope not. Hopefully I don't offend anyone.