Indoor Camping

At the beginning of the summer we had a Family Campout planned with my brothers & sisters and their cute kids. However, the weekend we had the campground scheduled, it poured and POURED! So, rather than miss out on the fun and cancel the campout, we just moved locations . . . to my sister Sharlene's home. The parents still set up the tents in the basement, we cooked our tin-foil dinners in the oven, and set up a portable fire-pit on the back patio and roasted giant marshmallows just feet away from the rain. We had such a fun and dry time!

Enjoying Our "Make Believe World"

This summer Mikey and I have been enjoying a rare experience, which will probably never repeat itself until retirement. We have both been off school and off work! Mikey's sister, Michelle, keeps asking us how we're enjoying our "make believe world," as this is definitely not a dose of reality. But, yes, we are loving it, as short-lived as it is (seeing that Mikey's summer classes start this week).

The other morning while we were enjoying slowly waking up, Mikey rolled over and suggested, "Hey, let's go to the Logan Temple today." So guess what! We did! We took the whole day, drove up, grabbed some lunch on the way, went through a session, and stopped for some chocolate-covered honeycomb at the Blue Bird Cafe on the way home. What a perfect day!


So, that's the kind of stuff we've been up to. Being together, keeping up on laundry (much easier during the summer than during the school year), reading books, seeing movies, and getting shave ice. Though it'll be quickly coming to an end, we've enjoyed our make believe world.

School's Out for SUMMER!!

Day 2 of Summer and it's completely awesome. I had such a fun year teaching this group of third graders. I honestly teared up Friday morning as I was hugging them good-bye. I totally will miss this year and this group, but did I mention that IT'S SUMMER!!?? I guess that a pretty good consolation. :)
Friday morning after we bid our darlings good-bye, the faculty and staff all packed up and headed for Mimi's Cafe for "Viking Island Survivor." At the end of each year there are always a few changes. Teachers retiring, transferring to different schools, staying home to be mommies, and we have to say "good-bye" to some sweet friends. So this year our reading specialists arranged "Viking Island Survivor" as our way to bid those leaving farewell. Someone read a tribute to each person leaving and then after each tribute we "extinguished their torch" (which consisted of everyone making fizzing noises) and someone announced that, "the tribe has spoken." It was really cute. I'll miss seeing those friends every day. Hopefully they'll visit every once-in-a-while.

My fun principal, Sylvia