Women's Conference

I was able to attend Women's Conference at BYU again this year. Lisa came along with my mom and her friend Ann. It was fun and just what I needed!

A Southern Utah Adventure

Over Spring Break, Lisa, Avery and I went to St. George. My mom and Brad had recently purchased a house in LaVerkin and we decided to stay there. It was like camping in a house! We were the first guests to stay there. We slept on the floor and figured out how to make things in the house work. We were grateful to have a place to stay that wasn't a hotel!

We spent some time in the backyard...catching a few rays of sunshine. Avery even found a way to make a swimming pool out of a rubbermaid container. Wish I had a picture of that!

We went over to Zion National Park one day. It was fun to go there and hike for a while. We stopped by a little shop on the way home...if you have even been to Zion you have probably stopped there as well.

April 8, 2012

HAPPY EASTER!

What a wonderful time of the year this is that we get the change to focus on our Savior and His atoning sacrifice for us! In recent week and months I have come to a greater, deeper understanding of this amazing gift we have been given. Through His enduring love for each of us, we are given the opportunity to repent and be made whole. It is a continual, even daily process by which we are refined and changed to be the beings that God needs us to be. May you remember this day, and every day throughout the year that you are a child of God who loves you more than you may ever know and He is waiting patiently for you to come unto Him.

December

Well, keeping up on this blog is not something that I am very good at. I think that it may be because I don't feel like I have good things to share. I am also not very good at taking pictures. However, here are some of the highlights of my December.

1. MoTab Christmas Concert
2. Temple Square lights with the fam
3. Zoo lights with good friends, the Lowes
4. Having two weeks off of school
5. Christmas with my family
6. Talking to my little brother in Indiana
7. School Christmas concert
8. Feeling love of family and friends (thanks for all the wonderful gifts)
9. Christmas music
10. Remembering the TRUE meaning of Christmas

I am sure that I have left a few things out but these are some of the things that really stick out in my mind. Thanks to everyone who made this December a special one!

My week in a nutshell...

New babies in the family...

Amanda and Jon welcome sweet little Morgan Rees Middleton into our family on August 22.

Brandon and Tiffany welcomed beautiful Presley Roll on August 31.

Back to school

It would be an understatement to say that it was tough to start back to school. I forget how much I enjoy not having to be there and how hard it is to get back into the swing of things. I worked many hours through the summer trying to sort through things in my portable. I took over the portable from a teacher who retired and left all of her stuff.

I am teaching at Vae View again this year. I am teaching 5th grade. It will be nice to be in just one grade instead of in two. I currently have 24 kids in my class. That is a lot less than most classes in other schools. I am not complaining!

My school is going through a remediation process this year. I am not sure all that this process will require but I am excited for the process and for the positive outcome it is sure to have on our school.