Great New Family Pics and Update!

 This is one of the many family pictures that turned out great!  It was hard to choose one!

 I loved this picture!  They just did that on their own-so precious!

 My little Kaydan @ 21 mo. old!  He's growing up so fast!  He is a busy boy who has new vocabulary everyday!  He is not a baby anymore!  When did that happen?!

 It was rare to get Tepaynga to smile a normal, 

not posed smile, but she had many this time! 

She is 7 almost 8 now! She is excited to be in 2nd grade and be getting baptized in October!

 I loved how this picture showed off Dallin's blue eyes!  

He is three and will be four in about 10 days-yes he is excited!  He loves to play good guys and bad guys right now!  He was honored to be the "Little Mr. Wrangler" this year for the fair and got to ride in the rodeo!  He's such a fun kid (most of the time!)

 

Mekayla is really growing up on me!  She will be 10 in December and it blows my mind!  

She is in 4th grade this year and is excited to be in the "Upper Grades"!!

I am in my last official classes semester of school and then I will do my student teaching for the Spring semester!  It is going to be a tough semester, but I look forward to being done and be able to do instead of sit and listen to what I am supposed to do!  The divorce still isn't over, although we are hoping it will be before long!  It's crazy how long the law system takes, especially when you have complications with the other side of things!  The kids had to go stay with their dad for an extended stay this summer and it was really weird and hard to have them gone so long!  The girls were gone a month and Dallin for 2 weeks and Kaydan for 1 week.  It's nice to have everyone back together again and hope to be this way for awhile!  

The Lord blesses us everyday as we see little rainbows in all we do!  Thanks to all of you for your prayers and concern on our behalf! 

Educational Song for Water Cycle for My College Class

The Beautiful Country We Live In!

What a gorgeous place we live in!  I am so grateful for our country and the freedoms we have!  I am especially grateful for the freedom to worship as we desire and for the gospel that we have in our lives!  A big thanks to those that have made it possible for us to have what we enjoy everyday!

A School Assignment!

For my INST 4015 class, we were asked to post to our blogs about the different educational blogs that we would enjoy following and something we liked about each one.  So if you will bear with me, I will do just that! 
One of the blogs that I liked was http://www.2mgems.blogspot.com/ as it gave quite a few details on the classroom projects and they gave me some springboard ideas for my future classroom.  The next on that I enjoyed was http://room9nelsoncentral.blogspot.com/.  This blog gave me ideas for integrating technology into the classroom for students to participate with it.  The third one that I found interesting was http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337 for it's ideas of how to share the information learned in the classroom with others.  I learned a lot in this assignment and hope to be able to keep following these and others as I make the education journey, now through retirement!  Thanks for humoring me!

Our Little Family

Just an Update on Us!

I finished spring semester with flying colors (4.0) much to my surprise and relief!  The Lord surely blesses us everyday!  I got a whopping 4 days break and am in the first half of the summer semester of classes.  This summer I am signed up for 16 credit hours broken into the two summer halves.  I will have to spend a week in Price for a class that was not offered down here.  I can see a glow at the end of the tunnel with school!  I will be student teaching come January and will graduate if all goes right in the spring with my ELED degree and an ESL endorsement.  My family have all been a great support to me and I thank them for that!  I am the primary chorister for our ward and love teaching the kids about music and how it draws us closer to the Lord. 

Mekayla is finishing third grade next week and is 9 years old.  She is a blessing to have in our family and is the "2nd mommy" around here.  She is such a great help and for the most part likes helping out!  She is developing her artistic talents and is doing great!

Tepaynga is finishing 1st grade and has excelled all year that the top of her class.  She is 7 years old and is looking forward to being baptized in October.  She and her sister are the either the best of friends or worst of enemies, but they both love to be creative and make our home a fun place to be! 

 Dallin is such a sweet boy most days at 3 years old and loves to help me around the house.  He is the man of the house afterall!  We do preschool together here at home and he loves it and reminds me if we get busy that we need to do it!

Kaydan is such a joy to have around, but a handful at the same time at nearly 19 months.  He is such a busy little boy, but he can melt your heart in a second!  He keeps us on our toes and is learning to talk and do all the things big kids do as he catches on to things in record time!

 
 There are always challenges in our lives, but we know that we couldn't do anything without the Lord right by our side the whole time!  We have been truly blessed and see it in our lives everyday!  Thanks to all you who are some of those blessings!  What a joy you are to us!