Summer!

I think that summer has finally come to Logan. I can finally go outside without a coat!!
Also I am finished with work!!! It is nice to take a break from the before school reading program, after school homework club, during school reading and math power hour groups, and the one on one reading. In addition to everything else we were required to do on top of that. I will admit that I had a lot of fun I really came to love some of the students I was working with and I absolutely loved the girls I was working with. There were some tense times (but what job does not come with stress), but we had a lot of fun together. Plus I kind of got burnt out by the end of the school year. I am not sure if I am going back next year there have been so many budget cuts, although I would probably go back if I could.

The students were so funny at times. There was one little girl who would come up and give me a hug every time she saw me and one boy who would call out my name until I would say hi. There were these two adorable little first graders who I enjoyed working with. One girl was in my first grade reading power hour group and she was always excited to read. She gave me a hug at the end of the year because she was so happy that her reading was improving. The other little girl was in homework club. She did not start out as one of my favorite because she was so sassy, (she smiled when one of the other students said she was evil:) But as the year went on she became by little friend, I would still have to figure out ways to increase her reading speed but at least we enjoyed working together. One day when she finished early I let her play with magnetic ABC’s and she spelled out “I Love Yuo.” Getting little notes like this and realizing I am helping them made all the stress and headaches worth it.

There were also some kids that I never figured out how to work with but we won’t mention them I am just glad that I will at least have a summer break from them.

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For Memorial Day we drove up to the Idaho Fall Zoo with my brother Allen and his wife Kathy and met up with Curt's brother Ryan and his family. (As you can see summer had not come to Idaho yet :). It is a cute little zoo that had quite a few animals like lions, tigers, bears (oh my) camels, zebras etc. My little nice Emmy, wanted to climb in and pet all the animals. And the niece Hannah on Curt’s shoulders by the monkey cage was so excited to see the monkeys. We had a fun little afternoon at the zoo and had nice little picnic at the park. It was good to see our nieces and nephew since we had not seen them in almost a year.

Here are pictures of me and the kids-


And her is curt and the kids-

As for the rest of our life Curt is taking a summer class and is one month away from being half way done with graduate school. He will graduate next summer and then who knows where we will be going.

I am just relaxing, hanging out with my sister and babysitting for my neighbors.

Tonight we are heading up to Kamas for the Father and Sons camp out. Curt is going to go camping with his dad, brother and nephew and I am going to have a girls night with my nieces, sister in laws and mother in law. It will be fun to go spend time with the family.