Is Spring Break over already???????

Well....Spring break is about to come to an end for me....

So....

Just what did I do for these glorious 5 days??????

Here it is in pictures!!!

Had Sarah's family here to start it off, Sunday night.

Beautiful Juliana

Juliana & Jada

Of course, shopping @ Victoria Gardens, always a must do!!


Especially here!!!!
My favorite place!


Then On The Border with friends, love Mexican food!!!
The very best!

Wednesday morning, 6am, yes, I said AM,
John and I took the missionaries to Redlands Temple.

Went to my school to clean and organize to get ready for the rest of the year,

only 11 weeks, not that I am counting or anything.

Cleaned up around the koi pond.

Took a huge lantana plant out that was choking everything else out.

Looks so much better, ahhhhhhhhh.

Then last night I decided my bedroom needed a little face lift.

So I went with black and white.

I love it!!!

I even had 3 black and white pictures I took,

from one of our trips to Mammoth, to put above our bed.

So there ya have it. No trips to anywhere fancy, just relaxed and did whatever the mood struck me. Of course, it's never long enough, especially when one is used to being on year round, or single track, with a month at a time off. This is the first year of traditional, kinda hard to get used to, but what are ya gonna do???? Like I said...only 11 weeks, then, 2 months off!!!!

P.S. so Sarah & Misty, what do you think of the colors??

Our only March Birthday!! Happy B-day Jeff

Happy Birthday Jeff !! Sarah and Jeff took the family down to Anaheim to Embassy Suites. It's down by Disneyland and Marc and Misty stay there when they go there. It has an indoor pool and full breakfast. They had a great time, and are here for his birthday dinner. Jeff is a wonderful asset to our family and we are so glad he is part of us! He is a great dad and husband to his sweet family.

It's Spring!!

So, it is finally Spring!! AND spring break! How much better can it get?? We had both kinder classes all week last week and it wasn't too bad. We had things pretty much under control, too much for them to do to get into to much trouble, except of course the few that will always find a way! Just wanted to check in and bore some of ya ta death! John and I were going to go somewhere, but...hmmm, he has theapy, Drs. appt. temple, meetings, etc, you get the point. I was going to go visit Marc, Mist & the kids. They aren't off though, and the air prices were not that great. and I kinda just want to chill. Maybe, if the weather gets really nice, we can go to the beach for a day. maybe....Well, I love reading all your blogs out there, you keep me entertained, that's for sure! Have a great Spring!!!!

Lesson

I taught my RS lesson today. It was on Missionary work. I looked at my lesson last month and when I saw that it was on missionary work, my head was filled with tons of ideas as to ways to teach it. I had special speakers come in to give parts of the lesson. I had our missionaries come in and tell us what characteristics missionaries should have to be effective missionaries, and what should a missionary teach and how they should teach it. Then I had our ward mission leader tell what ways can we actively seek opportunities to share the gospel with others and how we can involve our families in missionary work. I also asked one of our Sister Missionaries to speak on what ways has the Holy Ghost guilded your efforts to share the Gospel. She told a great personal story. My final speaker was Sister Barajas, (Coral Ward-Barajas), a return missionary to talk to us . The speakers were fabulous and they absolutly fulfilled my vision for my lesson. For my handouts, I made missionary tag magnets, that turned our rater fabulous I might say! And passed out life savers and told them to save a soul. I was very pleased with today and just wanted to share it.

Life as a Teacher......

Life as a teacher....I've decided I could pretty much write a book about my class and it would be on the best sellers list! Most likely as a comedy!! Today as my precious darlings were working so diligently on a phonics page, which is cutting and gluing letters to make CVC words, pig, fig, dig, using the short vowel helper i. At the end of this page is a sentence strip that they have to cut and glue words in order. ***Note here...I have the example up in front of them....One of my cuties comes up and brings her finished product. Not only were none of the CVC words placed in the proper order, her sentence was hilarious. There was a picture of a dog, and these words; a pit, dig, can. I can't even remember the sentence, but in the 3 squares she was suppose to place pig, or fit, or fig, was this......the picture of the dog, the p and the i. So I interpreted it as dog pee. It was funny at the time, and maybe you had to be there, or maybe you need to be a kinder teacher to get it, I don't know, maybe I am so tired anything is funny in my class. (So if you think it was a little funny let me know) Also, I will ask my kids to put their hands on their head if they hear me, or something like that, so today, I say, put your finger on your nose if you hear me. And of course, one has to put his finger IN his nose! AND of course without missing a beat, I say, NOT IN YOUR NOSE, on your nose. (That would be my spitter) Oh and on Friday, he hit someone, why I ask him? Oh, I don't want him to sit by me. Well, that will do it! OH I NEED and am ready for spring vacation!!! Let's see....13 school days left! I can do this, can't I????