Random...

I just wanted to post a few pictures and give a quick up-date about our first full week of school. The first picture I'm posting is of the clock and I found at a garage sale and that Sean fixed up. This isn't the best picture, but I assure you, it looks great! It's currently hanging up in Sean's classroom (while the fork and spoon still sit in our house). 

The next picture is of some cool jewelry I got at an estate sale yesterday. I've never been to one before and it felt kind of weird going through a deceased lady's possessions, but she had some awesome stuff. My friends and I left with a ton of treasures. 

Lastly, we've completed 8 days of school (172 left till summer!!!) and it's been a rough week, but not entirely bad. Sean's still getting to know his students (he said his seniors are awfully quiet) and I'm trying to figure some of my kids out (like my student with ADHD who cries all day).  All in all though we have good students and I think we'll have a great year. It's just a hard adjustment for all. 

Back to School

Sean and I started back to school yesterday. Sean is in his second year, teaching sophomore and senior English at Sugar-Salem High School. This will be my third year teaching first graders at Lincoln Elementary. It's been an exhausting couple of days and I'm thinking it'll take a little while for us to readjust to our work schedule. The good thing is that we both really love our jobs and (most days) we really enjoy working with our students. Here's hoping for a great year!

Our classic first day of school pictures!

 

One Man's Trash...

This past weekend I went to Idaho Falls looking for some garage sale "treasures." For those who know me might be kind of surprised. I really don't go to garage sales very often because I feel weird looking through other people's stuff. I only went with my friend, Amy, who was redecorating and didn't want to spend much. As it turned out, Amy didn't get anything, but I found some cool things. The first thing that I found was this cool clock. It has these black sun-like rays and then in between those are brass sticks. The clock part sits in the middle. I thought Sean might like it. As you can see from the picture below he has completely taken it apart. He's going to paint the brass sticks white and put in a new clock. I think it's going to be so cool looking! Then I bought this classic wooden spoon and fork (I put my shoe next to it so you can see how big they are). Sean is not a fan of the spoon and fork, which is a bummer since I think they're rad! Anyways I got everything for $3 so that was exciting. So....I guess if anyone wants a spoon and fork just let me know. Oh, also school starts tomorrow for both Sean and I so wish us luck!!!

Great Getaway

This past week Sean and I were able to go to Yellowstone and stay in a beautiful cabin! A friend that I teach with owns a cabin in Island Park, which is just 10 miles from West Yellowstone. She was so nice to let Sean and I stay there for two nights while we enjoyed the area. It was very relaxing and beautiful there, and they had tons of fun stuff for us to do: pool table, dock by the lake, and LOTS of old movies for us to watch. 

On Thursday we drove to Yellowstone National Park. We've been there about six times now since we've been married and I think five out of those six times we've really just gone to the Old Faithful part (it's a huge park!). So this time we headed to the north end of the park so see the sites there and get away from the crowd. We ended up pulling off on some random drive and went for a hike. We only saw four other people on the hike so it was nice to kind of be by ourselves. It was so beautiful and we even got a see a buffalo on the way.

Our friends, Alisa and Trent Christensen and their little baby Lucy, came up to spend some time there as well. We always have a fun time with them. It was sad to come home, because that trip pretty much marked the end of the summer for us. School starts on Aug. 20th, which is just a week and a half away. So that means starting this Monday we'll be back in our classrooms getting ready for the students. At least this last trip was a great one.

Sean and I on our hike

Beautiful view of the park

Alisa, Lucy, Trent, me & Sean at the cabin

Holding baby Lucy