Homecoming shopping

Yep, this is what the entourage looks like at the suit shop when the boy is trying on suit pants...

Picture coming soon since rotating didn't work on my phone.

Happy happy birthday

Spencer dear!
Happy days will come to you all year!
If I had a wish then it would be:
A happy happy birthday to you from me!
Such a CUTE birthday boy!

I went to the garden!

So, not sure what exactly I'm eating for the next week or so, but I do know that it will somehow involve potatoes. Lots and lots of potatoes!  :-)

Pretty sure...

That this dollar attended the Festival of Colors. What do you think?

Remembering Well... What will YOU do?

What a powerful, emotional day! I love being greeted by flags everywhere I look. Such a powerful display of solidarity!
In my classroom we started the day watching a video and discussing the basics of September 11th - what happened, why it happened, and why we celebrate it. Thank you BrainPop for animated, tactful, factual, sensitive videos about hard topics that kids can understand!
Then we watched 911day.org's video about the movement to make this day the single largest day of service and kindness-from hygiene kits and book drives to flash mobs and smiles-thousands of people doing kind deeds makes this a day of powerful solidarity, rather than sadness and fear.
After the video, my students finished this sentence:
On September 11, 2012 I will...
...say thank you to a police officer
...help my mom
...collect toys and clothes for kids with cancer.
So, what will YOU do?

Cucumber people

Because sometimes it's awesome to play with your food!

Boys!

... can escalate normal things like garbage can scooters and wheelchairs into something deadly!  ;-)

Temple hopping

So on Saturday we went temple hopping. We intended to go to the Brigham City temple open house but it was closed for Peach Days. So instead we visited the Logan, Brigham City, and Ogden temples for photography sessions!
Pictures coming soon!

I love the feeling...

...of a new sweatshirt. Bring on the football! GO WASATCH!!

I love when...

I love when "clean up your area" during afternoon routine includes my table. I love my cute little busy bees!

Strawberry Pinnacles

Fredrik and I drive out to Strawberry Pinnacles today with Ben and Spencer before we headed home to Heber. We got some great shots!

More photos can be found here:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100595865063609.2556375.17803337&type=3&l=0fe9742521

Coolest shooting star EVER!

So, tonight we saw the coolest shooting star. It went across the whole horizon and took forever. Long enough to consider getting the camera and regretting you didn't do it. It even changed colors!  It went from white to yellow to orange to green!
Since I obviously didn't get a picture of the shooting star, there are some coming of the ones we did take later.  :-)

 

Find more photos here:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100595865063609.2556375.17803337&type=3&l=0fe9742521

A glorious Saturday

So, my phone, which I've been using to post, decided it didn't like this post. Weird.

Saturday was awesome! The night before, I spent the night at Jennie's and got to drive home to a sunrise. That is RARE for me! I'm never up that early! The clouds after a nighttime storm were awesome.

I enjoyed the Fall colors as I drove down to Spanish Fork for a baptism, and then ran errands around Provo.

That evening I went to Swiss Days - another first for me. I got to go with my cousins, and my friends! Afterward, Jennie, Blake and I hit up the Hub, and then went to my house to watch the storm.

Yep, it was pretty much an AWESOME Saturday!

More photos can be found here:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100595865063609.2556375.17803337&type=3&l=0fe9742521

Pumpkins!

I stopped by the garden yesterday to grab a few things, and noticed that our pumpkins are HUGE and orange! I love fall!
And there was a cute little undaunted flower too!

Look at the moon!

It's a blue moon tonight. And a beautiful moon it is!

The dog really ate the homework

No really, my friends' new dog Sam ate their daughter's homework!

Good morning Heber Valley!

I love waking up to this sight. It means that Fall is coming!

Like my bracelet?

It was my first gift from a student this year!

He knew what I needed!

So I checked off a bucket list item today: driving East Canyon!
I was feeling a little overwhelmed and I just needed a quiet drive today, so I went up East Canyon and did the whole loop. It's something I've been wanting to do for years. It was spectacular! I'll be posting all 50+ pictures on Facebook and linking them here soon.
The things I saw and felt on that ride were the inspiration that I craved and so desperately needed. I am amazed at how perfectly my Heavenly Father knows me. He truly speaks my language.
Here's the picture allegory of how I was feeling today:

Sometimes we feel broken, shattered and beat up by ourselves, others, and circumstances. However illogical or overanalyzed or misinterpreted, it's how we feel - and God allows us those feelings. They aren't inherently bad, they're part of the process.

But in those moments, it is nice to see and feel the rainbows, and the light of peace and His infinite love breaking through the clouds.

I needed that today.

 More photos of my drive can be found here:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100590826465999.2555188.17803337&type=3&l=60d162fab5

My little sous chef

"I'm a great sous chef!" He says as we leave the pool. He helped me make a chocolate zucchini cake. It is quite yummy, if we do say so ourselves!
Oh and he's obsessed with Hunger Games. We watched it while we made our cake!
I'm glad his parents don't mind sharing him with me!