I didn’t want to be one of those people that had a blog way out of date but some how that has happened so I guess it is time to get caught up.
The school year ended in a blur of activities and mixed emotions. Our district is growing like crazy and a new elementary school is opening in the fall. I have known for awhile that another music teacher would not be hired so a couple of teachers would be traveling to cover all the students. I had been assuming I’d be traveling since Discover (where I’ve been teaching) is the smallest school. Well…I was wrong. I was reassigned to Larson Heights Elementary full time. This move is bittersweet. I love Discover and have some very dear friends that I’ll be leaving but I’m also excited to not be traveling and ready for a new challenge. Larson Heights has some amazing staff members and I’m looking forward to getting to know them and working with them. The biggest positive in the move is the PE teacher from Discover was also reassigned to Larson Heights. She and I work very well together and get along great. So in the next few weeks I’ll begin the process of setting up my new classroom. I’ll make sure and post pictures.
I had a week off to “relax” then helped with our churches VBS by teaching. It was a great week and I loved watching all the kids learn about Jesus. I had an amazing co-teacher that made the job so much easier. The theme was “SonSurf Beach Bash” so each classroom had a beach theme. My room was the Bonfire Beach and here the kids learned about the story of Jesus ascending into the clouds and His command to His disciples (and us) to tell others about Jesus! During the week an offering is taken to support a missionary (who had connections to our church) in Burkina Faso, Africa. This years project was to raise money to buy “Books, Benches and Bibles” for Burkina and the goal was $2500. It is always so fun to watch the kids faces each day and the total is announced for that day. Friday was the most exciting day of them all. The total offering for Friday alone was over $2500. The kids had raised almost double the goal for this project. It was incredible! Praise the Lord!
The 4th of July weekend was spent in Wenatchee with Tim’s family and attending some friends wedding in Leavenworth. We had so much fun with Tim’s parents, sister (Rebecca) and nieces (Sophia and Elise). Rebecca and girls are home for the summer from China while Adam (husband/father) stayed in China to study the language and prepare for beginning is Doctorate in the fall in China! We are all so proud of Adam and his accomplishment and are praying for this new adventure. Here are some pictures from the weekend.
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| Sophia with Uncle Tim |
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| Sophia playing in the sand box. |
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| Elise playing in the pool. |
Last week July 13-17
th was spent in Newberg, OR with Tim’s entire family at the home of Chad and Megan (Tim’s brother) and kids. It was a full house with 7 adults and 5 kids but was so nice to all be together and catch up. On Saturday Tim and I drove from Newberg, OR to Spokane, WA to attend the Shock arena football game that evening (thanks to my brother for the tickets). It was our first arena football experience and we chose a good one. The Spokane Shock won in the last 3.9 seconds of the game.
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| Brennan and Ava |
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| Sophia |
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| Elise and Papa having fun at the park. |
Now we’re back home with no major plans for the summer (if summer ever arrives…crazy weather this year). I’m looking forward to completing a few projects around the house and as I mentioned earlier setting up my new classroom.
Happy Summer!!!!
