Still here......

Wow! Sorry I haven't updated this in so long....seems like it's been a long month of August! Here's a quick update of our lives...

1. AFTER returning from England I had about 6 days to get things together before starting a 2 month teaching job! CRAZY! I'm enjoying the class but am looking forward to being off in October!

2. Evan started jr. high on Monday! He's attending our bigger jr. high here in town.....1600 kids in 2 grades! YIKES...that's 2x bigger than the high school I went to! He's got such a GREAT attitude about school, which I hope continues for the next 6 years! He's taking Algebra 1 (loves to remind me I took this in 9th and 10th grades), Spanish 1a, Language Arts (Gifted and Talented level), History, Science and PE. Already taking things very seriously and studying above what he needs to do. Striving for straight As....I'll update and let you know how it goes!

3. Trying to continue to get Alex caught up after being gone for 2 weeks! He's got all his school work caught up but he's behind in independent reading points...which he doesn't like to do! So we are trying to read EXTRA every night...which isn't always a fun thing!

4. Dave and I (well, mainly Dave) have stepped up and become Webelos leaders in Cub Scouts. Alex's den was getting REALLY big and FULL of unrulely children, so he decided to take 1/2 of them and start his own den. So now, on top of Boy Scouts on Monday night with Evan, we will be having Webelos meetings on Tuesday nights! YIKES!!! Not sure EXACTLY what we have gotten ourselves into but we are excited and have a great group of scouts and parents joining us!

5. My birthday.......turned another year older the other day! Just another day...another year older until a friend reminded me that I am 364 days from the BIG birthday! LOL!!!! And she vows to remind me regularly how many days (she's already had the BIG birthday!) until mine!

6. Camping in Yosemite this coming weekend...normally AVOID the place during the summer and holiday weekends but Dave's sister got reservations for the housekeeping units (half tend/half cabin) and asked us if we wanted to go! SURE! Our goal is to hike to the top of Nevada Falls.....probably an 8 mile round trip hike.

7. Scrapping...when I can! Hasn't been much lately......but check out the kits at The Shaker Box...Linda is putting together some GREAT kits!!! September 1st she is also debuting a CARD KIT and a HYBRID KIT!!! There is something for EVERYONE there!!!! Go check it out!