Full time

Well I am back to full time work. Summer is officially over. :( Today was our first faculty meeting, it lasted four hours! I had some time to reflect.... a year ago I was just starting my first year of teaching. Oh, I was so excited, nervous, anxious, apprehensive, and so unsure of myself. Looking back I am glad that I don't have to repeat my first year. That first year is brutal, intense, and exciting all at once. I am looking forward to a new year, with those first year experiences behind me and innovative ideas in front. I love having control of my own classroom and creating my own lesson plans. Here is to a fresh start! :)

Sweetness

I am finally reading Eclipse! The third book of the twilight series. I have seriously waited for many months to read this book, I am too much of a tight wad to buy the books!!!

So long sweet SUMMER

David and I have had a fun and relaxing summer (biking, swimming, game nights, movies, visiting family, and camping) . And now it is almost over. :( David is now working two jobs. He is working at the Bronco Bookstore and for my brother - in - law. It keeps him really busy. I am gearing up for school. I worked registration last week and- Wow there are a lot of 8th graders coming in (330). As school gets closer I have more and more dreams/nightmares about school. It is always along the lines that the students don't listen to me. Lol. I am looking forward to a less stressful school year! This year being my second and I have no wedding plans to fret about! I really lucked out with my school. I have an amazing principal who is kind and reasonable, and great faculty to work with! I start full time on Wednesday. So I have just a few days left to enjoy my summer. So long sweet summer! (Thanks Dawn for inspiring this post! :)

Strep :(

So yep I got strep. On Wednesday I felt great, but as the night wore on my throat starting hurting. By the time we got home from David's parent's house I was very tired. I found out in the morning that I got strep. For the last two days I have been drinking juice and watching TV. It has been really boring. David has been really great! Getting me juice, putting the office on for me, doing laundry!! I am really lucky! Thanks David for taking care of me!

Digital Scrapbooking 1st attempt :O)

Dentist

Last week I went to the dentist and I filled out the normal paper work and so forth. The receptionist, who is the dentist's wife, look over it and ask how do you know Tiff Winward, my emergency contact - thanks Tiff!,? I went on to tell her that Tiff is my sister. The response I got was not expected... Oh! Then you are my cousin. She went on to tell me about what a great family that I come from, on the Clark side. She told me to look up Sanford Porter's conversion story online. I haven't looked it up yet, but just thought it might be interesting for all'yall.

Outdoors

Here lies David and Tisha Johnson's most humblest of gardens. I think we have watermelon, carrots, daisys, zinnas, some herbs and of course tomatoes growing. I don't really know exacatly what we have because we didn't take the time to label them. We love watching the little sprout grow!!!








Friday David and I head up to the mountains with David's mom Dawn and the three youngest. We drove up to Lake Cascade and drove all around the the lake looking for a campsite that wasn't soggy or had snow in it. We finally found one. It was freezing. I think David was asleep before 9pm. The only warm place was our sleeping bags. We did walk down to the lake. Arianna and I saw a freaky huge ant hill. It was Indian Jones worthy. It was about 3 feet high and cover with big red and black ants. It was pretty crazy it gave my whole body the wiggles. We woke up Saturday morning to more coldness - so we quickly packed our bags and headed for the nearest McD's for breakfast! Ya- right in Cascade?! HA We went to the only sort of fast food place they had -subway. We had subs for breakfast! It was great and healthy! Well that makes for our first camping trip! More to come the SUMMER of 2008!