Thanksgiving Break Continued!

This past week has been the best! Last Friday night I had a girls night at Lisa's house and we ate and watched the new Christmas movie "Spirited." On Saturday night we went to my brother Gabe's house for a pie night. Pizza pie and pie pie. Yum! I spent several days repainting the girls' closet doors. I also made cinnamon rolls for a craft brunch I'm hosting next week. The batch made enough for me to freeze some for Christmas morning. On Tuesday night I had another girls night in the shed. On Wednesday we headed out to my parent's house for a few days. Trisha and Kelsey's families were there. We had a great time eating, talking, puzzling, and movie watching. Things have been a little more back to reality this past weekend gearing up for work tomorrow. I spent a lot of hours lesson planning and getting things ready around the house for the work week. Last night we had a belated birthday dinner at Kyoto with our friends. It was so fun and yummy! We were too tired to play games afterwards. I went to bed as soon as we got home. Party time is over, 4 more weeks until Christmas break! 

Corbin and Scott game time.

Justin plans a Thanksgiving treasure hunt every year.

The hunt ended at the school play ground. 

I brought several 300 piece puzzles. They are the perfect size puzzle to enjoy and conquer in my opinion. 

Corbin got some practice driving on the country roads. He did pretty good.

Beautiful Lost River sunset.

Charly loves to lay in the sun. 

Corbin and Gabby Scott movie date.

Yum!

Watching TV with Charly is my favorite! 

Thanksgiving Break

Wahoo and just like that I get a break again. This past week of school was good. One of my student's was like, "Ms. Cannon you are in a good mood, I think Mexico was good for you." Yes indeed Lola! The only bad part I caught a nasty cold last Sunday and was pretty sick all week. I probably should have stayed home for at least a day or two but I didn't want to after being gone for a week. I rested, drugged up and made it through. My nose was a faucet for two days at school which was annoying, painful, and gross. 

I broke "the rules" and decorated my room for Christmas last week. It looks so good! Janet was home sick for four days last week so I got to stay in my room all day for four days. It was amazing, oh what it would be like to not share a classroom or 5. I had my students make their 2 day class project of creamy chicken noodle soup and corn bread muffins. Each kitchen has different tasks to make a class feast. It's fun and yummy but a ton of work. 

I'm so excited to have a week off of work. The schedule is the best part of being a teacher, the breaks are SO NEEDED THOUGH, TEACHING IS A LOT! Can't wait to do nothing and anything I want this week! Woot.

I hand made those banners out of wrapping paper and ribbon for a ward party 10,000 years ago. It looks so cute in my room!

Cute tree!

Thanksgiving feast. My 2nd period gathered for their meal and said what they were thankful for. 

Cute!

AHHH

Christmas is up at the house too! I love having a Christmas tree in my room SO much. Plus this tree is my tree with all of my handmade ornaments from my kids. I LOVE IT!

 

MEXICO!

Getting ready to go to Mexico was a lot but it was worth it. Luckily, I lined up an amazing sub before school even started and she covered for me the whole week and even cooked with the students. That made me feel less guilty because the students didn't miss out while I was away and I got a middle of the school year vacation. Win, win. I had back up upon back up lesson plans so the sub would have more than enough work to give the students if needed. I lined up a place for Charly to go (with a friend who has one of Charly's siblings). We got packed and were off. Sunday was a long day and when we arrived we immediately lost $100. We paid for an excursion but part of the deal was we had to come back for a breakfast. We realized that was likely a push to sell a timeshare and we were out. We just kissed that money and excursion good bye. No thanks! Next time we will say no before we lose any money. Ha. I hate time share pushes possibly more than I had MLM's and that's a strong hate. 

We stayed at the hotel the entire time and it was great. I would have liked to have done one activity but not enough to deal with figuring it out. We wanted a lazy relaxing vacation and that's what we got. The hotel is new and it was beautiful! There were four restaurants on site. The food was okay. Our favorite was the breakfast buffet. We stuffed ourselves to the gills every morning. For lunch we would order snacks or food poolside and then we would hit one of the restaurants at night. Our favorite was a churro dessert that was amazing. We also loved having gallons of smoothies all week. All of the entrée meals were okay. Nothing that we were dying over. Everyday I spent at least 6 hours by the pool swimming, eating, reading, and sometimes napping. It was glorious. By Wednesday I think we were all pretty ready to go but we enjoyed our last day at the pool. The kids were about sunned out by Thursday and their faces burned when we applied sunscreen. It was a lot of sun for them, especially Ryan who didn't leave the pool for more than a few minutes at a time for DAYS. The lazy river was the favorite. We spent hours in that thing. It was even more fun to walk and swim in than it was to use the inner tubes. 

It was weird that is felt like summer but it would be get at 6:00, the pool area was dead at night. We were always tired from a long day at the pool and hours of darkness and we went to bed by 9:30 every night. 

The hotel was right next to the ocean and that was beautiful. It wasn't a safe place to swim and was closed for swimming but we went for walks along the beach and it was glorious.  We were so happy to come home on a Friday and have the entire weekend to recover and regroup for the real world tomorrow. I am mostly caught up with my grading and feel completely in control. I only have one more week before we get a break for Thanksgiving. I am stoked about that. I think every fall I may plan a trip because the stretch from the beginning of the school year to Thanksgiving is too long and I need a break! 

Alright, well that's all. Picture overload time. 

Taking the elevator to get to the airport!

Gabby was scared to fly and scared we would get stuck in Mexico and she was sad to leave her puppy.

Ryan was my flying buddy the whole trip.

Our amazing hotel: Villa la Valencia 

Birthday dinner and dessert, it was okay. Haha

Beach Family Pic.

Corbin, Gabby, and Ryan legs.

Happiness!

Drinks at the pool was as favorite!

We walked laps in the opposite direction of the current for exercise. It was hard!

Sunrise walk.

I spotted this sea turtle. It was so cute and sad to watch it struggle and finally make its way to the ocean. We named it Edison after  Sam's turtle on Atypical. 

Night swim.

So many choices.

So Proud.

On our way for a night time beach adventure.

Chewy and Charly, they had SO much fun. Cute little puppies!

All is right in the world.