Fall Time is Coming!

We all made it through another school week. Corbin skipped a day because he crashed 3 times at practice and was super sore the next day and Piper skipped a day because he teeth hurt so badly after she got her bottom braces. I had the kids an extra week because of weird scheduling stuff, so that was an extra treat. I'm managing okay at work, bit by bit. I am liking the high school. We had our first cooking lab in Foods and they had to cook a hamburger patty on the stove. It got SO smoky in the classroom. I am SO glad we didn't set off the fire alarms. Not setting off the fire alarms and no cutting off fingers are my main goals on cooking lab days! We had a good weekend. Lance, Katie, and Caleb came down from Northern Idaho so we had a Beal gathering at Gabe's house and had pizza and some went swimming. Corbin spent half the weekend with his mountain bike club. They raced at Magic Mountain in Twin Falls. His races take about an hour and a half. I think it's kind of tiring and painful for him but really good too! The temperatures were a little cooler so we channeled our love for fall and had caramels and apples, pumpkin pancakes, and turned on the fireplace. Fall time is my favorite! 

 

Back to School

It was kind of a crazy week. Adjusting to the early mornings and busy full days is a lot. I'm REALLY tired right now. This school year is going to be tough. It just will be. Teaching 3 new subjects is a ton of work even if you are given the materials. I still have to figure them out and figure out how to teach it. I'm taking it one lesson, one day at a time. I am sort of ready for tomorrow. I will fake it until I make it all year for sure. I am really liking having my own classroom (even if it's so full of junk I get claustrophobic), and I am enjoying high school. During the passing period I thought the students weren't leaving their classes because it was so quiet. It was SO weird. I am used to absolute mayhem at North. It's so loud and overly crowded at that school it's crazy.  The classroom vibe is way more relaxed and chill as well. It's nice! One day at a time!

Corbin is in 11th grade. He's taking pretty easy classes this year, he took a lot of hard classes last year and I don't think he wanted to do that again. He is on the Centennial Mountain Bike club team. It is super expensive and I'm glad I have some baby money to help pay for it. He is really liking it though. My brother talked us into joining in the hopes that his kids would also do it but his kids bailed. I was hoping Gabe would be the one to take Corbin to the meets so that was unfortunate. LUCKILY one of his teammates has a generous and kind dad who will take Corbin and other teammates to the meets. I DO NOT have the bandwidth to try drive to a mountain on a Friday after working all week and camp to attend the meets. No way. I think he will be able to get a ride for the season. Halleluiah. I don't have any pictures because I'm not awesome enough to drive 2 1/2 hours to watch a race.  

Gabby is a Freshman! Crazy. She is taking choir and art. She is in her 3rd year of Spanish. She has decided she wants to do dance again this year so she will be joining Piper's dance class. So far she is adjusting to high school well.

Piper is in the 7th grade. Her elective this quarter is FCS (home ec). She got out of advanced math which was a smart choice because math made her cry everyday last year. I'm hoping 7th grade can be more smooth for her than 6th grade. Adjusting to middle school was really hard for her last year.

Ryan is in 5th grade. It's his last year in elementary. He cried the night before school because of it. He does not want to go to middle school next year. Growing up and change can be hard. He said his teacher is nice so that's good. 

Ice cream before the first day of school. (Corbin was with his friends).

11th Grade!

9th Grade!

7th Grade!

5th Grade

Both in High School togeher!

1st Day with students at Borah

My flowers

Cutest puppy.

Back to Workie

 I went back to work on Tuesday. The first week of work is boring meetings and teacher work time. I do appreciate that we go back before the students come in. It's nice to start getting used to the schedule and get ready in the classroom. I am not ready but my goal is to survive. I have next week's lessons sort of figured out. I think it will be day to day. I had a busy weekend with doing my house and yard work and preparations for the work week with grocery shopping and meal prepping. I also did quite bit of work this weekend. Overall I'm feeling okay and not as stressed as I thought I would going into the new school year. I do have some experience under my belt now and I've done hard things plenty of times before. I should have taken a picture of my room. It's big but it filled to the brim with STUFF. It makes my skin crawl a bit. Every drawer and cabinet is filled. I'm in the wrong profession as a minimalist. So many random games and toys for child development and tons of kitchen equipment of course and 3 wheelers and car seats and creepy fake babies. It's not my favorite. It makes me want to go organize a closet in my house or something. I have no idea what I will need or use so I'm not even worrying about trying to actually clean out the room and organize it. Luckily most things are hidden and I'll pretend it's not my nightmare waiting in the all the spaces. 

I'm so excited to get my kids back. They have been gone for 2 weeks. Luckily it's gone by fast because I've had a very busy couple of weeks and did a lot of social things as well. I will have them for the next 2 weeks straight and it will be a little chaotic as we all try to adjust to our school routines. The summer went fast!

Pregnancy is going great. I feel really good. It's hard to dress and look cute at this stage where I mostly just look like I had a big lunch. I'm 16 weeks now!

Charly was my buddy all week since the kids couldn't take her to St. George with them. I think she will be very happy when the kids come back tonight as well! 

16 weeks!

Last Week of Summer Break

I had a really fun last week of summer break. I went to Twin Falls to hang out with my friend Brooke. We went to a paranormal circus show and the next day we went kayaking. She is really fun to do things with. I hiked table rock and took my kids swimming to roaring springs. I went paddle boarding and took my kids school supply shopping. I've been dog sitting this weekend which feels like a staycation. I just watch movies on my friend's big TV, eat snacks, and cuddle puppies, it's pretty great! I am really really really not ready to go back to work. I have not prepared AT ALL. I hope that adrenaline and luck with get me through. I will need all the help I can get. The pregnancy is going well. I had an appointment last Monday and the heartbeat was good. I'm feeling really good. 

Paddle boarding by Lucky Peak with my friend Shelly and my cousin Sherry.

Puppies.

Circus

Kayaking. The canyon and river in Twin Falls is really beautful.

Roaring Springs. Corbin taking a nap. They stayed up WAY too late the night before. Oh well!