San Diego Trip!

 It was time for another meet up with my roomie/bestie from college Jenny! Last time we met in Vegas, this time we met in San Diego. We arrived at almost the same time on Saturday morning at the airport. We picked up the rental car and headed up toward LA to go to Downtown Disney. Jenny and her husband are obsessed with Disney and we had some time to kill so we just headed there to check it out and have an overpriced lunch...which was good at least! Ha. After that we drove back to San Diego and checked in to our hotel and went and bought ALL of the snacks. We later hit an In-N-Out as per tradition and that was our Saturday. On Sunday we went to Coronado Island and hung out at the beach and had lunch. That night we went to Old Town San Diego for dinner. On Monday we went and did a hike at Torrey Pines and tried to get lunch afterwards. You would not believe the difficult time we had to find anything for an hour! La Jolla does not have a lot of fast food or any food that we could find. We FINALLY found a giant mall with a food court. Huzzah! We both voted that was the worst part of the trip. That night we got ice cream at Downtown San Diego and weren't too impressed to keep hanging out down there and went and had dinner at Seaport Village that night we watched Bachelorette together just like in the old days! On Tuesday we hung by the pool until we had to get ready to check out and head to the airport. We were there plenty early and were sad to find out that our flights were in separate terminals and we couldn't hang in the airport at all, which was sad. 

My flight home was first to Seattle and then home to Boise. The flight to Seattle was overbooked and they were offering vouchers for $1,500! Even though I didn't have any reason to not hang out for another day I certainly didn't want to go spend another night in a hotel in San Diego by myself for a flight the next day. Luckily my big brain thought how I didn't need to get to Seattle so I asked them if there were any other flights to get to Boise. It took her a hot minute to figure it out and by hot minute I mean much longer than a minute BUT she found a flight to Sacramento (last seat first class) and then onto Boise. The kicker is I only arrived in Boise 1 hour later than I was supposed to WITH a $1,500 voucher! Oh Yeah!!! I'm definitely brain storming a family trip to take in the next year before the money expires. WOOT!

Beal Family Reunion

My parents celebrated their 50 year wedding anniversary in February and we wanted to have a big celebration for it. My mom has been brainstorming ideas for a few years. They finally decided to have a vacation in a giant lodge in Ashton, Idaho over by Island Park. It was perfect! The house or whatever you call it was HUGE! It was perfect for accommodating my huge family.  We all arrived sometime Sunday evening. That night my mom played a big family history game where all of the siblings had to act out various ancestors and people had to guess who they were for some prize money. I won a dollar! Heck yes, I remembered Mary Thorpe Beal's story. We just chatted after that. Monday morning a bunch of people played around the private pond. In the afternoon Justin planned and executed a big family scavenger hunt. He is the best! Scott and I went to Mesa Falls before dinner with our boys and Trisha and Travis. Right before dinner, we surprised our parents with a song with actions. This is a song my mom grew up with that her dad used to sing. My mom joined right in! The next day several people went to Yellowstone. Some of us went and saw some dude's cabin. Ha. I don't remember and it was something to do. That evening we went to West Yellowstone and watched Newsies at Playmill. My dad first saw my mom for the first time when she was performing at Playmill. The play was excellent. It was way too hot and too long but really well done. The next day we cleaned up and went home. It was a great time! The worst part was that the house had a giant yard and the sprinklers were on constantly the lawn was a marshland and we couldn't play on the lawn. That was annoying! Everything else was great! 

Watching Newsies at Playmill

Mesa Falls!

West Yellowstone 

Hart went on a 5 mile run with me. If you look closely you can see the Grand Tetons behind us.

Private Pond

Theater Room

Hot tub

There is a moose behind us...look closely!

Ginormous House!

Ginormous Family!

Anniversary Bikes!

Cutest Couple!

Our surprise song

Update

 Highlights from last week...swimming at Roaring Springs, swimming with friends, coffee date with friends, shed date with Lisa, finished my ISU class, gardening for Scott...always gardening. That's it!

Swimming fun!

Cute Pipes

Chic Fil A!

Thai Food!

Teeny Tiny Pancakes.

Gabby the Chef.

Running through the sprinklers.

Coffee Date with Friends! 

Honeyberries 

Cherries

Strawberries

Hot Pink Strawberry Blossoms!

Pink Strawberry Blossoms!

Scott's Micro Orchard with Espalier (Trellis, along the wall behind trees)

Roaring Springs Picnic 

Avid Training

 This last week was pretty busy. Monday was really busy I can't really remember why now. I did meet with another FCS teacher to talk about lesson plans for next year and as I sat down to talk to her I was just like I cannot care about this right now. We chatted for about an hour but I am SOOOO burned out. I don't give a flip right now about next school year. Tuesday through Thursday I had an all day work training on the computer. My Vice Principal wanted me to be trained as an AVID elective teacher. AVID is a program that is geared to helping teach students how to be successful students and help them get to college. It was nice the kids were still in school because being on the computer training would have been hard with them home. It was a little boring and painful but I got paid for it and it's another class I could teach in the future (not that I want to) which is more job security. So win win. I also worked on my ISU class. I need to write two more papers and I will be done with that class. Hoping to finish this week and then take a BREAK! 

On Monday Gabby had a drive through 5th grade graduation celebration. I think they should have had a ceremony since most of the mandates have been lifted. Dumb. Oh well. Their last day of school was Thursday. They wanted a special breakfast on Friday to celebrate. I also made dinner for my friend who had a baby. I also had some friend hang outs this last week. I worked very hard last school year. Now it's time to play hard! Yesterday I ran 12 miles. It was hard and I couldn't really do much the rest of the day. It zaps me! I'm feeling good today. We are headed out to Roaring Springs to use our free reading passes before they expire.

Scott continues to fret and work on his plants always. HA!

5th Grade Graduate! Moving onto Middle School!

My friend Krista's birthday is tomorrow. I got us matching shirts since we are both turning 40 this year!

I love my friend Lisa. She comes over and has shed show dates with me!

Gabby's prospective project.

Celebratory breakfast!

Lana and Odin!

He's so little!

Memorial Day

We didn't really do anything for Memorial Day. We had a BBQ and had ALL the food, so that was yummy. I spent a lot of the week catching up on my ISU class. I am caught up and hope to finish up with the class a bit early.  I need to work on it today! This coming week I have a three day training on the computer that I hope is not too terrible. I just got an email that I will be paid for it though so that is awesome! Nothing much else to report. The kids have 4 days left of school. They are excited! I ran 10 miles today. I'm surprised I'm already at that many miles. My body hurts today though...wooo doggy! 

The feast!

Gabby berry platter. 

Cute kids.

Gabby made an obstacle course.