A Birthday, A Conference, A Halloween, A Fundraiser, An Egagement!

 It's been a week! I knew it would be a super busy week, and I was right! I planned accordingly in my classroom and at home to make it work as best as possible. It was Ryan's 12th birthday on Tuesday! What a kid! He's so sweet, funny, laid-back, and smart. Love that kid! I took the day off kind of just because, and I was busy the entire day. That's adulting. You take a day off from work to spend the whole day doing work. Ryan wanted his chicken noodle soup (the recipe he found, it's good!) for his birthday dinner and the usual pumpkin cake. On Wednesday, we had FCCLA fall conference, and it was pretty fun to skip school for the day. Gabby joined FCCLA at Centennial, so we got to go together! On Thursday, FCCLA participated in Borah's Trunk or Treat. It was very busy and luckily, the student council bought a ton of backup candy because we needed it! Friday was Halloween, yay! We went trick-or-treating and later I slept through a movie. I am dead on Friday nights. On Saturday, I had to go set up and spend half the day at a Holiday Bazaar to try to earn some fundraising money. It was pretty dead, and most of the booths did pretty bad. My co-worker only made about $20. I was luckier than that, making around $70. It's so much work. I'd rather just pay $100 and stay home. Oh well, it's just one of those things we have to do! Later that night, I got engaged! What! A little backstory.

I’ve been open and honest with John about wanting to get married, and he was on board because of me and willing to do it with me. We had a ring conversation a while back, and I said I wanted to pick out my ring, and he was disappointed with that, as he felt it took away his part in surprising me. I told him I could still be surprised when it happened, but I wanted to pick out my own ring. In true John fashion, he wrapped his brain around it and listened to me and still found a way to honor us both. This is why I love him so much. He also took hours to research earrings and buy just the right thing. He went to the proposal spot three times to check out the lighting. I just love how thoughtful he is. His plan went to crap as I tend to mess up his plans. 

I told him I wanted to go ring shopping for my birthday. He asked me a few weeks ago about going to Luciano’s and if we would have conflicts afterward, and I told him no, so I wondered if he would do something, but I didn’t expect him to propose. I was looking up which ring stores were open on a Saturday night for after dinner, and then I said I wanted to go to dinner way earlier than he expected, so the lighting was off during the proposal. The earring box actually had a light. 

He proposed at the train depot and it has been shut down and of course we drove up early and there’s a wedding and people all over so the time of day was off and the location was off because he panicked with the people and proposed in a spot where people couldn’t see us as easily. I can’t remember what he said, and I want him to write it down so I can re-read it. He just told me he never thought he would do this again, but wanted to with me and how this isn’t special enough for me because nothing is. I don’t remember, it’s a blur! He was nervous and I was nervous and I kept kind of laughing and saying okay over and over, and he was like stop staying okay. 
It was beautifully awkward and wrong and perfect. I was so nervous, he picked out a ring for me so I was so happy he presented engagement earrings to me! 

I love that he’s been planning it for about a month and a half and managed to surprise me even though I tried to make him take me ring shopping that day. I don’t make it easy for people to surprise me. On the way to the depot, I was literally talking to him about getting engaged, and if that’s not what he wanted, we needed to have a different conversation. Haha. Omg. Anyway, it’s hard to explain it all, but I love him so much. He’s just what I want!

Ryan's nickname is Roy. Piper made him a crown.

Ryan got recognition for getting 3.5-4.0 grades. Good job Ryan!

 

"Dearest Ryan, I hope this day finds you well. You are wonderous boy. Give my love to the family. With love, Hutcha!" John is a dork. 

It was dress up week and Piper came up with a quick superhero costume. 

FCCLA Fall Conference

Gabby too!

Trunk or Treat. Not sure about the tinsel but whatevs!

Oh, my Child Development also hosted a preschool party.

Happy Halloween

Annual sort candy while watching Garhalloweefield!

We're engaged!

Engagement earrings!

Girls Weekend in McCall

 My girlfriends and I got an Airbnb in McCall and had a girls' weekend. It was so fun. We did it about 2 !/2 years ago, and we were way overdue! We ate a lot of food, chatted, watched movies, crafted, repeat. It was really great. My friend Krista goes all out and got all of the witchy things for Halloween. It was super fun. McCall is so pretty in the fall. 

I got family photos and they turned out so good! I don't have the edited photos yet, but the unedited ones are excellent! John has been researching cars for months and searching for a car for Gabby, and he found her one! We are so excited. A 2005 Toyota Matrix with only 119,000 miles. Woot! John is pretty good with repairs and has researched and bought tools to do a lot of the maintenance and repairs. He's so great!

So many craft supplies!

Our witchy crafts.

Gift baskets.

Underwhelming, and expesive and slow dinner. We should have just eaten our overabundance of cabin food. Oh well!

Ryan didn't last during the movie night.

Piper got a 4.0 for term 1!

Gabby's car!

Update

Is it the weekend yet? I am already ready for next weekend. A girl can dream! This past week was a little rough; I had a cold and just felt kind of crappy all week. I have parent-teacher conferences this week, and I'm tired and burned out, so I'm planning an extra simple week next week. We get Friday off. Can't wait! 

Ryan was also nominated for student of the week, like Piper. Corbin and Gabby have also received P cash at Centennial in the last few weeks. Good work, kids! My friend Chelsey was in Boise for a wedding, so we got to meet up for a bit. She lives in Texas. We talk all of the time on Marco Polo, but it was nice to see each other in person. 

A cute Facebook memory. Charly was so dark when she was younger.