Spring Break

I hadn't missed too many details from Scott's trip. They mostly just drove straight back. They spent a little time in NYC but the rest of the time was mostly driving and sleeping. This last week was busy but good. I'm excited that it's Spring Break, I need a break. I have all of these cleaning projects that I want to do but I can't quite muster up the motivation yet. I'm hoping that in the summer I can get some more stuff done.

Coaching was good last week. We lost both of our games which was a bummer. I really thought we might win the second game but things went south fast. Ha. My girls are pretty good at defense but not as good at offense. I hope we can win at least one game but we will see what happens. I am enjoying it even if I don't really know what I'm doing.

The kids are out of school. We haven't done much. I bought a couple of crafts for the girls to do. We will be heading down to Utah for part of the break so that should be fun. I got my haircut and it didn't turn out like I thought and it's a little shorter than I wanted but it's okay.

We got together with some friends Friday and Saturday night so we had a fun social weekend. Well that's all!

I taught Gabby and her friend how to make friendship bracelets (thank you YouTube). 

Scott Toes to NYC!

Scott has been gone since early Thursday morning. He has a good buddy who bought a land rover in NYC and wanted Scott to go with him to help him drive it back to Boise. Scott jumped on the opportunity for a chance to see NYC and go on a road trip. I haven't heard too many details yet. They hung out and checked out a few things in NYC and spent the night there. The next day they drove to Chicago. Yesterday they drove from Chicago to Cheyenne and they are on their way home now. I'll be interested to hear more details. 

I was sick and miserable most of the week. I have three part time jobs right now though. I would stay in bed and get up for one of my jobs and then get back in bed. I had a bad cold/flu situation happening. I decided to call in sick for my Thursday sub job. I was feeling pretty good on Tuesday until I went into work for 4 hours so I decided not to do that again. I felt pretty normal the last few days. Holla! 

Basketball was a challenge this week as I was sick and not up to putting much into it. Plus I had to teach them offensive plays (which I had to figure out first). I feel the least comfortable teaching them plays but by Thursday it was looking pretty good. I have 8 players on my team but one of my starting five sprained her ankle at practice (she is out for 1-3 weeks). Another girl got a bloody nose at practice and literally thought she was dying, "am I going to die!" No, you are not going to die! Ha. One girl is wishy washy and is not dependable at all and another girl hurt her ankle at school. Basically I'm hoping for 5 players to just play the game on Tuesday. It should be interesting! 

The school had it's annual Bingo Night. I was not looking forward to going alone but it worked out alright. It's a lot easier when the youngest is 4. Corbin actually won a prize and right on our last round Gabby won! She was so excited. Piper of course started to cry because she didn't win a prize and then Gabby cried because she didn't like any of the prizes. I gave Gabby's prize to Piper which made Piper very happy and we bailed with Ryan crying who also wanted a prize and Gabby crying. Time to peace out! 

The kids and I had a Hunger Games marathon this weekend. It's been fun!  They have been loving it. We are on the last movie. We are waiting to watch it with Scott who never saw the last movie. It will be perfect. 

NYC

NCY

Chicago

Swanky hotel

Sick and Miserable.

Hanging out with my Ry Guy.

Bingo Night! 

Corbin actually won a prize! So did Gabby. We got lucky! 

I just let Ryan do whatever he wanted with his card. 

Hunger Games!

Not so green St. Patty's drink.

Yum! It really was delicious even if it looks more than a little questionalbe. 

Irish Soda bread, not good.

St. Patty's dinner.

Coach Cannon

I started coaching last week. The first day was try-outs. There are three 7th grade teams and three coaches. The A team coach was kind of in charge and she had no plan and we looked kind of like idiots in my opinion (not hard for me since I know nothing, so I definitely need a plan). We got through it though. The next day the B team coaches further divided up the girls into two teams. The idea was to get them as evenly split as possible so we have two B teams and not a B and C team. It was harder than we thought and we had to continue to make a few changes. Hopefully it's all good now. The rest of the practices went pretty good. I like my team. I only have one girl who is a bit of a slacker. I am definitely in over my head for sure. I can look up a drill and have them do it but when it comes to the nuances of the game that comes with years of experience which I don't have. I'm hoping my cram sessions and plans for each practice will get me through okay. I do think it is fun (when I'm not too stressed about my lack of knowledge) and it's a sweet gig. We only have practice for an hour 4 days a week and 6 games. It will fly by. The pay is about three times as much as subbing so it's awesome. I just need to get through as best as I can and not look too stupid in the process. That's the goal! 

Last Sunday I could feel myself getting sick so I rested all day. I was able to keep it at bay and on Thursday I thought I was 100% over it. I woke up with my throat on fire on Friday. I made it through my work day (that ended up being way easier than I planned) and we had our Friday night movie night with the kids. We watched the first Jurassic Park. So far no complaints of nightmares. Yeah! Ha. Scott invited a bunch of his guy friends over to watch a movie and I was able to fall asleep with a loud movie playing which was a miracle. My health was going downhill fast. I woke up feeling terrible on Saturday. I could barely talk. I stayed in bed and on the couch ALL day. I have too much to do during the week to be sick. I can't teach my VIPKID classes with no voice. I was feeling pretty bad by Saturday night and was thinking about going to an urgent care to see if I have strep. I ended up going to bed at 8:00. I slept surprisingly well. I woke up feeling a bit better but I have continued to do nothing all day. I watched a bunch of old school movies, The Cutting Edge, Cool Runnings, and A Cinderella Story. Ha. I am not better by any means but I don't think I will have to cancel my classes for the morning. A bunch of the kids have coughs as well  but they don't seem to be as sick as I am. Gabby had her bouts with fever and Ryan did too but the doctor on Monday said she wasn't sick and it was allergies. He's wrong! She got us all sick. Whatever. 

Anyway so that's the happenings around here. Busy sick times! Hopefully soon to just be busy times. 

Sometimes Ryan will put his hand under the door when he's supposed to go to sleep. It's so cute.

Ryan plays with these legos everyday. 

Last week Scott took Corbin to the Black Panther

Corbin wanted to play battleship with me (he never ever wants to do anything with me). I told him we had to do it in bed since I was sick. It was pretty cute. I could barely talk to call out the ship locations. 

I've been doing some serious reading!

Piper was playing doctor with Ryan. She was giving him CPR (she learned it from Jurassic Park).

Update

This last week was good. My VIPKID schedule filled up a lot throughout the week so that was good. The Chinese kids are getting back from vacation and getting back to being overachievers which is good news for me!  

The kids are doing good, nothing much new going on with them. Piper's ear infection has gone down a lot with the antibiotics but not completely. I think we will have a follow up appointment this week  Every Friday night has been popcorn and movie night with the kids but in the past the kids have mostly watched a kid movie on their own but lately we've been able to watch some older movies and it's been a fun family bonding time for all of us.

Scott and I were able to meet with friends on Friday night and play games and watch a movie with other friends on Saturday night. Gabby has a cold and I'm starting to get it. I've been resting all day and drinking lots of liquids trying to nip it. I'm already feeling a bit better which is good because I have a big week next week. I start coaching tomorrow. I feel like I just need to start doing it to figure it out. I've been reading coaching for dummies and watching you tube videos but I just need to do it to learn it. Hopefully I learn fast and I'm not a total idiot. Wish me luck! 

Funny Ry Guy

Cute facebook pop up memory.

Corbin and Gabby have been playing plants verses zombies together today. They never play together. So cute.

Ry wanted me to take his picture like this.

I got a magnetic nose ring. I like it. I might commit to the real thing and I might not. I got a bigger one first and it was too big and I didn't like it at all. This one is really small and I like it much better.

Snow!

This last week was good. Things were really slow with VIPKID which was kind of nice. So far  I have even less bookings this week. I'm hoping some more will get booked. Sometime Sunday night (Monday in China) a lot of the parents book for the week. I subbed for a second grade class on Friday. It was a little stressful. Subbing is scary. You have no idea what your day is going to be like. I've mostly done long sub jobs and resource room. I haven't been the actual teacher of random classes very many times. The teacher left 2 math worksheets with no answer key and wanted me to do them with the class. I didn't know how to do it and neither did the aids so I just had the kids work on their own. I hate that! I hate feeling like an idiot and not knowing what to do. The kids do math so weird now I don't know how to do it, 38+59 is like this whole big tree graph rounding mess. Other than that things were pretty good except for one difficult student.

On Friday night we met some friends for dessert. We had a fun date night with them. I went to a baby shower on Saturday. Today I went to another sign making party. It was so fun. This lady that owns the business is so talented and she can design pretty much any sign you want. It was really hard to decide.

We woke up to snow Thursday morning. Scott shoveled the snow all the way to the school so the kids would have a clear path on their walk home. Cutest! It snowed a lot yesterday. The kids were all gone to birthday parties and play dates so I forced myself to go out and play in the snow with Ryan. Ha. He was very cute. He kept throwing snow at me for at least 10 minutes straight and every time he would get deep belly laughs out of it. It was the best! That alone made it worth the effort to get myself out in the snow.

Here's a link to a Colie recap video.

The girls hugging cousin Greta before she left. Cute!

Gabby opening presents

Papa and Ryan at PoJos.

Baby shower. It was really cute and the food was yummers. 

R-E-L-A-X

Ryan loves to run out in his bare feet.

He also loves to eat the snow.

Scott shoveling the path to school.

Ryan and mommy snow time.

So many cute laughs out of him.

My latest sign. I couldn't think of where to put a sign in my house so I made one for the porch. I can't wait to hang it up and hang out there. It might be awhile...

Cannon's Visit

Last week was good. It was Gabby's b-day on Tuesday. I can't believe she's already 8! Crazy! We didn't do much on her actual birthday. We had a special dinner and a special breakfast but that's about it. She went over and played at her friend's house for a bit that night. I figured she already had her birthday party and we would do more celebrating with the Cannons over the weekend.

It's Chinese New Year in China right now and that is a BIG deal. The whole country practically shuts down. Needless to say my bookings were really low last week and are really low for this week as well. It's kind of nice to have a forced break. Hopefully bookings will be back up next week though. My sub job finally ended on Friday. Yay. I enjoyed it but working 10 hour days is no joke! The person they hired for the job is in school so she needs to be in class during some of the work day. The principal asked me if I would be willing to sub for her 2 half days in the mornings for the remainder of the school year. This will be perfect! I still get to teach and see the students. It also works out for my coaching job starting in two weeks. I did not want to sub full days during that time because it would be too much. I'm getting nervous about my coaching job as it is approaching. I hope it will be okay. Ha.

We pierced the girls ears back in September. I took really good care of the piercings and I made them wait a long time before I let them switch to regular earnings. When it was time to switch I wouldn't let Piper use the other earrings because her ears were always a little irritated and infected so we just continued to treat them and leave the studs in. This has been going on for weeks. I hadn't checked on her ears in a while so I called her over and found a huge mass of infection behind her ear. Yikes! Scott took her to the doctor the next day. Her ears were so infected from the wound sight that they were forming an infectious pouch to the side of her ear. The doctor said that it could turn very serious because it's right next to her carotid artery. Freaky! We started her on antibiotics and we will probably just let her ears close for now. I have really sensitive ears too and I can only wear earring studs. She must have gotten my bad genes. Poor girl. I hope this infection clears up quickly! Scary.

Jeff, Janet, Nicole, Rustin, and cousin Greta came for president's weekend to spend time with us for Gabby's birthday. They came late evening Friday night. On Saturday morning everyone went swimming. I got to stay home and clean my house in peace and quiet, it was wonderful! Later we went to Big Jud's for lunch and hung out the rest of the day. Nicole tried to have a girl's night with just the girls last night at the hotel but it nearly broke Ryan's heart to get left out. Luckily they let him come. Rustin and Corbin stayed at the house for a night of gaming. Nana and Papa watched Die Hard with us. Good times were had all around! Today we will probably just hang out. Tomorrow we will hit PoJos before the Cannons leave.

Ahh cute baby Gabs!

Cutest.

A Valentine from one of my students from Japan.

Piper's ear infection. 

Cuddle time!

It would appear that all of the Cannon's have mad artistic skills.

YUM!

Gabby's B-Day Party

Gabby has been asking me off and on about a birthday party and I would just blow her off. I don't really like birthday parties. I had it in my mind that I would only let my kids have a few but what can I say she wore me down. Last minute I said yes and we planned a very low key last minute birthday party. I only let her invite 5 people and we used her extra Valentine cards to make into a mask shift invitation. I didn't even think about the party until Saturday morning. Luckily I thought of a easy craft that would take up some time. I figured with any extra time we would play twister and Disney Scene It. Done. I was not up to thinking of extra games and prizes and all other kinds of nonsense. It needed it to be basic and it was. I think they had fun though so that's good.

I worked all last week and it was good, tiring but good. There are a couple of challenging kids but luckily I don't have them for very long. On Thursday I was tired. I got home from work and didn't leave my bed. I just rested all night. I needed to be able to recharge to make through another work day. They haven't found anyone yet so I am working next week. I'm super happy about my weekends. I have time to rest, play, clean, and do errands. Scott has been helping a lot with things around the house, cleaning, shopping, cooking. It's been nice. We are a team.

We hung out with our friends Jake and Lisa and had a movie night with them Friday night and Saturday night. It was fun. I fell asleep in both movies. Staying up late is so hard for me now with my crazy early morning weekday schedule. Alright I need to get geared up for another full week.

Piper's cat picture. 

Last minute improvised invitation.

Gabby and Ryan were cleaning up around the house. They were the cleaning train. Ryan would hold up his hand in a fist and say, "choo, choo." 

They were doing stretches together. 

Ha!

Birthday craft. They mod podged tissue paper onto the glass heart dish. 

At one point they all ran outside to watch Lizzie (our gecko) walk around outside. It was freezing! They didn't last long outside. 

Twister! 

Gabby had two friends give her the same unicorn beanie boos. Ha. She loves them.

Her mermaid blanket.