school

this is Vinnie...he is my new little buddy at school. While Ihave plenty of other kids that are super cute, or that I just happen to have a huge soft spot for....I have to say, Vinnie is my favorite. He came just for the summer or that was the plan, but thankfully his parents have decided that he is going to stay. I am so excited. He is just an awesome little guy and he always comes up to say hi and make me smile after a kid has issues.
the rest of the class is going well also, and this picture is from one of the many fun things we have done iwth them. we love shaving cream and water , so we like to combine them and save ourselves a little bit of work by letting the kids clean the chairs.

these are my little monsters. I found a picture of them online and I thought they were adorable. They sadly did not come out as well as I would have liked but they are still very very cute.

we are doing a literature based curriculum this year at school and each teacher gets one book per month to write the lesson plan on. One of my books was "there was an old monster" so in my hunt for fun things to do I found these guys and I thought they would be very fun to play with.

so much else going on, with friends, adam, school, my school, the house, family and just fun fun fun but that is all for now.

its good to be loved

lately I have been getting a lot of special treatment....
cable...for free
a ride home after dropping my car off
an afternoon full of manual labor relocating rocks
and a yummy and very special dinner

Guess who made me chicken and BLUE potatoes?

yes they really were blue, they looked to me liek homemade playdough but they were mighty tasty.

and here are how the rocks got moved....well maybe only one load was moved this way but i love the guys who did the rock moving because all on their own they brought the toy dump trucks outside and put them in place "moving" the rocks.

life...work...life

things have been so incredibly amazing lately...
there has been so much going on, soem good some bad some just stuff.

I finally started the job of my dreams and while there have been bad days, long days, hard days, and amazingly great days...it is AMAZING. there have been bites, bumps on heads, tears, talking back for sure. but there has also been an incredibly happy to see my kid every day after nap, a hug from half my class at least every morning i get to work, me being the special person in one kids life ( he and I have something and it makes everyone pretty happy), learning new things to do with kids, planning a whole day by myself with kids and it going amazing, watching them progress even in just a month, and taking some cute pictures of some of the fun we have had it has simply been incredible.
then there has been some time with family. holidays, gifts, gatherings where everyone actually showed up. finding out a younger cousin was pregnant, a grandma fracturing her foot, a grandpa in and out of the hospital with a stroke and many other issues, a brother who is simply put him and yet making some little progress in growing up, some time with an older cousin doing long awaited plans, time catching up drinking beer and somehow not playing pool. it has been good, learning about family and keeping up with the ones im closest to.
then there's friends. they kinda go hand in hand with family to me but still there is just something different there that I have a hard time accepting...they all really do want me to be around and enjoy me for me and I have a HARD time realizing that. but we have had fun, meeting new puppies, seeing new rental houses, my first game of beer pong, some texts to make some random plans, going ot rodeos, simply talking to people has just been amazing. things with a special someone have been rocky and yet great at the same time, I still have my issues but this weekend was super special and awesome to me in its own way of simple communication.
I have to say life has been a lot of emotions lately but its been incredible for me to watch it all come together....house, job, friends, family, puppy, goals, dreams,....it has all simply been INCREDIBLE!!
I can't wait to see what is to come.

a new job...

Jared
Marcus
Dylan
Cade
Akosa
Ava
Alyssa
Taryn
Gabs
Simon
Kenya
Keira

then the new kids
Justin
Caleb
Isela
Emma
Adrian
Dylan

this is my new class. and my new job. Unfortunately I only have one picture of one kid so far, but in the new few weeks i will be taking more pictures hpoefully because A few kids will be moving up soon.
Well, its been a bit of learning, and a lot of fun, and a lot of learning names and personalities etv.
I have definately loved every minute at this new school of mine. i have had 2 days of being the only teacher in the room, and many afternoons of being the only teacher in the room and starting this summer I will always be the only one. It has been fun, the director said the one day I planned on my own she was impressed. It has been great, I seem to be able to keep the kids engaged and listening etc.
This summer we are planning a mad science summer so that should be very fun. I am excited to see how it turns out, and then next year we are going to be a little more structured with themes based on books and such. I am excited about that because it will be fun to have a little mroe struture than what we have currently, because currently nothing needs to be planned so its way to easy to slack off, and it seems that many people do.
I really enjoy the kids although I do have my favorites....they would be Jared, Alyssa and Cade. I also have the ones that are hard, Dylan( who is impossible for everyone and thankfully only has 2 days left at this school), Marcus who is just becoming a butt for everyone lately, and then Adrian who is my little friend/nightmare/project all at the same time. He had a very rough start and I have a soft spot for him and he seems to really like me and go to me for things so Im hoping him and i can figure tihngs out together, so far his mom is happy, with me he has napped, and pooped on the potty which never happened with the other school he was at. so we will see how much he improves.
Overall I have to say that minus my other teacher being a negative nancy I love the kids, I love the activities, and I love the job. Its definately amazing and I think it will only get better.

Disneyland

so last year I took Rylan to disneyland for the last time before she turned 3. It was a very fun and special day. So this year, before my pass expired I wanted to take Cade. So we planned a day just in time and off we went....it was a very special and fun day.....the pictures are in backwards order....so we ended the day with a scoop of choclate ice cream (his choice) and he defiantely enjoyed it and the ice cream you see if all the mess he made which I thought was pretty good for how much fun he was having eat it....
We also rode Autopia, which sadly was not his first ride but it was still pretty fun. I let him steer because its what I do. It was abumpy ride but the bumpy part was his favorite part. He seemed to enjoy it, and told me as the day went on that he wanted to drive. because thats what we called the ride, autopia is so boring but driving sounds like so much fun.

see I told you he was enjoying driving. and i really didnt' touch the wheel until we were at the end of the ride but I did hold onto him because the "seatbelt" on the ride is not the best.

This was the first ride of the day, and he seems to already be pretty happy with life and we are only on the carosel.

It was a very fun special day, there was not a single tear, only one whiney word (Mickey). and a lot of smiles and laughs. We even ended the day playing with Lucas which both boys seemed to enjoy a lot.

SPRING

i know i know...me saying something like this is not normal for me but none the less, i tried to make my house a little prettier than just dirt and tiny rocks....so i now that it is spring i planted some flowers ..and surprisingly they are growing....see below... okay so its only a few tiny leaves but its a start, they started as teenie tinnie seeds from the dollar section at target so i was surprised i got anything...hopefullywhen i get back frm the race there will be color...

then I went to bring in the trash cans this afternoon and to my surprise my front yard had some color too...

It may be pink but I really like them...and on the plus side i didnt have to do anything. they just appeared. there is still plenty of dirt around them but it is better than nothing...

trust me, there is still plenty to do in the front and back yards but it is a start, no matter how small it is.

i tried to get mac to pose in a picture with the pots in the backyard but when we tried the dog behind us came out and lets just say that was way more exciting to her than sitting still for a picture....

a hard few weeks...

the last few weeks have been hard.
somehow lost my amazing but boring job in a not very thoughtful way.
got offered a full time preschool position and was excited,
but then got unoffered that job, and changed to an on call person, but then somehow lost that as well and now they won't hire me in the future....I have no clue what led from a full time job offer to them never wanting to hire me again....wish i did.
then my grandpa is in the hospital for a week, and going to a rehab facility, my parents went to nevada because they were told some horrible things about his house, which turned out not to be true.
then my phone broke once, so i got a replacement and now that one is dead a week later....
but really....i got a very fun and relaxing day with my brother...and had a good talk with adam finally and school is getting closer to be over ....
so minus the occasional stress over work which comes and goes...
im good. and i like that it works that way.