School, Birthdays, Pineview, Strange Dreams...

So, back in school for a week and a half now. Everyone seems to be doing fairly well. My classes are good so far. I'm liking this year a lot. Brittney seems to be liking high school OK, for the most part. Courtney's classes seem to be going well, too. So yay for school. There are some scary things going on in education right now, from my perspective. I have a lot to say about it, but I'm just too exhausted at the end of the day to write it down. Maybe sometime.

Sean's family had a belated 70th birthday party for Dennis, which was lots of fun. His family always has a good time. I'm glad I get to be a part of it.



My birthday weekend was pretty darn awesome. Sean gave the kids money Friday night to go buy my birthday presents and then took me out to dinner while they did it. Everyone was happy. Win! Saturday morning we went to garage sales. I didn't find any of the things I was looking for, but it was fun and laid back. We did the Saturday chores, and then Sean made me chicken cordon bleu for dinner, Brittney made my favorite chocolate cake, Sean made my favorite cookie bars, and I got awesome presents. Bath & Body, a Victoria's Secret gift card, Yogurt Stop gift card, 2 novels. Thennnnnn, Sunday night we went to my mom's for delicious fajitas, my favorite brownies, my other favorite cookie bars, omg I think I ate my weight in desserts last weekend. So tasty. My family gave me some really fun presents and Sean's parents both dropped gifts off. I was so spoiled with gifts and with fun parties.

I usually manage to stay out of pictures, and this is why. Sean took like 10 pictures and every one was blurry and made me look dumb. Courtney was showing them to Curtis and they were laughing at me. On my birthday! The nerve.



We went up boating yesterday, and it was so very perfect. It's still plenty warm, but there was no one on Pineview. The beach was wide open, and there were very few boats on the lake.











So I've been having that thing all day where you dream about someone the night before and then when you see that person or have a dream flashback you have a weird deja vu feeling that's all mixed up with whatever emotions were in the dream... Last night I dreamt that Eminem was in love with me, and in the dream I kept going back and forth... he's hot... but he's a little too scary and intense... but he's hot. So anyway, now today every time I heard an Eminem song I just kept having this weird dream deja vu. And then so I was thinking... would I get with Eminem? I mean, obviously if I didn't already have a husband and all... I don't know. I've always wondered if he's as serious and angry/sad in real life as he seems in interviews. He was serious in my dream.

I have been so scatterbrained lately. I swear, I can only do well with one thing at a time. If I stay on top of things at school, everything else will be crumbling around me. I forgot to give Lexi her long acting insulin on Monday, and then yesterday I forgot her finger pricker at home. I suck. I really, really am not up for the challenge of a diabetic kid. I need to talk to someone about that... I wonder where the complaints department is. Although, come to think of it, I guess I'll take this challenge over a lot of the others out there.

I don't feel like making any goals for September, so I won't. So excited for the long weekend.

Boating and Back to School

The kids wanted to do some boating this week, but Brittney had to babysit for the neighbors on Tuesday and Courtney had to work on Wednesday, so we went both days to accommodate everyone. Such a hard life when you have to go boating twice a week to keep everyone happy.

Pineview:

I liked the way this pic of Curtis skiing came out...






Wow, who is that really white lady with her nose in a book? She's frightening.


Willard Bay:





Josh started back to school Monday. So far, so good. He's made so much progress reading over the summer. Some things just clicked into place for him. I hope he can keep up the momentum and really keep doing well this year. His brain is organized about like my teenage bedroom... it's all in there, but can he find it when he needs it? It's been interesting to watch and try to figure out what's going on in there.

I started back to work yesterday. This year is the first year where I have really felt like... hey... I've got it under control! It's going to be OK! I've got a few new ideas, I'm feeling semi-organized, I might make it. I, however, have enough experience now to realize that this feeling will last exactly until the bell rings for school to start. It's easy to feel like smooth sailing when it's just me. Once you add in 38 little turkeys who have varying degrees of antipathy toward anything resembling work, all bets are off. It feels good to get back into a schedule, though. If I have to.

Park City

Park City overnighter with the Rasmussen family. Good times. Courtney was working, but otherwise I think we had everyone else there.











We went up and went through the little Olympic museum and watched the ski jumpers jumping into the swimming pool. Brittney thought that looked way fun, so maybe she'll have to give it a try.





This has been such a fun summer. I really am sad to see it winding down. I'm hoping for a Bear Lake day next Sunday, then there's our annual Labor Day trip to Lava Hot Springs. So all of the fun isn't over yet. Trace Adkins tickets for October. Still fun things to look forward to. I'm looking forward to school starting again, but I have so much work to do that it's a little daunting.