Spring is here! The weather has been so nice lately. I think they said it's an El Nino year or something, so that means it's unusually warmer this spring. Today it's about 65 degrees and sunny! Here is what we have been up to the past month!
Prom
Gabe's senior prom! Caleb decided not to ask anyone to this dance, which I didn't push because it's expensive and he doesn't have any money, and I didn't want to pay for it! Gabe went with Isabelle Marshall, a girl from his English class. He's not super interested in her romantically or anything, but he had a fun group of casual friends and he's been hanging out with some of them more lately. His group was Amos and his date, Davi and his date, Brock and his date, and Sam Billman and his date, Jackson and Kamryn. I honestly didn't know all the girls. He has known Amos forever and has gone with him in his group before, but this is the first time he has gone with all the other people. I'm glad Amos was in his group though because his dad takes really nice pictures. ;) For their day date, they went bowling and then to the BYUI ropes course. Then they came home and got ready. Then they met for pictures at the BYUI gardens and then went to dinner at Red Rabbit and then to the dance. He said he had a fun time! Here are some pictures:
Gabe and Caleb both did track this spring. Caleb had done it last year, but this was the first and only year for Gabe. He kind of just joined for something to do, but soon it became clear that he had one goal: to beat Caleb in discus. Caleb is naturally bigger and stronger than Gabe, but he doesn't really ever work hard to get better at things. Gabe, on the other hand, would go out into the field by the clubhouse every day after school with Nathan Hughes, and practice throwing the discus. At first, he could only throw about 80 feet. With every meet, he would throw a little farther. Caleb was always averaging about 105-110. As time went on, both boys improved on their scores. They both qualified to go to Districts because they both ended up being in the top five for throwers on the Madison team. Then, at the district tournament last week, Gabe ended up finally out throwing Caleb at a meet. Gabe threw a 120 and Caleb threw a 113. Neither of them qualified for State because Rigby has a whole team that can throw over 130, but it was fun for Gabe to finally throw farther than Caleb. Here is a picture with their track friend, Davi, and a picture of their final scores from athletic.net.
Mother's Day
Mother's Day this year was a little weird without Josh here because I kind of still had to do most things around the house. The kids did things here and there (mostly Gabe), but I still did the dishes after dinner and did some laundry and all that. It wasn't really a full day off. We went to church and then came home and Gabe made chicken on the grill. Then we went for a bike ride around the neighborhood. The weather was probably the best day we've had so far this spring. Also, the day before (Saturday) we went to the temple. It was a young women's baptism day activity, but they needed Gabe and Caleb and a couple other young men to come along and do the baptizing. I just went along and helped Avery in the locker room and watched the baptisms. It was a lovely day! Here are some pictures!
Josh Tours NYC
Josh has still been living his best life at the FBI Academy. He would say it's not his "best life", but the pictures say otherwise. He recently spent the weekend in New York City, touring the World Trade Center memorial, the Statue of Liberty, and other police sights. Here are some pictures of him that he texted to us. He will be coming home in about a week for Gabe's high school graduation, along with my mom who will be flying in from Wisconsin! They will both be here for about 3 days, and then go back to Wisconsin and Virginia. Then we will fly out to Virginia on June 5th to watch Josh graduate and drive back through Wisconsin on the way home. The past two months with Josh gone have actually flown by. I can't believe I almost didn't teach this year because I was so worried about being a single mom and teaching at the same time. I think I have realized just how much I typically handle on my own on a normal basis anyway! Sorry Josh if you ever read this! Whoops! But it's true.
Avery's Orchestra Concert
This year was Avery's first year playing the viola, and she did great! She has made a lot of improvement! At first, we had to have a viola tutor named Ellie (a former student of mine who is now in 9th grade) come over and write the letters of each note in her sheet music. Now she can do that by herself, and she's really getting the hang of it! That is probably because Mrs. Loveland is the best teacher ever, and makes being in orchestra SO fun! She is excited to do orchestra again in 7th grade. At the concert, she played a song from Jurassic Park and Mrs. Loveland came out dressed in a dinosaur costume! It was so cute. She conducted the whole song dressed up as a dinosaur. Here are some pictures of Avery after the concert! I am also throwing in a picture of me and Avery on an evening bike ride around the neighborhood, which is something she is ALWAYS asking me to do! I have to document te fact that there are no houses currently built behind us, which is something that I know sadly won't always be the case!
End of the Year and How-To Speeches
There is so much more excitement coming up in the next few weeks, but I can only talk about what has happened so far because this company I use to print my blog books is going out of business and I want one final book before the do! So, I will just mention that we have been busy with our How-To speeches in English class and I always love the fun we have! There was a little drama involving some boys giving out buzz cuts in the bathroom yesterday... lol... but I think it's fine now. Never a dull moment! Here are a few pictures of students! I actually have loved this year and I told my students yesterday that this has probably been my favorite grade I have ever taught!
Gabe's Missionary Pics
Last but not least, we went and got a few pictures of Gabe taken at the temple the other day! I am still probably going to have Claire do some more, but this girl on Facebook was offering to do them for free, so I jumped at the chance! They turned out really nice! I can't believe we know where Gabe is going, and he will be leaving for Spain in a couple of short months! I am going to probably cry every day, no lie. He is such a good and easy, helpful kid. I love laughing with him and talking with him about my funny moments from school. It's going to be really hard! I am secretly hoping President Nelson announces that missions will be shortened to 1 year soon so that Gabe doesn't have to be gone so long! I'm not holding my breath, but it would be cool! Here are some pictures.
That is all for now! I can't believe in the next two weeks, I will have a high school graduate! There's going to be a lot of things coming up this summer!
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