It's been about a month and I have so many fun pictures I've taken in the past month, but I can't post them all! I'll try to limit myself to just the best ones!
First Day of School
School started on Monday, August 25. It was Caleb's last first day of school! :( First day of his senior year! He actually left for weight training before any of the rest of us, so I had to take his "first day" picture later in the day. Me and Avery left the house together and headed to the junior high around 7:50am.
The first day was pretty good! I have a sweet deal this year because I'm still teaching only part-time, but they raised my pay to a .75, so I'm making about $800 more per month. The ironic thing is, I looked back at my old pay stubs and I'm actually making $50 more per month than I was making my first year of teaching in 2020 when I was full-time and putting in like, 12 hours a day! So it's pretty nice to be working until 1:00 every day and making about the same! Basically, I get there are 8am and teach until 12:30 and then I usually have Avery and her friends that eat lunch in my classroom and I leave between 1:00-1:30.
Lately, it's been Avery and Briella and sometimes also Tayvree and/or Phoebe. I'm glad Avery seems to be wanting to branch out a little this year and expand her friend group. She's in my English class for 1st hour, which is fun. Hopefully she doesn't get too embarrassed by having her mom as her teacher.
Caleb is taking a pretty easy course load this trimester. He starts his day with his zero hour weight training "class" for football. Then he comes home and has a little break during what would be first hour. He wanted this so he could have time to take a shower and eat breakfast after running out the door for weight training early on. Then he just h as to be back to school for second hour when he has a video game design class that apparently is also a math credit! Then he has a regular gym class third hour, then he comes home for lunch, and then he has another break during fourth hour, during which he is supposed to be technically doing his online English class. Then at about 2:30 he has his fifth hour which is just football practice. So really, he just has three class periods of physical activity and one class of video game design. Not a tough trimester!
Gabe was so sweet to humor me and take a "first day" picture in front of his piso door! He made a sign that said "13 months as a missionary"! haha He was in Alcazar when this picture was taken, but he just switched areas and went back to Aranjuez, which is crazy, but more on that later!
Here are our first day pictures!
Homecoming Week Festivities
I always love the fun and excitement of homecoming week, but I think I was especially trying to live it up this year knowing that it's Caleb's senior season of football. Each day, we dressed up as different crazy things at the junior high. Then on Friday, we got out early at 11:10 and the parade was at noon. I actually got out at about 10am, which was really nice. I went to Jimmy Johns, got a sandwhich, came back to the parade and parked in a good spot, then watched it with my friend Ashley Pendleton and some of her friends. I waved to Caleb as he went by on the football float, and all my past students as they rode by on lots of different floats. Avery had walked with Briella to get food at Swig and then she came back over. Here are some pictures of the week and the parade!
Then after the parade, I went home and got some fruit salads ready for the team dinner. Me, Shelly Wilkes, and Katie Phillips were in charge of helping Ashley Wheeler with the dinner before the game for all the Varsity players. We got there at about 3:30 and did hot dogs and salads. Then I laid out some blankets to save some good seats and went home for about an hour.
That night, my friend from Wisconsin, Laura Smith, ended up being in town because she was dropping her college aged daughter off at BYUI. Time sure flies because it feels like yesterday Laura was coming out to BYUI as a freshmen and I was a newlywed! So she and her daughter ended up coming to the football game with us and then she stayed overnight in Gabe's room so she didn't have to start driving home late at night.
The game was... so heartbreaking. We ended up losing by ONE point. It was very sad, But it was still a good game and a fun night. The stands were packed. I just wish we could have won, but lessons were learned. Caleb was pretty bummed, but it was okay by the next day.
On Saturday, Caleb had the Homecoming Day date and dance. He went with a cheerleader friend named Audrey Sutton. They went golfing for their day date, which Caleb always loves. Then he and Sidi came to our house to get ready. I ended up going over to Katie Phillip's house to help with the dinner at about 5:30. The boys weren't super organized, so it ended up being the moms making them dinner and it all worked out. They had chicken alfredo, salad, breadsticks, and I brought Costco desserts!
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