Fun Times in Utah

Ben and I just got home from our vacation in Utah. It's always so fun to visit with Ben's family. The weather was so beautiful. It made me kind of depressed to come back to our cloudy/rainy Vermont weather. I swear the sun doesn't shine here....ever!
Highlights from our trip are as follows....

Working on our Tans

Visiting with Family

Playing with Cute Kids

Going to Church

Road Trip to Bear Lake

Eating at Quick 'N' Tasty

Boating

Wake Boarding

(I'm afraid I look a little awkward!)

Tubing

Family Temple Trip to the Ogden Temple

Mini Putting

(In case you're wondering, they're adding up the score...and I won)

Visiting with Good Friends




Band Practice



And quite possibly the highlight....Four Wheeling in Mantua

We had such a fun trip. It's so nice that Ben has two weeks off from school. We haven't seen each other this much in a long time! We're looking forward to another fun week this week. We'll be spending it in Cape Cod with my family. Pictures to follow for sure!

Where does the time go?

I feel like time is just flying these days. I can't believe I completed my first year of teaching on Friday. I can remember my first day in August so vividly...I felt like I didn't have a CLUE what I was doing. It's amazing how steep the learning curve is when you take on a new job. I can honestly say I loved every day of teaching this year! There were some definite challenges, but I love my students so much, they are just so cute, and each one is so unique. I'm happy to say that all but one of my students are coming back in the fall....plus some new siblings of my current students. I think that puts me at 45 students for fall. I'm not sure how I will find time for them all, but I'm very fortunate to have so many! We had our last recital on Saturday. My students performed so well. I felt like a proud mom, bobbing my head along to the beat of each kid's song!


This past weekend (and in the case of the NBA finals, the last month or two) was devoted mostly to watching Tiger win the US Open (which was kind of disappointing, I wanted the underdog to win), watching the Celtics get beat by the Lakers (I almost cried) and watching "Hotel Rwanda", probably the most heart breaking, but inspirational and moving movies I have ever seen. If you haven't seen it, I would highly recommend watching it. The story is incredible, I feel like in some ways it has literally changed my life.






The summer will no doubt fly by as well. I'm teaching in total only 60 or 70 lessons, which compared to 45 a week, isn't too many. I'm still working at BR, but asked for a pretty light schedule for summer, since I will be pretty busy with YW, and we will be away quite a bit. Let me rephrase...I will be away quite a bit! Between Ben's time off which will be spent in Ogden and Cape Cod, and then Youth Conference in NH, Girls Camp in Sharon, and my sister's graduation in AZ, I can't imagine I will be in town much. Between all of the busy schedules of the summer, I'm also hoping to spend plenty of time by our pool relaxing, and enjoying the brief Vermont summer weather!

In the last two weeks....

I dyed my hair purple...


Ben decided to attempt dying his hair blond, for some unknown reason...



Then he went to get it fixed, but didn't give Erica enough time to actally fix it...

He then went back the next day, to have her finish fixing it...

And he now has brown hair...


I had a proud moment as my piano students rocked the house at our end of year recitals...

(These are the two women I work with)

And even though I don't have a picture to prove it, we attended the YW dessert auction and purchased/ate enough dessert to feed a small country.