Summer!

Well I've been on summer break for over a week and I'm exhausted already! Staci and I have traveled from Stu to Anchorage where we spent four days staying with Vince and Danielle and overall really enjoying the city! Plus we were able to get a ton of stuff done!! It was a riot! We walked, we hung out, we went out overall a great time!

So the first couple of pics are from Anchorage and then a couple from Seattle where we've been since Thursday! Staci is leaving today which is a bummer but I'm here through Sunday so there's plenty more! We've gone to the Pike Place Market, the Art Museum, Madame K's, gotten a TON of coffee, and we've walked or ridden the bus everywhere! The weather has been fabulous but more importantly we've had a ton of fun! Plus Kara and Ryan were able to hang out with us most of the weekend since it was Memorial Day! I realize the more I travel the luckier I am to have great friends whereever I go! So enjoy the pics...I really need to get better at taking more!! Oh well, it's summer! Ok pics are working so I'll try again later!!

Last Day with Kids

Wow! It's over...another school year come and gone! I can't believe it! There were times we never thought it would end and now here we are...the kids are great and I'll miss them tons! But that's that for this year! I'll put up some pics from field day but have no fear another adventure starts on Monday as I head to Anchorage, then to Seattle...and on down the list! Wish me luck it could be a very long summer!

Busy busy!

Wow! So last weekend we started the weekend off with Graduation on Friday afternoon followed by Prom Friday night! The gym looked amazing the kids did a great job! All of the senior boys got choked up when they were talking....it was the sweetest thing! I can also say as a staff we looked pretty good with everyone dressed up!! So we took some pics!! Enjoy! The next set of pictures are of the kids before the Friday assembly, working in my room and other stuff!! Enjoy!

Awesome!

So these are totally pictures of my niece playing softball! She actually hit this one out of the park which is AWESOME!!! And have no fear you'll be seeing a TON of pics of here this summer as she's traveling with me! Wild, aye?!

On to bigger and better things..today is clean up day in the village! The snow is gone so there is trash everywhere! After lunch the kids will be going out and picking up! It should be a great community effort and I'm excited to see it...but we'll see if I actually help as I'm not held responsible for a classroom. But who knows! I love taking pictures of the kids so I just might go out and check it out! We'll have to find out!

Well so...that seems to be it! The year is winding down, we have graduation tomorrow and then next week is full of assemblies and so forth and then we're done! I'm still trying to double check my summer plans but we'll figure it out when I get there!

Enjoy the pics!

Break Up

So last night the river broke up...which in Alaska is referred to as "break up". In doing that it officially signaled the end to winter....we hope! The good news is that most of the animals haven't realized it yet as there were 3 moose on the mini island who were trying to get to the other side...but they were stuck due to break up. What can I say we're easily entertained!!

And on to the rest of the day...so my morning is now a bit crazy as we lost power this morning...and when it came back on...the fire alarm went off. What a morning! So the kids are excited adding to the excitement over break up and we've got a day!

So I'm over half way packed and am in the process of trying to take everything up to the post office...but when I tried to do that yesterday the post office was too full and couldn't take our stuff. So hopefully we have better luck today!

Wish me luck this week!!!