Summer so far

My summer so far has been extremly busy which is why I'm behind on my blogging, not that I have too much to share!

My first week off, I celebrated a year of dating with Matt who is an amazing man and so much  more then I deserve:)  Then I left for Mena Arkansas with one of my best gf's from college.  Her aunt and uncle live out there up on a mountain and we chased ducks, chickens, fed catfish, shot off some guns and saw a snake!  It was a fun girl's trip and nice to be out of dallas for a while. 

My second week off I cleaned, cooked some new things, worked out and hung out with my family a little.

Today I started my class at SMU.  It's a two week "workshop" class from 8-430.  I can honestly say I'm exhausted but in a fun and good way!  We danced, we sung, we did partner songs with people who I've never met before.  I think if I had taken this class before my first year of teaching I wouldn't have been so apt to have just jumped in to my inner music major dorkiness which I  kept very quiet in college.  I didn't care and everyone else that was there was the same way!  We had recorder class, pedagogy class, game class, and a movement/dance class.  At the end of the day today we did an hours worth of line dances and there were about 150 very sweaty people that left the building at 430!  I can honestly say I'm really going to learn some great things from all these wonderful teachers we have that are flown in from, Colorado, nebraska, Conneticut, Minneapoplis, and new Mexico.  Just today I have a huge packet of fun new things to teach in my classroom and I can't wait!!!

So yay for 9 more days of bonding time with other fellow music nerds and yay for putting myself out there in order to be a better teacher for my kiddos, even if it does mean I have to do some homework every night :)

Summer Time

Today is the last day with kids at school and I'm SO excited!  I can't believe how quickly this year has gone by and just like that it's June again.  What a crazy year it's been but honestly such a a good one!  I'm looking forward to some time off this summer to chill and hang with friends and love on my new niece and nephew as well.  I'm traveling with a gf to Arkansas next week and while it's not an ideal vacation spot I'm looking forward to seeing her and spending some time doing nothing but reading a book!

I'm also looking forward to the summer to spend some time on myself.  I'm going to be attending classes at my gym and working out really hard in hopes to lose about 20 pounds before school begins again.  I've been doing well with weight watchers but don't always have the time to hop to the gym when I'd like to, but have done a lot of walking! 

This weekend I'm going to buy new tires to put on my car, fun stuff and on Sunday Matt and I are going to see Wicked!!  So excited about that :)

As I'm writing this I'm listening to the morning announcements one last time this school year, WOOHOO!!!!

HAPPY SUMMER!!