the last day of school

This is what I did on the last day of school. Above is a picture of a book binding machine. Today I only had 75 books to bind. so I stood at this machine for 2 hours binding books that 5th grade needs for next year.

The copy machine and I are tight! sometimes I even sweet talk it into doing what needs to be done. Today I was coping masters of work books that the district will not be buying for the school because of budget cuts and also because the maker of the workbook doubled the price for each book. from 5 to 10 dollars. sad day. But thank you for all who voted for the 1% tax raise. It will help with buying the copy paper to copy the books we can't afford.

Then I hide behind the wall and watched children come out of the cafeteria to make sure they walked and not run. I have been doing this every day this year. I would place myself in different locations so the kids could not see me but I could see them. What fun it was watching them look all around trying to fine me. But they were thinking about finding me and not about running. By the end of the year they were trained not to run. If they did run I blew my whistle and they had to go back to the doors and touch them. If they did not and they kept running I would find them on the playground and ask them to go touch the doors. I would wait until they were on the farthest part of the field. I know I'm mean. I never yelled at them.

After surveillance I went to the playground and monitored the playing. This young lady in the wheel chair was going on her 4th broken bone this year. She broke this leg by jumping into her swimming pool from the roof of her house. unfortunately it was in the shallow end of her pool.

When I got home I was able to see grand babies. this is Rigden and Amiela. They are both 6 months old.

And here is Evelyn and Hanna. Mal and Jon drove from Utah to visit family for a week. It is good to have them with us. I woke up Friday morning at 4:30am and went and worked out. The last 24 hours have been great. Hope you all had a great last day of school and a great first day of summer!

Oh what do you do in the summer time?

Elder Crandell and Elder Ellsworth at a Burger King in Montevideo it was a happy day for him!

Its The last week of School/Work, YEA! I have enjoyed my job for the last 12 years. Working at the old neighborhood school has been great. I get to see old friends from the ward and watch the first graders become 6th graders. I will stay working until Taylor comes home then work for 3 more years after that. The money I earn will be for our church mission. We'll only be 54 years young and ready to serve.

This summer I would like to accomplish a few things.

Clean each up stairs room from head to toe and nook and cranny. (wash all mini blinds) Get rid of stuff we don't need and use the stuff we have, in a fun way.

Did you know the bathrooms still get dirty even when no one uses it?

I would like to see more color on the walls. I don't know how Don might feel about that.

I would like to try my hand at putting a fun mural of some kind on the wall of the up stairs play room, or maybe those vinyl pictures.

I would like to go to the gym every day and still go to the Temple once a week.

Swim more, shop more, go to the library, read more, go to the movies more.

I miss planning for summer with the kids.

Happy summer

Happy Mothers DAY!

It's mothers day tomorrow, Shout outs go to my Mom and to Don's Mom.
Hope you have a great day and that you feel the love.
For my mothers day we are getting THE phone call at 1pm. I can't wait to hear his voice. I have missed it. We are also going to drive to Central and spend the night at my Aunt Cloene's then go to the Temple open house on Monday. It will be a great mother's day weekend.
Don got me a lap top computer for mother's day. Now I get to spend some time learning how to use it. Happy mother's day to my daughters, Kim, Mal, Erica, Amy. Thanks for being great mom's for our grandchildren.:)

Help me find the...

RECIPE!
I'm looking for my recipe for cheeseburger casserole. I think I put it on my blog, I can't remember. I want to make it for the missionaries next time they are over for dinner. First person who can find it, in all my old posts, can come over for dinner too. Thanks for helping!!