Alpine Week

We spent all last week in Utah County. I was doing a workshop with Alpine School District, Brian was finishing up his finals for summer semester, and Porter was very patiently shuffling around with new babysitters and adjusting to sharing a hotel room with his parents (or rather, his parents were trying to adjust to sharing a room with him!). It was a busy, busy week, to say the least!

I had a great week with the Alpine teachers and learned so much from them. That's not to say I didn't have a migraine from stress every single day . . . but it did make me reminiscent of the days when I was an Alpine teacher--and I missed it.

Luckily, since we were so close to my new school, we took a truckload and began unloading ALL of my junk into my new classroom during our evenings. Here's what it looked like before we unloaded my stuff:

And I'll spare you from an after-picture. Just imagine every desk and countertop stacked with boxes and storage crates and books and math supplies. I should have just thrown it all away- the classroom looks so much nicer without all the STUFF! However, that would also make for a pretty boring year for my new first-graders. Ahh, the things I do for them!

We definitely enjoyed a week of hot breakfast prepared for us and room service cleaning up after us. But that being said, hotel life can get pretty old after a week. We were anxious to get home  by the weekend- even if we had to prepare our own breakfast and make our own beds.

We returned home for a couple days to do laundry, attend a very special baptism (our sister-in-law and 2 nephews), have a fun dinner at Olive Garden with Grandma & Grandpa Nye, and attend church. Then we left again. I'm starting to think I should've taken my summer off!