God is SO Good!

So many updates to give….

Brandon and I celebrated our fifth anniversary on the last day of the school year, May 31. We have grown so much in these last five years. I’ve learned so much about him, love, and marriage. I’m tremendously thankful he chose me!!

Look at how young (and skinny) we were!

We dropped G off with Nana and Papa and headed to Branson. We checked in at Chateau on the Lake, which is a BEAUTIFUL resort. My parents “gifted” us dinner, so we headed to our favorite restaurant, Olive Garden. It was so yummy! Once we got back to the resort, we found chocolate covered strawberries and sparkling white grape juice waiting on us. We found out later that my precious momma set that up! It reminded us of our honeymoon and vacation in Hawaii. In the morning, we ordered room service, and ate a delicious breakfast. It stormed all night long, but it finally cleared off by 11:00 when we checked out of the hotel. We headed to Silver Dollar City with our season passes and rode all the big coasters. We LOVE their new coaster Outlaw Run. It is top notch! We spent just a few hours at SDC, then headed to Tanger to buy my momma’s bday present which I totally screwed up. So sad! All in all, we had a terrific time. It’s always nice to be able to get some alone time with my man!

Moving on…

Summer break is now in full swing!

Mom, Kayla, Megan, and I all went for a run last Saturday evening. I think it’s pretty awesome that we have started to get in shape and be more healthy!

We had our first girls’ night of the summer at my house Tuesday. I work with some of the BEST people. I love that most of us have kids about the same age too. We get together about once a month during school and once a  week in the summers. I don’t know where I would be without those wonderful women!

Unfortunately, Tuesday I also received some horrible news. My grade level team had to choose someone to move to a different team. We were heartbroken. My team is everything to me at school. We have worked together seamlessly for the last five years. Of course, we’ve had our ups and downs, but I don’t want to work with anyone else! We had a meeting with our new principal, and today we received notice that we are NOT being split up!!! I was in SHOCK! I am so very grateful to her and feel VERY blessed!

I also received an email from my former principal earlier this week about my Benchmark scores. My grade level did pretty well! We were at 96% proficient or advanced in Math, and 90% proficient or advanced in Literacy! This is why we don’t need to be split up! ha! I was pretty pleased with my scores. In Math, I had one student score basic, one scored proficient, and the rest were advanced! (I had 19 kiddos this year.) In Literacy, I had one student score below basic, one student score basic, one scored proficient, and the rest were advanced! I was pleased because I was not expecting so many to score advanced. This year was also an incredibly hard year for me. I had a lot going on with a new grade level, new curriculum, new baby, and a difficult mixture of kiddos. I’m glad that I didn’t give up despite wanting to several times. I’m ready for a new school year and fresh start in August!

Griffin and I went to the park today and had a little picnic. Thankfully we were the only ones there because he walked around yelling and acting like he owned the place. It was too cute. He likes to swing now, and I even went down the big slide with him. He thought that was pretty awesome.

So now I’m off to begin writing my grant so I can begin working on National Boards next year. EEK! I think I’m crazy!