Cecret Lake Field Trip

Yesterday, I took all my 7th graders (yes all 70 of them) on a field trip up Albion Basin by Alta. We did a 4 mile hike to Cecret Lake! It was beautiful. I am so lucky I had Anthony go with me to help push me up the mountain! It wasn't too bad, even though I have felt like CRAP lately. I had enough energy to keep up with them and we had a great time. Only one student fell in the lake and he didn't really mind. I would have taken more pictures, but I didn't know if it was illegal to take pictures of students, so I just opted out.

We had about 7 parents volunteer to come and 4 teachers. I have been stressing about it for about a month and I have no clue what I was stressed about. It was awesome. The kids loved it and it was a free day out of the classroom.

We are reading Call of the Wild by Jack London, so that was the reason for the field trip. Get them into the wild and exploring! I don't think they understood that concept, but it was fun none the less.

I am SOOOOO sore today. My sides hurt and my thighs ACHE, but it was beautiful and I am so glad I went. It made me sad that we aren't going to be in Utah much longer and I haven't done any hiking in Utah.

The Belated Chicago Post

Well, we got back from Chicago exactly one month ago! So here is our trip mostly in pictures!

On the drive... Nebraska is FLAT. I can see logic in the 1600's theories.

Chicago Temple

The coolest house!

The Home Alone House

My first train ride.

Chi Town

The library

Subway

My first trip to H&M.. wasn't impressed

Largest T-Rex at the Field Museum

The Man-Eating Lions

On the beach... okay not really

On the Sky Deck: Willis Tower (old Sear's Tower)

203 stories up! a little scary

U-571

At the Chicago Art museum

Anthony and his homeboy

The BEan

Marilyn

Nauvoo

St. Louis

Hippo!

At the FREE St. Louis Zoo

I thought I was going to die of heat.

On the way home... Still flat.

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Zombie Booth

EAnthony got an app an his phone that turns you into a zombie. It makes crazy sounds and it is pretty dang scary. When you put your finger on the screen it will bite it and shows blood on the screen. I wish I could put the video of it, but you know... technologically challenged over here.

My Little Gals.

I have been baby sitting my little sisters for about 3 months now and it has been very fun and sometimes quite stressful.

Little Lucy is quite a handful. Annica is an angel. She entertains herself quite well when I have to focus on Lucy. We color and paint and we even made homemade playdough... don't do it. NOT worth it. She didn't even want to play with it because it was so gross.

Lucy HAS to be held all the time, but Sage has this awesome carrier that Lucy can just chill in front of me. It is good. And Lucy loves the stroller so we go for long walks to the park where Lucy falls asleep and Annica plays at the park. Then we go get the Ice Cream!

It has been fun and definitely made me want my own little ones!

I love Tanner. He is the perfect dog..

Lucy can be extremely sad or happy... sad when you are sitting down.

She likes to be up high..

Playing Hopscotch!

Playing her recorder.

Whether or not she knew how to play I don't know, but it sounded good.

Sorry about the picture quality. They were all taken with my phone.