Saturday, February 26, 2011

An Update of Sorts

What's new with the Dressers?  Well, not much. After buying our first house about a year ago, Michael and I have been busy keeping up with all the home-owners responsibility.  You know... cleaning, gardening, maintaining, painting, decorating and all sorts of other things.  Most of the time it's a lot of fun to be able to make choices about what color the kitchen walls should be or where we're going to build our little vegetable garden; but sometimes the reality of adulthood sets in.  There's a little water coming in through a kitchen window, the master toilet makes funny noises, and ants show up in the weirdest locations. Once you solve one problem another one pops up. Through it all, however, we feel really lucky to be living where we do.

We also keep busy with our teaching jobs.  I'm teaching fifth grade again this year and still enjoy this "pre-attitude" age group.  In a couple weeks, we'll be going on the infamous Age of Sail overnight field trip again (scroll down to see what it was like last year--- eek).  I also am always reading a new children's novel.  My latest read?  The Giver by Lois Lowery.  I'm also totally excited for a new literature unit on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Michael is teaching high school geometry and just finished up coaching the JV basketball team.  Though his team didn't have the wining record he planned on, he still enjoyed working with the boys.  It was a big time commitment and wore him out, but he says he'll coach again next year.  Basketball is, after all, his first true love.

Soon I'll post pictures of some of latest endeavors:  a laundry room make-over, a garden bed installation, a snow trip to Lake Tahoe and finally a vacation to St. George to reunite with some roommates with a little Vegas time tossed in.  Sorry for the lack of pictures in this post. There coming soon!