I'm glad he was born

Happy Birthday, Preston

You're makin' 30 look real good.

schools out for summer. except that it snowed this morning. which makes me not feel so summery.

My first year of teaching.

My first class.

And aren't they dolls in their grad hats? And do you spy the tuxedo t-shirt? My favorite.

Today was the last day of school.

We did Kindergarten Graduation yesterday

so we could straight party today.

I'm talking hula-hoops, parachute, popsicles,

Justin Bieber freeze dance contest...the works.

The Pre-school teacher, me and the other kindergarten teachers got together and choreographed a dance to Rebecca Black's "Friday" to do for our kids. Maybe your thinking- what teachers take the time to make up a dance to perform just for their students? Um...Awesome ones who hang out way too much and have too much sugar and caffeine all the time. The kid's reaction was so funny. Real confused. like why is my teacher dancing for me? and how does she know this song?

We ended the dance by silly stringing them all. It was a blast.

I will so miss my kindergarteners.

I'm not teaching next year because this guy has 70+ shows booked just Fall semester and about that many for the rest of next year. This year has been crazy with Preston gone so much and me spending all my time teaching or lesson planning and we feel like we deserve some time to just be together more than a lot. So we're going to tour the country together next year.

And then i'll teach again forever after that. Because I really love it like an unreal amount. It is so fulfilling and rewarding. The chance to get to connect with so many children and play a role in their lives is beautiful. This year has been the best year of my life. hands down.

MOM

We painted portraits of our mom's for Mother's Day.

They turned out incredible. These kids are 5 and 6.

I also interviewed each kid about their mom.

Turns out their mom's range from ages 9 to 78

The absolute majority of their favorite things to do include:

1. laundry, 2. cook and clean,

3. vaccuum, 4. clean my room and do homework.

Meet some of the Kindergarten Moms:

Christian lives with his grandma, Cindy.

She is 18 years old, loves adult food,

cooking and cleaning and she is the very best duster.

Kason's mom looks like she's on the cast of Jersey shore.

He's pretty sure she's 16 years old,

but he hasn't measured her yet.

Parker's mom will turn 78 on May 19th! exciting! Mostly because she has a 6 year old, a 3 year old and a 9 month old baby. She is looking great for 78. She also loves the color orange because they used to live in Texas and Parker told me everything is orange in Texas.

Samantha's mom, Patty, is a 13 year old shop-a-holic

who loves ice cream and anything purple.

She likes to be called Patty Mama.

(I said, 'Sammy is that really what you call your mom?'

she said 'no, but I want to.')

Here is MY pretty mom.

Wedding announcement 1981

Church last Sunday 2011

She is the best lady in ever. She is constantly learning. Ever since I can remember she has been taking random classes at the college. she took a wildflower class when we were kids and would take us on hikes and teach us the names of all the flowers. She took a belly dancing class and we looooved to play dress up in her tinkling, jingly bra costume. She has been taking photography classes for the past few years and is an amazing photographer. She wakes up early most mornings to watch photo shop tutorials and will stay up all night editing pictures. She doesn't do it for money, even though she could make bank. She does it out of simple joy and love of learning. She is inspiring to me. I love my mom so so much. more than I can ever say. I am so thankful for the way she has lived her life. She is a constant example of love and charity.

And she's really funny without trying.

Shouldn't have left you, without a dope beat to step to.

For Easter my mom sent me pictures of my baptism.

I had never seen these pictures before.

It was my favorite Easter gift.

(I'm on the far left with the awesome wannabe Zack Morris bangs.

Which battle Tresa's bangs for worst ever.)

Preston has been touring a lot and i've been loving Kindergarten a lot. I've also been loving Survivor a lot. How have there been 22 seasons of Survivor and this is the first one i've ever watched? It's so good. like scream at the t.v. and geek out alone in the living room good. And I'm still not sure if I love Boston Rob or hate him.

He's one of those people.

Also, this happened...

Its a key. IN my tire

Which is so so weird. How do you run over a key in such a way that it impales the tire completely?

I have just 4 weeks of Kindergarten left this year. Preston has 1 week of shows left. Then we are vacationing fools all summer. We really do deserve it. So far we have a Caribbean Cruise booked. Havsupai permits reserved. A Kentucky trip, a Tahoe trip and a lot of real lazy summer days planned.

Oh, I dream of summer. Or even Spring. We're not feeling any of it here.

It snowed today. really. I don't mind cozy winter, but i'm over it.

Except I do love this winter picture.

We went to the Midway ice castle with Matt and Jules. Preston decided a shirtless photo shoot would be the best decision for him. Turns out he was right.

The end.

Be my

Can you even think of a better Valentine's Day gift? Its a blow dryer with a

Ferrari designed engine in it!

It seriously dries my thick frizzy hair in less than 10 min.

whoa. usually takes me like 30.

Plus it has a turbo button that'll blow your face off.

really. I feel like a billionaire.

A Ferrari blow dryer? whaaat!

Real cool. Good job, Press.

Plus I got a whole lot of these.

Which kind of makes me very happy.

It was most of the kids' first real Valentines.

They were so excited to hand out and get their little treats from each other.

Kindergarten is maybe one of my favorite things.

100

Today was the 100th day of school.

Its kind of a big deal. We celebrated hard.

I gave each student a lime green $100

and asked what they would buy.

Which one of these 5 year olds

do you think will be a millionaire?

A Zebra

A Volcano

Jelly Beans

I would put it in my savings account.

A water park, A shark, and a ninja

were some of the other choice answers.

Oah I love you Mooah

Happy Valentine's Day. I love Love. And i love love this.

All of it.

And I can't stop singing it.

Don't don't play with your food.

Preston just bought this for his friend Olive.

Ms. Food Face -Dinner Meets Dress-up Plate.

I'm insanely jealous.

I feel like i'm not too old for a present like that.

So what if Olive is 6 and i'm 26.

I'm just saying.

How much cooler would any meal be eating off one of these?

My birthday. I want one.

He seriously loves her.

He gets to see her and her fam when he goes to

New York which, the last couple months,

has been more often than he's been in Idaho.

Press + Olive= BFF.

Especially after she receives that plate in the mail.

Olive got a plate, but I did just get to spend the best weekend maybe in ever with Press. Next post.

It was so fun to be together after a couple weeks apart.

So fun.

what's cooler than being cool...ice cold

NEGATIVE 20 degrees this morning. -32 with wind chill. For real. 15+ districts in SE Idaho closed school. not mine. Ridiculous. Just picture those tiny little kids walking to the bus stop. Freeeeezing. My ears almost fell off my head just walking from the car to the building.

The good news is: Punxsutawney Phil
did NOT see his his shadow - predicting an early spring. Which I love the idea of.

Today in kindergarten a boy told me that he was sad about

Phil seeing his shadow cause he loves winter.

Not because of sledding and hot cocoa and snowmen.

...Because he can see where his dog pees so he knows where not to walk.

A few things I love

-Grey's Anatomy. So so so much. Everything about it. Every week.

-My new glasses. I had no idea I was seeing everything blurry until them.

I seriously spend a good chunk of each day staring at things with, then with out the glasses. It blows my mind every time.

-That Preston gets to record a new record

because his kickstarter project got fully funded!

like whoa. Thank you, Thank you generous people.

-Trips to Tahoe to see the family

-Preston's brother lives in China and brought this back.

Yep buy two Snickers Chocolate bars...get a free battery!

And on the battery itself is a little reminder that says: Do Not Eat.

-Julie's hair. ugh its only so so cute. I die.

-This youtube video

-Kindergarten. Its real funny.

Yesterday a little boy got to miss recess because he called a girl a 'butt jerk'.

It was real hard for me not to laugh.

-Shauna and p.s. I really miss you more than a lot.

xoxo

OOOOHH I can hardly wait.

I feel so Christmasy this year.

Maybe its all the kindergarten crafts

Or that we've been ripping links off our paper

Christmas countdown chain every day since

Thanksgiving.

Or that we have a Holly Madison bobble head doll

instead of an angel on our tree.

I loooove it.

I'm still not into Christmas music.

But i'm into everything else Christmas.

Let it Snow

Woke up this morning to this. And it still hasn't stopped.

Perfect cozy sunday.

Church, Taco Soup, Wrapping Christmas presents,

Arrested Development and cuddling with Press.

It won't be long

We have a good life. We both get to do exactly what we have always wanted to do. Since I can remember, I have wanted to be a teacher. i love love my job. My Kindergardeners inspire me and remind me of everything lovely in life. Preston is so good at everything he does. He is brilliantly smart and so handy. His passion is music and he gets to do it as a profession and support our little family by traveling the country and playing songs from his heart. How cool is that. This means that our life lately consists of Press being out of town at least a couple days a week. This last trip he has been gone for a week. We are both pretty independent people and I do fine by myself, But of course we are so much better together and sometimes, a lot of times I miss him. bad. So we go on skype dates and talk a bajillion times a day and I tell him about kindergarten and Grey's and he tells me about New York and Vermont and Wisconsin and airports and shows that went real well and ones where he accidentally dedicated 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' to the only Jewish girl in the room.

So Thank you technology. because seriously, how did life even exist without cell phones and Skype and youtube and texting and Modern Family? Thank you technology. Cause you make Preston feel a little less far away even when he is miles of air and road and land away.

One thing that is nice about having time to myself is that I am extremely productive. Like just last night I watched at least 3 episodes of Greys Anatomy while cutting out 40 giant paper candy canes, separating 20 boxes of crayons by color, and water proofing all my snow boots. Oh, and I shaved my legs. Happy Saturday night.

Thanksgiving

We flew to Tahoe. It was real snowy.

Then We road tripped to San Jose

To See Aunt Babe and Uncle Tony:

Babe

Tony

It was so nice to just be with my family.

I love love them.

Mostly we were real lazy. Ate a lot, lounged a lot.

We got Lou Lou a Lady Gaga hair piece.

Looks very nice. Can you believe she is 11 years old?

So pretty. She's my oldest niece.

Then theres Kes who is the cutest 3 year old ever.

I think I'm obsessed with her. Good job Tresa. She is real perfect.

I can't wait to see everyone again at Christmas.

Dear family can you please all move to Idaho?

Immediately?

Our Kindergarten Thanksgiving was awesome. We partied hard, then watched Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and ate popcorn. I wish I could post more pictures but I feel like its maybe not ok to put pictures of the kiddies on my blog. But this one's just the back of their cute heads loving Charlie Brown, so I think its ok.