Rachel Fuhriman: September 2012

Sunday, September 2, 2012

First Day of School 2012

Well the kids are back in full swing at school this year. So far so good, they each have great teachers and things are looking good for the school year.

Treyton is super excited about kindergarten, he has Mrs. Davenport for AM kindergarten. There are several kids from our ward and neighborhood in his class, which makes it really nice. He has 2 friends from Koala Kids (Shane and Carter) who aren't in his class, but are in AM Kindergarten at Discovery that he has managed to play with during recess. He is really loving it so far. Let's see how he does once homework kicks in.

Mitchel has Mrs Julian (the same teacher that Savanna had last year. For some reason he really didn't want her, because her heard she was mean. But after the first day of school he came home and said "she will be fine, she is a lot nicer than I thought."

Savanna has Mrs. Smith, I am a bit concerned because she is pregnant and will miss school this winter and I worry about having a grumpy pregnant teacher. But I have heard good things about her from Easton who had her for 1st and 4th grade. Savanna seems to be happy so that is all that matters.

First day of school breakfast!- Notice Carolina, she also went to school at Koala Kids

Their first day of school outfits- how cute are they!!

In front of the school

Treyton in his class- he gets to sit by Karson and Jayden

Both Savanna and Mitch are excited because they each have their own "neo's" at their desk. They describe them like their own IPads. They can take all their tests and do their journals on these. It will be interesting to see how they play out during the year. I guess we live in a world full of technology and the kids need to learn about it now.

Table Rock

My Aunt Chris invited me to go hike Table Rock this year, it is something I have wanted to do for a long time. I hiked it 2 other times when I was in Young Women over 20 years ago. I remember complaining and hating the hike the whole time back then, and I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it without complaining and maybe actually enjoy myself.

We went with Chris, her 3 girls Alex, Randi and Sydney, and Uncle Calvin. It ended up being a great time! It took us quite a while to get up the Mountain, mostly because Calvin wasn't as prepared for the hike so he needed to take lots of breaks. But that was ok, we really enjoyed each other's company and had a great time. The top of Table Rock is totally breath taking and absolutely worth every effort to get there. The hike down is almost worse than going up simply because your feet really take a pounding. By the time we were about half way down the mountain I realized that I had lost my camera. I knew exactly where I had left it. I took it off my wrist to go to the bathroom and forgot to pick it back up. I was very discouraged because of my history with losing camera's. But because it was getting late and we were in danger of not making it down before dark we knew that we could not go back and get it. About that same time we made the decision to split off into groups, we had 1 flashlight and we knew that we wouldn't be able to see so Randi and I took off going as fast as we could to the bottom so that we could get there before dark, then Alex and Sydney came next. They went a bit slower because Alex had hurt her knee. They got down about 45 minutes after us. Then last came Chris and Calvin, they got down about 15 minutes later. It was pretty dark by then so it was a good thing that we split off.

It was a great experience and hope that I am able to hike it again soon.
(The best part of this story is that a few days later I got my camera mailed to me, someone had found it on the Mountain and luckily I had my name and address on it so she was kind enough to send it to me.)