It's Summer Time

The Fessler home never seems to slow down! We have done so much this summer, but yet we feel like we haven't done all that much. Here is an update in the Fessler home. This last month Lareme had the opportunity to go to GilChrist with the Scouts and I had the opportunity to go to Girls Camp as a YCL Cabin Mom. What an experience it is to be a leader and do the Lords work. I must say girls camp really help me understand why certain people receive certain callings. I was able to experience how the Lord touches lives through others. Recently, Lareme's sister got married and I have continued to do the shoot my last few weddings...thankfully. I have also stayed pretty busy with weddings and I'm heading to Portland tomorrow to shoot my last one! I must say shooting wedding are A LOT of work! Our most exciting news this month is that I got a job teaching 1st grade at Ellsworth Elementary! I am so stoked! It is the school and grade level that I wanted. I have been very busy gathering school supplies and Lareme cannot wait for me to get my keys so I can get all the boxes out of the house. Speaking of which I get to pick out my classroom on July 7th :)! Lareme is staying busy with the insurance and yard maintance businesses and I am back working at SimonMed until mid July.

A busy weekend!

Yay it is finally over! I am officially an ASU Graduate!

I graduated on Friday morning!

My wonderful grandparents came down for my graduation! I would like to thank everyone for coming and all of there support. My familly all got together and made all the delicious food for my graduation party! What would I do without them. I also must thank my wonderful husband who put up with me through the last couple of years as I finished. As most of my family knows its not easy putting up with me when I'm stressing about school, but he did it! Thank you honey! I am so grateful to hof had this opportunity and for all the support from all my family, extend, immediate, and of coarse my in laws! They have all ben incredibly helpful!

(If you look closely I am wearing a lei that my mother-in-law made for me in ASU colors! It was so beautiful! I loved it!)

This was also a great time to see many of my friends from high school! It was good to see everyone and to have been able to stay in touch over the years! Thanks ladies!

Graduation!

Life has been very busy in the Fessler household for the last few months. (obviously since I haven't updated my blog for a few months) Well I have just completed my student teaching. So with that I have been busy with lesson planning, studying for the AEPA, and interviewing. I will be graduating on May 9th. I am so glad to be done. Lareme has been busy working as always and the two of us continue to keep ourselves busy with cub scouts. I never thought that the cub scout program would take so much time and effort, but we love working with the boys. In the mean time, Lareme's sister Brooke had a little boy in February and his sister Sierra has been planning her wedding which will be on May 17th. So life has definately kept us busy!

Jacob's Here!

Cristi finally had Jacob on January 2. He was 7 lbs. 8oz. He is very cute and has a lot of hair. He is just like his big sister Kayla and has her cute big cheeks. He also looks a lot like his big brother Daniel. Man is Danny excited to have a little brother. All the kids were so sad that they could goes see their newest family member in the hopital but they were happy to see the pictures and Grandma and I brought. Mom and baby are doing great!

Christmas makes me crafty!

This year for christmas I made all the neices and nephews personal books bags. Each bag contained two books and some type of activity, stuff animal, or toy that went along with the theme. I thought finding these items was difficult, but personalizing the book bags took forever!!



















If making those bags wasn't enough I thought of this great idea of mod podging all of these wood "believe" cut outs for all my sisters and sister in laws. Although it was fun I must say I am so grateful tomorrow is Christmas!! It's over!

Utah

Lareme and I recently went to Utah for a couple of days to visit the family and go to the anual Nelson Family Christmas Party. It was good to see everyone and Lareme and I tried to make our rounds. There is just so many people to visit and so little time. The Christmas party was held at the Salem Community Center across from Salem Pond.

Christmas Pictures!!

It's getting closer to Christmas and I can't wait! I love the holiday season! Lareme and I got our family pictures finally done so we can mail out our Christmas cards. We had to get our dog in there of coarse, we don't have any kids to show off so we might as well show off our cute puppies!