Back to School

I love this time of year!  I love that part from "You've Got Mail" when Meg Ryan is talking about bouquets of sharpened pencils.  I love shopping for school supplies.  It's a time full of possibilities.  It's the New Years of school season, setting goals, and fresh starts.

Things are a little different around here than they usually are at back to school time.  Anita is in Hawaii at BYU-Hawaii.  Lincoln and I took her in July.  She just finished her 1st Term and Fall Semester starts next week.  That will be a whole other post in itself.  But right now I'm in the mood to write about back to school and since this is my blog, I get to write whatever I want. hahaha 

This is Cody's senior year of high school.  He, once again, is trying to cram in as much as he possibly can.  There is never enough time for Cody to do all that he wants to do.  He is taking 2 AP classes, orchestra, is playing football, is in Madrigals, and is an SBO.  (In case you, like me, don't know what an SBO is that's short for Student Body Officer.  Cody is the school's Cultural Diversity Rep.)  Sometime in there he finds a little time to sleep, but sadly for me, not time to do his chores or clean his room.

Faha started high school this year.  He is a sophomore.  So far he is liking school and is doing well.  Mostly due to per pressure, he is playing football on the sophomore team.  Unfortunately, he got a concussion the first week of school and so hasn't been able to play in a game yet.  We are hoping he can play in next weeks game.  Faha is also in orchestra.  He made 1st chair viola!

Pasi started jr. high.  He's a 7th grader!  I can't believe it!  I think he already has a following of girls at his school.  He keeps telling them, "I can't date yet.  I'm a Mormon!"  He ran for 7th grade Senate, but lost.  I thought it was really great of him to run, though.  And he had the best campaign posters made by Cody, the master of poster making.

Siu is in 5th grade.  It's weird to only have one student at the elementary school.  It's been about 13 years since I've only had one child in elementary school.  Pasi and Siu guilted me into volunteering to be the room mom.  Pasi said that I need to be more involved in their schools.  Whatever!  Siu is still her free-spirit self.  I love her to death, but she does make me crazy sometimes.  It's a full time job keeping her focused on school.

A major focus of our lives right now is football, especially since all three boys are playing. I really love to watch my boys play football! So much so, that I am willing to pay ridiculous admission prices just for the privilege of watching the varsity play. I want to post pictures of all the boys in their football "stuff", but they are not cooperating. So, I guess I will have to do that later. 

One of my new school year resolutions is to cook dinner every night.  Due to football practice, we tend to eat late so I'm trying to use the crock pot as much as possible so I can get dinner in the crock pot in the morning and we can eat at a semi-decent time.  I did really good last week.  I used a new recipe book and tried 5 new crock pot recipies.  They were all pretty good.  One was especially delicious, Spicy Rice Casserole.  Post a comment if you want the recipe.  Yummy!

Other new school year resolutions are:
-read scriptures every night as a family and finish the Book of Mormon by the end of the year
-have family prayer every night
-make sure Siu gets her homework done every night
-sleep early! by 10:00
-no tv on school days

Hopefully everyone has a great school year! :)