Apologies and a Family Photo

People. We are so. Sorry.

We are vile.

We are plumb useless.

We apologize profusely for failing to update this thing in, like, forever.

But we've been busy (excuse #1). We will try, from here on out, to do better. But we cannot promise once a week, as we have hitherto done. We will do our best, but it might be one in two (gasp).

But here's the lowdown on what's been happening.

Jill has been doing her practicum teaching in Spanish Fork. She absolutely loves the kids she teaches (1st grade), and I've seen her interest in them grow as her time there wore on. She really did love the children from day one, but her care and concern for them grew as the weeks went on. Isn't she just precious!? She's the best. She would always come back with fun stories from her days at school. What fun.

I have also been doing some teaching of my own. I was taking the class that is the precursor to teaching seminary as a full-time job, so I was able to hit the classroom here and there, and then for two weeks straight. It ended the week before last, and it was so much fun. I loved being able to teach and interact with the youth. It's something I would have loved to have done as a profession, but alas, I received an email today from my teachers saying I was not accepted. But they made sure to tell me that I shouldn't feel like a failure because I was able to bless my fellow classmates and those I taught. Nice words for sure. I'm not too terribly bummed out because I kind of knew I wouldn't get it, but it sure would have been nice. But the things I learned in that class and while teaching are some of the most valuable things I could have learned, and I don't think I could have learned them anywhere else. Now it's onward and upward, but at least I'll get to keep those skills I learned and all the knowledge that came with that class.

Also, we took family pictures yesterday. Here's one of them:

So yeah. There's that, too :)