Exhausted!!!

This week has been quite the week, and I have stayed up way past my bedtime (1:00+) more times this week than I have in the last 10 years! However, I have finished my website, and Thursday night at 10:00 I put it online. (It's actually not exactly finished -- there are still a few pages that are "coming soon!") You can check it out at www.readingteachersplanbook.com and tell me what you think! It was kind of fun -- I had Amanda and Chelsie gather round while I hit the "publish to the web" button, and we had John type the website into his laptop to see if it worked, and it did!

Because I chose to do what I "wanted to do" on Thursday rather than what I "needed to do" (see previous blog!), I woke up very early Friday morning to start to get ready for our 4th of July festivities. We went to the Kaysville Parade, and it was kind of different because it was just John, Stephanie, and me watching the parade. Wendy's family met up with us and brought a much-welcomed umbrella (though thankfully there was a bit of cloud cover during most of the parade). Jordan was marching in the parade with the Davis High Marching Band, Chelsie and Hannah were riding in the Davis High cheerleaders' float (part of a cheer clinic fundraiser they participated in that week), and Amanda was riding in a golf cart with four of her friends. I question the fact that these five girls were part of "parade security," but the girl with the cart's dad was head of the parade, and they had a great time driving all along the parade route. I'm not exactly sure of the driving abilities of the 13-year-old driving the cart -- I'm just glad they didn't hit anyone. That cannot be said of the parade in general as there were 2 children that were run over by floats/water trucks this year. One was taken off in a helicopter, but the KSL article said that was just as a precaution; both children were supposed to be OK. A big part of the Kaysville parade is the water fight which goes back and forth between the floats and the spectators. I was a little surprised to see that people could run right up to the floats without security telling them to get back. I'm thinking there are going to be some new policies in place next year. I joke that they should rethink assigning security to 13-year-old girls in golf carts, but actually they had a lot of adults walking around in green vests who were the real security people.

Friday afternoon we had everyone over (John's, William's, and Wendy's families) for swimming, a BBQ, and homemade ice cream, and that night we all met at the fireworks. It was a lot of fun, and I was wishing the rest of our family could have been there with us!

Saturday was the day exhaustion set in and even when I was up, I was very, very tired. However, I'm supposed to be reading my book for my class on Monday, so I plowed my way through a little more than half of the book (taking a nap here and there between chapters). I need to finish the last 80 pages sometime today, probably this evening. Skimming might be the reading strategy I choose for those last few chapters! :)