Fordham Family Reunion

Yesterday was the Fordham Family Reunion up Nephi Canyon. It was a great day and there were a lot of fun memories made. It was really great to see everyone, have some good food and learn a little more about the Fordham ancestors!

Cheerleaders!!

I have been the cheer advisor at American Fork High for the past 11 years (starting my 12th) in that time I have coached a couple hundred cheerleaders. Tonight as I was adding links, I was able to read up on what some of my girls (and guys) are doing. The most fabulous thing is what beautiful mothers they have become. I am so proud to be able to say I knew them when!

Cool Things

It seems that this blog has become my current obsession, which means that as soon as school starts it will probably not get updated again until next June! Maybe I will surprise myself and actually keep up with it. Anyway, we have had some cool things happen to us recently. Both Wayne and I have received awards at work.

Wayne was awarded the directors challenge in April. This award was given to recruiters who had recruited 150% of their standard. The Air Guard flew us to Arizona, put us up in the Arizona Grand and basically treated us to a great weekend. They also had an awards banquet and a really nice barbeque for the award winners and their families. All in all it was so awesome because Wayne and I went and left the kids at home!!! Honestly, we didn't really even know how to handle so much quiet! The whole trip was awesome and I am so proud of Wayne and his achievement.

In May I received the "Accent on Excellence Award" which is given to 10 teachers, 1 administrator and 1 classified employee in the Alpine School District. It is given by the Alpine Foundation and is bascially to reward excellence in education. I was nominated by another teacher in my school, then my application went to the selection committee. This has been such an honor for me, I was really shocked because I really did not think I was qualified. Anyway, the award included $500 for me personally and $500 for my classroom. In addition we got a gift basket that was probably worth another $500. They also had a really nice awards banquet where we were presented with our award and gift baskets. It seriously felt like the academy awards for teachers!

Disneyland 2008

This year for our vacation my entire extended family decided to go to Disneyland. So on May 30th, just a couple hours after school was out we hit the road (in two mini-vans and one 15 passenger van). We had 21 people total, 10 under the age of 9! We spent 3 days at disneyland and California adventure, one day at the beach and one day at SeaWorld! It was non-stop fun and I am so glad we took the opportunity to do it! What great memories!