Changing my job, a little.

For the past year I have been teaching second grade in Ogden. The district chose my school to start a Dual Immersion program. I am moving to first grade to teach the English portion of the program. I will share two classes with a teacher who will teach only in Spanish. She will teach math, science, and Spanish, and I will teach math vocabulary and language arts for the first half of the day, and then switch and teach the same thing to the other class. It's an awesome program! The kids will become fluent in both languages before they leave elementary school, and since they are so young they won't have an accent in either language. This year, only first grade will have Dual Immersion classes because that is when they have to start in order to get enough Spanish vocabulary to be successful in later grades.

The last few months...

Matt's Graduation

PS - He usually ties his tie like a normal person - this was just a special occasion. :)

Matt graduated from high school in May. Congrats Matt! Matt, you really have a way of making me feel old! I didn't know I was old enough to have my little brother graduate. (I also remember when I was the tallest Largent ;) )

BYU Football

Trudy, Garrett, and I had season tickets to BYU football. It was a blast. This is Garrett on the field after the awesome Utah game. We tried to upgrade out tickets for next year, but just found out today that we had no luck so we'll be sitting in the same place again for this season. Maybe next year we'll have better luck...

Las Vegas Bowl

The wind was blowing so hard they had a hard time keeping the flag from blowing away. The teams' bands and mascot had to run over to help hold on to it.

Jennie, Trudy, and I went to the Las Vegas Bowl. BYU creamed Oregon State. It was a blast. It was also FREEZING and BLOWING! This was the fifth year in a row we've been to the bowl game, and by far the coldest. The parking lot we had the privilege of parking in was not paved so the dust was blowing everywhere. We got to the game plenty early to do the pre-game festivities, but wound up sitting in the car for over half an hour because we didn't want to go outside.

President Monson

In April our family got to meet President Monson and President Uchtdorf. President Monson received an honorary degree from Weber State, and my mom was his official host for the morning of commencement. Jennie had to be there for work, and the boys and I just "walked in" hoping no one would notice. It worked!