A Golden Dinner

Remember how I was nominated for the Golden Apple Award?

We had the exceptionally wonderful dinner for it last night.  It was hosted by the Provo School District's PTA and was superb!  It was fun to spend the night with the hubs and my principal and our school PTA president eating chicken cordon bleu and yummy caramel apples! 

There are so many great teachers in Provo School District!  I was so impressed with the comments given for many of the teachers there and was proud to know many of them.  

One of the coolest moments of the night was spending it with my aunt, uncle, and the principal of the school where my aunt works.  How neat is it that we got the Golden Apple the same year as each other?  She's been my hero.

I almost gave up on teaching during my student teaching and she got me through many of the hard parts of my career (a.k.a my first year of teaching!).  Her principal, Kim, has known me since I was a toddler.    She came to observe me through my student teaching and gave me the added confidence boost that I needed to pursue my career and interview.

Without these women, I'm not sure I would have even thought about going into teaching!

{Kim, me, Karen, and Uncle Mikey}

The school board was there to help present our awards, along with the Superintendent Rittel.  Who gave me permission to now call "Keith."  Though he did say he preferred "Lord" first and foremost.  He's a hoot to talk with!

He also gave me some touching compliments that were nice to hear with T standing next to me.  It's always nice when your spouse can hear good things about what you're doing, especially when he sacrifices a lot for my career also.  

He never complains about the mac and cheese dinner nights when we both get home too late to make dinner, or the nights when I'm ornery and putting in grades the night before they're due.  

He's ever so supportive and I'm grateful to have gotten such a great catch!  He was so proud and happy to have me as his wife last night!  I told him that he's the only one I really ever want to impress and make proud.  He tells me daily how proud of me he is.

What a keeper!

It was even better when a member of the school board came up to us and told us all of the things that are being said at the district about me.  Apparently good things are coming out of my classroom and a lot of them will be coming to observe me.  

Gulp.

Hello terrifying experiences coming my way...  

 {Me and my golden apple.}  

Pretty awesome.  I hope I can keep doing good things for the district and my students.  

Teaching is my passion and it's hard to imagine a teacher loving their students as much as I do.  I adore their little faces, their art masterpieces plastered behind my desk, and how much information and knowledge they learn on a daily basis!