Summer Vacation... whats that?

ok so it is about a month into summer vacation and i have never been busier!! This is the first summer that i have not had a job during the break. So what do i do? FILL IT!! I have many projects going on and i will hopefully post individual posts to go into more depth about each of them, but here is just a preview of what has gone on and what i have planed for the rest of my summer vacation! My vacation started right out of the gate with going to visit my brother in Huston Texas. He has been going to college near there and i had yet to get to visit. My brother and i are 4 years a part and pretty close so 6 months of not seeing each other wasn't working with either of us. He is attending Prairie View A&M and his baseball team made it to the NCAA regional playoffs in Texas. This is a huge thing in baseball and our family is BIG in to baseball. So my parents and i flew out to watch him play at Rice College, and even play agains the Rice Owels. Unfortunately they where out of the tournament in 2 games, but it was nice to see him play and see where he lived. I then spent 24 hours in a car driving back to NV with my brother. When i got home i jumped into cleaning and purging my school classroom from the year. Though i have been teaching at my school for two years now i didn't get a chance last summer, due to a summer job, to clean out the last teachers files/ organize the room to my liking. SO i moved some things around and cleaned out some cabinets that REALLY needed it. One Project i have started this summer, and fingers crossed will finish in the next couple months before school. I am cataloging all of my music in the choral library. The choir program at my school is substantial and has a nice size library for a middle school, BUT nothing is written down. Thats right i decided it was time to get organized. This project of course sounded like a good idea in June and now a month into it.... i will be glad to get through christmas!! (but more to come on that later) My other large project is Music Directing a "The Wizard of Oz". For the past five years or so i have been a Musical Director of a local kids theater program, working with a close friend as the Creative Director and the Director of the shows. After a fall out with the program we where working with, (building managers and board/ creative team) my friend and i decided to start our own theater company. We have partnered with the local Community Center and started our own Youth Theater company check it out at Youth Theater Carson City . I love working with these kids and they make it so worth giving up my summer to see them glow on stage.Each of these projects is time consuming but are worth it in the end. I also have been looking on Pinterest (my new FAVORITE site) and getting lots of fun ideas for school. I am loving the organization tips and am working on getting organized for the upcoming school year. If you have not checked out Pinterest yet click here and be amazed. Well i guess that is a good update, i am determined to keep on top of this better then the last time i tried to blog about things! 

Bri