CHRISTMAS TIME!

Last night was my school Christmas party. It was really fun! My first gift was a shave me Barbie which was hilariously disgusting. It had a brown mustache, beard, arm pit hair and really hairy legs! But that got stolen fast! Jake’s first gift was a huge gold bowling trophy. But that got stolen fast too, the rumor was it had real gold plating!! Jake’s final present was the best though, A man that moons people when you pump up this football! It was a pretty funny party! Some of the funniest comments made were about a hot pink top with tassels on the boobs. All of the men thought the tassels were HOT!!
After the Christmas party we tried to take a picture for our family Christmas card. We are too big for our little tree so we gave up! One of my students saw this picture on my computer and said, “Teacher you look HUGE compared to your tree!” Definitely not sending this out then!!

The Thanksgiving break was so much fun!! We went out to Colorado to visit Kristal and Christian and Alexa one last time before they move back. As usual the drive was terrible, me and Shelly about drove Jake crazy with our lovely singing. I was especially excited to go to Colorado because I had not been since Alexa was born and I really wanted to see her room and all of her clothes! Her closet was of course ridiculously organized, separated by age and then color! It was so much fun to see all of her cute clothes and I dressed her in the cutest outfit ever! Thanksgiving was really nice, Jake was set on playing football with everyone even though we sent him and Christian to play it all morning with some of Christian’s friends. So the guys and me and Shelly were the only ones brave enough to go out in the freezing cold. They tried to have us run real plays but we really had no idea what was going on so we would just run at each other and hit and try to tackle. They finally gave up on us and just tried to teach us some plays and have us practice them. It was pretty much a joke but it was fun! We also went to see Twilight. It was really good but apparently I am annoying to sit by in movies because I can’t whisper but I wanted to explain the parts of the movie that they left out so Jake would enjoy it better! I don’t think it made much of a difference though it was just a chick flick to him! The rest of the weekend was just relaxing. We became obsessed with guitar hero, trying to win Christian more songs. We also discovered the battle mode in guitar hero. I loved it so much better because I actually stood a chance at winning! We had such a fun weekend down in Colorado but I am so glad they are moving here soon so I will no longer have my Alexa withdrawals!

Second Grade!

The reason I have been such a slacker on blogging is because we lost our camera cord for the computer and also I have been so busy with school. Anyways I can't even believe it but the first trimester of school is over! It has seriously flown by! I have had so much fun I absolutely love teaching! One of the highlights so far has been when Shelly and Addy decided to bring me donuts for my birthday. The students were so excited for visitors they were drawing pictures, writing notes, and making origami for them all day! But somehow Shelly and Addy ended up in Mendin or something and I had no idea how to help them find Garland. So they kids were all panicked and worried about them. One little girl even started crying! So when Shelly and Addy finally did make it it was during lunch time and so we were just hanging out in my room eating our donuts and seriously it felt like the whole school had to come and stare at the "hot girls!" They all had crushes on Shelly and Addy and we could not get them to go outside and play. Shelly and Addy were so awkward they wouldn't even talk to the kids but they still loved them!! Anyways we had a fun party eating donuts and making turkeys. And now the kids ask me every week if they are coming back. But we have fun on our own. On Friday we sang the Princess Pat song and they all loved it!! Well except for one boy sat down near the end and said he was too embarrassed to finish. I loved it though! Anyways I have a lot of homework to do... One month til I graduate I can't even wait!

D.C.

So I have been procrastinating to write a new blog because so much has happened since the last one that I was feeling a little bit overwhelmed. So I am just going to skip ahead to the honeymoon! The wedding was so much fun...best day ever! Everything went perfectly and I absolutely loved it! We got to DC just in time for the fourth of July and so we went into town early to watch a parade. Then we went to a few of the museums and ate dinner while we waited for the fireworks to start. We almost gave up on the fireworks because it was raining like crazy but this lady talked us in to waiting it out and luckily the rain stopped just in time! The show was amazing! It was the longest and biggest fireworks show I have ever seen! This was definitely my favorite fourth of July! The next day we got up early to go to the DC temple. I was seriously shocked when I saw it poking through the trees, it is the biggest temple I have ever seen and it is gorgeous!! This was my favorite part of our trip because every other activity we were pretty stressed about making it on time and going to the right place, and even though we were late for the session we had planned on going to it was great to be able to sit and calm down and relax. I now know why people take relaxing honeymoons because its too stressful being in charge of a busy trip for your first trip, even finding a restaurant to eat at gave us stress! After the temple we went to Arlington Cemetary and it was huge! Jake was fascinated by the tomb of the unknown soldier we stayed and watched the guards march around forever! Then we went to this Showboat play and dinner buffet. It was fun, there was only old people there so we felt a little bit out of place but we liked it. Sunday was our last day there and so we went on a trolley tour that dropped us off at all of the major sites you must see in DC. We saw most of the major things like the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, White House, Capitol, Library of Congress, Supreme Court, Union Station, Portrait Museum, World War 1 and 2 Memorial sites, Washington Monument- Jake loved the Washington Monument we seriously have about 20 pictures just of the monument from around the city! and the Smithsonians, and other historical things I had no idea even existed, but what we both really wanted to see while we were in DC was the Holocaust Musuem amd by the time we made our way over there they told us we were 45 minutes too late! They had ran out of tickets to take to tour. So we were only able to look around a couple of rooms that really just made us more bitter that we could not see the whole musuem. Then we decided we wanted to go up in this bell tower that was would show us the skyview of the whole city. On our way there we spot a Ben & Jerry's ice cream so of course we have to stop and we just relax for a minute and by the time we walk over to the bell tower they tell us they closed 5 minutes ago! We about died! But we did have a ton of fun and we loved DC! And now we just have an excuse to go back because there are a lot of things we still need to see! Oh and I added these last two pictures just to point out that yes we are both mature enough to be married!!

Crazy Virginians!

So, I've been here in Virginia for about a little over a month now and it never ceases to amaze me the crazy people I run in to. Just yesterday I spoke to a gentleman who swore up and down he didn't need home security because he was personally responsible for the protection of the Vice President of the United States. He couldn't tell me which VP he was over protecting because I doubt he really ever was.

To cap the day off I decided to knock on one more door just after 9 o'clock becasue Summ said if I sell 13 this week I get to see one of her bridal pictures. I ended up selling the guy and on what i don't exactly know cause he really didn't care for the security aspects. He wanted to go to bed so i hurry and told him everything and he left me with his 80 year old live in to finish up paperwork. I finished up and instead of scheduling the job for another day i told her it was going in that night. She said there was no way she was going to let anyone come in and disturb her while she watched "GOD LIVE", a tv revival. To make sure the techs could get the job done I sat and watched "GOD LIVE" with an 80 year old lady for about 45 minutes. She was amazed that the preacher on the tv, who was covered in tatoos and screaming at the top of his lungs, could heal so many back problems and cause so many to faint. I was amazed that I lasted the 45 minutes! All in all it was a rewarding experience for both of us.

Time keeps slowly tickin and I can't wait to be back in Utah. I miss Summ like crazy and can't wait to bring her out here with me.

Jackson Hole!

So last week I got to go with my dad to Jackson Hole for a food show. The drive seemed very long and unbearable to me but then Jake kept reminding me that he drove about 8 times farther than that and they wouldn't even take breaks under 5 hours and so I guess my five hour drive was alright because we stopped to get treats almost every hour. That was the best part of going on a business trip with my dad was the treats and food. We went out to eat three times a day and got to eat at all of the fancy restaurants and order appetizers, drinks, desserts, and anything else we wanted I loved it! The food show was pretty fun too I basically went trick or treating for food. They had really good bread and cookies there. I went back to the bread table so much that the guy gave me four huge loaves of bread and three other loaves that I could bake when I got home. It was kind of embarrassing carrying all of the bread but I loved it! After the food show we went to see the movie Baby Mama and it was really funny. We were almost the only ones in the theater because I guess Jackson was in between seasons so most of the restaurants and movie theaters were closed. It was kinda nice having the whole town to ourselves so we could get into the restaurants we wanted without a wait! It was a fun trip and I am glad I got to go with my dad! Now if only he would take me to New York with him next week that would great!

Jake and Summer