Good TImes!

Wednesday night I went to the Backstreet Boys concert with my family. Jake thought he was too cool to come so he totally missed out because we had such a BLAST! It was my most favorite concert I have ever been too. They all looked so good and danced and sung all of my favorite songs. Here are Backstreet Boy's BIGGEST fans! Yes my dad is included as a biggest fan because he has been to four concerts as well!! Thursday we went to Lehi Roundup with Jake’s family. My favorite was the saddle broncs and bull riding. Jake said he loved steer wrestling usually but I don’t think anyone was able to wrestle the steer so it was kind of boring. But it was a fun night to celebrate McCall’s birthday. Friday morning we drove to St. George with my family. It was a fun trip. The boys played golf while the girls laid by the pool. We went on lots of bike rides and played tennis once the sun was gone. It was really really hot down there! My grandparents and Christian’s favorite thing to do is to play CRAPS. So my grandpa agreed to drive his truck to St. George so they could bring the CRAPS table. Every night we had a huge game night with treats and poker chips. We all love to play with Christian’s official poker chips. Christian gets way into it with his Dealer’s visor and stick for gather chips. It cracks me up!

Alexa was so dang cute the entire trip! I loved playing with her every second I could! She is such a happy girl who loves her sweets just like the rest of us!!

Ephraim!

I have been DYING to go to Ephraim to see my grandma. We have tried to go down several times but it has always fallen through at the last minute so finally last weekend I ended up going down with my family while Jake ran Ragnar. He had a lot of fun and ran really FAST!! We had a blast in Ephraim as well! We made it down in time to see the Mormon Miracle Pageant. I had never seen it before so I was way excited. I thought it was pretty good but kinda long to be sitting on metal chairs in the cold. But we had fun. The next day we went up to Community Lake with all of the cousins to go fishing and have a picnic. It was so fun to ride four wheelers and be in Ephraim's beautiful mountains with my family. It felt like I hadn't been there forever!!

SPRING!

A quick update since it has been forver since we have last blogged. In April we went to Sun Valley with Jake's family. We had so much fun ice skating, shopping and swimming! The highlight of the trip was watching the skiers trying to skim over a pond of water. It was amazing that all of the little kids could do it!!

Jake graduated in May. His whole family came up for the celebration. Now we are just waiting to hear back from a medical school so we can get on with our lives! Right now it is between Vermont and West Virginia. Jake won't let me say where I want to go because he thinks a med school might see this and affect their decision... paranoid I know! But anyways we really will go anywhere!!

Finally this weekend my mom and Kristal came to visit my classroom and play kickball with them. They all totally worshiped Kristal! After school we took Alexa to feed the ducks. She was totally fearless and wanted to go in First Dam with them but Jake and Kristal were scared the geese would attack! We had a lot of fun playing with her I wished they lived closer so we could hang out all the time!

April Fool's!

Happy April Fool's Day!! I absolutely love this day for some reason!! I think it is because I am the only one that plays jokes on people and I never get punked! But today Shelly came to school with me and we played one of the best punks on my students ever! We got them all pumped up for a pirate's scavenger hunt that we had prepared for them. They were so cute and excitedly running from clue to clue. Then at the end they found a note taped to a bunch of grocery sacks that said, "Good job you found your prize! Everyone can have a grocery sack! Happy April Fool's Day!" Haha Shelly and I were honestly dying we were laughing so hard because their faces were priceless!! Everyone was grabbing a bag and anxiously searching through it in hopes there might be something in the bags. Some kids were gathering up as much bags as they could and they were really excited about it! But the best was the kid that came over to us with total disgust and said, "What the CRAP!?!" Which just made us lose it more. They soon started laughing with us once I told them I really did bring them a treat for their prize but I just wanted to trick them for a minute. So it wasn't completely mean but it was seriously so funny!

I hope you all go out and trick some people before the best day ever is over!!!

SPRING BREAK!

Over spring break we went to California. We had so much fun! The only down fall was that we had to drive but luckily I got to experience all of the things Jake said I missed by flying… like that amazingly huge thermometer, and, and, and that’s about it! So hopefully I won’t have to drive again for a while since I experienced that. We were able to go to the LA temple on Thursday. It was such a gorgeous temple and really fun to see the different murals. By the time we got out the session it was getting late so we went to the closest beach we could find which was Santa Monica. It was not that great of weather and a rent a cop even made fun of us in our swimming suits. But to us it was fun to just sit on the beach and play paddleball. Friday was one of my favorite days because we went down to Newport and Huntington Beach. This has to be one of my favorite spots in the world! We went to get a famous donut from Newport and ate it on the pier. Then we went over to Huntington to shop and hang out on the beach. It was such a blast!! That night we went to Hollywood to see the stars and eat dinner. Jared’s brother, Jeff wanted Thai so we wanted to check out a few places to see where we wanted to eat. But at the first restaurant there was a cute boy that literally chased us down as we were entering another Thai restaurant he then escorted us back to his restaurant. It was so funny it totally made our night!
Saturday was so much fun because we got to go to Disneyland!!! It was way busy but we kept running from fast pass to fast pass so we never had to wait in line that long. We were able to go on all of our favorite rides and
eat the best food ever! I seriously love Disneyland and I am so glad we got to go!!



Here is our Thai escort!!

I Have the BEST Family Ever!

We have had so much fun in school the last few weeks! My mom and Mallory came and read a story about a gingerbread baby and then we all got to decorate the cutest gingerbread cookies and eat them! We had so much fun! Then since we were training for out Turkey Trot we had a mile race. The kids were so excited for the race, they were sure they were going to be able to beat my mom and Mallory! But Mallory came in first upsetting a lot of the boys! Me and my mom were not too far behind her putting up a good fight! The kids are always so dramatic during the mile run we always have a few in tears and a few lying in the path refusing to stand up because they think they will throw up blood! Haha I have come to the point where I just ran past them and tell them they can wait on the bench. They jump up excitedly and run to the bench to cheer everyone else on. They are SO dramatic! But all of the boys had crushes on Mallory and they kept staring at her and telling her that “their friend” thinks she’s hot! Haha it was a little disturbing but mostly cute! They can’t wait for them to come back and visit us again!

Today my dad came to talk to the kids about turkeys. Everyone LOVED him! They even commented on his nice shoes! Haha the things they notice! We had fun talking about the different boy or girl turkeys which I learned are called toms or hens. And only the boys gobble the girls just click! The best part was when he brought out the different samples the students were so excited it was as if they had never eaten turkey before! He then spoiled them by giving each of them a stuffed turkey toy, turkey pencils and pens! Obviously every student LOVED him and after he left they kept telling me how lucky I was that I had such a nice dad!
I am lucky for having such a nice family to come and hang out with me and my class! We love the visitors!!

So I have found a new addiction.... my niece Alexa! I seriously crave being with her more than I crave chocolate and that is saying a lot!! I always want to be with her and make her smile and laugh. She is so dang cute and I love her to death! This week Jake had to go down to stay with his dad so my family came up to visit me and my class. My class also fell in love with Alexa every girl had to take a turn to hold her, and when it came time for them to leave I had one girl hysterical because she did not get to hold Alexa. (Don't worry I ran her over to the car so she could hug Alexa goodbye causing Shelly to be late for her meeting in Logan and my mom to run a red light!)

It was really fun to have my family come up and play with the kids we played a giant kick ball game which was probably more fun for the adults than for the kids but we ate popcicles at the end which made everyone happy!

After school we went to Cafe Rio and ate our salads at First Dam. Alexa loved to feed the ducks and a few times she about went in the water after them! It was so much fun to have them come up.