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.

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!