Student Teaching Observations

For my Practicum and Curriculum class, I am required to observe a student teacher as well as a...regular???...teacher. Originally I was not excited about this but I have worn more cute clothes during my procrastination week of observations than probably any other week in my entire life. Also, I am way more excited about my BYU badge that gets me into the schools than I probably should be. Now I realize that I will probably get annoyed with this very lanyard about a week into school since it severely harms my ability to wear a necklace. How am I supposed to accessorize? Just kidding, I personally think I looked quite cute today.

In other news, Jefferson and I have been married for 8 months today! Crazy how the time goes by so quickly. In one of my classes yesterday we made goals for ourselves in the next year. This meant that last night this statement may have come out of my mouth: "Jeff! A year from now we will be married for a year and 8 months!" This statement got this response out of him (after laughing): "Yes, and in fifty years we will have been married for fifty years and 8 months." Point taken but it is still exciting to think about.

Finally, why must the girl sitting next to me in class change the due date of an entire assignment because she is so annoying that the teacher finally throws the towel in? There is always one in every class right?

I passed the Praxis!

Have you ever had those times when you walk out of a test thinking you totally aced it and then realized that you must have been completely clueless because you have no idea what went wrong to have that score show up on the screen? I definitely have but luckily not this time!

I PASSED THE PRAXIS!

This test is the national test for Health Educators. Thank goodness I passed and don't have to sit in a room for 2 and a half hours for a test that takes all of 45 minutes...if you purposely read slow and make sure that your bubbles are impeccable...whew...another thing to check off the list. And congrats to my health girls for totally rocking their tests too.

Also, sidenote, I am so glad that the picture on my ID badge is from my old ID card and not the picture from my new one. It's the little things in life right?

Maybe You Did Put Too Much Sugar in my Applesauce

Title taken from a night where Jefferson was putting cinnamon sugar in my applesauce and may have gone a little overboard. Life has been so crazy lately. Here's what has been going on:

Confession: I am a total blog slacker so I am working on it. I love reading (*stalking) other blogs so I guess I should update mine more often for those who read this one. 

Life just keeps getting busier and filled with lots of changes and who knows when it will slow down again. We have a new place to live! With our contract being up we decided to move closer to work for Jefferson and live in this cute new split-level/townhouse. It is so quiet without the train tracks both in front of and behind our house anymore. I have taken pictures that I would have uploaded but I am at school and my camera is at home so look for pictures tomorrow (remember how I'm trying to be better at blogging?) so look back for pictures tomorrow. Here is what our neighborhood looks like though...

We were lucky to have Jeff's mom and dad up to help us as well as other family and friends who spent their Saturday helping us move.

I found out I will be student teaching at Springville High School in the fall! Now I just have to figure out how to look like a 22 year old and not like my 16 year old students. I don't know that I will accomplish that when the majority of them are taller...maybe it's for people like me that the student teaching dress code was created. Sorry everyone over 5'5," short people are still ruining your life with taking the tall boys and looking like high school students.

Work has been crazy for Jeff but hopefully it will slow down a little bit here soon. At least he doesn't have to deal with traffic anymore and can sleep in a little longer in the morning. I, however, need to stop hitting the snooze button on days when he doesn't have to work so that he can keep sleeping. I used to be much better at getting out of bed but with only 2 weeks of school left almost all motivation is gone.

It's Good for Your Soul

Happy Seven Month Anniversary to Us! Yes I realize that I will probably look back on that comment years from now and laugh at myself but it's the small things in life right?

On to other news...

I saw this movie the other night and it was fantastic! I feel like it's the first Disney movie that has been this great in a long time. Maybe it's because it reminds me a lot of the Disney movies that I grew up watching like Beauty and the Beast and Little Mermaid. It did help that there was an adorable little boy sitting behind us that kept giggling which made me laugh.

Then I hung out with these girls. Jeff was working all weekend so it was nice to have people to hang out with and spend time with my girls. Now that the majority of us are married we don't get to hang out very often so it was a nice break from homework and a nice indulgence on crazy amount of sugar. Poor Dave. He didn't have anywhere to go so he decided to banish himself to their bedroom for the whole time we were there. Maybe Claire gave him some of her delicious cookies after we left.

I'd like to say that we have come a long way and we have with the almost being done with school, getting married, and getting pregnant--not us-- but you get even a few of the roommates together and we still act like we did freshman year. I think for 3 hours every couple of months it's okay.

Also, funny thing that just happened while I was looking for a good picture to put on here of the girls. I was looking through an album from our sophomore year to get the first picture of us and found some pictures. You have to remember that Jeff and I met at the beginning of my sophomore year and I may have been a little obsessed? excited about my new "friend." Therefore, I may have looked through facebook pictures of him to email my mom so that she could see how attractive he is. They were still there so here are the first pictures that my mom saw of Jeff. See, I always knew we would end up married 2 years later so I was just trying to get a head start...

I am definitely one lucky girl.

KSL Stalker

Life has been really crazy these last couple of weeks. Like I said in an earlier post, we are moving at the end of the month. I remember thinking that trying to find a place to live was such an ordeal when I was single and, granted, trying to find a place where six very different girls would all be okay living is insane. However, I almost felt like putting Occupation: Craigslist and KSL "Homes" section stalker on an application the other day and I always schedule our appointments to look at apartments after Jeff gets off of work or on his days off--so much for down time. You would also think that people who need to sell their apartment so badly would call potential buyers back--apparently I must be mistaken.

Now I'm sure that my last five sentences made it sound like I hate looking for places to live but I actually love it. I have my pages and pages of addresses, descriptions, and phone numbers, and I love telling Jeff about "this really cute place" or "this awesome place" when he gets home from work. He has recently taking to teasing me about my excitement and will go around the house yelling "townhouse" "apartment" "condo" or anything else of the sort. So funny Jeff. 

Home Sweet Home

A few weeks ago Jeff and I were lucky enough to spend a nice long weekend at home. Since we didn't go home for Christmas it was really nice to see Jeff's family and to see the gorgeous valley of the sun that we both love so much. We got in late Thursday night after spending an extra hour and some in the Salt Lake City airport. At least we got "front row seats" to an entire basketball game. We got to spend tons of time with everyone and it was so fun seeing all of the nieces and nephews. They are all getting so big! We also had delicious food and lots of catching up chatting. We spent Saturday afternoon/evening on the other side of the valley celebrating my grandma's birthday.

Funny story-- we were there over Valentines' Day which also happened to be our one year dating anniversary so we spend our first married Valentines' Day and our dating anniversary on a mattress on the living room floor. We did go to lunch which was a blast and we got to celebrate a little when we got back to Provo the next day.

We took family pictures on Sunday while we were there so maybe you'll get a peek at my cute family eventually. 

First Married Apartment

Our first married apartment! Okay, granted, Jeff has lived here for the last 8 months and I have lived here for the past 6. Looking at apartments while we were engaged was so exciting. Driving around with Mike and Kathy (Jeff's parents) looking all around to try and find a place that we wanted to call our first "home." We found it and were on a waiting list and on the day that we went to get our marriage license we got the phone call that we were in! I was excited and Jeff was too (at the very least because he now actually had a place to live when he got back up here). Then Jeff sent me pictures via text message the day that he moved in. I was at work and all of us girls "ooo-ed" and "ahhhh-ed" and talked about apartments all day. I talked to Jeff on the phone every night after work while he was sitting on the couch or bed. Then, we got back from our honeymoon to our cute married apartment and I loved it! Yes, lugging groceries up to the third floor in as few trips as possible or having an oven drawer that almost crushes my foot every time I close it is sometimes very frustrating but I love this place!

We have been looking for new places to live since our contract is almost up and went to see two last night. They were fine but when I got home I got all reminiscent about this place and told Jeff that I would probably cry when we moved out. Who knew that four walls, a roof, and a floor could make me so emotional.

Our first "meal" at the apartment after getting back from the honeymoon.

Our kitchen table and "chairs." We sat on a 5 gallon bucket and exercise ball until Ryan and Jennifer gave us our Christmas present. We now have chairs!

Our family room. It's covered in presents and isn't decorated here but you get the idea.