This kid's smiles melt my heart.

Baby Snoring is Pretty Cute

If there weren't laundry to be done and showers to be taken and sub plans to be written...I think I'd let Baby H sleep and snore on my chest all day.

Love Month 2012, My First Class

I love...

when students from previous years remind me that I really am a good teacher and I do a lot of good in the lives of these kids.

This made my day!

If you haven't noticed, I have a really difficult class this year.  Before this year, teaching was my passion.  I loved every minute of it, even the horrible minutes.  But this year...  This year is different.

We had our first day of parent teacher conferences yesterday.  I finished quite early with mine and left.  When I came in today this awesomeness was on my white board.  "You will always be my favorite teacher. Your class was the BEST!! I love you tons!  You are amazing"  I left it up for two whole days so that I could be reminded that I am a good teacher and I am a good person even though none of my current students feel that way.  I also left it up to show my current students how much normal students like me. 

Even teachers are people and we have feelings too.

Love Month 2012...It's a Croc

I love...

that I don't own a pair of Crocs.

Source: iwastesomuchtime.com via Liana on Pinterest

Love Month 2012, 3rd Day in a Row

I love...

When lovely sisters bring me lunch because I'm too lazy to wake up early to make one myself.  Thanks, Coco

Love Month 2012 Day Something

I love...

When I come home to Husband washing the dishes.  Oh, happy day!  I've been putting that off so long we ran out of clean spoons.

I love...

when Husband says funny things in his sleep.  It doesn't happen too often but it always makes me laugh.  

"Make sure you hit him hard enough that I don't get my arm cut off."  Classic.

Love Whenever I Feel Like It

Forget "Love Month."  This year it's going to be "whenever I get around to blogging I'll bring you something I love" month.  Deal?  That's what I thought.

I love...

this article.  I realize I have never ever been a parent (technically) but I hope to parent like the French.  My kids will have manners and boundaries and Husband and I will be in charge. 

Love Month 2012

You thought I forgot.

I didn't.  I was just lazier yesterday than I am today. 

So, to begin...

I love...

sweat pants...and putting them on almost as soon as I get home from work.

Don't worry...it's okay for me to be a slob now, I've been married for over a year.

How to Decide Who to Marry

Source: 9gag.com via Courtney on Pinterest

For the record, Husband always tells me I look pretty...especially when I look like a truck.

If Our Marriage Was a Baby...

...he would be

• Starting to walk while holding onto things
• Feeding himself
• Throwing temper tantrums
• Showing more of his personality
• Dropping objects on purpose

But our marriage is a marriage, not a baby.

Happy 11 monthiversary, Husband!

One Year Ago Today...

...I said yes.

Best decision EVER.

7 Months

Holy Cow!  If our marriage was a baby, he would be:

• beginning to crawl
• eating "adult foods" (aka crackers)
• getting his first teeth

but he's not a baby, he's a marriage.  And he is doing great!  Much better than a baby and his cracker.

Love, love, love...we're in love.

This Took Me a Long Time to Write

We all know I'm not a lovey-dovey, gooey-wooey kind of person but today I'm going to go a bit goo fest (for me) on you.

Today is our 4 month-iversary.  We don't really celebrate them but I always make a point to say (Who am I kidding?  It's usually a text.  I'm never up early enough to say it to him.  Super romantic, yes?) it to Husband early in the morning.  Today was no exception.

Husband: Hello love.  8 hours away from a long weekend.
Me: Woot!  I love longs weekends!  And happy 4 month-iversary! :)
Husaband: Happy 4 month-iversary to you too!

(See, it was all so romantic.)

Even after all that romanticism,  the day went on like any other Friday...spelling test, vocabulary test, assembly, reading, art, music, recess, see ya next week.

I finished up the day by planning and ordering supplies for next year and was home a little before 5pm.  Husband was already home.  

He had left work early and bought me flowers.  I think the earlier was a necessity for the later but he claims to have just thought to buy me flowers as he was driving home.  Suuuurrrrre.

They are way prettier in real life, promise.

If you're wondering where all the gooey stuff comes in, this is just the background...stay with me.

Let me preface this section with these two facts: I love my husband and I know he loves me.

It all began last night as Husband and I were laying in bed trying to fall asleep.  Earlier in the day we had visited a friend from our previous ward that was in a terrible car accident and may not make it.  Husband commented that death doesn't upset him like it does a lot of people.  Mostly because he knows this world is not the end and that we will see all of these people again.  I told him that's totally opposite from me.  Death and pain have always affected me greatly, even when it's people that I don't know well.  I know the same things as Husband, I know that I will see these people again but knowing that I will have to live for however long it is until I get to see them again is upsetting.  I love people and the thought of not getting to experience life with them anymore makes me really sad.  We talked a bit more about how we differ in this respect then lay silently.  Pondering.

As I lay there, an overwhelming feeling of love for him came over me.  I love every single little thing about him.  I realize that sounds weird.  I married him.  Of course I love everything about him.  But this was different.  I obviously don't have the words to describe it adequately or I would but I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I had made the right decision and I was going to be happy with Husband forever. 

Today, when I got home from work, we were just talking about how our days were and I had the exact  feeling.  The best part?  I know that he loves me as much as I love him.

Moral of the story: If you're dating someone awesome and contemplating getting married...DO IT!  Buy the ring, pop the quesiton, get married.  It's freaking amazing.

Life is good.

What I Love...Day 31, 2011

(So this post is a little late...I was sick and busy watching Toddlers and Tiaras.)

 I love...

students that are excited to see me after I've been gone for a few days.  Makes me feel like I'm doing something good here...and it helps feed my narcissism.

What I Love...Day 30, 2011

I love...

that I'm going to love more than 1 thing in this post.  You might be arguing with me saying something like, "Ash J. You can't do that!  It's 1 thing a day.  That's the rule."  Too freaking bad is what I say back to you.  This is my blog...I do what I want.  I'm a rebel.  Now I'm just rambling.  Anyway...

I love this picture from the wedding

Did you happen to notice something...or someone...beside me and Husband?

Oh, yep.  Little girl who was spying on us the whole time we were out there.  She kept distracting me by opening the curtains to peek at us.  Little did I know that she would be a permanent part of our memories.  Made me laugh pretty hard when I discovered her in picture form.

I love my wedding dress.  Jenny did an amazing job and it was everything I could have wanted.  Would it be weird if I wore it again just because?  Maybe I'll be a bride for Halloween or maybe I'll just lounge around my house in it.

I love when people call me or comment and let me know that my blog is funny or that it brightened their day.  (This is a hint to all you lovelies who read on a regular basis to comment more often and validate me.)

I love spending time with family.  The drive me nuts at times but I love them dearly.


I love technology.  Cell phones, internet, computers, electricity...it's all amazing and I'm so glad I get to use it all daily.

I love my husband.  He's really good to me and fixes everything I need fixed.  Not to mention, he's really handsome.

I love shoes.  Really cute, sassy, high heeled varieties especially.

I love frozen yogurt with many toppings...mmm...YogurtLand.

I love babies....mmm....babies.  (Nope, Court, that's not an announcement.)

I love Utah.  It's a wonderful state.  It's a wonderful place to live and I'm pretty sure they only way I'll ever live somewhere else is if I'm paid exorbitant amounts of money or Utah sinks into the ocean...pretty sure neither of those things will happen.

Basically, I'm just super in love with my life right now.  Life is good.

Love. Love. Love.

What I Love...Day 29, 2011

I love...

funny students.

On Friday, we wrote love poems in honor of Valentine's Day.  Here is a poem entitled Loverman by JG.

L is for love, baby
O is for o yes I do

V is for loving everything virtually everything

E is for I love everything you do

R is for rate me from 1 to 10

M is for married, that's what I want

A is for are you single

N is for nobodys dating you?

What I Love...Day 28, 2011

I love...

Fridays!  Hello weekend!  Hello only having the students for 6 hours.  Hello sleeping in tomorrow.

Oh, Fridays.  How I adore thee. 

What I Love...Day 27, 2011

I love...

coworkers who look after me.  I've been sick this week and my lovelies at work have made this week so much easier than it would have been.  I work with amazing people.

What I Love...Day 26, 2011

I love...

these pictures from my wedding day. (There will be more soon.)

I dance when I'm excited.  I left the temple dancing. 

There was a lot of excited dancing that day.

And maybe a few fist pumps.

Ryan...he was almost as giddy as I was this day.

Court fanning Dev's tears away.  When I left the temple dressing room, my beauty (maybe?) made my sisters and mom cry.  Bam.  Double bam.

Friends

Trifecta!

sisters

We're going into the modeling business...tomorrow...we'll make sure to remember you when we're famous.