Good Advice

“All you have to do is trust your Heavenly Father. Trust Him enough to follow His plan.” 

~Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Your Happily Ever After,” Ensign, May 2010, 127

Potato Chips Make You Sluggish

We played a fun game called Partner Tag today.

As we finished up, RM says, "I'm not a fast runner. . .I need to give up potato chips."

I just thought it was funny.  I'm hoping these kids get as funny as my class last year.  I think they're getting there.

Today Was a 3 Coke Kind of Day

Remember how I gave up soda?  Well. . .today that ended. 

I'm an idiot and think that if I don't go to sleep tomorrow won't come.  I'm always wrong about that.  Tomorrow always comes and it comes way too early. 

I know this is something I need to work on.  (I've said this all before...I've gone through all of this before...Remember? Here? Followed by this one?  Followed by this one?)  I talked about recommitting myself to sleep here.  I didn't really do that though.  I think the goal lasted about 3 days.  I know sleep is important but I just always think of a million more things that I'd rather do. 

One day, I will get enough sleep on a regular basis.  I promise.  One day...

Life Is Too Short to Not Be Happy

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First Day of School = Epic Success

Last year, 10 students missed the first day of class...this year, 2 students missed the first day of school.  Much better then last year but seriously, who in the h.e. double hockey sticks misses the first day? 

That being said, I am in L. O. V. E. with my class.  They are fabulous!  It is such a different vibe than last year.  I loved my class last year, but they were freaking difficult (remember here, here, here and here?  I sure do!).  It looks like this year will be much different.  It looks like we'll have an amazing time learning and growing together.  I am so excited for this year! 

JB has already said I'm the funniest teacher she's ever had...just you wait, JB...Just you wait!  I get funnier (or crazier) as the year progresses.  I have a feeling you'll be rolling on the floor laughing by December. 

Let's cross our fingers and our toes that this year remains as stellar as the first day was!

Butterflies? What Butterflies?

Remember last year at this time when I was vomiting with anticipation about the beginning of a new school year?  It's not happening this year.  I'm so excited to go to sleep and there will be no worrying about what this new year has in store for me.

I'm excited about this year but at the exact same time I'm not excited.  I think I want a little more summer.  Blah.  Six weeks sure does spoil a girl.

Adventures in Ash J. Land

Oh, man!  Today was an adventure!

The day began by heading to work to get some stuff ready for my classroom...not that adventurous...then Ryan came...you know, this guy...

Being at work wasn't really part of the adventure but it was the beginning to a very interesting day.

Once we left school, we decided to go canoeing.  Yep, you read that right, canoeing...who goes canoeing?  We do apparently.  I got a great arm workout and a great sunburn...I knew I should have put on sunscreen! 

After canoeing, we ate lunch and hung out at my house for a while.  While there, Ryan made a Facebook group about a camping trip.  No big deal.  Ryan also secretly updated my status and added a picture.  He was so excited about his prank that he told me 5 minutes after he did it.  Here's the picture he added:

Let's just say I had a lot of comments to sift through and a lot of damage control to do.  **This is not my hand...This is not an announcement...This picture was obviously taken in the fall and I wasn't even dating in the fall...I AM NOT ENGAGED.  Though Ryan would like you to believe that.**

After that fiasco, I went bowling with Anthony and two of his friends.  I'm not a horrible bowler but I'm not an excellent bowler either.  I generally break 100 and end any where from 105 to 115, when I really try.  On the other hand, these boys I bowled with are good.  They always smoke me.  Tonight was a different story.  Here's the picture of the screen at the end of the game (it's super blurry so I added a little something to help you out.  You're welcome.):

That's right...I tied for first place.  Go team me!  I think I'll give up bowling now so I can end on a high note. 

I'd like to take this time to publicly retire from bowling.  I don't think I can ever do this well again...or the guys can do this poorly...either way I'll never taste bowling victory again.

Celebritites Make Excellent Presidential Candidates

Things you learn while listening to NPR:

Wyclef Jean...yes, as in 1/3 of the 1990's group Fugees...is running for president of Haiti. 

Just thought you'd like to know.

Be Awesome

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Just One More Week

School starts exactly 168 hours from right now.

I thought I was excited to get back.  I've decided I'm not...at least not yet. 

I shouldn't be complaining about the fact that I just had a crazy long summer vacation and I'm not ready to go back considering most people don't get summer break after they graduate but I'm going to any way.  Learn to deal people.

Let's hope I get more excited in 168 hours...that's 7 days in case you didn't want to do the math.

Day 25--Blog Challenge

What I would find in your bag

My purse has this nasty habit of turning into a black hole.  I put things in and they disappear.  Right now my purse is pretty organized and I can find things easily but give me a week or so and it will be crazy again. 


I downsized to this smaller purse so that I didn't have as much room to throw my crap.  I miss my giant bag though.  It had so many great treasures in it!

 The Vortex

Everything laid out.  That pink bag is my favorite...how many people carry glue sticks, post-its, pens and permanent markers in their purse?

Reasons Why We Yell (In a Loving Way) At Ryan...

He thinks we live in a barn.  The boy can't shut our door to save his life.  Here's proof:

Ikea, Burt Reynolds and The Hoff

I've lived in my house for 9 months now...NINE!  Holy cow!  Times flies when you're awesome having fun.  Anyway...I'm not good at decorating.  My house is bare.  Here's photographic evidence. 

You can't argue with photographic evidence.

I bought some pictures at Ikea a LONG time ago and they've just been sitting on the floor since.  Well, today was the day we hung them on the wall.

Assembling our supplies.

As we began, the doorbell rang.  We didn't answer because we were busy.  As we kept taking pictures we decided we should have answered the door so the salesman could take pictures of us both doing our decorating thing.

First, Ikea...what the heck am I supposed to do with this bracket thing?  Your instructions with the goofy looking guy and a question mark sure didn't help me.   We decided to just throw them away.

We are so puzzled...

We measured the wall and the art and made a very difficult formula to figure out the middle of the wall in proportion to the couch.

 Okay, we didn't really.  We just measured a little and hammered a lot.

But we did level the pictures.  We are so super.

Oh so level.

We decided I needed a picture of myself so you know I really did help.  I only took pictures when we stopped and posed these.

Two down, one to go!

And there you have it, folks!  This wall now makes it look like people actually live here.  Now we just need to find something to put on the giant wall across from this wall.

I'm thinking life size portraits of Burt Reynolds and David Hasselhoff...it will be classy.

Driving & Sleepy, Bobbing Bryce

As we drove from St. George to Las Vegas, there was a time that Jaynee had to swerve to not hit something.  This swerving made the sleeping Bryce bob his head quite dramatically.  We decided we'd try to capture it on video. 

We all thought this was hilarious.  Is it funny for people who weren't there?