So You Think You Can Skate?

Last night was Skate Night for Vineyard Elementary. Everyone at the school, got in free at Classic Skating and it was the highlight of the week for my kids. Every day my kids would remind me about it, and ask me if I was going to be there. I decided to step it up and attend. I was given 3 choices by the kids, I could:

1. Skate (4 wheel style)
2. Rollerblade
3 Scooter

Most kids said they were pro's at using the scooter's and they were going to be skating. I had never owned a pair of skates (atleast that I can remember) but I was decent at rollerblading. To make life exciting I chose to skate.

Bob and I went to dinner at Wingnutz (Near the orem mall/movie theater.) Not a fan! And then showed up at 5:30- when entrance was free. There were already tons of kids there.

Needless to say, I saw lots of kids and it was a lot of fun. The skates were old and cheep, so they were hard to skate on, and I wasn't that good anyway. The last time I had been to Classic Skating must have been in the 6th grade. *Before the kids left school on Friday I told them that they couldn't come close to me while I was skating, because I would fall, and fall on them.

Best comment of the night. I was skating next to my student Kaylee and I had seen her brother (6th grade) "snowballing" with another girl from our school. (Where you hold hands for a song.) She told me, "He got that girl to be his girlfriend right after school today, so he would have a girl for the snowball." Haha.
This is how excited Bob was! We had a great time, saw a few fellow teachers, skated for an hour and came home to watch a movie.

Hair cuts, Dads, and Dessert

Today was a really fun day. Every Monday morning we have an assembly to talk about upcoming events, celebrate birthday's, review school rules, and to celebrate learning. My friend Shelly teaches 2nd grade in the morning and 3rd in the afternoon. (She kind of took over my split, sorry!) She challenged her kids last month to read a certain amount of minutes. If they reached their goal, she would cut her hair and donate it to locks of love.

Her class accomplished their goal, and it turns out our Principal cut hair for 25 years prior to her principal days. So during Monday Morning Meeting, Shelly had her hair cut. It was such a neat reward for her class, and motivated the rest of our students.

My kids all thought I should do it, but I just got my hair cut, and colored this weekend. So I wouldn't qualify anyway. (Pictures to come.)

A boy in my class turned around during reading and shouted, "Wow- I keep forgetting that you painted your hair. It just looks so different."

One girl in my class passed me a note during writing time telling me that I needed to go to the Nickle City, because it is "the best place ever, and that she love love love the new highlights."

After our assembly we had Dad's and Donuts with the whole 3rd grade. I missed out on it last year because I had a training. It was so much fun, and the kids loved it. In the last month I had some bully drama with a certain girl in my class. Her parents are divorced and she has been taking some of her anger out on other kids. Her Dad drove 400 miles to come to Dad's and Donuts this morning. You should have seen her face when he surprised her and showed up! It was the neatest thing. He later came into our class to see her stuff, because he had never been in any of his children's classes. It made me so sad, yet so happy to see him so impressed with his daughter.

And lastly, I made this dinner tonight after school. Bob loved it. It was pretty easy, and we had lots of leftovers! And for dessert I had one of these:and I am afraid I might be addicted. Too bad it's $2.50 for only 4. We might go broke! I dare you to try one!

St. Patrick's Day and some other things

I ordered a set of St. Patrick's Day crafts. In my "someday" world, I would like to create and make them myself, but right now all I can do is assemble. I loved this craft set, and it was really easy to put together. I ordered it from here.

I seriously put all 3 of these together in less than an hour. I might have spent a little more time, but I was in a hurry. I still had snowmen decorations up and my VT's were coming over tonight, so I had to get them up fast.

Enjoy!
Funny things that have happened in class lately:

Boy in my class leaves early one day to go pick up his grandparents from the airport. The next morning he tells me that his grandparents were coming back from Hong Kong, and his Grandpa got arrested in San Francisco on their way home. They waited at the airport for hours. And his Grandma was so mad, he had all of their souveniers in his luggage. (Apparently they flew on different flights.)

We have homework club the first Monday of the month. If you turn in all of your HW the last month you get to go to the gym and watch a movie before lunch. I told my kids they had to have their reading calendars in by Monday.

I got this note from my student.

dear teacher,
our dog chewed up the yhellow homwork and the reding calindar.
from my mom

*First of all I was sad that he forgot to remember to capitalize and use correct punctuation. We have been working on that all year, and working on writing letters the last few months with our pen pals.

I confronted him, and he said that he didn't write it. His mom did. I couldn't believe he would keep lying. Eventually I got it out of him. haha.

Happy March everyone!

London, England

This cute brother of mine received his mission call today. We all met at my family's favorite restaurant, El Gallo Giro. (Same place that we held my Dad's 50th birthday party... haha.) We are all excited to announce that Dan is going to the London, England Mission. He leaves on the 28th of May and will be attending the MTC there in England. We are all excited as this is the first missionary from our family! Congrats Dan!

Bob's Puzzle Update!

Bob got this puzzle for Christmas from his parents. We started it about a month ago. When I say we, I mean I helped with the edges and then I was done. Puzzles are hard for me, I don't have the patience and can't see the connections between pieces. haha.

So Bob has been working on this puzzle for the last month when he has a spare minute I can always find him in the kitchen. I am excited for it to be done, so we can eat at the kitchen table again. We plan on gluing it together and framing it when he is done.

{A Clue Valentines Day}

This weekend I planned an overnight getaway for our first Valentines as a married couple. The suspense all started a week ago when Bob asked what we were doing. Somehow he guessed that we were going to Chef's Table for dinner. I let him think that we were, and soon he was studying the menu on their website.

On Friday, I got home from school a few minutes earlier than Bob and waited eagerly. We got in the car, and awaiting him was CLUE #1. This led us to a B&B that we would stay the night at. Thank you GPS!

After checking in, Bob was able to open CLUE #2 which led us to dinner at Brick Oven. Where we shared Bob's favorite pizza, BBQ chicken and pineapple.
After a wonderful breakfast of fruit parfaits, fresh fruit, stuffed french toast, and bacon, Bob opened CLUE #3. This address took us to the Temple where we did Sealings together. (Bob knew we were going there that day, so it wasn't too much of a surprise.)

CLUE #4 sent us back home to take a break. Bob worked on his puzzle and we both prepared our lessons for church tomorrow.
CLUE 5a gave us an address that took Bob to the marriott center, and 5b contained the tickets to the BYU basketball game. - Sorry no pictures!

*When I was packing for our overnight trip, I on accident saw my present on Bob's side of the bed. He got me a new waffle iron. I am so excited. It will make lots of waffles, it is a family style iron. Bob accidentally broke the one we got for our wedding, so we haven't had waffles for a long time. I got Bob a gift card to Uinta Golf. With that and some money he had been saving he got a few new clubs, and a little something extra special.... haha.All in all, we had a wonderful weekend. We are happy to be home tonight together, and not out fighting others for a table at a restaurant. I have a wonderful husband who I love. He puts up with me, strengthens me, and makes me a better person. I love you babe! Happy Valentines Day!

February update!

I have wanted to share a lot of things that have been happening, yet I haven't sat down and actually done it. I have a few minutes until lunch is over and thought I would get started on my list:

At the beginning of the year Bob opened up a puzzle he got for Christmas. Since that day, we haven't eaten dinner at the table. Here is the first week, and soon I'll post a picture from this week to show the progress.Yes that picture does show that this puzzle is 2,000 pieces!

On February 3rd my Dad turned 50!!! A week or so before we threw him a surprise party. We had both my Mom's and Dad's family meet at El Gallo Giro for dinner. It was a very busy weekend. Andrea and I did everything for the party, and my Mom's job was to get him to the dinner. The night before the party Andrea and I went on a search for 50 presents. Let me tell you, it is hard to find 50 presents for a reasonable price. Some included: a tall tee from Gen X, tapioca pudding, popcorn, braces cleaners, and lots of other fun and small things. It was a lot of fun to celebrate my Dad's 50th! I love you Dad!

On February 7th- We celebrated Bob's Dad's birthday. And also one year from our engagement. It's crazy that is has already been one year. We are 4 months shy of our one year anniversary. Time sure does go by fast.

We have gone to a few BYU basketball games and have been watching some new movies. We recently were called to be Ma and Pa for our stake trek this summer and are excited to prepare and go on that adventure.

Hopefully by the end of March we will know where we will be going for Pharmacy school this fall. We are still waiting to hear back from a few schools and have an interview scheduled for the beginning of March with a school in South Jordan.