Learning A Lot

Well I am learning a lot about how to get stains out of carpet and clothes. On Saturday Macie must have thought it would be fun to chew up a black pen. Well I didn't think it was very funny when I came home to a good sized spot of black ink on the really light carpet. Not in a spot where you can just put a rug over it. Roy immediately got online to look for ways to get it out. We tried all sorts of concoctions, but soon realized that rubbing alcohol worked the best. Yay for alcohol!!!
Then on Sunday night right before we had some friends over for dinner I noticed there were blood spots on the carpet. Molly had cut her lip on a rawhide chewie and dripped blood all through out the house. Luckily I knew that hydrogen peroxide gets blood out easily because Roy gets bloody noses all the time. Any way I quickly dumped some hydrogen peroxide on all the spots and broke out the carpet cleaner that has really come in handy since we have had it.
So now for all of you that have to get ink or blood out of something you know how!!!

Yahtzee

Roy and I have been playing a lot of Yahtzee on the Wii. It is a little addicting... Actually Roy won't stop at night until he wins a game. I just had to brag little more about my amazing game of Yahtzee. I crushed him!!!
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I know it is kind of pathetic that I blogged about this, but wouldn't you?

Bumps in the road of life

Well as many of you have probably heard, we have had a taste of the American dream and and felt a piece of the American reality. We had an offer on a perfect house accepted. Well as many of you know, money talks and someone else put in a higher offer and they accepted theirs after they accepted ours. RULES.... Apparently there are none in the game of buying a house. We have decided to put the brakes on this house thing for a while.

In the meantime we are trying to make our little apartment feel more homey. I got so excited about getting a home I started to neglect keeping up on house work and fixing things that needed fixed. Today we cleaned the carpets, loaded the kitchen with food and replaced our down comforter on our bed that had multiple holes in it. Which meant feathers were everywhere!!!!

We were almost done with all our chores for the day, all we needed was one last trip to the grocery store. On our way we took all the trash out, even the old laminator that had been sitting on the front porch for a month. We got in the Mustang and went to start her up.... Click click click... What??? Dead battery. We jumped it and took her to Auto zone. A few precious dollars and a new battery later we were finally off to the grocery store.

I am finally starting to recover from being sick. Many of you know that I don't get sick very often and when I do, I don't let it stop me from doing much. I had to take almost 3 days off work to recover from this one. I am positive I got sick from the germy kindergartners I teach on a daily basis. I am not really looking forward to going back to work. I am sure it will be a disaster in my classroom after 3 days of substitutes.

Well sorry to vent today, there really isn't anything exciting to write about. We are just crossing our fingers for something positive to happen anytime soon!!!

25 and Counting

Yesterday was my birthday. I turned the big 25. The problem I have is that I don't feel that old, but now I have this number attached to me that means I am not in my young twenties anymore. Oh well, what matters is that I feel 19 or so.

Sunday Morning I woke up to breakfast in bed made by my fabulous husband. He made me bacon, eggs, toast and even orange juice. Every bite was delicious!!!

We went to church and I got a spatula from the relief society!! Woo Woo.

We were evil and went out to dinner after church to the California Pizza Kitchen. They might make the best pizza ever! I had a BBQ chicken pizza and some lemonade.

After dinner we walked around Town Square and shopped a little. I purchased some new makeup at the MAC store with some birthday money that was given to me.

We came home and had some ice cream cake and Roy was supposed to sing happy birthday to me, but instead of singing a solo he played "So You Think It's Your Birthday" on the computer. Of course I am too old to just buy one pack of candles so we purchased the numbers 2 and 5. Sticking them into a frozen cake is not the smartest thing. Roy lit the candles and I picked up the cake to make a wish and blow them out when the 2 fell off and hit the ground. Luckily the wind on its way to the ground blew out the candle other wise we could have had a birthday fire... So we tried again and had success. I made a wish and blew out the candles and we both enjoyed some ice cream cake, even the dogs!! They love ice cream... Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes!!!

Take 1 oops

Take 2

Made my wish but I don't think it came true... :(

Kindergarten???

I never thought in a million years I would be teaching kindergarten. I am still not sure about it after my first day. The age difference is very different from the 3rd graders I taught last year. Today I had 21 5 year old students walk through the door who really don't know anything. I am teaching them very basic things right now such as how to sit, stand up, push in their chair, line up, fold their arms, walk in a straight line, trace, cut, color in the lines.... ahhh. Oh and go on bathroom trips every 2 hours. I really was overwhelmed at the end of today. I am so used to accomplishing a lot in one school day and all I think we sort of accomplished today was stand up and push in your chair. I know it is a long process and it will slowly come along, but WOW, I need some kind of results so I don't feel like I am wasting time.

I promised you all pictures of my classroom. I have to admit my room at least looks like an inviting kinder classroom. ENJOY!!!

Lake Powell

The last week I was up in Utah I spent with my family at Lake Powell. Roy didn't come this year because of his internship. It was weird with him not there but I survived. We had great weather most of the trip. I don't think it ever made it to 100 degrees. It even rained on us a couple of times. I water skied more than usual this trip because of all the good water we had. I am pretty sure I gained at least 5 pounds because of all the good food we ate. I think we all eat better at Lake Powell then we do any other time of the year!!!

During the trip I was a nervous wreck. When I would be sitting around all I could think about was EVERYTHING I needed to be working on to get ready for school and could do nothing about it. On the last day I probably acted like I didn't want to be there and had a game plan all drawn out of what everyone needed to do so we could leave quickly. I just had so much to do because we were driving back to Vegas the next day. So family I had fun but sorry I rushed you out of there! Things are coming along for school and I will post pictures soon of my classroom!

It's almost over

I can't believe how fast the summer has flown by. I go home in less than two weeks. I have less than a week here, a week at Lake Powell and then we will be back in Vegas. We can't wait to be back there in our own space and be married again...
Oh and we did get the Mustang back. It looks great. So great on the side that got wrecked that the other side looks old and could use some paint!!! Oh well, I am just happy to have a car again.