Graduation

Graduation was awesome!
Everybody keeps asking me how it feels, and really it doesn't feel too different.
I think that when everybody is going back to school in the fall and I am not, it will be weird and when I have a real job it will be really weird!
One things is for sure, I am so excited to be done jumping through hoops, doing pointless assignments, and sitting in boring classes.
I really am going to miss the friends that I have made and the social part of it! You know me, I love to talk! Not much has changed I am still getting in trouble for talking. I was the type of student that I hate to have, I am always talking when the teaching is talking! Some things just never change.






Graduating was a big accomplishment for me.
I am the first person in my family to graduate college,
the first of my friends to get a bachelor's degree,
I graduated with honors,
I was one of the youngest students who graduated in the education department (I did it in four years!)








I am excited I stuck through it and followed my dreams!






I got very spoiled for graduating! Neal surprised me Thursday night with a new camera. I have been wanting a new one for awhile now. And he gave it to me early so I could use it for graduation!
I got a new bedroom set that I love! (picture to come later)
And we are going on a vacation, it was supposed to be for graduation, but since I am subbing we had to wait until May 30th, so that will be for our birthdays instead!

My parents threw me a nice party with lots of yummy food. My friends and family all came!
I only took a few pictures, I think my mom took more they I will need to get!



My friend Melissa and Tyler came too! I wish I would have got a picture with them before they left!


My cousin brought over some ghost pepper hot wings and Neal tried one. Here he is dying, drinking milk, trying to stop the burning. I put a tiny bit on my finger and almost died. It was so hot. I don't know how you would take a bite of it.

College Years..

Well it's a official, I am graduated from college and done with school forever! I loved college, I loved learning, and I loved life as a student. I don't know if I am ready to go into the real world and start working an 8-4 job, 5 days a week. I liked coming home between classes and taking a nap and only working 3 hours a day. I can't believe I have been graduated from high school for 4 years! A lot has happened in those 4 years.

High School Graduation-2007
Freshman Year 2007-2008
I went to Utah State my freshman year and loved it!

My roommates of Merrill Hall.

Football Games


The Howl

My favorite part of Utah State were the basketball games!

Spring Break 2008-St. George and Las Vegas

Our first date!

Friends!

Our second home in Logan...the library. Me and Mel study the night before finals.

Neal and I started dating after spring break and we dated all summer. I had to choose if I was going to go back up to Utah State or transfer to Weber. It was a hard decision, but I wanted to be closer to Neal, so I moved to Ogden after we got engaged.
Sophomore Year 2008-2009

We got engaged right before 2008 fall semester!

We got some tats at a Weber State Homecoming Party

Homecoming Game Sophomore Year

Riding the Wildcat

Becoming true wildcats!

Neal and I got married in between fall and spring semester!

Just married!

Spring Break 09-San Diego

Junior Year 2009-2010
First day of school-Junior Year

WSU vs USU

Spring Break 2010-Grand Canyon

Neal's Graduation-2010
Senior Year 2010-2011

Weber State Basketball-2011
Student Teaching

2nd Grade

5th Grade
College Buds

Me, Alysa, and Cami

Me and Lucci

College Graduation-2011
Thanks for going down memory lane with me! I loved my college years!

February in a Nutshell

We went to a Jazz game!

We celebrated our 3rd Valentine's Day together! I had a class all night and told Neal that we just wouldn't worry about it this year, but he surprised me when I got home with a candle light dinner with my favorite dinner...Pizza! It was even in a cute heart shaped one from Papa Murphy.

My last day student teaching 2nd graders! I miss those guys!

We went pole dancing for Jennica's bachelorette party! It was so fun! But I got so bruised!

Me showing off my moves on the pole!

Me and Neal at Jenn's wedding!

All of the girls at the Wedding!

Last Weber State game ever! I can't believe it is all coming to an end!

RaNdOm!

This is going to the most random post ever!

I have 16 days left of student teaching! I can't believe it. But I really need to stop counting down. I feel like when I am counting down, I am counting away my life. There is no reason why I should count my life away like that. I should just enjoy the journey and be thankful for what I have. Student teaching has been great and I have learned and grown so much!

So I found out some good news today.......

I am going to have my very own classroom!!!! I have the awesome opportunity to be a 2nd grade substitute teacher for the last two months of school. This will be such a good experience for me! I will get a little glimpse of what it will be like to have my own classroom and to be on my own. And I can't wait to make some money again!

And my last random thing I wanted to share is something that happened in sharing time on Sunday, it was so funny! We were talking about moms and dads and the things they do to help families. We started with moms first and the kids were listing things like moms cook, clean, help with the homework, and they worry way too much. Haha! Then we started talking about dads and how they fix things, how they get mad at us, and how they have the priesthood to help us. Then one kid raised his hand and said, "Moms are important because they make baby boys, who will grow up to have the priesthood." Haha! Isn't that the cutest thing ever? They are just so cute and innocent. I am glad I have the opportunity to serve and work with kids!

Stolen!

I stole this from one of my friends blog who I went to high school with! She is student teaching this semester too and I couldn't have said it any better!

Reasons why teaching is hard:
*you are standing on your feet all day
*you are an ENTERTAINER for 6+ hours a day
*you come home and still have 4+ hours of work to do
*you aren't just teaching abc's and 123's... you are teaching social skills, communication skills, manners, hygiene, etc. etc. etc!!!
*you are constantly worrying about them
*you are going going going going going....all day.

Reasons why teaching is worth it:
*you get to spend all day with 21 happy, smiling cutie pies
*21 little people look up to you and think you're cool
*you get to watch the light-bulb turn on all day
*you get to see the kids grow and progress everyday
*I am suddenly an amazing writer, reader, oh and did I mention singer and artist? (only in their eyes of course!)
* everyday is filled with little moments that make you laugh so hard you almost cry

Thanks Hannah for blogging this!

I am so sad that I have to say goodbye to my 2nd grade class this week! They have all become my best friends! I am scared out of my mind to go into 5th grade. I feel like I am finally getting the hang of teaching 2nd graders and getting pretty good at it and now I have to switch! I hope I can survive! Only seven more weeks!!!!!

Student Teaching

Some days, I love teaching and am so excited to go back the next day. Days like today, I think I am crazy to go into this professions. Well its too late to change my mind so I guess I will have to stick with it! Haha
Student teaching really has been so much fun and a great experience! I feel like am ready to have my own classroom. I am ready to do things my way and not have a teacher sitting in the back telling the kids to "shh" the whole time. It pretty much consumes all of my time and my thoughts. I am constantly thinking about what I have to do tomorrow, or about little Gracie, or how am I going to teach this or that. I feel bad for poor Neal, he has been so bored, we hardly get to do things together during the week. Good thing for netflex. He has been watching lots of episodes of Lost.
I have never appreciated weekends so much, until now. By the time Friday hits I am exhausted! Saturday's I have no motivation to do anything, so I don't. But I always try to do something fun over the weekend.
In January we went to two Jazz games and somehow they won both! :)

They better pull it together or I am going to have to start cheering for a different team!

We went to some Weber State basketball games!

Go Cats!

Well that is all that is going on with us. Kinda boring, I know. I just have to get through these next 9 weeks and then I will be free!