Student Teaching

Just an update about student teaching....I'm loving it so far except for yesterday.... they were terrible, and of course I was getting observed three days before Halloween when the kids are at their craziest. Let's just say I wanted to crawl into bed after that lesson and never get out. Unfortunately I had to get up and start the day all over again and I started wondering why I would want to do this to myself the rest of my life, but then I gave them a pre-test today and after reading their answers I remembered why.
They got this picture and had to write what it means:


Here are some of the answers they put:
1. bathroom spot
2. for old people
3. people with whill chairs are going to go on a cross walk
4. parking if you have a sign
5. wheel chair parking
6. poking (parking) It took me awhile to get that he just spelled this one wrong. I really thought he put poking.

Finally....the house begins!

Our house finally started getting built. It is such a distraction waiting for it to get done, but we are way excited and hopefully it will be done in a few months.



Our Backyard

Kyle's Brithday

Last Thursday was Kyle's birthday. It wasn't too exciting because he had to work and go to school all day, but hopefully he still had a good one. I gave him two pairs of Jordan shoes that he has been wanting forever. We got a baby pair of them this summer so I just had to get him the big pair. I don't know why I fuel his obsession with shoes that just sit in the boxes in his closet, but I know how happy he is when he gets a new pair so I just had to.

Go Pine View!

Last night was my little brother Mike's first football game with the Pine View Panthers. It is his senior year and he is so excited to finally be playing. The whole time we were in Hawaii he kept saying how much he wanted to go home so football could start. Talk about a crazy kid. During the opening minutes of the game the quarterback threw the ball directly to Mike who was wide open. I swear the ball hung in the air for 20 min and the whole time I was praying catch the ball, please catch the ball. He did and then ran it up the field for the first touchdown of the season! I was so excited for him! He made some some other good catches and some good stops on defense as well. This is the picture that was in the paper of him this morning.

Oh so lucky!

So I've never really thought of myself as lucky. In fact the very opposite. If I speed I always get pulled over, when I play keno in casino restaurants just for fun....I never win, and not to mention that just doing normal daily activities usually ends with me getting hurt. However, after what happened yesterday I'm starting to think that maybe I'm not that unlucky after all. After work I decided to go to Wal-mart and do the grocery shopping. So I get all the groceries, pay, and unload the groceries into my car. After returning the shopping cart I got in my car and drove away. Little did I know I left my purse sitting in the cart. Well the next day I go looking for my purse and it and it is nowhere to be found. After I looked in our house and cars and it wasn't there I started panicking. I knew Kyle was going to be so mad because he is always telling me to keep track of my purse because I do admit I don't pay that much attention to it. As I started thinking of where I had it last I could only think of Wal-Mart so I figured what the heck I'll call and see if someone turned it in. As I waited for the lady to look I thought there is no way it is there. For one, I can't be stupid enough to have left it in the cart and second, there is no way someone would turn it in if they found it. When the lady got back on the phone she said "ya it's here come get it." I about fainted when she told me it was there and couldn't believe that someone actually turned it in. When I told Kyle all he said was "that's my wife" like I do stuff like this all the time :)

Hawaii-Internationl Marketplace

Our hotel was across the street from the international marketplace so we were there almost every night seeing what else we could buy. People line the streets with their little businesses and try to sell things. There were these guys that brought these very colorful birds and would take pictures for people holding the birds. Guys would also spray paint themselves and stand completely still until you put money in their buckets. Then they would spring to life and do some crazy gesture or dance. The first day we were there Michael found this statue and Kyle got a picture of him. It's pretty funny.

Hawaii-Pearl Harbor

On the last day before we had to be at the airport we went to the Pearl Harbor cemetary and the USS Arizona monument. There's a different feeling at Pearl Harbor and it is insane seeing the battleships sunk under water, how big they were, and how it all happened.