Spring!

Last fall my loving mother spent all afternoon freezing her bum off helping me plant hundreds of bulbs. I'm glad to say that all of the hard work we put in that day has finally paid off!

All of my daffodils are finally in full bloom. Every afternoon when I come home I get so happy to see so many beautiful flowers.

Don't look too closely.. you might see I have yet to take down my st. patricks day flag or that my christmas lights are still up... Don't judge, I don't own a ladder!

We also planted some out on the side of the house. The past few days have been too cold for some of the flowers to open up, but I was able to get a picture of one of them.

I've been wanting a fire pit for our backyard for a while. Curtis finally agreed and we went and bought one last weekend. That night we had ourselves a little weenie roast in our backyard. The dogs were a little weary about it at first, not quite sure what to. After a while they just laid down on the grass and watched the fire.

Here is Curtis, roasting a hot dog.

School is finally out. I am one month of student teaching and a teacher work sample away from graduation. I can't wait to start teaching! I'm a little nervous (but mostly excited) about teaching 6th grade, but I just keep telling myself, "you can do this em!" Guess I better start re-memorizing my times tables......

Easter Weekend

This last weekend was great! I was able to be completely unproductive and do no work at all (I'm paying for it now though..) We were able to spend time with both our families and have two yummy dinners. Here are a few pics from the weekend.

Raclette (Easter Dinner) ... or what was left of it.

Spunky Cailyn

Crazy Dad... I think he was just waiting for his food to cook.

This week is the last week of classes at the zoo.... I'm so excited to finally be done and on to student teaching! For those of you who don't know, i'm a dual major which basically means someday i'll be certified to teach preschool and kindergarten as well as 1-8. Before I can do my internship in the elementary school I have to do student teaching in kindergarten. So this spring semester i'll be doing that, kind of my last hoo-rah before I move onto teaching.

I'm trying hard to stay motivated to finish out strong with my school work, but it's just so hard! Any words of advice (on how to keep chugging along) for this last week would be greatly appreciated!

Exciting News!

I had an internship interview today for a teaching position in Alpine school district. After the interview I felt good, but was quite nervous as I waited to hear back from them. Curtis and I decided to go to a movie to pass the time, but I kept my phone in my lap the whole time, just incase they decided to call. After the movie they still hadn't called so we kept on running our errands for the day. We had to go to the distribution center and while we were there my phone started buzzing. I was SO extremely nervous to answer but as soon as I heard, "hello this is so and so from Geneva elementary" I was relieved, I knew I got the job! So starting soon, i'll begin preparing to teach 6th grade (AHHH!!!) at Geneva Elementary school in Orem, UT. This will be really awesome, since that is where I went to school growing up, although I think it might be a little weird to be teaching with people who taught me. . . . We'll see how it all works out.

I'm so glad that i'll be driving 15 minutes to school and not 45 (like i've been doing the past month for my cohort experience). I can't wait to get started on working out all the details and seeing what my future in teaching will be like.

Here's a pic of my "fine" lucky outfit that got me the job! I look like a real professional!

Welcome Spring!

I went outside today and found THIS!!

Spring is coming, and I can't wait!

Quilt top #2

I've been working furiously all day today trying to finish this quilt top for tomorrow. I've finally finished, hip, hip hurray!

Just call me betty

Crocker, that is!

This year for our super bowl party we just stayed at home, which was nice. We ordered some Mo's clam chowder base from oregon and had our own little party, just me, Curtis, and the dogs.

I even slaved all morning to make sure we had delicious rolls to go with our soup.

A week or so ago I bought a small bunch of bananas so i could give a slice of one to the lovely cockroaches. So i've had these three bananas (the ones the cockroaches didn't eat) sitting on my counter, just waiting for them to turn brown so i could make......

Banana bread!

One of my favorites. I had never made banana bread and i was really happy with how it turned out. Now i'm just trying to keep myself from eating the entire loaf in one day...

Accomplished

Tonight I feel very accomplished! I was FINALLY able to put all the pieces together and finish one of my quilt tops. Tomorrow I plan on doing the other one. Stay tuned!