Student Teaching

I started student teaching on September 6th. Ohh what a journey it has been. I just LOVE LOVE LOVE those little kiddos! kiddos just have a way of making days better, give me a reason to laugh, They inspire me to be better, and I just realized I have never passed a demeaning judgement against any of them. They try to please, even at age 9 and 10. I was scared to death to teach fourth graders, but I have truly enjoyed them. I am nervous for those sweet spirits when the time comes that I am done. I am nervous they are going to be broken from their teacher. She is sarcastic, yells, rude, and it makes me uncomfortable. I am the light in the classroom. They can come to me, tell me what is going on their lives, exciting, or sad. They tell me they love me and don't want me to leave. They also tell me that their "real" teacher is mean, and scary. They don't like her. It breaks my heart. I have 17 days left and am completely torn. I don't want to leave those cute kiddos who have touched my heart, but at the same time I cannot wait to get out of her classroom. WISH ME LUCK ON FINDING A JOB! :/

Water Wheel?

Ohh hey, did I mention we are going back in time. Danny had been researching, talking, dreaming, and more researching about water wheels, so he and his dad made one...it's in our back ditch, and with the ditch full it pumps about 2 gallons a minute...sometimes I wonder who I married. I must say though that I will never have to worry if something terrible happened in the world. L.O.V.E. HIM!

Need to get better

I sure need to get better at blogging...seven months is too long, however since we don't have kids, I feel like I have nothing to blog about. Here's to me getting better at blogging!                                                

First off, MY BROTHER GOT HOME FROM HIS MISSION! He served for two years in Argentina! It was fantastic being able to be home with him for a few days.
Danny and I surprised Nathan at his gate. I was so nervous he would recognize me before I would be able to get a couple pictures snapped of my getting off the plane. He turned his head, double or triple looked at me, then walked over and was like WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?! hahaha It was fantastic! He is one of my best friends!

So Much to post....

So read at your risk.
Whelp, we finished another semester. We did really well too! So we decided to reward ourselves with a vacation to California were we stayed with our Fernandez friends, and went to my cousins wedding. Now I am starting my second to last semester TOMORROW, while Danny is playing (or he refers to it as working) with his friend Mike on his Sheep Dairy. He is so excited to have 4.5 months off, while I am excited to be done COMPLETELY in December. I took and PASSED my two required Praxis tests that I need in order to be certified to teach and am now trying to figure out what two more Praxis tests I should take in what subjects to be certified for middle school.
Well back to our California trip! Our friend Sara came to Rexburg on Wednesday to go to a teacher fair. She needed to go to Salt Lake on Friday to tour a school for a possible job, so I wake up go to work, run to my last class, and Danny drops her off at campus. We then proceed to drive to SLC, she visits the school for like 45 mins, and we drive back. We get home and get ready to leave to CA in the morning. The title we used for the week was ADVENTURE! We wake up get everyone in the car and leave. I am driving and the other 3 are sleeping. Danny wakes up and starts talking to me and I miss the exit I needed. Then in Wells, we were told our tires were incredibly worn down, (and they were), so we ended up purchasing 4 brand spankin' new tires. We get them on and get back on the highway to find feel and hear our car start to shake and go crazy. We go back, and they hadn't balanced one wheel right. So we get back on. We arrived! Sara and Juan were WONDERFUL to us! They took us to the redwood forest, to Santa Cruz Beach, Pier 39, Fisherman's Warf, Gheradelli Square, Boudin's Sour Dough Bread Factory, and China Town and Fort Point. Sara's mom took us to Costco to LOAD up on Boudin's Sour Dough bread and then Juan and Sara made a most delicious Carne Asada dinner! YUM! WE LOVED HAVING FRIENDS and cannot wait to play with them more in the future!
We got our two cows for the year and 25 chickens, and by the end of today we will have 6 little piggys! Another adventure.
We also celebrated our 1 year anniversary! We celebrated in style. We woke up, went to his parents house for biscuits made by their Georgian friends. Went and picked up pigs, went to campus with our Ellis friends, and Angie, built one side of our fence for our pasture with Josh, fed cows, went to the Dairy and milked cows and sheep, went back to the Mortensen's for some dinner, showered and went and played laser tag with Angie, Josh, Ben and Becca, and Derek and Starla. It was such a fun day, not nearly what I had in mind, but it was great fun! I can't believe a year has already passed and yet I can't believe it has only been a year. Until next time...

Some Things I've Learned

1. I cannot shop when 1. I am very very hungry. I buy the entire grocery store. and 2. I cannot shop when I have to go to the bathroom sooooo bad that my teeth tingle. I unfortunately made this second mistake this past week. I was in a hurry, bundled up because of the cold weather and did not want to stop to go to the bathroom. I went in grabbed some pepperoni got home and realized it was TURKEY pepperoni. Positive=70% less fat than original pepperoni. Wonderful. Doesn't taste the same but will do.
2. Marriage is SOOOOOO NOT WORTH IT! Since being married I have learned that people LOVE giving gifts to married couples because everything is LESS EXPENSIVE. My parents did a much smaller Christmas for me, and Danny. His parents was a small Christmas. No presents from friends, (that shouldn't be a shocker since I don't really have any friends up here), a smaller Christmas money amount from G-parents, and the worst part.....NO BIRTHDAY CHECK from G-parents. Hillary, this goes out to you. Save yourself! Do not get married! You will regret it when you learn that EVERYONE takes advantage of it and you get NOTHING!!!
3. I hate school! 3 semesters left. I can do it.
4. I HATE being alone. I have been alone this entire week (minus sleeping and school which doesn't count) and it sucks. Oh well. I am still waiting for my sidekick and companion to arrive in the mail...that's what I signed up for when I got married right? Where is mine?

Boring!

Life as we know it is B.O.R.I.N.G! Last night to ring in the New Year, I was sleeping, in my bed, with a dog we are sitting, by 10. Danny was at his parents. How spectacular. Then today, Danny has been working doing projects ALL day. So what have I been doing? Wasting my time on Facebook, and reading. I could be cleaning my house. Goodness, I am still not done and have been working all break on it. Yes, we have never completely moved in and organized, so that is what I have been doing. Talk about a blast! I need friends to play with! Here I was thinking that when I got married, I would never be bored because I always had my best friend to do stuff with. How wrong I was. I was wrong and now I can't even get my stupid thing to turn normal writing. hahaha How am I so computer illiterate when I have grown up with them? That is the question. Look I fixed it. I want people off their missions so I can text them whenever I want and not wait, a week, a month, even two months to get a response. I want to have things I can do to be crafty. I want to sew a quilt. I want to scrapbook...scrapbook what exactly? I don't know. We don't EVER and I mean E.V.E.R take pictures. What would we take them of? We are sooo incredibly boring. Before we got married our friends joked around that we were already that "old married couple." However, being married has only made it worse. Now don't get me wrong. We have lots of fun being married and I love it! I wouldn't change it for the world, but we are just boring. We don't go anywhere, we don't do anything. We are B.O.R.I.N.G I don't know how else to describe it. I want to have time for fun, unfortunately my fun is not the same as Danny's fun. haha Oh well. I guess I'll go back to blog stalking, facebook stalking, and maybe even read some more. Whatever happen to chips, dip, little wienies, and tons of games and movies and family time during the holiday season? It stayed in CO, while I am stuck in cold, snowy, BORING Idaho. Bring on the books!