SLC Trip and Christmas (just a little late!)

Confession.. I have been a HORRIBLE blogger this past month (if you haven't figured it out). I lost my camera cord so I have to upload pics to Dustin's computer which is always at Monster Sak and I just don't feel that blogs with pictures are very exciting. So I am going to back track a little because one, I use this blog to help me remember when we did things and two, because I promised my cousin I would post these pictures (and they are so fun I really want to). So rewind back to Christmas time and here we go...
Back in December we spent a day in Salt Lake City. We didn't think we were going to make it because Utah county was a BLIZZARD! There was so much snow. On the freeway, the carpool lane was just a big pile of snow, no one could even use it. Once we got over the point of the mountain it started raining... weird! Anyways, we first met up with my parents and sister and saw 'Christmas Carol' at the Hale Center Theater. It was really good. Then we headed to downtown Salt Lake where we met up with my Cuz and her hubby. We met at Gateway then went over to Temple square to watch the Joseph Smith Movie in the Legacy Theater. (If you haven't seen it yet you really should go, it's amazing!) We rode Trax over there and had to run from the Trax stop to the Joseph Smith Building and we made it
with only about 1 minute to spare. After the movie we walked around Temple Square to see the lights. They were beautiful as always. My favorite was the nativity in the middle of the reflecting pond. It was gorgeous! Then we rode trax back to the Gateway and ate dinner at Z'Tejas, one of our favorite restaurants. The food was great and so was the company! Scott and Marie are heading down to Arizona to go to grad school. We have loved having them close enough to get together often. Good luck with school guys and we'll see ya soon!

We went up to Kaysville on Christmas Eve and had a delicious meal with my family and Grandpa. We opened presents and played some games. Dustin and I were very excited about our present, another year of season tickets with my parents to Hale Center Theater in Salt Lake City. We got these last year and it was so much fun! If you've never been to Hale Center up in SLC you should definitely go.

Christmas morning we slept in then opened presents just me and Dustin. We got some movies to add to our collection and Heelez (those tennis shoes that have the skates in the heels). Dustin had said a few times that he thought those would be fun and I found them for adults. It was hillarious watching him try to figure out how to use them. Also, since we've been married and Dustin's worn his wedding band, he couldn't wear his CTR ring. I always thought it would be a neat Christmas gift to get it sized for his other finger so he could still wear it. I figured out a tricky way to get it just the right size. He was pretty excited about it. I was boring for Christmas this year. I honestly couldn't think of anything I really needed or wanted but was sick of all of my clothes so I got money to go shopping! I got some shirts, jewelry, scarves and a new purse. (And we didn't take any pictures, oops!)

Christmas evening Dustin's parents flew in and we had dinner with them. We also starting watching Lost from the beginning again so that we could remember everything that happened for when the season starts this week. We were very excited about our gift from my in-laws. They took all their 6 six kids and their spouses on a cruise to Mexico. We just got back on Saturday and it was an absolute BLAST!!! Stay turned for pictures to come from that.

Out of the Mouth of 6 and 96 Year Olds!

When I left my house this morning I had NO idea what was in store for me. I got to school to find out that we couldn't go on our field trip to the Seville, an old folks home because of the snow. Then the principal called us down to tell us that the girl we wanted to hire wasn't working out and we had to interview 2 more ladies during school today. When my kids got there at 8 am they were walking in and one little girl noticed that she had matching boots as a little boy in our class. She got so excited and said ...
Now we can get married when we're older because we are have twinner boots!
She was dead serious. I couldn't help but laugh at that. If only it were that easy. Wear matching boots and there is your soul mate! haha
We helped another teacher move classrooms, 6 year olds LOVE to help. Then they watched Mickey's Christmas Carol while the teachers interviewed for the new spot. (We did find someone who will start Jan 5th and my class will be down to 21! Heaven!) By some miracle, I called the District and they said that they could send a bus last minute to take us to the Seville. So we jumped on and headed over. At the Seville there were about 20 cute people that came to watch. They were so funny! They kept shouting out things between songs. "That was just delightful!" "I know that song". "They are so beautiful". My favorite was when I went over to lead my kids in their group speaking part. I knelt down in front of them and said one, two, ... then I felt a tap on my shoulder. In a voice loud enough for everyone to hear, this cute little old lady says "Tell them they sing like angels." It was so adorable and so funny at the same time! When we finished some of them came up to talk to us. "That was so d*@! good!" "That sounded better than any Disney movie I ever saw." "Those kids were perfect."
To end the day we had our Christmas Party. Six parents came in to run the stations. Everything was going great, all the kids were having a great time when all of the sudden someone yells "There is pooh on the carpet!" I walked over calmly thinking it was animal pooh from someone's shoe but after consulting with a mom helper we decided it was human poop! ONE OF MY STUDENTS POOHED ON MY NEW CARPET!!! And of course once someone said something about it, all the rest of my class had to run over to have a look! We found the culprit who just didn't want to miss out on any of the fun and the janitor cleaned it up because that is SO not in my contract! After the janitor left, I Lysol sprayed down my rug and clorox wiped just about everything in my room!
Welcome to my life as a first grade teacher!

Weird

So I was just thinking... Today is the first day since we started dating that Dustin and I haven't talked. Not one word to each other. No, we are not in a fight, Dustin has been on an airplane all day on his way to Brazil with his Dad. It's a business trip and Dustin is the translator. Once he gets there phone calls are SUPER expensive so we are going to communicate through e-mail while he's gone... no talking until Wednesday night at midnight. It's just weird!

Happy Thanksgiving

So Thanksgiving this year was a little different. Because of everybody's schedules we ended up having nothing on the actual Thanksgiving day. We decided that we would just go out then spend a nice relaxing day together. We went to Mimi's (one our our favorite restaurants) because they were open on Thanksgiving. Well after waiting for an hour and fifteen minutes we got sat. The food was REALLY good though. We got a salad, then all the works... turkey, mashed potatoes, yams, veggies, stuffing, and cranberry sauce (it was the best cranberry sauce ever, close to Kneaders). Then to top it all off we got desert! It was so much food. It fed us lunch and dinner that night. Then we came home, watched The Santa Clause and took a nice nap. It was a very relaxing night.

At 4 am we took Dustin's van over to the University Mall and parked it so he could get some good advertising. Did you know that every year they bring Santa Clause in on a helicopter?!? While we were out we drove around and looked at all the crazy people that were lined up already waiting. Best buy won with the longest line but parking lots were FULL everywhere. Then we went home to sleep, not shop. Dustin had a crazy busy day at Monster Sak and I went out shopping at a normal time. (I'm not anti-black friday, I was just tired).

My cousins Heidi, Annie and Sarah called me because they had come up to Provo to go shopping. We went to Cafe Rio for lunch. It was so fun to catch up with them! Thanks again for calling me.
On Saturday Dustin was busy again at Monster Sak and the crafty bug hit me again so... I bought some fabric at Joanns and sewed a skirt! It turned out pretty good I thought considering I just cut the pattern off one of my other skirts. It was a lot of fun! (the only pic is on my phone and I can't figure out how to upload it).

Sunday we had our family Thanksgiving dinner which felt like a Christmas dinner. We had ham and lots of yummy sides. After dinner we made Gingerbread Houses. It was really fun but we just used graham crackers and frosting and they all ended up falling over except for Bekah's by the time we left. It was really funny! We caught some pic's before they fell.


Hope you had a great Thanksgiving too!

Jason's Deli

Dustin and I ate at Jason's Deli over by the University Mall tonight. It was pretty good food, sandwiches, salad bar, etc. but I just had to blog about it because they had a meal called the Caren something. I don't even remember what it was but my mouth dropped to the floor because only once before have I ever seen my name spelled the way I do ANYWHERE! It was pretty cool!
(Thanksgiving Pic's coming soon)