Monday, December 19, 2011

Last day of student teaching

I can't believe this day came, but it did. I had my last day of student teaching and my last day of college. It was a good day. My 3rd period class had a party for me during advisory. We had treats and pizza. And my students made me a card that they all signed.
These are some of my students. They were all begging me to stay because they don't like the real teacher.
And a picture of my favorite student, Alese. Is it bad to have favorite students? Well, I do. And I also have least favorite students. I just don't let my students know this.
Well I am officially done with college and will walk in April.

Friday, December 16, 2011

White Christmas

Way back in October I saw that BYU was doing a production of White Christmas. And I knew I just had to go. So I talked to some friends and we decided to go.The show was awesome. These are the Haynes sisters.And totally worth the money. It helped me get in the Christmas spirit. This is Bob Wallace and Phil Davis.
Cristina, Kathryn, me, Janae, and Amanda. We all loved the show.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

A party

On my last full Saturday in Provo, we decided to party. It started with some shopping with my roommate. Then we got some Costa Vida for lunch with all our girl friends.
We ate our lunch and watched Elf.
Then we painted our nails
And Kathryn spilled on the floor, but we got it all out.
Our friends Brian came over to take our picture. We took this cheesy one with a Christmas tree.
I just love all these girls, and they have been the best of friends.
That night we went to watch divine comedy.
We had a big group of friends that went. After the show I made my roommate get a picture with Matt. She has a crush on him.
After the show we got frozen yogurt. It was a fun last weekend in Provo.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Thanksgiving

I had such a good Thanksgiving this year. It started the day before with mom and me cleaning the house and baking rolls. The morning of Thanksgiving day, Hilli planned a cross fit workout for us. Then we started the rest of the cooking. We peeled tons of pomegranates, and had tons of pomegranate salad.
We had the Noto's over for dinner.
Megan, Ashley, and I sat at the little kid table, and shortly after had the table to ourselves. All of the food was super delish.
We went out and played with the kids after dinner. Sareny and I were teen mods of course.
We rode lots of scooter and played lots of tag.
That night we played a fun game Jake brought. Actually every night we played a game that Jake brought. The next day I think we went to the park. The kids watched a lot of TV, including Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Tom and Jerry.
And I read a book.
That night we had roasted hot dogs and had smores outside. We all bundled up in tons of blankets and watched Elf on a projector. I did all my laundry so I didn't want to get my clothes all smelly, so I borrowed this outfit from mom.
Everyone said I looked like Rocky Balboa, hence the boxing picture. Mom looking cute as we got the movie set up.
Dad getting the projector set up.
The kids were all playing in the yard.Josh posed for a picture.
Sareny "helping" Charlie down the slide...
And Sareny showing off her cartwheel.
Saturday morning we made gingerbread houses before Jake and Liz took off. I was sitting by Finley, and every time she added a new piece of candy to her house she would say to me, "Wook it!!" It was pretty cute of her.
I think they all turned out super cute. Jake and Liz left before we remembered to take a picture of all the houses.
That night we decorated the Christmas tree. Finley was especially cute. Every ornament she got out she would say, "Wook it!"
And she put all the ornaments in the same spot on the tree. there were multiple branches that had more than 1 ornament. One time I moved an ornament from a branch that had 2, and Fin must have noticed because she put another one in the same spot.
I think we all had a great time.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Halloween fun

So yes, this is really late, but I am going to get caught up before Christmas. My mom and dad were able to come up this year for Halloween. So all our fun started on Friday. When I got done teaching, I went straight to Jake's work for the Halloween party they have.
I dressed up as a coach, Jake as a pumpkin, Josh as a Tron guy, and Charlie as batman. The boys were super cute in their costumes that Liz made.
The party was pretty awesome. All the offices had decorated with a theme and we walked through it all. I think the very first picture is Jake's office. There was tons of candy to fill your bags (or your pockets if you are me). Charlie was so funny and of all the candy, he would take one little tootsie roll. He definitely takes after Liz. I am embarrassed to say how much candy I ate and had in my pockets by the end. However, I hadn't really eaten lunch yet.
So a couple of the offices had a scary way and non scary way to go through. Liz forced me to go with her through the scary way, and we were screaming the whole time. Mom and dad went right after us and just saw us get scared by all the guys jumping out.
And then I was forced by Jake on another scary one, hence the scared face in the picture (just ignore my many chins).
Part of the walk through was outside.
We stopped at the mad tea party for some candy. This one was decorated super cute. I went up to the table to get a candy and some guy made me say "trick or treat."
We got wands in Harry Potter land. They came in useful to defeat a giant spider, and later to duel each other.
Just a funny picture of Liz and me. Notice she made me be the boy. After the walk through, we went and had free popcorn, cotton candy, frozen yogurt, and drinks. The boys ran around and we listened to a band before heading back to Jake's house. Shortly after we went to their ward Halloween party.
The next day we went to Gardner Village and walked around all the shops. I kept thinking it would be fun to have my own house and money so I could buy all the cute stuff.
It was decorated cute for Halloween.
And I got a teen mod shot taken at the bridge.
We carved lots of pumpkins.
I "helped Chuckles carve his pumpkin, which meant that I basically did the whole thing.
I thought our pumpkins turned out really good.
On the real Halloween I had to work, so I'm glad I got to do a bunch of fun stuff before. That way I still felt like I had a Halloween.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

BYU

Since this is my last semester at BYU (crazy to think I am done with college in 2 weeks), I decided I needed to check off some things I wanted to do on campus. The paths south of campus were recently redone, so I wanted to go walk them.
Amanda and Kathryn came with me. The paths were nice, but I'm sure they would be cooler with the waterfalls turned on.
Then we headed to the Widtsoe to see the fish. They are going to tear down this building soon, so I was glad to finally see the fish.
The fish weren't that cool, lots of boring trout like fish, and there are only 4 or 5 tanks. I swear there was a dead fish in one of the tanks. But it was still fun see them.
Also, happy birthday to my sister C.