Are we doing anything today??

I have been a high school teacher for 9 years. I love teaching! I love my students, but the old saying "there are no stupid questions" is simply not true. At least once a day a student will start up a conversation with me that goes something like this... "Are we doing anything today?" to which, with my own streak of sass, I will usually say something like, "Hmm, today? (pause, with a thoughtful look on my face) No, I didn't really plan on doing anything today." Generally at this point they are just staring at me with a blank look on their face, the wheels turning in their head saying, "is she serious or is she just messing with me?" Sometimes I let the awkward silence continue for a moment as I stand there with a pleasant smile on my face. Have we ever not worked during class time? Not once the entire year. Yeah, like I said, sometimes there really can be a stupid question.

Sassy, sassy, sassy

There is no denying it, my sisters have sassy daughters. When they get together it's double trouble, double fun! While in St. George they were dressed as twins from head to toe, skipping from place to place. They giggle everywhere they go and flip their hair whenever possible. Too cute!

On Saturday night, all the men were in one of the hotel rooms watching the BYU basketball game. With 45 seconds left in the game the girls came into the room and announced that they were tired and that the TV needed to turned off so they could go to bed. Obviously, they fear nothing!! Needless to say, the TV stayed on until the game was over.

I believe I can fly...

My Nephew, Johnny, is pretty amazing! This weekend he had a gymnastics competition in St. George. We all traveled down for the event and my parents were able to travel up from Cali with Mindy's kids. We had a blast... all 12 of us! We ate way too much, only slept a little and had a great time being together. The only disappointment was that time went too quickly!

There were 9 boys in Johnny's level (level 7) and the age limit was 18 years old. Being only 11, he had his competition cut out for him! Johnny shined in all 6 events, receiving a first place and several second and third place metals. Then the overall award was given and we were thrilled that Johnny took second place. His coach came up to us to show us the final scores of all the contestants and we found out that Johnny missed first place by .2 points... not 2 points, just .2!! We were so proud of him! He did a fantastic job.

Welcome to our Blog!

I debated for a long time if we should start a blog. Just the two of us- with little going on as far as real adventure is concerned. But then I realized that everybody has a blog in them! So welcome to our story, our blog. I look forward to capturing a bit of our everyday life for Patrick and me to enjoy when we are old and gray. You are welcome to join us anytime... be sure to say hello!

Marriage...

I've heard it said many times that the first year of marriage is the hardest. This is understandable, two lives coming together, different opinions, different cleaning styles, different genders, etc. etc. etc. We are now heading towards our second year of marriage and I can honestly say it has been the happiest year and a half of my life. If the first year was the hardest, I am giddy with anticipation for the next 50.

Perhaps waiting to get married until I was 33 years old had something to do with it, but I love everything about being married. Some women complain about picking up after their husband, doing his dishes, cleaning his whiskers out of the bathroom sink... I love the fact that I get to live with my "boyfriend", even with his boy smells and a baseball cap in every corner. I love that I get to eat dinner with my best friend every night. I love that my husband is manly enough to have to shave everyday! I love falling asleep in his arms. I love that he's always willing to warm up my freezing feet and I love waking up with my man right next to me. I never have to wonder what I'm doing on Friday night, because as far as I'm concerned, curling up with him on the couch and watching an old movie with some extra butter popcorn is as good as it gets!

We are so blessed!

Yep... Life is good!