Polar Bear Pride

I now officially a Polar Bear....

 that is a North Elementary Polar Bear. 

  I Interviewed for the Take home library specialist on Monday and I got a call on Wednesday to inform me that I got the job! I have been training for the last two days and I am so excited to be working in a job that actually has something to do with my (eventual) career.
   Basically my job is to switch out the kids books after they have read them at home and I also will be doing what they call homework club. This is done during their lunch recess. If the students didn't do their homework at home then they come to homework club to finish it. Here my job is to make sure they get their homework done, not a hard job but I am going to have to brush up on some of my times tables and division skills because in the last two days I have had to help kids quite a bit with that content. ugg... not a huge fan math.
 
   And just because I am now a polar bear doesn't at all mean that I am enjoying all of this snow.. ;-)

Spring Break

Spring break was too short and was far less 'springy' than I would have like it to be. We spent the first of the week in good 'ol Bryce Valley. Visiting family, playing the Wii, looking for lost cows, sleeping in all morning long, watching movies and all sorts of lazy things like that.
On Monday we spent the day with Franz 'chasing cows' as Jim would say but that puts a funny image in my head so I am going to say looking for lost (or misplaced...runaway... I don't know exactly what to call them other than they were not where they were suppose to be) cows. We were looking for 4 of Franz's and we found some of Carl's (Franz's brother) and one dead cow. Very exciting. No really, it was because Jim and I spent most of the time singing the wrong lyrics to most all of the songs we know.

Here are a few pictures from our grand adventure on our hunt for dads missing cows.

 I am pretty sure there are some cows out there.... somewhere.... I think

 As you can see we were had a great time on our little adventure.

 

I really liked the look of the rocks in the creek-bed, they were all put together in these artsy little clumps with all sorts of colors and shapes surrounded by very smooth looking mud. (PS the mud was very smooth, I made Jim stop the 4-wheeler one time just so I could feel it. smile.) Its great the small things that catch my eye that make me realize that our father in heaven is a real artist. Even rocks in mud look beautiful! 

Another very funny part of our weekend was Shan's Dog Boomer. She loves to chase this laser and it was cracking me up. The video is pretty dark but a couple times you can really see here go after it. Its great!

The start of Spring Break

Yesterday was such an amazing day. It was a wonderful way to start out our week long Spring Break! We slept in, well Jim did while I watched a BBC film called Daniel Daronda (I am suck a sucker for BBC films).  When Jim finally woke up we went on a run (which was mostly walking because I am so out of shape), we cleaned the house, went out to the shooting range, and just relaxed and enjoyed the amazing weather.

Here are a few pictures from our outing to the shooting range.

I am sure that I will have some more pictures and fun times to share when spring break is over. 

Valentines Day

For Valentines day this year Jim and I went to Love Letters a play done by the Guild of the Utah Shakespeare Festival. It was such a fun little play, there was not a ton of physical acting though. The two people in the play were a husband and wife (in real life, but not in the play) and they both sat a desk on opposite sides of the stage and read the letters that they 'wrote' to one another. here is a basic synopsis from the program...
"Throughout this tribute to lasting friendship, Andy and Melissa revisit their journey from childhood playmates, to teenage sweethearts, to secret lovers. Despite their deep feelings for one another, fate is against them. Love Letters is a story about the endurance of a true romantic connection in spit of life's trials and tribulations, even if it is only expressed through letters.

I really enjoyed it Jim was great to sit through it with me. (even though I think he truly did enjoy it too)

opps, I always cut off the top of his head when I am taking pictures. :)

Oh and for those of you who are interested in seeing some plays this spring they are doing a Shakespeare play every Thursday starting on February 24th and going till March 31. You can call the box office or if you live in cedar just go to the box office the day of the play and they will more than likely have tickets. 

February 24 - Richard III

March 3 - A Midsummer Night's Dream.

March 10 - Romeo and Juliet

March 17 - Hamlet

March 24 - Macbeth

March 31 - King Lear

Christmas and Anniversary

This year was our turn to spend Christmas with the Shakespear's. We had such a great time; we played dominoes, watched a John Wayne movie on Christmas eve, opened presents Christmas eve... all of these things were new to me and I enjoyed them so much. I do admit at first I was a little bummed that I was not going to be able to be with my family on Christmas eve, but I had such a wonderful time. I am so thankful for Jim, Margaret and Franz and for the memories that we made (and are continuing to make) together. We always have such a great time when we are with them.

Here are a few pictures from opening presents on Christmas eve.

 This is our parrot... Margaret and Franz gave him to us.

 Playing Dominoes

 Jim got a NAS server for Christmas. He was the one that ordered it and all that jazz because I would have had no clue if he had put me in charge of buying it. So it came on the 8th of December and I let him open it on the 15th because he needed something to fiddle with over the Christmas break. I gave into his begging is pretty much what happened.

December 11 was our 1 year anniversary!! It is hard to believe that we have been married for a whole year! It blows my mind! We started out the day with Jim making heart shaped french toast for me and then we spent the rest of the day in St. George at the temple and the Texas Roadhouse for dinner! We had an excellent day. I am so thankful for Jim and everything he does for me, he is amazing!! 

Christmas Tree Hunting

We had such a great time this morning with Ryan, Erin and their awesome family hunting for the perfect Christmas tree. I love this time of year and the great traditions that happen, my family has always gone Christmas tree hunting and we have had some pretty great memories come out of that very simple tradition. I remember very clearly on one of our Christmas tree hunts about 4 years ago, we were past Henrieville but not quite to the blues on one of the big bends. The kids and mom decided that we really liked one tree BUT dad liked another tree. So just as we were deciding what tree to chop down dad said hurry every one get down, there is a car coming and we are not suppose to cut a tree down this close to the road. Everyone dived on the ground thinking that we might get caught and dad (laughing at us for believing him) just happened to duck down right where 'his' favorite tree was, so while he was close to the ground he just chopped it right down. We were all so ticked but laughing quite hard. That is just my dad to a T; you just can't help but to love him. Thanks mom and dad for always taking us out to find a real Christmas tree!
Here are some of our pictures from our Christmas tree hunt this year.

 Searching for the perfect tree.

 Emmet's huge snowballs!

 Snow ball fight.

 Jim's floating snowball! ooOOooo!

 Cutting down our tree.

 You can see who did all the work... me of course I was taking all the pictures! That is hard work you know. ;)

Molly and Erin's nose scrunching. hehe.

I love family and I am so thankful that Ryan and Erin live close enough that we can do so many fun activities with them!

Family Fun

We have had such a great time with family this November and since tomorrow is Turkey Day we will be having even more family fun. I want to share some of our pictures from this month.
We were able to have Ian come to our house one weekend this month and boy did we have fun! We even built a fort on the bed he slept in!

 The next weekend we went up for Ian's Baptism. It was such a neat experience!

We stayed with John, Alysha and Mckaylee, we had a blast with them. We even went to the nicklecade. Jim and I loved it so so much!