Life

Well I survived my first week of school! First impressions: I will definitely get my practice in for presentations. I don't think I have ever been bad at giving presentations, however I am one of those who get the nervousness--thinks about it all night beforehand, nervous stomachache, throat gets dry--so hopefully that will all calm down (especially since I will be presenting all day M-F when I have a job)! I'm sure that's what this practice is for. I guess this will just test all those areas and prove whether or not I can teach for a living. We are going into classrooms starting this week! I don't know why I wasn't expecting all of this stuff. My first observation assignment is a 3rd grade class. As of now that's included in the range of grades I want to teach.

I also found out something else today: my minor is TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language). I guess I have been a little clueless going into this program. The automatic minor switches every 2 years. If you don't know much about the Wenatchee area, it is very diverse. So of course this minor is perfect for teaching in this area! My Bilingual Education professor mentioned today that he is considering setting up our practicum in Honduras--going there and teaching for 3-4 weeks! That would be pretty awesome if that worked out...a lot of money though. So anyway, this is a bit jumbled for a summary of my first week of school, but there it is.

Still no news on the house. We're still waiting on the lenders. I'm to the point where I'm not expecting anything to happen on a certain day. It will all just be a pleasant surprise when it happens.

I'm an official server at the Dirty Bird!

Still Waiting...

I'm not even going to say when I think we will officially close anymore. We're pushing a month late (which could be normal I guess) but seriously? They're driving us crazy! Everything's all set, we just need a few measly signatures from the lenders! SHEESH! I guess to keep with my other updates, now we are supposed to get the keys either tomorrow or Monday. I have had so much free time that I could have been using on the house projects, and now I will be in school and starting to serve at work and just too busy! I guess that's what I need though; I don't like too much free time. Ok, my ranting and raving is over.

p.s. Lane is really busy with work all of the sudden, and he's currently out of town working really late. I just watched a chic flick tonight with Trevor and stuffed my face with doritos, popcorn, and chocolate chip cookies. I need to cut that out and start doing some P90X otherwise I'm going to gain 20lbs this winter!!

Closer and Closer...

Well we finally signed the papers on the house today! The notary lady met Lane at Red Robin while I was working and in between seating people, getting drinks, and running food, we signed our lives away page by page! So it should be tomorrow when the house becomes "our house" and then the projects begin! We are so excited! I can't wait to get going on things and then be able to move into it in about a month. :)

We're getting so close!

I am also getting closer to serving! I got my liquor serving permit last week (which was step one) and now they are going to write out my training schedule!

I'm getting so close!

And I feel like I have had a lonnnnnnng summer break and school was never going to come. But I start a week from today! It crept up on me and now I am getting nervous to actually be in a set program and to be able to see my end in sight!

It's getting so close!

September 2010, here we come!

Well nothing exciting has happened lately--everything has been going in slow motion I think.

ME: I have been getting pretty good hours with work the past few weeks, and things are looking good for an upgrade to serving. Then again, I have been feeling that way for the past year so I guess we'll just see. School starts on the 20th of this month. I have been pretty ready for that until the past couple weeks when my mind has just been so enveloped in decorating ideas for the new house (which should be ours officially in a few days!) Annnd I've been a little baby hungry but don't get your hopes up (or freak out if you're my mom), because we are still waiting until I'm done with school :) Plus, we have some friends that just had a baby/are pregnant, and Brady & Leah Harker are moving up here this week and they have an adorable baby that I can fill my hunger with. We're super excited to have another pair of friends to hang out with!

I decided to challenge myself a few weeks ago and play a solo piece in sacrament meeting. I basically stopped playing piano the year I graduated high school and didn't really even touch a piano until I moved here to Wenatchee. I have the calling of Primary Pianist right now, which is a lot harder than people think! Especially for someone who hasn't played the piano in about 4 years! I'm nervous for the primary program in a few weeks, even though everyone is focused on the cute little kids and don't care about the piano, haha. It's getting better for me though, and I've been playing a little more at home lately, so maybe I can start teaching my niece finally (I told her last year that I would start)!

A couple weeks ago one of my best friends/old roommates, Mandi, and her husband visited her family in Spokane. I hadn't seen her in over a year so I decided to take a little drive to go see them! It was so great to catch up and to visit her sweet family as well. AND she is officially preggo! So happy for them! :) And it just so happens that our other best friend/old roomie, Michelle, is also preggo again! She already has one stinkin' cute kid, can't wait to see the little babies!

LANE: He's been doing really well with his job. He's basically at the top of his game and impressing his boss we'd like to think. Things are going great for him. If this summer has been any kind of foreshadow of what this winter will be like then he will be one busy man and will for sure need to hire some backup for his area. Other than work, he has been busy keeping the ball rolling with the house and also has his mind enveloped in ideas (and more of the money aspects like usual).

Football Season is starting--joy! Fantasy Football has started him off! I actually prefer football over basketball, however there are just way too many college teams to follow. But there will be more room and a lot of projects in the new house that will help me avoid watching it all.

TREVOR: Oh yeah, he's here too! He's finally getting a little busy with work. The orchards have been a little backed up this year so he didn't get to start working right away like we had thought. He attends institute on Tuesday nights and the rest of his time he is bored, texting, and eating Taco Bell. Hopefully he can make some more friends (the ones he did make left for college). Either that or he'll just be too busy with work and reading his scriptures ;) that he will have no time for anything but sleep. haha

Backstreet's Back..Alright!

Remember these boys?

Well of course you do! It's only been a decade or so...

Well they came here of all places!

I remember doing extra chores so that I could get this...

...and plug it into my little karaoke cassette player and jump on my bed singing and dancing to my little crushes (minus Kevin--who is no longer in the band). So of course we had to get tickets! So I went with the only 3 boys that went (jk), half expecting the show to be a ridiculous attempt by 4 fat/bald old guys to try to once again win the hearts of thousands of screaming girls--25 year olds who know every single word to every single song, and 13 year olds who try pretending they know all the words and later go make up some story to their friends that they touched Nick Carter's hand.

It was actually a really great show! They did awesome, still look pretty good, and even though they have quite a few moves worth making fun of, they moved the whole time and sounded great!

House

Speaking of trying to buy a house, if you haven't seen it yet I have created a blog all about it! So hopefully we officially get it because I'll have to just delete the blog if not. haha.

http://ourhomeevolution.blogspot.com/

Updates on the house will be posted there--if we close then the blog will go on with pictures of renovations which we are SO excited about! And then we will have plenty of room for anyone to come visit! :)

Homeward Bound

While Trevor was busy working and saying bye to his friends, I had a couple dates with Devin and my parents. Devin and I rode go-karts at Sunsplash, had some ice cream, drove around and went to the mall. Trevor joined us for a lunch at Panda (yummy double-orange chicken), went bowling with my parents, saw Eclipse and Toy Story3, went to Sunsplash waterslides with both the boys, and I did a bunch of laying out in the pool to get my tan on. It was a very relaxing and sunnytime in Cali! To end my trip we went to the California State Fair.

At the fair we had our delicious corndogs that we always crave, the boys got hypnotized (well I guess just Trevor--Dad and Devin faked it), we walked around, ate some more, and then watched the Fab Four (a Beatles cover band). It was so fun to hang out with the family at the fair like old times (minus Britt). We ended our night by going on some crazy ride that stirred up all the junk in my stomach that I ate, resulting in puking from the carnival rides. I was therefore not looking forward to the 14 hour drive ahead of me and Trevor!

We made it though! And now Trevor is our new roommate!

He has adapted pretty well already too...He has painted a shed for Popo, gone to institute and made himself a few friends, met all Lane's family, looked at the house we're trying to buy, joined our softball team, ran out of money, and we have played out on the river a few times! Good to have family near by! :)

He'll be starting work on Tuesday so then he'll be busy and making money.