Dave & Alix Anderson

Texting

2012-01-23T16:09:00.000-08:00

I've decided that I'm going to go off on a tangent for the next few post and just talk about my experiences student teaching. Although maybe it really isn't a tangent because I never blog any lol!

I read a saying somewhere that said something along the lines of “We aren’t stupid, we know when you are texting. Most kids don’t look at their crotch and start smiling.” The average American teenager own and operates a mobile device with lightening speed, and I’m sure they have at least once in their life texted during class. To all the high school students that read this, even though I highly doubt you would even come across this blog let alone read something this long, YOU ARE NOT SNEAKY! You may think you are but really you aren’t. I CAN SEE YOU!

The other day as I administered a test to my class, in which everyone had to be silent in fear of getting a zero on the test or worst getting snipped at my the teacher, a girl sitting right in front of me, literally it is the desk closest to mine, takes out her cell phone. Oh don’t worry, of course I didn’t see her putting it on the side of her backpack making it look like she was trying to get something, which I know doesn’t take 5 minutes to get something from your bag. I didn’t say anything the first time, mainly because I was a new student teacher and second because she already handed in her test, but I told myself that if she did it again I would say something. Kid you not, less than a minute later she whips it out again. So in a quiet voice I tell her to put it away, which she does. Again I third time she takes it out, “put it away or I’ll take it.” Her reply is my favorite, “oh don’t worry Mrs. Anderson I was just checking the time.” Not only did I find this hilarious but I told her nonetheless if I see it again I’ll take it. I didn’t see it again that day.

Later that day when I was carpooling home with a bunch of the girls that are also student teaching, I told them about the incident with the girl and the cell phone, finishing the story about how she was checking the time, even though there is a clock in the classroom. One girl chimed in and said that she had read an article on the Internet that said today’s teenagers don’t know how to tell time on a analog clocks since they are so used to reading time on digital clocks. I'll use this information to start another blog about how dumb our teens have become but I'll end this with saying to the girl that was "checking the time," Please grow up and just put away your dang phone! You wont die if you don't want to your sweetie every 2 minutes.

Because I'm supposed to

2011-11-11T12:12:00.000-08:00

Confession: I am deathly afraid of public speaking. Absolutely hate it. To the point where I have morbid thoughts right before I have to public speak. I sometimes hope I would get into a car crash and get all broken up just so I don’t have to public speak. In church when they ask me to give a talk the only reason I say yes is because I know I am supposed to say yes, which I am guessing everyone else does the same with church talks but then the whole hoping a would die so I don’t have to public speak comes into play. Not good at all.

Many of your might know that I am a Secondary Math Education Major. Now you might be thinking that becoming a teacher is basically public speaking everyday so why am I doing it? Good question. I often ask myself the same thing. Why am I going into teaching? I’ll tell you why. When I was a freshman I was a Pre-Med Major at WSU, however I hated my science classes to the point where my grades were dropping, but I did love my math classes. I enjoyed getting up early and going to my math class all the way across campus in the freezing cold.

Then I transferred to BYU-I where they don’t have Pre-Med as a major (you can major is Biology though which is similar I’m assuming). But again I hated my science classes so why would I major in a science? So I decided on Math Education. Why not Math? No idea. I honestly have no idea why just the simple major of math didn’t cross my mind.

So here I am in my last semester of classes before student teaching, still a Math Education Major. I’m not sure how much I like the whole teaching part, but I sure love the math part. Anyway back to the public speaking. Since I am in my last semesters of school I still keep asking myself why did I choose to be a teacher?

Here is what I have come up with to answer both of our questions. I’m supposed to. Just like I am supposed to say yes when asked to give a talk, I’m supposed to be a teacher. There is no other way to explain it. I know that one day I will travel the world and spread the gospel; I always knew I wouldn’t before I got married but I know I will sometime. Now spreading the gospel for some people is just being an example and even though I try to do that I have always had this feeling like I would have to be doing a lot of talks or speaking when spreading the gospel. So since I like math and I needed “being in front of an audience” skills. Here I am, a Math Education major. I just keep telling myself that I am doing the right thing and if the Lord wants me to do this then he will provide a way.

This is one of my teacher outfits

He has. Every time before I teach I say a little prayer to help me not sound or look nerves and to just make it through the lesson. And every time I do, and every time people compliment me on how I will be a great teacher (well most of the time).

My point is that even if you might think it is the end of the world, or might want it to be, the Lord will provide. Have Faith and have fun!

Onesie

2011-09-09T18:12:00.000-07:00

I have a group of girlfriends that all used to work together. We have now since quit that job because of babies; other jobs, or just couldn’t stand it anymore, (but to be honest we all hated that job). So since we don’t see each other as often as we used to we make it a point to try and get together every so often and get some ice cream or dinner or whatever.

This last week I got to go out with the girls (minus one, sad you couldn’t be there Tiff). Two of the girls are pregnant and I thought that it would be nice to make them a gift. They are both having girls and I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do. Anyway my other friend had given me an idea about decorating onesies with the month (0, 1, 2, 3 and so on) on the onesie so they could take pictures when the baby turns that month.

I had also seen other ladies on their blogs talk about freezer paper and how you can iron it so clothing, paint, and then pull off the freezer paper and get the design you want. If you have no idea what I am talking about go here.

So this is how it turned out. And a few of my little tidbits of advice that I learned along the way!

Aren't they cute? Anyway I made two sets because TWO of the girls were pregnant!

Then...

Using the tutorial I mentioned above I cut out everything using my cricut. I started with 4.75 inch circles for each onesie, the numbers were 3 inches, and the letters for "month" or "months" I cut were 1 inch, lower case, on my cricut which I think makes them slightly smaller than 1 inch.

Here is what I learned despite what the other blog said.

1. (first I didn't read the other blog very well in my defense) You must use FREEZER PAPER! Regular wax paper will not work, I had everything cut out and then I tried to iron it and it didn't work. So i had to go back to the store and get FREEZER PAPER!

2. The Tutorial didn't mention putting anything in between the layers of clothing but I am sure glad I did. I folded a paper towel and put it inside the onesie to make sure the paint didn't bleed through to the back of the onesie.

3. I used the brand Tulip fabric paint which mine seemed to be somewhat thick so I added a little water, like the other blog said. First I added too much and it kinda ran where the lines were thin on the "months" so the next time I just wet my sponge brush and then mixed it with the paint and it was perfect, however I had a smaller sponge brush. In other words don't add a lot of water.

Other then that I did the instructions on the other blog the exact same.

And I'm quite glad how they turned out! Don't you think they are cute.

Three years

2011-08-24T13:30:00.001-07:00

Dave and I got married three years from yesterday and what a wonderful three years it had been. Dave had to work so our morning was uneventful except Dave had bought me a jacket i've been eyeing and some earrings and a headband. He left them out for me to find.

When he got home he had three roses for me for our three years.

We then went to dinner and rented a movie, Source code, good movie I recommend it. We also got some icecream and I made brownies to go with it. It was delicious!

I know Dave doesn't read this but these past three years really have been the best of my life. Here is to another three years and many more after that!

Not being in Idaho is my favorite thing! (My adventures in pictures)

2011-08-15T13:21:00.000-07:00

First I have to say sorry for it being so long since I've been on my blog! With school and then vacation right after it has been busy. So I just updated a TON of pictures! Enjoy!

My Hair!

This is my new hair! Yay! my Friend Emalee is AMAZING literally I have never not liked my hair after she touches it.

This is also my new hair but with the curls you can see the color better! Absolutely love it!

My Birthday!!

I turned 23, but I still feel like I am 19, honest, when people ask me how old I am I have to think about it and even sometimes I have to do the math real quick because I really do feel 19ish.

Dave made me cupcakes like he has done every year since we were engaged.

Jessica, my bestie, came up and we made our favorite breakfast, french toast (we usually stuff it with cream cheese but we were too lazy) with strawberries and powder sugar, sausage, and milk.

Jess and I being Culinary Masters made a Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake. It was WAY chocolately but Delicious!

This is us being us.

Sad note: On our way to Rigby lake for my birthday I got pulled over for not completely stopping at a stop sign and I got a ticket. Lame, stupid Rigby Cops.

After School got out

I have this weird thing about taking pictures of weird people and weird things they wear, do with their hair, or things like that. This is a lady I saw and I HAD to take a picture! If you look closely at her hair you can see that on the side it is cut all the way above her ear and then shaved below but then if you notice on the other side it is longer (sorry it is a bad picture I was trying to be sneaky lol). Yep on the other side of her face it came all the way down to her chin and then it was cut around the head gradually blended to the other length. If that makes any sense. Needless to say I had to take a picture.

Spokane/Home

Preface: So Dave and I every year go to Washington during summer break, we usually spend a few days at my parents house in Spokane and then a few days with Dave's Family in Auburn (South of Seattle), which every year we (dave's family and us) go down to the Oregon Coast to the town Florence. Dave's dad used to spend his summers there when he was a kid and so did Dave and his family and his grandparents when he was little so it has a lot of meaning to the family, not to mention the town is way nice. Anyway this year we had the same plan, but I quit my job a few months ago because I needed to work more on my school work and now that it is summer I don't have anything to do so I hitched a ride with some people I found on the schools Bulletin Board and got to Spokane about a week and a half earlier so I could do stuff with my family and then dave would drive up later and we would continue on our regular plans.

So here is where the story begins. My dad is a General Manager for all the John Deere stores in Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho/Northeastern Oregon and he was in the process of opening a new store when I got there so my mom and I went to help out, basically just wiping down all the display tractors, putting some play toys together, mostly the finishing touches. So my dad said he would take us out for dinner for helping him. So my parents and my little sister, Erin, and I all went out to dinner. We were on our way home when we get a call from Dominic, my little Brother, Neal's, friend. He informed us there they were going to the ER because Neal was on his poweriser (basically these cool stilt type things that strap to your leg) and he fell and cut open his head, so we rerouted to the ER.

Here is Neal and my mom. There was also this crazy lady there that wouldn't shut up. She also informed me that me and my sister don't look anything alike and "must be from different daddies" I left with my dad shortly after but she stayed there and talked to my mom who is ever so patient. Dominic recorded their conversation, it is quite funny, so if you want to see it click here

Here is Erin, Neal and I, driving Neal back into town to get his car since he left it there the night before. Neal is all nice and new with 4 stitches and a nice black eye.

Neal and I being retarded as usual…

My dad is Bishop of the singles ward which Neal is in and my mom is the "mom" of the singles ward so Erin and I tagged along to their BBQ and pool party since my dad wanted us to lol. This is us on our way in the back of the truck.

At the pool party... This OLD dog loves Neal, They are best friends.

Me and Erin.

Neal kept playing with the dog and everytime I would take a picture for some reason the one eye on the dog would do this, Erin and I concluded that it was a cyborg. It was only the phone on my camera but it kept doing it...

See? Haha

The girls, Me, Erin and my mom. My mom is so pretty! I love her!

Oregon Coast, Florence

Dave's Dad rented a house for the family and this was the view from Dave and I's room.

A seal!

Pictures from the South Jetty

Starfish

Sand dunes!

This one makes me laugh the most because it is Dave's dad.

Dave and his Kite adventures.

Going on a walk.
Dave's Brother, Mikee, and his wife Kelsie and both Dave and I went for a walk to Dave's grandpa's old property.

This is the result of sand.

Some house with this gnomes. Creepy.

My Pops.

2011-06-18T11:22:00.000-07:00

Although I don't think that my dad has or ever will read my blog, Father's Day is coming up and since I have a whole 8 followers on my blog I don't mind telling a little more about my dad. First I would like to acknowledge that fact that everyones' dad is AMAZING! Seriously, and I'm sure everyone would agree that has had a strong male dad figure in their life that, THEIR dad is the best. And I am no exception. My dad is literally the best dad ever, and he is Amazing.

First EVERYONE loves my dad, I don't know of a single soul that has ever met my dad and not absolutely loved him. He has the kind of personality where people just feel really comfortable around him and they'll tell him everything, from a really sad family situation to their boyfriend kissing them. (ha ha) Although my dad has never told me the stories people tell, sometimes if they are funny he does but never mentions names; I can tell he has the utmost respect for 99% of the people he talks with.

My dad and I, at least I feel, have this weird connection. I have always been really good friends with my dad but I think we became really good friends when I was a Junior and Senior in high school. We had just moved to Spokane, and so I was the new kid, and I hated life. I never went to the church activities or dances. I hated them. Well my dad got called as the Young Mens Stake President, and as his daughter in Young Womens he always wanted me to go and just tell him things they could improve on or activities that would be fun, but I knew it was because he just wanted me involved. So I would go just to make him happy. Most of the time though I would spend in the kitchen with my dad talking with the grown ups and helping make more food, pour more drinks... you know the usual. Anyway the point is that my dad and I got really close.

Things that make me like my dad.

1. We have the same feet.

2. Have his eyes and hair.

3. My dad has called himself a "boob" as in he cries at little things. I am also a "boob" but extreme, I cry at everything. Even little things like tithing settlement ha ha.

4. Love of photos and cameras

5. Loves to snuggle (my mom does too but I think men are different)

Little things I remember my dad doing.

1. I was really sick one time when I was little and he felt really bad so on his way home from work he stopped and got me a Sleeping Beauty Coloring book, complete with sticker. It was so important to me that I made that my "sick" book and I could only use it when I was sick. To this day I still have it and not all the pages are color and not all the stickers are used because it was so special to me.

2. Another time when I was sick (don't know why I remember the times when I was sick). My mom had made a little bed for me by the bathroom so if I needed to I could go barf. So I remember sleeping on the floor and I barfed on the floor (good thing she made it so close to the bathroom, ha ha) but I remember being so tired and so exhausted that I just moved away from it, yes I was such a good kid. Anyway I remember my dad getting up and he cleaned it up for me and that meant the world. (My mom was amazed that he actually cleaned up barf! Ha my dad loves me, although the barf I'm sure was probably like 90% water).

3. Another story, years later (not saying there aren't good storied in between) I think is when I really realized that my dad was literally the coolest guy ever, not that I didn't know before but that I witnessed again how amazing he was. It was the spring/summer 08 and I was dating Dave. Dave and I started talking about marriage and I was freaking out, ha ha. Dave and I had just had one of our talks with him basically tell me, "I'm dating to be serious so if you aren't you need to let me know." I know Dave hadn't asked me but the thought that we were getting more serious depending on what I said freaked me out. Dave said he wanted me to think it over and get back to him in like a week, although I already knew what I would say no matter how scary it was. Anyway, my dad is a part of this story I promise, so I called home and talked to my mom all freaked out and crying and being all-dramatic. So I told her the story and she calmed me down and we got off the phone. Well it was late at night and about 10 minutes later I get a text from my dad saying he wanted to talk to me tomorrow. So he called me and basically told him that he was giving Dave "brownie" points for being upfront with me and basically told me that I was being dumb and I should think about what I wanted.

The next week or so went by and I had told Dave was serious about dating him, and well since we knew that we decided we might as well get married because we were both crazy in love. So I would call home ALL the time because I was scared it was going so fast and it was all the sudden. One time when I called home, my dad answered and as soon as he realized it was me, he handed the phone to my mom, odd I thought that he wouldn't really ask how I was or things like that. So I asked my mom what dad thought about this whole thing. "He just cries." Three words have never hit me so hard.

My other life

2011-06-17T07:33:00.000-07:00

Sometimes the hubby and I lay in bed at night
and we play the what if game...

Or as I like to call it,
the what would we do in another life game.
What if we had made different choices?
Taken a different path?
Gone into different industries?
Chose different schools?
Lived in a different part of the country?
Or in another country entirely?
What if...

And it's not that we don't love the life we're leading,
because we do--very mucho mucho, in fact.
It's just fun to sometimes say,
in another life I totally would have done ___________.

And here are MY other lives:

NY City Girl
You know, like the life Andy Sach's lives in The Devil Wears Prada. Where I live in a small studio apartment, with brick walls and a murphy bed. I walk to work in 5 inch heels with my Starbucks hot chocolate and seemingly effortless style. I dine with important and philosophical people every evening, and we discuss current affairs and the state of the union--because in this life, I read the newspaper. I collect art, wear vintage shoes, and carry a worn out copy of Pride and Prejudice in my satchel. I am a columnist for a national woman's magazine {perhaps Lucky or Glamour}, with dreams of writing the next great American novel. On weekends I relax in cafe window seats with my feet propped up on my hubby's lap, as we watch the passersby and try to guess the types of lives they lead.

Small Town Girl
I live in a quaint town on the coast of North Carolina--the ones you read about in Nicholas Sparks novels or see on the Gilmore Girls. My house has a wraparound front porch, fireflies and a tire swing. It's safe enough for my kids to walk to school, swim in the creek, and sleep on the porch in the summertime. My hubby owns his own medical practice and I teach at the local high school. There are festivals, parades, bingo nights, and bake sales {picture Sweet Home Alabama}. We eat at the same diner every Saturday morning and take the same afternoon stroll down the beach every Sunday. I collect sea shells, read good books and have kiddos who enjoy playing outside with sticks and rocks. We where plaid, like country music and drink lemonade. Life is simple, and we like it that way.

The Traveling Nomad
With nothing but our REI backpacks, fancy camera and leather journals the hubby and I embark across the globe without a plan. A month in a small Italian village, hopping the Greek Islands, sitting in the same cafe as Hemingway, walking the Great Wall, running my fingers through the sand on the beaches of Normandy, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, surfing in Maui, hiking through ruins in Mexico, breaking bread with the locals until 3 in the morning--and I suppose having a few Eat, Pray, Love moments along the way. Not a care in the world, living life from day to day.

So that's it.
These are my other lives.
Pretty glamorous, if you ask me.
But you know what?
Even on my worst day,
I wouldn't trade the life I have.

Because, while I am a dreamer and an optimist,
I am also a realist.
And I know that I can't have it all.
I can't be a world traveler, career woman
and small town girl.

When I was 19,
I thought I could have it all.

And then, when I was 20, I met a stubborn, full of personality,
bright eyed Seattle boy sitting on my apartment couch,
and I made my choice.

Him,
And wherever that journey would take us.

What would be YOUR other life?

Do I have 2 funny stories for you...

2011-06-15T14:57:00.000-07:00

Story Number one-

So monday night it was really rainy and windy and just crazy weather outside. Dave and I go to bed and think nothing of it. Well 3 o'clock rolls around and dave looks at his clock and realizes the power has gone out. Paniced thinking he was late for work OR more importantly that the heaters and the filters and such on his fish tanks are no longer on and his fish could have died!!!!! (If you knew dave you would realize this is actually a big deal, a VERY big deal) So, he yells, "THE POWER IS OUT!" Mind you it is 3 o'clock AM, and I'm fast asleep, correction, I WAS fast asleep. So I keep pretending I am asleep, his fish havn't died and a quick check on my phone discovering he isn't late for work, I'm ok I don't need to get up. THEN Dave came back into the room, trying to be nice since I'm sleeping, with a flashlight, an LED bright white flashlight. I'm sure it is brighter than our actual ceiling light.

So finally I ask him nicely, "Turn off that freaking flashlight, I'm sleeping!"

"Oh sorry." continuing to STILL USE IT.

"Dave! Turn off the light!"

"Sorry I'm checking my phone."

"your phone already has a light, you don't need a flashlight to check it! Turn it off I'm trying to sleep!"

"Oh right, haha"

OK Story number two...

So for watercolor since it was a nice day today our teacher decided we would paint outside, we plan on going to porter park on the north side where that old bathroom building is. So we get there and our teacher says some stuff, blah blah blah, we are going to paint that building. Anyway 10 minutes after class officially started there is a couple that comes over, literally like 20 feet away, lay down a blanket, and start eating some food.
(I think to myself, ok that is kinda a weird spot when there is obviously a class going on, but maybe they think we wont take that long, OR they are just having a quick snack and will leave.)

Wrongo!

They are there for a few hours (and art classes are almost 3 hours long) eating the oddest things and I'm pretty sure he did 90% of the talking. ok so whatever right? so we walk over to a different spot (still about 20 feet away from the couple) so our teacher can paint.
The dude says "oh you can paint our picture if you want"
ok you are weird and we all ignore him.
So we keep walking and start watching out teacher after several minutes, I turn around to look at the couple real quick and just as I did he pulls out his guitar.
(Ok REALLY? we are having class and you seem to be on a first date, and you are pulling out a guitar and you're still 20 feet away?)
So I giggle to myself and conclude that he must be really good or this girl must really like him to have agreed to this.
Then he starts singing.
Does he sing " Hey there Delilah?" no. Does he sing some Maroon 5 song? No. does he start singing "Puff the Magic Dragon?" yes. and to top it all off, he is off key probably 50% of the time.

My conclusion, How to make a date totally a completely awkward, follow these steps.

1. Have a date on a weekday, in the middle of the day where people can see everything

2. Make sure lots of people are around so they can watch your every move and listen to everything you say

3. Don't let your date talk, talk about things you would only know about, say your mission, and Brazil

4. Eat a weird meal that I'm sure she didn't like (it was bread, which actually looked good, fresh corn on the cob, not cooked (which is know is still good), and some weird fruit from Brazil that you have to eat with your hands and get all messy, oh and make sure there is no where near that you can wash your hands, and don't bring napkins)

5. Bring you guitar and play a song, but not just any song, one you're real good at and have known since you were 5, say oh Puff the Magic Dragon. Then when you sing it make sure to sing off key the whole time (remember people are around you, and 50% of the time is good for you, so you want to impress your date).

6. Insist she plays the guitar. (note: she doesn't know how to play the guitar) then you try and teach her, you know be all close, she then she will probably insists that you just play it

7. Then to top it all off tell people that are watching in horror they can take a picture of your two being so cute.

Funny or Creepy?

2011-06-09T17:40:00.000-07:00

So Dave and I went to Walmart and here is my Walmart experience.

Some of you might find it normal but I find it totally creepy because I am 100% positive I have never seen this guy or gone through his line before. Here is our conversation when I was checking out...

Dude: Hi how are you?
Me: Good how are you?
Dude: About the same as I was last time you came through my line
(I think to myself: um I haven't been to walmart in like 2 weeks, and I don't think I have ever seen you) So I pause, not knowing what to say
Dude: So you just going to school still and working?
Me: Do I know you?
Dude: No, probably not, I've just seen you come through my line before and I like to remember who has come through my line, you know so you feel warm and welcome
Me: Oh ok, um yeah going to school
Then I paid and left.

Um I PROBABLY don't know you but you know me? Creepy!

Happily Ever After

2011-06-04T10:01:00.000-07:00

Elder Uchtdorf is one of my favorites! He is so amazing and makes me remember I have so much to live for!

Spokane Fun!

2011-06-01T21:29:00.000-07:00

So for Memorial Weekend I got to go to Spokane, Dave couldn't come with because he had to work but I sure had fun. I'm not one to write stories so i thought I'd share a few pictures of my weekend!

So the Speedometer is my car isn't always right. I don't think i was going 100, more like oh 80ish. lol

I don't know if you can tell but only 46 miles to SPOKANE! YAY! I met my family out in the valley and we went to a restaurant called HuHot, a Mongolian grill. SO good.

This is me and my niece Adlyn. She is such a cutie, can't get over it. Her eyes are way blue, which you really can't tell. But she is always to happy. Love her!

We took the girls down to River Front Park to ride the slide and Carousel, while at the slide I saw this and had to take a picture. There were quite a few crazies out that day, very strange.

Another of Adlyn and I. :)

On my way to church...

Neal and I being dumb with the cat...

and being sad driving back to Rexburg :(

and I picture I took on the road. It looks way better in person but it was amazing!

love story

2011-04-03T20:16:00.000-07:00

So I found this etsy website and I fell in love with the idea. Basically you take dates and events with your and your husband and put it in a cute little story, it is so cute and fun, people can laugh and ask questions when they read it. Since I loved it so much I made my own and framed it!

I think it cute and kinda fun when people come in they can read it.

This is what it says up close.

What do you think?

Many Makings

2011-04-03T12:08:00.000-07:00

I have been getting bored a lot since I am not in school this semester, I'll be back next semester.

I find myself wanting to do SOMETHING. Anyway my new obsession is finding tutorials on blogs. I have come across quite a few but many of the don't really fit my style or my needs, a lot of them are baby things, which are great and I bookmark them for later when I do have kids but currently that is not a subject of interest.

But I did come across one that I really do like and I used 2 of her blogs to make something.

Her name is Delia and her blog is http://deliacreates.blogspot.com/
She is LDS (which is nice that I can relate) has two kids and I just love some of what she does, she makes things for her kids but she also make stuff for herself, which is fun to do, go check her out!

First I came across this scripture cover blog and so I absolutely loved it.

So... I made my own.

And Vwala!

Then I also can across this post...

Delicious Bread!

And did the same thing, made my own.

Then Dave and I put some Nutella on it and ate it. It was delicious!

No sugar still going well. I've actually lost 4 lbs! I do know nutella has sugar in it but I don't really see that as something I have trouble with so it doesn't count, make sense? haha

Happy Birthday!

2011-03-31T10:02:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was Dave's Birthday and he is now...

29 years old

I still giggle to myself every time about how old he is, almost 30!

Dave opened his presents, which was a scull thing for his fish tank and some shirts and candy.

We had his favorite meal, tacos, we then had a cookie monster

(which is basically a big cookie cover completely in icecream, topped with whipped cream, chocolate syrup and caramel)

And I sang him happy birthday and we watched a movie together.

And because I love Dave so much I will brag about him for a minute or two

1. I absolutely love him

2. The past 3 years or so that we have hung out, made out, went out, been engaged and now married has been the most amazing years of my life.

3. Dave is one of the hardest workers I know, he ALWAYS show up to work at least 20 minutes before his shift and always stays late (overtime is nice for the paycheck too). Lately he has been getting up at about 4 am to study for him MCAT!

4. Dave does little things for me that reminds me he thinks of me throughout the day even when I am not at home, for example we have always thought it was funny how hotels fold the toilet paper when they clean the room, so dave sometimes folds our toilet paper just to make me laugh.

5. He is very passionate, many times people find his passion a bit overbearing to the point they think he angry a lot (to the point where his nickname at work is "angry dave"). But if you knew Dave you would know he is just very passionate and cares about everything and he has a very unique way of showing it.

Dave is amazing and I couldn't live without him.

Happy Birthday DAVE!

Also, i took dave's birthday off for my no sugar diet, and let me tell you this no sugar thing makes me feel great! because yesterday when I had sugar, I felt horrible, I had a headache all day, woke up to another headache this morning, and my heart was racing for a couple hours after eating some. And I didn't even have a lot!

Spring!

2011-03-26T16:56:00.000-07:00

I don't think I have a green thumb but I sure love gardening and plants.

When I was younger my mom always put me in charge of planting and watering, we also always had a garden which I HATED weeding but that was part of it. Anyway since i live in an apartment and I really can't have a real garden I have to use other things.

So I have a window that ALWAYS has sunlight. My plants absolutely love it. I've had a plant since I was engaged and it has never bloomed until I put it in this window.

Dave and I also bought a hanging plant when we were dating and it seems to grow like crazy since I've put it in this window.

So I thought to myself why not put more plants there?

So that is exactly what I did.

My favorite small flowers are pansies and violas.

I even have the primary song memorized "Little purple pansies" found on page 244.

And then I wanted some herbs. So I bought some and I found these cute little jars at Target so I made my little garden.

And I am SO excited!

Sorry the photo kinda has bad color because of all the sunshine! and I took it with my phone and the flash isn't very good.

YAY for my little plants and garden.

(And those are little wood birds, in the middle jars that i painted a long time ago to stick in plants as a little decor)

And my no sugar is going well. I REALLY wanted to make sugar cookies today, but I refrained, and made sugar free muffins instead.

my car

2011-03-25T19:59:00.000-07:00

First I have to say...

THANK HEAVENS IT IS FRIDAY!

Sheesh. I am so over this week.

Second is a story about my car.

If you have ever seen my car you know that it is a POS.

Literally, a bird just did it's business on it today.

But more importantly my car is going to fall apart on me one day. I am too embarrassed (and lazy) to go take a picture so you can see. But you know in the cartoons where they are driving a car and then everything falls off the car and they are still driving until they realize that they don't have a car.

I fear for my life that one day this will happen to me in my car, except I will be driving and my car will fall apart where I will then be launched from my car and die.

This is no joke, I really fear for my life when i am on the freeway with my car.

Needless to say this car was GIVEN to me and I am an all so poor college student, and I love that the car gets me around.

I have dreams that one day I will have a new car... one day.

No sugar is still going well!

I'm Frantic.

2011-03-24T09:58:00.000-07:00

I should have graduated last year but with transferring school and with having to retake some classes I am a bit behind.

Yesterday I got an email from the school saying to sign up for my student teaching because I haven't yet,

I have been procrastinating.

So I get onto the schools website and realize that my plan of student teaching next spring semester is shot. Secondary Ed majors can't teach in the spring, which it makes sense because high schools are out of school when the spring semester begins.

(In my defense I swear somewhere I heard that I could do it in the spring)

NOW, I'm frantic!

I had everything figured out to get all my classes in the next two semesters and then have about a 1/2 of a semester left for me to take next winter making me teach in the spring.

WRONG

So I am running around trying to figure out my classes for the next two semesters. And with the help of 3 teachers I can do it. I might not find out about one class until next semester but one teacher added me to a class and then my one, one credit class.

Dang you Math 190.

Math 190 is a tutoring class and it is one credit. Meets on Friday 2-3 and guess what my other classes I HAVE to take get out at 3:30 so i can't take it either this semester or the semester after. LAME.

So I email the math department chair and she says "if you can't take it this semester take it next semester, because it is offered every semester."

Thank you, thank you for the tid bit of information. If you would have read what I wrote in the email, you would have known I CAN'T fit it in, that is why I am emailing you.

Well I did find out I can petition to take like 1 or 2 classes AFTER my student teaching. Really? So I am going to have to stay here another semester to take one more one credit class. Sometimes I think the school is really dumb. Just freaking waive my one 1 credit class so i can get out of here before fall 2012, because if you don't all hell will break loose.

Anyway all in all I am FRANTIC and ECSTATIC at the same time because I should be done with classes a semester early!

Hip Hip Hooray!

No sugar is still going great. I haven't had any mishaps since the chocolate egg on my desk at work. See I told you I wouldn't do it again.

Hairz did.

2011-03-22T08:55:00.000-07:00

I didn't go to get my hair done again but when I find a picture of hair that I like I must save it.

So here is the most recent photo of what I want to do next with my hair, at least for the color. Maybe not as much blond but all the colors I LOVE!

One of my good friends, Emalee, she works at Reflections (a salon in town) and she is AMAZING literally amazing and I am secretly going to be sad when she has her baby because I am not sure if she is quitting but she will definitely cut back her hours and so less time I can get my hair done.

I also secretly want to cut my hair like this but I'm trying to grow it out so maybe sometime in the future I will.

Anyway any input is welcome. I always need courage to do something different with my hair.

As for no sugar, I accidentally ate a chocolate eggs thing yesterday that was on my desk when I showed up for work. I literally didn't think about it being sugar! Lame. So since I have confessed my sin is it ok? Especially if I never do it again? GREAT! Thanks!

March Madness

2011-03-20T15:33:00.001-07:00

Well I'm not one to watch basketball or I guess any kind of sports. period.

EXCEPT,
during the Olympics or something like March Madness. I love a good fun competition or trying to guess who will win. So every year I fill out my brackets.
and I don't know if you can even read this but if you can't you can view my brackets here.

Right now I am doing so bad, at least for the west bracket.

I just like to play along with my dad and brother haha.

Anyway, on another note, Day 1 of Sugar free is going well. I'll keep you updated.

Sugar, Oh Honey, Honey

2011-03-19T17:20:00.000-07:00

So I've come to the frightening conclusion that is am OBSESSED with sugar.

I have the biggest sweet tooth ever.

Anything Chocolate, covering in chocolate, peanuty or peanut buttery, I LOVE it!

Today I was at the store and I bought a a 6 pack of these
And then I thought I should make my favor chocolate chip cookies because I love them.

AND THEN, I thought I should just buy a pack of oreos, But if you give me oreos I will literally eat them ALL. No Joke, Dave has to give me a number that I limit myself to.

He'll say, "ok you can only have 5 oreos tonight"
and then I sneak about 5 more when he isn't looking.

So with the first day of SPRING being on Sunday I thought it would be a good day to go sugar free for a month, or I should say sweet free. Basically just no goodies.

I told my friend Susan who I work with and we are doing this together. So on April 20th I will be allowed to have sweets again.

Which Susan is obsessed to soda, so her sweet of choice she is giving up is soda (She knows there is sugar free soda but she is just going to go soda free.)

So since I am starving myself of sweets I have decided to share my favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe so everyone else can enjoy sweets :) (I'm so sweet I know haha)

Chocolate Chip Cookies

mix until smooth
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup butter (softened, very important to just softened)
1/3 cup shortening
1 tsp vanilla

then mix in
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda

then mix in 1/2 bag of chocolate chips

MAKE SURE your oven is preheated to 375 degrees F.
(If it is totally heated before you put in your cookies they are softer in the end)
then cook for EXACTLY 8 minutes.

Then take out the cookies and IMMEDIATELY remove them the pan to cool!

ENJOY!

Crocheting

2011-03-18T09:33:00.000-07:00

Ok ok ok, as you know I am freaking horrible at blog posting. But I want to be better at it mostly for myself, so I can come back and look at all the things I have done.

Anyway as of recently... I am not in school this semester, it is my "summer" and I go back in about a month. So I have had a lot of time on my hands. So I got REALLY into crocheting. It first started when I saw a girl wear one of those head wrap things with a flower, and when I went to go buy one they were like $20!

So...

I made my own.

Then I wanted to make another one.
Then I made a variation.

Anyway then I was at my grandma's house for Thanksgiving and my Sister Kristin had just had her little one, so I made some head bands.

Anyway then I made more things and more things and well now I have an Etsy Website.

Check it out.

Crochet it Cute

My Birthday.

2010-07-17T08:54:00.000-07:00

I find it rather hard for me to keep a blog, I am so busy and well I'm not really a person to write. But maybe, this should be my goal for my 22nd year in life, maybe.

So what a good day to start with my first full day of being a 22 year old.

Yesterday was my birthday.
And what a day it was, I turned 22, my husband also had the sweetest present ever (more to come on this later), one of Dave and I's best friends made me an oh-so-good birthday cake, we went to the lake, we BBQed AND to top it all off I am now a proud Aunt (this was number 2).

My nephew Miles Lee Moseley was born on my birthday, which means we are now twins since we have the same birthday. He is 7lbs 13 oz, 20 inches long. And look a great deal like my little brother did when he was born, or so I've been told. Curtiss, the dad, is so excited, he'll be a great dad, so Congratulations new pop! This now means that my own mom and pops are again a grandma and grandpop for the second time around and are loving every minute of it.

As for my Birthday cake our friend Justin was in town, just for fun, and we sure had fun. And he being an amazing chef made me a birthday cake. It was so good! A Strawberry cheesecake with a Chocolate Crust, a chocolate gouache on top with strawberries! So good. But not to get ahead of myself, the cake was just so good, we spent part of the day at the lake just chillin with Dave and Justin having fun in the water and throwing the frisbee around, all of us getting a little pink.
Then we came home and had a BBQ, with the help of Justin again making the patties, which were excellent yet again, Dave cooking and we all cleaned up together. Then is when I got a text from my brother saying Miles had finally entered this world!

The day ended with Jessica, my best friend, getting off work and we all went back to the lake for a night swim, water wasn't that cold. Then we had more cake and homemade Icecream with our good friends Dan and Emily. It was a very good day.

But not to look lightly on my birthday present, because it is amazing.

Background: Senior year of High School I took an art class. One of the projects was to use pastels, which is one of my medias of choice, we each got a big sheet of butcher paper and said here, make it abstract. So my little fingers went to work. Frustrated and sick of school I concocted one of my favorite pieces of art. Now I'm not an artist by no means but I like to think that I can create halfway decent compositions. So since creating this piece I've brought it will me everywhere. It hung in my bedroom the last months I was home senior year, it followed me to WSU and I hung it in my dorm room my freshman year of college, it also transferred with me to BYU-I being hung in every bedroom I've called my own. From there my art followed me to married housing where it hung above Dave and I's head everynight, and now in our new apt I didn't have a real good place for it, so it was in our hall by the laundry room. And this is where Dave's Idea came in for my birthday present. Everytime I hang up this picture I have not used pins, I use the ticky tac stuff that the relief society teacher use for their lessons, the yellow stuff that looks a lot like gum that you stick on the back of well my picture and then it sticks to the wall. Well It isn't the best thing to use but I didn't want to use pins, so it was constantly falling off my wall, wherever I lived. From my green and white bedroom in Spangle, to Regents Hall in Pullman, and every place I've lived in Rexburg. Tt would fall off just for me to come home to and just hang again, or on many occasions it would fall on me in the middle of the night. So one day in our new apt, my art disappeared, curious I asked Dave if he had moved it, ruining my surprise, because trying to be sneaky he had taken it. My Bad. But when I got it back on my birthday, I got it all new and improved.Now framed and looking somewhat professional, it can hang like it is supposed to. YAY! So Thank you Dave, you are amazing, and my picture looks great!

A weekend in Spokane!

2009-07-13T18:37:00.000-07:00

This last weekend, My sister Aubrey got married. Dave unfortunately couldn't get work off so my friend Jessica Flandro came with me. We left Friday morning after my early morning class, skipping my second class of the day. We got there around 3:45 and took showers and off we went to Aubrey's Bridal Shower, which I got these way cute invites made from Peartreegreetings.com. It was actually really fun she didn't want to play any games but Camille, my sister-in-law decided to just do some fun ones anyway.

We played Bridal Bingo which basically i made this bingo board with wedding words like wedding, ring, groom, bride. Then I had a few fun ones like condoms, birth control... anyway everyone got a board and if Aubrey said one of the words you could cross it off, and the first 4 to get a bingo got a prize and if no one got a bingo Aubrey got all the prizes. I was kinda worried about it since I was made it up but it turned out rather well.

Then Camille asked Brian (Aubrey's now husband) to answer just some questions, like where they met, favorite date... and Aubrey had to guess what Brian said. Then we just had some amazing food Kristin and Camille made and just talked it was a lot of fun!!

Next I took Jessica and my little sister Erin downtown to see Spokane and these are the results...
This is Jessica in the downtown mall, they always have old cars or cool things in the front.

Then we visited the Trash eating goat, and yes you press the button on the right and you put trash next to the mouth and he sucks it up. A excellent way to keep the park clean! (Even though when we were there this last weekend there was an unusually large group of Gothic/homeless/drunkies/druggies there, needless to say, Jessica didn't catch Spokane on the best weekend).

Then Spokane isn't Spokane if you don't slide down the giant red flyer wagon.

Then we walked a little more around the park and we sat down to look at the river and the crawdads and then I realized there way bird poop on my shirt... Didn't know when it happened but whatever!

That night Jessica and I headed down to the Tri-cities to stay with Aubrey in her hotel room. We got down there at about 11:30 and then of course got lost trying to find the hotel, so Jessica pulled out her phone which has a GPS/On Star type program that if you turn up the volume the lady will check where you are and tell you where to go. So Eventually we found the hotel. Once we got there. We decided we were starving so we convinced Aubrey to come with us to Denny's which was a bad mistake, because not only did Jessica's phone take us about 15 minutes out of our way to get there but once we got there the service was horrible and we didn't even up getting back to the hotel until about 1 so poor Aubrey!

Anyway The next day Aubrey got married to Brain Hanna in the Columbia River LDS Temple for time and all eternity! So congrats! Afterwards we had a small lunch at the Stake Center right next door and then i got pictures on my camera of the car...
The streamers in the back are my favorite easily 20+ feet long!

Anyway after the wedding, we all drove back to Spokane and it was freaking Blazing hot so we decided to go bridge jumping at a place about 5 minutes from my house...
It was way gorgeous and way scary to jump off of, but I finally did! Jessica on the other hand did not! haha, But Neal, my brother, and Shaunesa (I don't know how to spell her name), my cousin did!

Anyway after all that we went home and fell asleep! The next morning we left back home around 9 and after breaking the car window and running into a lot of traffic we got home safe and sound around 4:45! All in all it was an amazing weekend!

CALC 113

2009-06-25T21:59:00.000-07:00

So I'm taking Calculus 2, and you'd think I'd being doing well in it since I am a Math ed Major, well i would like to inform you that I have been doing horribly! Just Horrible! I'm getting straight A's in all my other 5 classes but this one? Oh this one is the devil! But good news is that my test grades have been getting higher and higher! And I am please to announce that I got a 84% on the last test! YEAH! Take that Calc 2, and Sister Toy! Anyway I am very proud of myself!

Fish

2009-04-14T20:01:00.001-07:00

Well lets see, before Dave and I got married he had this big 50 gallon fish tank- within the last 2 months I would say we upgraded to a 115 gallon tank
So this is the old fish tank...

And this is the new big fish tank...

And this is the little tank...

Yeah I know it is HUGE and our fish are huge!
We have 12 counting our two sucker fish in the big tank.

We also have a smaller 10 gallon tank that we would keep our feeder fish in but we have discovered that the more we feed the feeder fish to our big tank, the big fish get a lot of fat around their sensory glands that are by their head and when that happens I guess they get this parasite that like to eat that fat making the glands (which are tiny pin holes basically) bigger baking the holes bigger and well eventually killing the fish. As a result we haven't fed the feeder fish for awhile and made the 10 gallon tank into another tank with other cichlids, that are too small for the bigger tank, and then when they grow up we'll add them to our big tank.

This last week Dave got a turtle from a friend. I named him Walter, well now Dave LOVES turtle and well now we have 5, ranging from the size of a half dollar to about 3 in diameter. Sam is the biggest, Stewart, then Walter, and then Ender and Ander the little baby ones.

And I might as well name our fish starting with the biggest...

Mouth
Rusty (which we think is a girl)
Rock
Andy
Bran
Jet
Rain
Chuck
Ace
Wally
(all the same size) Bolt, Camp and K2

And then we have 2 sucker fish, they don't have names, everytime Dave has named one it dies and so far we've had one for over a year and Dave's friends just gave us our other one so I guess we will see how long he lasts.

The Beginning!

2009-04-14T19:52:00.000-07:00

OK so I am WAY new at this so it might take me a while to get used to this. But I figured I have a lot of friends and I like to look at theirs and well they might like to know the dumb things that go on in my life!