Exhilarating VS Beautiful

Kory and I had the opportunity to go to Miller Motorsports Park for Kory's company party. After the meeting and lunch, three people were selected out of a raffle to take three "fast laps" with a professional race car driver around the track. Being the lucky person that I am, I was one of the three people who were chosen to speed around the race track. I had so much fun! I was honestly scared for my life and thought for sure the car was going to roll. We were going somewhere around 130 MPH on the straight aways and 90 MPH around the the corners. It was so freaky, but I loved almost every second of it. The track isn't just an normal oval track, this track was had all kinds of zigs and zags throughout it which made it even more scary. The car slid and screeched around every corner. It was pretty awesome, I had a permanent smile on my face when I got out of the car!






Kory did not get chosen out of the raffle, but they snuck in a few fast laps for him too!







Everyone who came to the party got to ride in Jeep Rubicons around the Moab course. They drove us up and down some really steep hills. It was pretty cool to see what those Jeeps could do.




I got to spend a girls day out and go with my mom and my sister to Thanksgiving Point's Tulip Festival. The tulips and daffodils were so pretty! I loved walking around the gardens and enjoyed the perfect 75 degree day.

FoR ThOsE WhO LiVe OuT oF StAtE

Wow, Orem got about 10 inches of snow yesterday! Even though I don't like to mix seasons, the snow looked so pretty on all the trees. I just had to take some pictures!

Being Finished with my Student Teaching or Going to the David Archuleta Concert?

I can't decide if I am more excited that I am finished with my student teaching or that I just went to the David Archuleta concert last night.

I just finished my student teaching on Tuesday! My students were so cute, they all made me a card and a huge poster. They had a surprise party for me too. I really enjoyed student teaching, but it is nice to be done. Here is a picture of my students. I have better pictures of their faces, but I'm probably not suppose to display them on the Internet. I think this picture is probably okay..don't you think.



So, I only have two more weeks of school left and I only go on Wednesday nights. Basically I only have 8 hours of school left before I graduate. Sounds great huh....well actually I have a huge senior project due and a portfolio of all of my main assignments that I have done in the past two years. So far my senior projects 32 pages long and I probably have 15 to go. Some of those pages are worksheets, but a lot of them are lessons and reflections. It will be nice when it's all over with. I guess when I'm finished with that I will have something else to worry about like interviews and actually teaching. I hope to get a teaching position this fall in Alpine School District.



Kory and I went to the David Archuleta concert last night. We are not really concert goers, but when I heard that David Archuleta was coming to town I couldn't resist (and neither could Kory). I just think he is the cutest little thing and he is such a good singer. So.. when we walked into the E-Center we instantly became surrounded by thousands of 12 year old girls who probably are capable of screaming louder than any other age group in the world. His concert was really good!I can't wait to go to the next one.

By the way....don't let Kory tell you that he HAD to take me to a David Archuleta concert, because he loved every minute of it. You should have seen the smile on his face when David came out!







I have some good video footage but I can't get it to upload. Sorry. Oh, and I saw my good friend Sharmaine at the concert too!

STUDENT TEACHING and mooorrrrrreee!

I'm sorry I haven't been posting lately. I have been busier than ever. I finally started my student teaching. I never thought I would actually make it to this point. I have been student teaching at Barratt Elementary in American Fork for the past five weeks. My student teaching lasts for 10 weeks, so I am half way finished. My student teaching experience has been going really well. I have been teaching little first graders. They are really cute, but definitely need full time attention and help. For the first two weeks of my student teaching a taught for only part of the day. Since the beginning of my third week I have been teaching full time, without the teacher in the room. I have learned a lot already about teaching and what it is really like. Everything seems to be going well. I really like the teacher who's class I'm in charge of and she seems to like me a lot too! This past friday we had our Valentine party. One of my students told me that he didn't feel well. I told him to get a drink. He came back up to me and told me he felt like he was going to throw up. I wasn't too worried about him actually throwing up, but I did tell him to stand by the garbage can just in case. Luckily.....it paid off! He started throwing up and it seriously looked like a fountain the way it was arching out of his mouth. I didn't let it get to me one bit, I really had no choice though with all the kids watching. As my little first grader was thowing up, I drug the garbage can into the hall and left him there. It was the last 10 minutes of school and we had to get everything cleaned up from the party. To say the least it was very choatic and the kids were upset about seeing their friend throw up. It was a fun day, but I was happy for it to be over. After Roman threw up a few times he felt much better and was able to leave the school with his other classmates.
Well, I have five more weeks to go, wish me luck.
Along with my student teaching that takes up 40 hours of my week, I still have my uvu classes every Wednesday night for 4 hours. Not to mention teaching gymnastics Tuesday and Thursday until 6:45. And there is my church calling every monday night where I try to teach advanced high school students how to do their math.

So to sum things up, I don't know if I have ever been more busy. It's been a lot of fun and the weeks are flying by. It will be nice when April 8th comes and I have basically nothing to do unitl May first when we move to Philadephia for another summer of Kory selling security systems.

I found this on another blog and thought it would be fun to do while I wait for Kory to come home from school. Feel free to copy and paste it and put it on your own blog.

101 Things

At least one of us have done the bolded items:

1. Ridden in a train -china
2. Slept under the stars -like every night in the summer!
3. Played in a band/orchestra
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disney World
8. Climbed a mountain -Lone peak, timp, and Yellow mountians
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Had a letter to the editor published
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when not really ill - only one time and i have felt bad about it eversince. Kory actually made the call because i was too scared
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping -at some hot pots and we had to sneakily put on our suits in the water when some radom boys showed up. It was scary.
27. Run a Marathon -(1/2)
28. Seen the running of the bulls
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person -HT
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Been on a draw-bridge
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Received a traffic ticket -(kory only)
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing -yeah, didn't catch a thing
49. Been a story on the news
50. Seen a wild mustang
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling -and held an octopus and it kept inking all over the place!
52. Kissed in the rain definitely yes. -The night Kory proposed
53. Played in the mud -many times, its one of my favorite things
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Received flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square -and got lost from my HT group
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Won a contest
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Been in a cave
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible or other religious book -BOM only
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chicken pox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Been to the top of the Gateway Arch
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Seen Mount Rushmore in person
101. Learned to play an instrument

oops!

So my computer went crazy so I had to publish my last post before it was finished. I will have to add more pictures later.

Christmas Break

Kory and I had a wonderful Christmas break!

I love Christmas time because there is so much to do. We went to the festival of trees which I love doing. We also got to go see the lights at temple square with some for Kory's family that were in town from Florida and Logan.
We stayed Christmas Eve night at my parents house and spent Christmas day with my family. It's always so much fun to have my whole family together.
On the 28th we got to go to Hawaii for a week with all the guys in Kory's company who sold over a hundred security systems.



Every Christmas each member of my family makes a gift for another member in the family. It's always so fun to see what each person makes. Making gifts is one of my favorite family traditions. This year I made a picture frame out of old barn wood for my brother Clint. Thanks to my dad for helping me, I was able to make an awesome frame.



Kory got to make for our sister-in-law Tiffany. He decided to sew an apron. Kory did a great job thanks to sports sewing!



Our sister-in-law Jackie made Kory a batman wallet. She made it out of batman underware. If you are ever at our house you'll have to see it. It's so cool, it has compartments and everything.

My brother Tim made me an awesome copper frame with a mirror in the middle. It's a really pretty house decoration that I will have forever. I can't find a picture of it, I will have to take a picture and post it next time.



We went to the island of oahu and stayed on Waikiki. There were 24 of us there.



We snorkeled at Hunama Bay