I guess technically the week isn't over with, but oh well!
This past week was awesome at school! I didn't have to do much lesson planning since we were wrapping things up for parent/teacher conferences. They went amazing! It was so cool to see all the parents of these kids I teach. I'm shocked at how similar some students are to their parents. One girl looked exactly like her dad! And one dad couldn't stop beaming when I told him how wonderful his daughter is in my class. It was like he couldn't stop smiling! It was quite exhausting since we went for about 10 hours straight yesterday, but it was so worth it. One girl even brought me red velvet cupcakes. Yum!
Chris is doing awesome with his calling. Him and the boys had a campout a couple weekends ago which he really loved. He's starting to get into the whole scouting thing (both of us have been trying to change our attitudes about it, since I'm involved with the Cub Scouts as well.) It has been a struggle to really throw ourselves into it, but I think being more positive has really helped.
Sunday starts our first practice with the Primary Program. Both the President and the First Counselor will be gone, so that leaves me and the Secretary to try and run things. Luckily, our amazing Pianist and Chorister will be there and they are well acquainted with Programs and will be able to help! I'm so grateful for them! By the way, I invited my Mentor teacher to come to the program. When I mentioned it she said it would be fun, but hopefully she really means it and will come! Her son is about to turn eight and I know would love the CTR 7 class.
In other news......my mom and I are auditioning for THE AMAZING RACE!!!! wooooohooooo! It's my dream to be on a reality show and I really want to be on this one! We're starting a training program tomorrow to build up our endurance so we can compete. We'll be sending in a DVD and our questionnaire probably in November. If we don't make it the first time, they are having open casting calls IN MEDFORD! (can you believe my luck??) in March. For those of you who are not from Oregon...Medford is only 45 minutes away! Crazy! Anyways, looking forward to that and will be posting updates about how our training is going!
And finally...chris and I are going to start Square Dancing lessons. They're on Tuesday. And, they're gonna be awesome =D
Friday, October 7, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Update
sorry I've been such a loser lately and haven't updated what's been going on in our lives.
I've been teaching at Roseburg High, going on my 5th week next week. Wow, has time flown. I've had so many crazy stories these past couple weeks! Karen (my mentor teacher) let me jump right into teaching the first day. She has been there and guiding me, but has given me a ton of autonomy to do what I want. It's been nice! Some things have gone really well, and others not so much. But it has been a huge learning experience for sure. I really love teaching my Freshman. They are so much fun and I'm feeling like I have a lot of really good relationships with them. My Seniors are a little more difficult to teach. They're pretty cynical and think they know everything. That's made it a little hard to connect with them, but I feel some relationships starting to bud. I really miss talking with Emily, and hearing all of her advice! I've really tried to be the same kind of teacher she was for me, and I think I'm doing her a small amount of justice =D My mentor teacher commented on how she has a lot to learn from me about having a relationship with the students. When she said that, immediately I thought about Emily. I thought, man if only I can be half the teacher she is, then you could really learn about having relationships with students. Then I think about Cougar...if I could just tell stories as well as he did than I could make a difference with my students! I could invigorate them! I could give them the motivation to make changes! If I could be half the teacher as Cougar then I could really change some lives. Anyways....enough about school =D
Things with Chris and I have been wonderful! We've been loving being here in Roseburg. Our garden has been growing nicely, we've made some friends, and are finally having our long awaited garage sale this Saturday! We love our ward family. They truly feel like family. It's been really nice!
Well, I'm headed to bed. I've got to teach about drunk driving and texting and driving tomorrow to my seniors. Here's crossing my fingers that I can pull a little bit of Emily and Cougar out of my back pocket!
I've been teaching at Roseburg High, going on my 5th week next week. Wow, has time flown. I've had so many crazy stories these past couple weeks! Karen (my mentor teacher) let me jump right into teaching the first day. She has been there and guiding me, but has given me a ton of autonomy to do what I want. It's been nice! Some things have gone really well, and others not so much. But it has been a huge learning experience for sure. I really love teaching my Freshman. They are so much fun and I'm feeling like I have a lot of really good relationships with them. My Seniors are a little more difficult to teach. They're pretty cynical and think they know everything. That's made it a little hard to connect with them, but I feel some relationships starting to bud. I really miss talking with Emily, and hearing all of her advice! I've really tried to be the same kind of teacher she was for me, and I think I'm doing her a small amount of justice =D My mentor teacher commented on how she has a lot to learn from me about having a relationship with the students. When she said that, immediately I thought about Emily. I thought, man if only I can be half the teacher she is, then you could really learn about having relationships with students. Then I think about Cougar...if I could just tell stories as well as he did than I could make a difference with my students! I could invigorate them! I could give them the motivation to make changes! If I could be half the teacher as Cougar then I could really change some lives. Anyways....enough about school =D
Things with Chris and I have been wonderful! We've been loving being here in Roseburg. Our garden has been growing nicely, we've made some friends, and are finally having our long awaited garage sale this Saturday! We love our ward family. They truly feel like family. It's been really nice!
Well, I'm headed to bed. I've got to teach about drunk driving and texting and driving tomorrow to my seniors. Here's crossing my fingers that I can pull a little bit of Emily and Cougar out of my back pocket!
Monday, June 20, 2011
FHE at a waterfall =D
We had a blast tonight hiking to a waterfall and jumping into the freezing water! It's so cool that we can just drive to some secluded place and be in almost a rainforest!
The trail:
A huge tree
The waterfall!
Chris and I =D
Buzz, our friend, being brave and entering the LITERALLY freezing water!
Chris and Buzz climbing rocks!
Hayleigh and buzz!
It was sooooooo cold!
That's as far in as Chris went!
Hayleigh the jungle woman!
The trail:
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Update
So, it's been a month since we moved here. Let me tell you, it has been a month of amazing memories =D
First of all....our house! I love love love being in a house where it is dead silent at night! I love having my own driveway, my own yard, and my very own mailbox! We have loved every minute of fixing up this place and making it better. Here's some before and after pictures of the past month's work:
Our Backyard:
We have a really nice overhang where we're gonna start grilling this summer:
Our huge living room, this is only about half of it, but I love the huge window!
The gross purple room that we definitely repainted!
A close up of the nasty stain, we ended up ripping up the carpet to expose the hardwood underneath
Our hallway
Forrest and Chris taking off wallpaper in our bedroom
Me filling holes
Mom cleaning the bathroom
Lots and lots of painting!
Our awesome fireplace!
Our finished kitchen accent wall, looking into the living room!
Blackberries!!! they're weeds here in Oregon, and they're nasty bushes! So we spent a saturday getting rid of all of them on our property!
Chris, the blackberry exterminator =D He's so hot ;)
No more blackberries!
This is some of the blackberries in the backyard....it measured out to be 14 feet long!!
All of the blackberries ready to go to the dump!
Roses
This picture was one of our projects of weeding and edging
First of all....our house! I love love love being in a house where it is dead silent at night! I love having my own driveway, my own yard, and my very own mailbox! We have loved every minute of fixing up this place and making it better. Here's some before and after pictures of the past month's work:
Our Backyard:
We have a really nice overhang where we're gonna start grilling this summer:
Our huge living room, this is only about half of it, but I love the huge window!
Rod and Hayleigh painting the living room
Our current project, weeding and edging the front yard:
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