quick update....

Well, I am almost done with my student teaching experience. It has been challenging and exciting. When I first started I hated teaching and never wanted to do it in real life...I have changed my mind and now I love it!! I am excited for this to be over though because it is stressful and very difficult to teach and go to school at the same time!! Joe has been a HUGE help though. He is great at grading papers and helping me stay organized. I am grateful to have him!! I have not yet decided what I'm going to once I have graduated but I'm sure I'll figure it out soon enough.

Joe's sister is getting married on the 18th and we are busy getting ready for a wedding. It's really exciting because everyone is coming into town again this year. Last year Joe and I were getting married so we didn't get a chance to really have good conversations with all of Joe's giant family. This year we don't have all the responsibilities of being the bride and groom...so we get to just enjoy the stress-free visit of all the family in town. We are so excited!! We are also way excited for Emily and Ian who are getting married in the Manti Temple!!

Other than that there's not much new except that Joe and I are getting ready to celebrate out 1st wedding anniversary together!! YEAY!! Time sure flys by!!

I will try and get some pictures up from our first fun summer in the sun together!!

The home stretch...

Ok so for ME this is my last semester as a student...then i GRADUATE!!!! It's so exciting to see the end in sight. I am so ready to do my student-teaching and being done with school for a while!! I have worked really hard for this degree and I just can't wait until I have it in my hands. I am going to officially be done in December but I don't get to walk until April. I know it's kinda cheesy and lots of people don't walk...but I have worked dang hard for it so I want to wear the ugly cap & gown! I am so excited to be a college graduate! It's nice knowing that my loving husband and new family are just as excited to sit in the audience and watch me graduate!

Joe is in the home stretch of this semester... Another semester almost down! He has been working so hard with working all day and then school in the evening 4 days a week. It will be nice to have a summer with no school and then we can just focus on us and our future.

Oh what a summer this will be...we are going to Southern California in a month for 10 days. We are going to Universal Studios, Disneyland, Sea World, San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Temple. It will be sooooo much fun! We are really looking forward to this trip because we were both so very sick on our honeymoon so this will be like a second honeymoon.

We are also going on a river rafting trip with Joe's mom's family up in Wyoming in July.

We are going to Bear Lake in the beginning of August.

What a fun summer this will be. Our first summer as a married couple. W are looking forward to this new adventure.

Stay tuned for pictures and updates...

Post-wedding

Well things have started to settle down and we are getting back to real life. Joe and I are both in school. Joe is still working all day and then school at night...oh the life of a student. I on the other hand am currently in the middle of my last semester as a student. I am supper excited to see if I am going to get an internship or if I'm be student teaching starting in the fall.

Here's the difference, if I student teach then I will be be done in 3 months and I would be working with another teacher. However, if I intern then I will have control of my own classroom. My workload will be much heavy because I wouldn't have another teacher to help me like in student teaching. And I would get paid half salary.

I just had my first interview last Friday, I am leaving it up to the Lord which would be best for me and my family. I have applied for both so I guess we'll see what happen.

OH this Valentine's day was my first time having a valentine...it was so fun!! I made a romantic dinner for 2...I've waited for so long to be able to do that!! That really is the only thing that is new with us. We are loving being married and enjoying continuing to get to know each other!!

We are looking forward to a fun summer together!! :o)