What the!?

This post is going to be full of sentences that start with what the...

1. What the heck have I been doing that I haven't posted since SEPT.!?

I don't really have a good answer for that except that my life seems to get more crammed with stuff every day.

2. What the... or maybe I should say how in the, you know where, does the meanest, beastiest (I know that's not a word) girl I know get engaged and I can't even get a date!?

3. What in the world is going on with my feet?

The bones in my foot are inflamed and so that means that I get to wear 2 boot casts, one on each foot. YIKES!!! I really wish that my feet did not hurt every time that I took a step.

4. What the heck happened to October?

Okay, so that wasn't as many as I thought there would be. Sorry about the little rant in the middle.

BLT

I did the stupidest thing the other day and I just have to share. I picked 3 beautiful, red, juicy tomatoes from my little garden. I decided that I wanted to make myself a BLT for dinner. I went to Smiths and got some Mayo and Lettuce and then I built my "BLT". As I was almost finished I looked down at my sandwich and noticed that I didn't have any lettuce on my BLT. Hence, it was only a BT not a BLT. Tonight I made another BLT and remembered the L and it was much better then the BT!! It makes me think that I just may be heading in the same direction as CRAZY Grandma! ;)

Outside

Here are some pictures of my summer project. My front yard. Here's a couple views from the sidewalk in front of my house.

Now some of my plants, up close and beautiful. (At least they are to me.)

My oak tree. It is small, but I love it.
A beautiful little purple daisy. (I'm not really sure what it's real name is, but I think that it's beautiful.)
A salvia. Which I thought I fried the first week they were in but now they are alive and well.
This is a cool plant called digitalis which I think has a cool looking flower.
Here is one of my flower beds.
Another one. You can see my humming bird feeders next to which are my 3 tomato plants. (P.S. I don't think that I'll be able to eat all of the tomatoes that they are producing. They are loaded with blooms and little growing tomatoes.)
Looking to the right from the front porch.
Looking at the street from the front porch.
It may not look like much to you, however it feels like hundreds of hours of time and tons of sweat and quite a bit of money went into this project.

Finally!!

The living room:

The kitchen:

The Dining Room

The view from my back deck.

The front bathroom.

My bathroom.

I only took pictures of the clean parts of my house. When the other parts are clean and picture worthy I'll post more.

Rural Schools Conference

I am currently in Cedar City at the Rural School Conference. For the next two years I will be doing a program called EMED. It is a federally funded grant to incorporate technology with Math. So a couple of days ago I got some fun new "toys". I am typing this on my new MacBook Pro. I love it!!! I also got a new iPod touch, a Flip video camera, and a document camera. It is so much fun "playing" with my new toys!

I'm Home!

So I'm finally living in my new home! It is so much fun. My camera is actually at the house right now so I'll post pictures soon!

New house pictures

Here's a few pictures of the house. This is my kitchen with green walls and freshly painted cabinets. This is the chocoalate brown front bathroom.

Here's the yellow and red room. PS painting red walls sucks!

Here is the front of the house.

House

So here is a picture of my house.

This is from my living room looking into the kitchen and dinning room.

Here's my bedroom.

Here is the view from my bedroom window.

Ashley

This post is all about Ashley.

Sharee is making a slide show and wanted pictures of me with Ashley and can you believe the only one I could find is of us swimming! Go figure. Ashley did NOT want to get in the resivoir and she was bawling so I drug her in and we decided to scream for the picture and so it looks like we are having fun.


Here's a picture of Erika and Ashley at Easter.

I used to be in colorguard and I loved it! One year I bought myself a flag for my birthday and here is a picture of Ashley putting on a show for me. Sorry it's fuzzy my camera had something on the lense.

Ashley loves to hold babies. Here is a picture of her holding Shilah.

This summer when I took my trip to Wyoming to visit Matt and then Cody I arrived, unknown to Ashley, at the swimming pool where she was hanging out with a friend. I walked over to her and said, "Hi Ashley." and her face lit up and she ran over to me and gave me the biggest hug ever. I hadn't seen her for a few months. I think Ashley and I have a weird, yet special bond and it is so hard not seeing her as often as I would like. That last part goes for all of my neices and nephews by the way. I wish my job could be to hang out with them all of the time! Anyway Ashley loves to play with the camera and I stole it for a minute and snapped these shots of her.

While Melanie was here for Christmas we went to the Rec. Center and here is Ashley climbing the wall, watching Taylor climb, and hanging out with her dad.

I love that beautiful little girl!!

Play with me!

This came from my friend Stacey's blog. I signed up to receive a handmade item from her, but must pay it forward. Here's how it works-the first 5 people to leave a comment on this post will receive, at some point during the year, a FANTASTICAL handmade gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise! The catch is that you must participate as well-before you leave your comment here, write up a pay it forward post on your blog to keep the fun going. Then come back, let me know you're going to play, and sit back and anticipate the arrival of your gift! Remember that only the first 5 comments will receive a gift from me, so be quick!

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. It'll be done this year (hopefully sooner than later).
3. You will have no clue what it is going to be.C'mon, you know you wanna play!

CRAZY!!!

I feel like I've gone crazy! I have seriously worked more hours in the last couple of months than any normal human being should. Probably not, but I feel like it!! I don't get to blog much because I decided to build a house on a teacher's salary. If I want to be able to pay my mortgage than I need to have a second job. I started teaching connections, an after school program at Ashley, four nights a week. I may have to cut back but we'll see. My school day offically starts at 8:00 or 7:30, if we have faculty meeting, and then the nagging and bossing of children continues until 6:00 P.M. when connections closes, if all the parents are on time to pick their children up. Don't worry I have to come in before that or stay after to get my "work" done. Sorry I'm just venting.

House Update:

I have a roof!!! The plumber is supposed to be plumbing as we speak! I seriously can not wait to pick out all the fun stuff. I found a picture of my dream kitchen

of course mine won't look exactly like that but it is my inspiration. Stay tuned to see if it turns out!

Picts of the House

Here are the pictures of my house:

My kitchen. Look I'm being domestic already. Ha, ha, ha!

Walls

It's official. I have walls on my house. No roof, just walls!!! Pictures to come.

House

So here it is the foundation of my house. WOOO HOOO!!!
I do have a floor in my basement and a "baby wall" also but those pictures are on my camera at home. I can't believe that I am slowly getting work done on my house it seems like it is taking eons. I promise that I will post a little more often and keep you all updated.