Social Life

I thought I would briefly summarize my week last week. Sunday we got invited to Sweet, Idaho to eat dinner with Jenn's parents. It was a blast. Her parents have some beautiful land! We can't wait for summer to go fishing and four wheeling out there. We also learned how to play my new favorite game- Hand and Foot. It is awesome! I had last Monday off (President's Day). We went to lunch at Tucanos. It is new in town. They walk around with skewers of meat and you just tell them what you want. It is awesome! I was even brave enough to try chicken heart. It was disgusting. I would go back again. Wednesday night we had dinner with our fabulous friends, Matt and Jill. Jill made acorn squash with Stove Top in the middle. Wow! What a great idea- I can't wait to try it myself. Matt had Lasik surgery last week- hope you are healing well!! Friday night I went to the Boise State Women's Basketball Game with Jason and Jenn. I haven't been to a BSU Game in forever-I really liked it. I might even be addicted. Saturday night I had dinner with my friends, Ali, Lori, Steph, and Marcy- all teachers in the district. We had a great dinner at Johnny Carinos and then talked for hours. I love Girls Night. Of course I didn't have my camera for any of this, but I will journal my life anyway. Back to another week of school and responsibility. I can't believe how the year is flying by!

P.S. We received sad news that LJ's cousin passed away in Arkansas. We will miss her greatly. Anita, Rick and Kellie drove back for the funeral and then detoured through Arizona on the way home. What a road trip for them!

Ski, Flu, Utah Trip

This past weekend we ventured to Eden, Utah northeast of Ogden for the annual Overall Boys Ski Trip. We left Thursday night and made it to Jerome before my nephew Braddock puked everywhere. It was gross. We spent the next hour hanging out in Walmart waiting for my brother in law to get the car clean. Friday we spent the day at Temple Square and had a great time. I love walking around Temple Square. We walked through the church history museum which I haven't done since I was a kid and that was really neat. We also went and ate at this place called "Pat's" which was featured on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives on the food network. It was yummy! We also had to eat dinner at Crown Burger just down from Temple Square-Rick's favorite place to eat in Salt Lake. The best part of the day was hanging out with my friend Jill. Jill is dating Anita's cousin. We met at Thanksgiving and she is just so much fun! I loved getting to see her!! Saturday all of LJ's brothers went skiing, but he acquired Braddock's flu and so he stayed home in bed all day. All of the boys ended up getting sick though as well, so their day was not that fun. I got sick Sunday after we got home, so the trip was successful in infecting all of us with nasty germs. It was still a fun weekend vacation!

Kurt, LJ, Anita, Jill, Brailie, Me, Kellie
Anita, Jill and Me

The girls again

LJ and I in front of the Conference Center

The Family at the Conference Center

The Family with Pat- the owner of Pat's and the Guy Fieri sign

LJ- chillin at Walmart

Anita and sick Braddock- arriving at Walmart

Superbowl Party!!

So it finally happened, LJ and I have friends from church. I was so excited, I decided to throw a Superbowl Party at our house for the first time ever!! It was really fun. We had a nacho bar, homemade ice cream, brownies, cookies, soda, and tons of fun. I loved having friends over and spending time with them. The commercials were okay; the end of the game exciting, and the company fantastic! Thanks for coming over everyone!!!

Me and LJ
Jason and Jenn- our BFF's

Meggan and Bryce- they live across the street!!

Josh and Liz

The food!

The Lurcher and the Law Breaker

Well, I know posts without pictures are boring, but I need to vent for a moment. By the way, my Superbowl Party pictures will be coming, I just didn't have time to upload them last night.

The Lurcher
Each school has what I will call "the lurcher." They walk into the copy room and promptly sigh as loud as they can. I mean how dare I be on the copy machine when they want to use it. They then ask as obnoxious as possible, "Do you have a lot?" or "Are you almost done?" Next comes the stomping to the copy machine to confirm my response because I was probably lying to them and I do have a lot and will be a long time! They might stroll around the copy room, pretending to look for supplies or maybe even walk out to check their mailbox, but they proceed to check how many copies are left a second, third, maybe even fourth time. The worst is when they stand right next to you, hovering over the copier just daring you to try and copy one more thing. The lurcher can ruin even the best day and drive even the kindest, most patient teacher, insane!!

The Lawbreaker
The next category is the direct result of the architect who designed our school so that the parking lot is on the opposite side of the school from everyone's classrooms. We are only allowed to park on one side of Edson (street closest to everyone's classrooms) and Cassia (street in front of the school.) Most people don't want to park in the parking lot and then hike around the school. I park in the parking lot most of the time. Each morning I look outside and see the cars lining the street of Edson. The fire hydrant is directly outside the door. Each morning there is a car (and most of the time the same car) parked in front of the fire hydrant. If I am not mistaken, a car cannot be parked within 100 feet of a fire hydrant. I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it really does. Just because you are too lazy to walk around the school from the parking lot, does not give you the right to break the law!!! Do not park in front of the fire hydrant. I know this has no direct impact on me at all and I should not let it bother me, but it has, but now I have vented and I am going to get over it!!

Thanks for listening and watch for Superbowl pictures!!