School starts Monday!

I am so excited! Do I seem convincing enough? Actually I am not excited I have really enjoyed my unemployment. Most of the other teachers are saying how excited they are to come back and how bored they were during the summer...I am the exact opposite. I have decided to find a 95 year old man to marry who is loaded so I don't have to work anymore in life. If anyone knows a man fitting this description please let me know. I am not kidding. I would do anything to not have to work and live a life of luxury. It isn't that I don't like my job I actually love it but I am not ready for my summer to be over.

Church Callings

I was in my old ward for a year and a half before I was given a calling after months of begging and pleading. I have been in my new ward for one week and I already have one. I love my new ward!

I was tagged!

My sister Natalie tagged me so this is me using one word (sometimes I used more than just one)

Yourself: fun
Your partner: hiding
Your hair: under control
Your mother: stylish
Your father: kind
Favorite item: my computer
Dream last night: crazy
Favorite drink: diet coke
Dream car: Highlander
Dream home: mansion
The room you are in: bedroom
Your fear: midgets
Where you want to be in 10 years: mars
Who you hung out with last night: Jackson, Bennett, and Isaac
You're not: Lindsay Lohan
One of your wish list items: a new car
The last thing you did: read a vampire book
You are wearing: Del Sol Volleyball shirt
Your favorite weather: none
Your favorite book: Harry Potter
Last thing you ate: something greasy and unhealthy
Your life: in shambles..just kidding..kind of
Your mood: anticipatory
Your best friend: I don't want to hurt feelings...Isaac
What are you thinking about right now: unpacking
Your car: Rocco AKA Honda Civic
What are you doing at the moment: filling out this survey
Relationship status: very single
What is on your tv: So You Think You Can Dance (it was TIVOed)
When is the last time you laughed: in church today

I am tagging everyone who reads my blog..DO IT!

A post just for the sake of posting

I have nothing to say and I don't have any pictures to post, but I felt like posting. I have been in North Carolina since last Wednesday for training on socratic seminars. North Carolina was a beautiful place. We had all weekend off from the training so on Saturday we drove from Chapel Hill to Wilmington to go to the beach. We had lunch on the Cape Fear river and it was so pretty. The training itself was pretty lame, but I guess I did get a free vacation. I got home last night and I leave on Sunday for a week long training for AVID (this study skills type class I teach) in San Diego. I have been home for 5 days total this summer!

I am handy!

While I am at home I have been assigned the task of putting up new baseboards through our family room, dining room, living room, and entry. I decided to write out all the rooms so all of you understand the large amount of work I am doing. My mom and I started today and we have finished the family room, half the entry, and one wall each of the dining and living rooms. Hopefully we will be able to finish tomorrow...or the next day. Here are some pictures, but please do not enlarge them to look at them because you will see the gaps inbetween some of the boards. Don't worry those gaps are going to be filled in with spackel (sp?) and once they are painted you won't know they are there.

Cat Drama

I have been house-sitting for my parents for the last week. Every morning when I wake up I let the cat in to eat, then I put her out when I leave, then I let her back in when I get home, and then put her out when I go to bed. I feel like a lot of my life has been devoted to this cat and I have been a little bit annoyed with her. Well a few mornings ago I went to let her in and she wasn't there. I thought oh well maybe when I get home she would be around. Well after about two days I still had not seen her. I was starting to panic because I thought maybe she had died. Not that my parents would have cared because Penny is Stephanie's cat and I think my parents don't actually like her, but I still was stressed about if she had died and I would come across her body somewhere. On the third "missing" day I was about to leave when I saw Penny standing in her usual spot waiting to be let in. I thought I would commemorate this exciting event with a few pictures. I love how pleased Penny seems to be with the photo shoot.

A few pictures of Europe

I am finally posting some pictures from my Europe trip. Now these are just a few random pictures that might not actually best represent my trip and what I saw, but I thought I should only include pictures that I am in...since I know that is what you all want to see anyway. There will be more pictures to come and I do take requests if there is something you want to see more of.

The day we left I had strep throat and my nose wouldn't stop running. It was a great way to start the trip!


We went to the Neuschwanstein Castle south of Munich. This is the castle that Walt Disney based the Disneyland Castle after. We hiked to a bridge that overlooked the whole valley and it was worth the hike.


This picture was taken in Florence but it is for everybody who was forced to look for canvas belts with me when we were in Hawaii. Here I found an entire stand dedicated to canvas belts..don't worry I bought a few so I will never have to look for them again.


The typical "look I am holding up the leaning tower" pose.


Here is Bonnie, me, Amy, and Katie on a bridge in Venice.


The cute little town square in Sopron, Hungary. Hungary is a beautiful country and not at all what we were expecting.


I was trying to get a good picture on the St Charles bridge in Prague, but it was too windy and this is how all of them ended up. This is the only one where you can even see my face. For some reason the wind wasn't blowing in anyone else's picture just mine.


We went to a church in the Czech Republic that everything in it was made up of bones. My favorite was the Coat of Arms because it was literally made out of arm bones.


Me in front of the small section of the Berlin Wall that they have left up.


I am trying to be one of the comrades in a Communist statue in front of the Stasi (secret police) museum.


Me eating a hamburger in Hamburg, Germany. Please notice I am actually eating this hamburger in McDonalds. We looked all over Hamburg for hamburgers, but couldn't find any except for at McDonalds or Burger King. We probably just didn't look in the right places.