Happy Birthday Emmy & Owen

The twins are celebrating their first birthday today. They have both changed so much during the past year. We love seeing their personalities develop. We feel so blessed to have such adorable nephews and the cutest niece. WE LOVE YOU!!! To see more about Emmy & Owen, check out Jenn's blog. She puts together some great birthday videos!

Highschool . . . It's been a long time!

I was talking to my mom this weekend and she was telling me how the high school drill team went to state competition last weekend. This got me thinking about good old Carbon High! I thought I would get on their website just to see what was new. They actually have a pretty good website now. Carbon High Website

I missed seeing some of the teachers who are gone now but was interested to see what everyone else was doing and who the new teachers are. When did Coach Bean become the Vice Principal? (weird) And what happened to Principal Cox? Did Mr. Krompel retire? Did Coach Herrick move? These are all questions I asked myself.

Anyway, it brought back some great memories of those years (although I was grateful to be spending 1/2 day at CEU during Senior year) Thanks to all you friends who made it so much fun!

Cute Kindergarteners

On Fridays Renae and I get our classes together for about 15 minutes of music time. This month we are focusing on Valentine's Day and President's Day. We just finished singing the song "I'm proud to be an American, for at least I know I'm free . . . " when Renae asked the kids who the people are that die for our country.

As the students shouted out their answers, the top three were "Jesus", "President Hinckley", and "My Grandpa"!!! We had a good laugh about that, then talked to them about the soldiers!!!

Nick and I are the emergency preparedness couple for our ward, so we were in charge of filling slots for the Stake blood drive. Nick had never given blood before, so I challenged him to give it a try.

Here is Nick's history: He gets his blood drawn, he faints. He watches someone else bleed, he faints. He THINKS about giving blood, he faints.

Needless to say, I had hoped we could give blood at the same time so that I could be there by him and try to distract him. Unfortunately, he got in a couple of people before me. When I came out of the questioning "room" I was surprised to see him still in the chair giving blood. I sat and waited for another chair to open up and watched as the nurse took great care of him. One chair became free and was filled by the guy before me and I waited even longer. Finally, they set me up in the chair next to Nick and got me going. I gave my pint, was unhooked, ate my yummy cookies and juice, then read 2 chapters more in my book.

Eventually, the nurses decided that around 40 minutes was long enough and decided that even though he hadn't yet filled the entire bag yet, he could be untethered! He got so nervous before giving blood, that when they checked his blood pressure, it was surprisingly low. I guess that and having to use a smaller vein just caused the blood to go "drip, drip, drip"!

I'm not sure if he'll be excited to give blood again, but at least he didn't pass out this time--I am very proud!

Book Fair

I love the book fair! I remember when they would have them at Durrant. I LOVED to go look at the books, pencils and gadgets. The walls of my room were adorned with some of the cheesy posters . . . kittens cuddling in a hat, horses trotting in a fields, and more! I got finished a little early with my parent/teacher conferences and spent an hour looking at the books. What fun!!! I enjoyed picking books out for my classroom (especially because parents were paying for them) and also got some fun books of my own.

Parent Conferences

This week is parent conference time. With twice the number of students as the rest of the grades, Renae and I get to pull 4 days in a row instead of 2--bummer. But, I do have the best husband ever! After a long, long night of parent conferences I came home to a wonderful dinner. I would very likely starve without him (he makes me lunches too!) We had a lot of laughs about things I have found out about my students while talking to their parents--kids are so funny! Only two more nights of this late-night craziness and then it will be back to business as usual :)