Thumbs Down

I love my husband. He makes me laugh everyday. Now, you should know that I am in impatient driver. Well, Nathan is "an abide by every traffic law" type of driver. And if he we are driving and someone does something that he doesn't think is appropriate he gets upset and likes to tell me about how they are not good drivers. Well, I think he's found a way to let them know how he feels. He's been "preaching" his new philosophy whenever we're in the car:
There is no reason to flip someone off when you're driving because it just makes them mad and more likely to continue in their bad driving habit. A thumbs down, however, makes them think about it. If someone gets a thumbs down they think, "What? Did he just give me a thumbs down? Oh, :( thumbs down." And they feel bad about it. Unfortunately, no one ever actually sees you give them a thumbs down. Well, I have taken on this philosophy only not in my driving. If I don't like something I give a thumbs down and say "thumbs down". This has caught on at work and I even have some of my co-workers doing it as well. So if ever you are upset at something or don't like the situation, just give it a thumbs down.

New Job

I have a teaching job at Rigby High School!!! I will start teaching this fall! I'm so excited! I'll still work at Melaleuca during the summer, but I don't think I'll want to be working two jobs. Nathan has gone long enough without homemade dinners every night. Last night I made just some simple chicken and garlic bread and it was like I had made an amazing meal. I realized then that I have been slacking. It's just hard to want to start cooking at 8:00 pm.
Well, the main purpose for this post was to let everyone know I have a real live job.

Graduation and Princess Tea

Well, I graduated last Friday. I'm so happy to be done with school. Graduation at BYU-I is so great! It was short and spiritual. Elder M Russell Ballard spoke and he had a lot of good council. I'm now looking for a job and hopefully I'll find one near by. I've had interviews at North Fremont and Rigby. I'm hoping more so for Rigby just because the roads to North Fremont are awful during the winter. We'll see how everything goes since I have to wait about eight weeks to be fully certified! It's such a long process!

Saturday we had a Princess Tea Party. We wanted to have a princess party for my nieces since Adrienne and McKenna were in town. It turned into a fancy tea party. It was so funny, there were 3 little girls and one baby and then 10 adult women. We had so much fun though. We all dressed up in our fanciest dresses (a lot of us wore old formals) and got crowns from the dollar section at Target. We had sandwiches, vegetables, cream puffs, éclairs, and mini cheesecakes. And for the tea we had raspberry lemonade with sprite. The little girls were so cute in their outfits and being princesses. After we all ate (and took several pictures, most of which are not on my camera) we danced around the living room singing princess songs. It was fun to have an excuse to dress up.

Busy Busy Busy

I have been pretty busy with work and student teaching. I recently was doing customer service training at work so I was at work until 10pm every night. What a pain. Now I'm just finishing up my student work sample. Pretty much I go in front of a panel and they decide if I can graduate. I have nightmares that they tell my it's all been a lie and I have to do student teaching again and I'll never graduate! NOOO!!!
However, every time I think about the fact that I just have one more week of teaching, a week of observation, and then I'm done, I start dancing and get a big smile on my face! People around me probably think I'm nuts but it really is exciting. I'll actually have a career (even if it is one with a low salary).
We had a fun Easter weekend. Since it was the same weekend as my birthday, Nathan took me out of town just for a fun little weekend. We went to the rodeo (my hair was not big enough for me to fit in) and then got a hotel and just had a fun weekend of swimming. On Sunday, we went to Nathan's grandparent's house for lunch and then my parents' house for dinner. My niece is going to have a princess tea party so we were finding princess dresses to wear. I'll have to post the pictures because I was able to get my sister and my mom to dress up. We look so cute.

I've been a bad blogger

My sister Jessica, who has been an incredibly faithful blogger, has pointed out to me that I need to update my blog. I have to just tell you that I haven't really had much to blog about. I rarely get to my computer lately except to type a lesson plan. My student teaching has been going great. I really enjoy my students. It's pretty funny teaching junior high students. I remember being that age. I just have to remember that when I'm teaching them because it's easy to get frustrated, but I know I probably was the same way.
Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures right now. I will try to come up with something clever to blog next time.

so, what day do you think we'll get off next week?

There has been a snow day once a week for the last 5 weeks I'm sure. It is crazy. It's starting to mess up my schedule. I'll admit it's nice to have a day off, but I get more behind because of it. Oh well, I get my house clean.
It was nice to have today off because it is Nathan's birthday so I was able to get things ready while he was at school. We had a wonderful day together of playing games, dancing, goofing off, etc. We went to eat at Pizza Hut for his birthday dinner and then came home for cheesecake and presents. His parents came up and it was nice to visit. Nathan is pretty excited because he got some video games he's been dieing for. Now I get to hear "Tiff! Look at this!" while he's playing a game and I'm trying to do something else (i.e. blog). I will admit, if he pulls out Zelda or Mario Galaxy, I will watch freely because I love those games. Oh...look at that. Looks like we're going to play a little Majora's Mask (an old zelda game). Enjoy the cold.