Life is Good!

Everyone has been asking how my new job is going and it's good!  So far I am really liking it.  Last week I helped out in the special ed. classroom b/c the kindergartners had not started yet.  I had a lot of fun working with this one 3rd grade girl.  She is really cute and we have become good friends.  I will still get to see her every day because I am always her lunch buddy.  On Friday we even had a princess party with the 2 girls that were there.  We watched "Tangled", made necklaces, and colored Disney Princesses.  The whole time I was thinking "I actually get paid for this???"

Today I spent my time in the kindergarten with the kids I will be helping from now on.  I help one little boy in a wheelchair get around the classroom and the rest of my time is spent as an aid helping out the whole class.  The day went well and I'm excited to get to know the kindergartners better.

I am loving working just part time!  The hours are really fabulous.  It's so nice to be able to come home and relax (and sometimes clean & run errands).  It is exactly what I wanted.  I can't wait til we move and I can walk to work!

As for our house, it is going to be done this week!  We checked it out yesterday and the inside is basically finished.  They are now working on the landscaping.  We do our final walk through on Friday to make sure everything is how we want it.  We are getting so excited!  I think our plan is to move Labor Day weekend.

I know I already posted about it, but we had a great anniversary!  The restaurant we went to was awesome.  We loved it.  It's a steakhouse but they also have fondue.  Dan got steak and I got shrimp and scallops.  We cooked them on these 700 degree rocks at our table.  It's neat because every bite is warm and you can cook your food to the doneness that you want.  We also tried the chocolate fondue and loved it!  I think next time I just want to go for the fondue :).

Dan cooking his steak.

Yummy fondue!!!

We've been super busy lately, actually.  Just this past weekend we had some good friends stay with us and we all went to Zions together.  It was an awesome trip!  I will have to post pictures soon.  Other than that we are just focusing on working and moving.

artists

I have been meaning to post this for at least a week now... Anyway, a few weeks ago Dan and I decided to go to Color Me Mine for our date night! I have always wanted to go there and the opportunity finally arose. It happened to be a rainy Saturday night and it was the only indoor activity that sounded fun to us, plus Saturday nights are 2 for 1 night.

Here we are in the process (it was actually quite relaxing, I think).

(So far it looks like i've done nothing, but i actually painted 2 coats of white at this point)

And our final projects...

Dan's

Mine

We had a lot of fun! Although if you do go, I highly suggest going when it's 2 for 1 (it wasn't even busy) and know the projects are not very cheap. I'm guessing we'll never do it again, but it was fun to try once.

Hello June!

It's June! I love June! June means summer! To kick off June, I thought I'd start w/ a long blog post. The blog post is about May. Goodbye May, thanks for the long weekend.

It was a fun, long weekend :). On Friday we went mini golfing @ Trafalga. I can't tell you how many times we have gone to Trafalga to play mini golf and ended up just playing arcade games instead because the line for mini golf is too long. But this time we did it, we stood in the long line! Plus I've never done their indoor course, only their outdoor course. So here we are (you can't really tell we're at the mini golf place- but we are!)


On Saturday we went to lunch with my sister, Noelle. We went to Magleby's Fresh, which we love! It is one of my favorite lunch spots in Provo. Then I took Noelle shopping for some wedding stuff.

I also made a strawberry pie this weekend! It was so yummy. I have been wanting to make one for a long time, so I finally did. It was super easy too! I even took a pic b/c I was proud of myself for being so domestic :).


On Memorial Day we had a family BBQ. It was so much fun! I wish I had taken pictures (I'm hoping to get some from my sister). We had a lot of fun eating, chatting, and playing w/ our nephews. We also made sure to put up our American Flag (we got one for our wedding, but never put it up before).

And one last thing I did, I got us tickets to Stadium of Fire!

I'm really excited about it. For those that don't know, it's a huge fireworks show/concert on the 4th of July in Provo. This year the main performer is Carrie Underwood. We both think she is pretty good (not huge fans or anything) definitely one of the better American Idol winners. But hey, the last time I went the performer was Taylor Hicks (who? haha... one of the not so great American Idol winners...) and I still had a fun time! The fireworks they do are awesome. I'm excited b/c I tried to get us tickets a while ago, but all of the cheap ones were sold out (I really didn't want to pay a ton). But then luckily I got an email from them saying they released even more tickets last week and they were even cheaper! Yay! So I got them! If you wanna go, maybe they still have some left. Now I'm getting excited for 4th of July (it's Dan's favorite holiday). Plus we get to spend it w/ my parents too! Hooray! Maybe I can convince them to go to the big Provo parade w/ us :).

life in Provo

I'm blogging about our weekend. Cuz weekends are usually the time when we break out of our school/work routine and do something fun! However, this weekend drove us both a little crazy.

Ok Friday night we decided was date night. We went to pizza factory for dinner and ate those delicious bread twists they have! After dinner we were planning on going ice skating at the peaks. We always say we are going to go ice skating because Dan used to play hockey and I am bad at ice skating, so I figure I could used a lesson. Well... after dinner my stomach started feeling sickish-- ice skating = bad idea. So we went home and watched Gilmore Girls and YES, my husband does watch Gilmore Girls with me... I know, I know, i truly do have the best husband in the world :) we also worked on this puzzle I got at Smith's for $2.99. Lately we have been big into puzzles. I think they are so fun! Especially when you put a lot together... you totally feel great about yourself! It's a fun thing to do together too. So we did the puzzle (as a side note, we finished that puzzle Sunday and bought another one yesterday!)

Saturday night I decided that we might as well go ice skating since we didn't get to the night before. Dan and I started to drive to the rink (about 1 min. from our house) and we realized we did not have our buy one get one free coupon. So we turned around, I ran in and got it and once back in the car realized it was only good april- october. Lame! We get to the peaks and the parking lot was full! So Dan parked in basically the last spot in the whole lot. We started walking towards the front door and i realized how cold it was outside and how i didn't want to be cold! haha... so i told Dan i didn't wanna go ice skating anymore! (yep, pretty sure this is the part where i started to drive him crazy). He was patient with me though and asked what i would like to do instead. I threw out some ideas and we decided on bowling.

Neither of us have been bowling since last December, for Dan's birthday. So we went to the Wilk at BYU, but the parking lot was full, again! Apparently some dance show was going on, so there was no where to park. Dan wanted to go park a few blocks away, but i was too lazy to walk that far (remember it was COLD)!

So we decided to try a different bowling alley, Miracle Bowl. We got there and the lanes were full. The man said we could wait about 10- 15 min. We didn't really want to wait, so we thought we could play pool at the tables in the corner. Apparently to play pool you have to give a $10 deposit... in cash... well we didn't have cash. So we left!

Both of us were pretty sick of looking for places to go at this point... but we really didn't want to go home. So we drove down State Street and ended up at the Nickelcade. Which surprisingly was not packed! We played all the classics (including my favorite, Dr. Mario). Nickelcade has always been a favorite date spot of mine. So yay for the Nickelcade, saved our Saturday night!

Anyway, Dan and I came to the conclusion that Provo just doesn't have enough things to do for all of the students in the area. So either Provo gets more fun stuff to do or we move to a big city that always has something going on!

catching up

It feels like I haven't blogged for a long time. I always thought that I had an interesting life and that I would have tons to say, but I usually don't even know what to blog about! So here are some random thoughts/updates on what we have been doing....

I have found that I am kind of obsessed with changing my blog background. There are just so many cute ones! I can hardly wait til Christmas comes so I can put up a Christmas one... I'm waiting until after Thanksgiving to do so, although I will admit that I am currently listening to Christmas music! Oh and I decided that I want to learn how to make my own blog backgrounds, anyone know what program the blog background maker people use? It can't be that hard, right??? I've been wanting to make a header for my blog also, so it's not so boring looking, I've got to figure that one out too.

Last weekend Dan and I went on a date! And it was fun! I love going on dates (which we do regularly)! We decided to try out this Mexican restaurant that we always see in Provo on Center Street. It's called Joe Vera's (Dan, did I get the name right???). It was actually really good! And my favorite part was they put the salsa in this cute little bottle. We also saw Dan's ex-girlfriend (little did we know, she works there). I made sure my gorgeous diamond ring was visible at all times :) After dinner we went and saw the musical, "Aida". My work gave me free tickets, so we figured we might as well! We were on the 2nd row and VERY close to the action... it ended up being pretty good. We weren't all that impressed with the music, but the story was good. Although the main characters who were supposed to be in love had probably a 15 year age difference, which made it harder to believe.

I'm excited because I think I have school all figured out. I was planning on graduating in April without a teaching certificate, but then I found out that I will probably be able to student teach in the summer! So I can graduate in August, which works out perfectly for us, because our housing contract is up in August and we don't really want to sign for another year. Then we can just see where Dan's job takes us. I'm really excited because if I do get to student teach during the summer, it will most likely be at the BYU kindergarten! How great is that? Then I don't have to drive far away just to teach. I'm hoping it works out! I think I found out in January or February.

And last news for the day.... I lost my umbrella this week... and it's raining right now :( I brought it to school Monday, but must have left it in the library or something. I am really not looking forward to walking home in the rain.... oh well!

temple and ice cream night!

So last night Dan and I went to the temple and did sealings. It was really fun, because it was my first time back to the temple since we got married. And I was soooo excited we didn't even have to wait! For those of you who have done baptisms in the Provo Temple, you know you wait at least an hour! But it was great, we walked right in! Once we were done, I was in the dressing room changing and i had this great idea, that we should go get ice cream! I walked out of the dressing room and as we were leaving the temple (which just happened to be at the perfect time- there was a gorgeous sunset!) i turned to Dan and said "i have a good idea!"
He responded "go get ice cream?"
I was like "YES!!! How did you know???"
We both must have been inspired :) He then asked if i wanted to try out Subzero, which is so funny, because that is the exact same place i was thinking of! Yep, made for each other :)
So we went to subzero and it was good! If you haven't been there, you should try it. See, they stir up the ice cream right in front of you and then they freeze it with liquid nitrogen, it's kind of exciting. It's sort of like cold stone, where you pick your ice cream flavor and your mix in. I got marshmallow creme ice cream and brownies, it was delicious! As an added perk, wednesday means 25 cent waffle bowls! I love waffle bowls! We also used our starving student card, meaning we got a buy 1 get 1 free deal- i love our starving student card!
So anyway, we decided it's gonna be a new tradition-- the temple and ice cream once a month. i'm so excited!

mini golf

So yesterday afternoon Dan and I decided to go out and do something fun. We have this starving student card that we bought which gives us all these deals at different places in the area, so whenever we decide to go out, we always have to look at the card. I searched through the card and found this place called "Liberty Land." Ok, so... we've seen this place off the freeway (it's hard to miss a replica of Mt. Rushmore) and we've always thought it looked really lame, but we just had to try it. Just so in the future when we drive by we could say we've been there.
After driving for a while and taking a few wrong turns, we found the place. We looked around and it's really just an amusement park for little kids. I'm pretty sure we couldn't even fit on any of the rides. But luckily there was mini golf and our card just happened to have a buy one get one free deal.
Honestly, Dan and i seem to go mini golfing a lot. Which i'm not really sure why, because i'm pretty bad at it. We've even had to stop taking score, because i get sick of hearing how much i've lost by. And usually Dan just cheats for me and puts my ball in the hole just so we can move to the next hole. But alas, we played mini golf again. Oh and every time we go my ball always ends up in crazy places off the green... you know, in the water, in the rocks, across the park by the merry go round.... yup, that's my hot pink ball! And then my awesome husband always chases it for me because i'm too embarrassed to go running after it myself. Yesterday was no different, Dan was nice enough to run across the park to retrieve my ball for me! Anyway, the course was pretty fun (you even get to golf inside mt. rushmore) and i'm pretty sure we tied :) oh and the jamba juice afterwards really completed the fun saturday afternoon!