Summertime Fun!

Don't ask me where the last four weeks have gone! Crazy how time flies! I am really enjoying not doing a whole lot because I know I am going to be so busy in a couple of weeks! :)

Here are some crafts I have been working on:

This is actually an Upper Case Lettering sticker that my friend, Candyce, gave me for Christmas last year and I found it the other day and decided to get crafty! My original idea was to find a cute wooden board, paint it, then put this on, but when I couldn't find one my clever mother told me to get a piece of tagboard and fabric and modge podge the fabric on the tagboard. Then I put the sticker on there and found a cute frame, which I spray painted to match it. It is now hanging in my room and I love it! Thanks Candyce! :)





Up next is the quilt I started in April. I got all the blocks done in April and I just pulled them all out again this week and I have become quite the sewing maniac (Sorry mom and dad that the house is a sewing mess!). I still have one more border and the backing to sew together before it is quilted, but it is coming along nicely! I hope to have it ready to quilt by the time I go back to work!:)









This is the material I am using for the back of of the quilt. Nice and bright like the front! :)


And what do you think I am going to do next? You've got it....ANOTHER quilt! :) I already bought the kit at Material Girls while I was there last week and am soooo excited to start it! It is tooo stinking cute! I have become quite a quilting monster!



Oh and I have these cute little charm packs that my mom got me from Florida in March....what to make out of them??? HMMM...

Hallelujah!!!!

I'M DONE!!! You have no idea how excited I am to be done with this school year. WOW! It was one crazy ride, but I wouldn't change it because I learned so much about teaching and managing kids in the classroom. When it comes down to it, they are all just kids and I really did like all of them, it just was crazy when they all got put together! I am so ready to start fresh again in August.

This last week was full of craziness and fun, but I would say the highlight was going to the sneak peek of Eclipse on Tuesday night with my family and a big group of friends. SUCH A GREAT MOVIE!!! I loved the first two movies in the Twilight Saga, but man, this movie blew them out of the water! A lot better acting and great, cheesy lines that made me bust out laughing. Not to mention it was just fun being with all the people I was with! I also ended up making a shirt to wear to it, so I do have a few pictures of that night.




This is a picture with all of us with our vampire teeth that we recieved as a door prize for going. If you can't tell, my shirt has a wolf howling at the moon and the back of it has "Team Jacob" on it. So nerdy but fun! :)

Since I have been a horrible blogger lately, I will give a little update from what happened since last time I wrote. I passed the PRAXIS test I took in April and even got a fancy certificate in the mail saying that I placed in the top 15% of all test takers. WAHOO! :) Who knew? My job is also safe and I will be teaching 4th grade D track again at the same school. Yeah! I will be starting a reading endorsement/master's degree as well, in August, that is through the University of Utah and is a lot cheaper and closer to home than all of those other places I was looking at. The only downfall is that it isn't online, might take longer, and I heard that the U is harder than other places. Oh well! It is worth a try! So my life just might get a little crazy this next year, but I might as well get some more education while I can! :)

As for my 6 week summer, I don't have a lot planned, but I am excited just to sleep in and relax! I get to take care of the class hermit crabs (oh joy!) and am looking forward to finishing the quilt I started in April and reading a few good books! I may go to Jackson Hole or someplace like that with some friends and also to Wyoming with my family the first week in August as well. Oh so much fun! :)