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! :)

This and That

Well, again, not much happening at the moment, but I thought I should post something! I am currently off track for one more week...no, I did not go anywhere this time, so it has kind of been weird. I am pretty sure I am annoying my mother being around all of the time, but on the other hand, I run a LOT of errands for her while she is working away!!!

Regardless, it has been nice just not doing ANYTHING!!! The only thing that I had to do was take a test called the PRAXIS. It is one of the hoops I have to jump through to be a teacher. I have to pass this test within the first 3 years of teaching, so I am hoping I passed! Otherwise I have been sleeping in, reading, running errands, and I started a quilt that I have had the fabric for since my birthday in August. It is VERY cute material and I have it to where I can start sewing it together. As soon as I do that, I will post pictures!

I have also been thinking about going back to school to get a Master's Degree. I wasn't really planning on doing it so soon, but I want to get it done so that I don't forget how to be a student myself!!! I also want more job options as well. I want to be "specialized" in something so I am not doing the same thing my whole life. I was thinking about special education, but now I am thinking more about reading and literacy. I love reading and always have, so I think I would just love to learn more about helping kids to read, especially the struggling ones. I have been researching schools all around the country and have found a few that offer that type of degree online, but all of them are so EXPENSIVE!! So, I am kind of scared to start anything because it is a big commitment to spend that much money. If you know me, I am definitely not a big spender of money and I am not in debt right now, so that is why it is so scary! However, I think it would be worth it in the end! I will have to keep you posted on how all of that turns out.

Anyway, in the meantime, I am just waiting to hear if I am staying where I am at or not for next year. I am pretty sure I have a job, I just don't know what or where yet. My principal said that as of right now, I am in the same grade and on the same track for next year, but they are doing a lot of administrative cuts in the District so that may or may not trickle down to affect me, because some of the administration may go back to being teachers. Ya, lovely, I know. I wish they would just hurry up and make a decision already so I can make plans for sure next year!!! It is pretty stressful at my work because of all of this, so I am glad to not be there at the moment.

Well, 8 weeks and counting starting next week for me and this class I have...yes, I am quite ready to finish this year and pass them along...sad I know, but I can't hide my stress of trying to manage this group anymore!!! They are crazy, but I guess that is better than no personality at all and I have learned quite a lot! :0