Summer!

First off I know, long time no blog. So there is no way humanly possible that I could catch up on everything so I am just going to put up some of the pictures I have taken this summer. That is all I can think of as a fast and easy update.

Lindsey, her kids and I all took a walk to Good Will (you know while they still lived at Dads house). Anne looks so cute walking all by herself with out a care in the world. :D

Lindsey was checking out and I was really board of shopping so I took Rachel to the hats and we took lots of pictures with different goofy hats! :D It was lots of fun!!!!

Emma looked too cute up on the fire place holding the puppy so I just HAD to take a picture.

And this, of course, is me and Joseph. We were at the Marcos Graduation and it just so happened to be raining! Weird that that would happen two years in a row when the norm is 100 for last Aug. Silly Joseph got really really cold and we couldn't stay to say hi to all our friends on the field cause he was almost convulsing cause he was so cold! :D

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I GOT A 99% ON MY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS TEST!!!!!!!!!! I MIGHT ACTUALLY PASS THE CLASS!!!!!! :D

Almost there...

I am almost done with classes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't even believe it. I have two more weeks of classes and then three days of finals and then I am headed back to the valley where I will have to find a job QUICK so I can make enough money to pay for my two summer classes. I am not sure where I will be living but I have 3 weeks to figure it out. Hopefully I will be able to pass all of my classes...it would not be fun at all if I had to retake Differential Equations or Modern geometry. Every other class I won't fail, it is just math that is giving me a hard time. Funny, not something extremely common for a math major....
In other news, for those of you who don't know, Karl Andersen left for his mission on Wednesday. I am sad that he lives so far away, I didn't get to see him before he left :(
Spring Break was so much fun and well needed. I stayed with Dallas and Natalie for a day, I got to go to the beach with Dad and Lindsey, I went spelunking with Mom, and I even got to spend the night with Afton and Mindy. But when we went to the beach I stepped on tar. And when we were in the cave I broke my camera!! Not cool!

Easter was ok. I think this is the first Easter my whole life where I haven't gone to see the Easter pageant!!!! Sad, so sad. The best part is that the whole family went with out me. I was not very happy about that :/ Oh! and I didn't even get candy! LAME!!!!!!
I made surprise cupcakes for my roommate Lanae for he birthday this past week. Everyone loved them and it made me feel special.
On Thursday I will be teaching again, but this time I will be teaching math to 7th graders at the Jr. High and then 20 mins later be at the Elementary teaching a chemistry lesson to the 5th graders. It is going to be a crazy day! I hope it doesn't make me too stressed. But that is the last crazy thing I have to do before finals.

I think that is all the random tid bits I can think of right now. Time for pictures!

Lindsey had a lot of fun playing in the sand with her girls. Rachel couldn't have been happier but Anne was deathly afraid of the ocean! This was the closest I could get her to the water. I asked her to but a feather in the sand castle, that was too much for her! She spent the rest of the day with Dad a safe distance away from the scary water. I love the concerned look on her face in this picture! It is so cute!

Precious Anne, safely far away from the water.

These are really...tender. I love the one of dad giving the cookie to Anne and all you can see is her little hand! SO CUTE!

Beautiful Hans on his 14th birthday. We found a hollow tree and it was just to much fun! I think they are happy mostly because at this point we had found our way out. I didn't even count how many times we turned around in that cave.
Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE MY FAMILY!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! :D

My Calling in Life

Today I taught again! And again it was so much fun. This time I taught 5th grade science. We had them make ice cream in plastic bags and then taught them about the three different phases of matter. I was a little nervous at first but that only lasted 5 mins into the lesson. I loved being around the kids, having them ask me questions and actually knowing the answers! One student asked me if I could spell some words for him...that put me on the spot! Luckily all he asked was liquid and chocolate, I think I got those two down. It is such a neat experience to have children look up to you in that way. I don't think I have ever been in a situation like that where children have so much respect for me. Anyways, it was so wonderful to see my hard work come together into a beautiful, well carried out lesson where the students actually learned something and had a good time doing it!! AND I WAS THEIR TEACHER! It was really weird being called Miss Turley but I would do it again in a heart beat...and I am going to!
The next lesson I will be teaching will be to the 7th graders and we will be talking about Volume. The next time I teach the 5th graders we are going to be taking about Force and Motion.

This is all made possible by the NAUTeach program up here at NAU. This program started in Texas (as UTeach) and is now starting to wriggle its way into the rest of the United States. This program is amazing! The first two classes get you into the class room so that you can know right away if teaching is right for you, and they even give you a stipend for taking the class. So at the end of this semester I will get $250 for taking a class I love. Our teacher was telling us the other day that tons and tons of schools applied to have the program come to their Universities...they only picked 12! So out of all the Universities country wide the one that was chosen just so happened to be in Arizona so I could still get my tuition waver and be close to home. I am so excited to be going to school to be a teacher!
Oh and a little side note for Diane(and anyone else who was wondering)...The job I had an interview for was a Summer Enrichment Program. If I get it I will be a TA for a science class. There will be three one week sessions were kids will come up and take the class. The best part is that at the end of each week I get to go on a field trip with the students. I am really excited for it but I don't know if I will get it or not. They told me as I was walking out of the interview that they would get back to me by the end of the week. That was a week ago! I am really worried that I won't get it but I am holding on to the hope that they are just behind and haven't gotten around to calling me back. :/
OH! Did I mention that I LOVE TEACHING!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! :D

Catching up

I guess I am over due for a post, it has almost been a month. Life right now is just peachy. I am only taking 11 credits so I have a lot of time on my hands. I did have 14 but last week I withdrew from my Elementary Number Theory class. It was a nightmare and I am sad to say I was not quite ready for it. So I will take it again in a year and hopefully by then I will have enough math background for everything to make sense. So with my new found free time I cook more, I am typing my journal, I started reading the third Eragon book, and I don't do my HW! :)
My goal for tomorrow is to actually get out of bed at 6:30 (or 7) and go running. I miss being able to sleep well and the solution to that problem it to exhaust myself and I have full confidence that getting up early and running will do just that.
This past week was amazing! I taught my first math lesson to REAL Jr High kids, I had my first job interview, and I planed out the classes I need to take for the next three semesters and now I know for sure that I will be able to get my teaching degree in three years! If everything works out the way I have planed I will graduate in May of 2011! :D That makes me really happy
I cannot wait for spring break and I am so excited to go home and see my family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that is about it...

SNOW!!!!

I was told I needed to post more so I am going to try but I am not making any promises. Today is snowed and snowed and snowed!!!!! It was crazy! We are all hoping for a snow day tomorrow which would not be too beneficial to me cause I only have one class. :( I have decided that there is nothing more beautiful than untouched snow! It is so beautiful, it reminds me why I decided to move up here. My roommates and I went sledding today, it was cold and hot and wonderful all at the same time. I don't think I have ever been so hot and so cold at the same time. We all got home and were covered in snow and all ready to go to bed. But we are still up watching movies eating popcorn, like we do every night!!!!

SOOO MUCH SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could not believe how much show was on me beanie by the time I got home! It was completely covered in snow and ice!

Grapefruit Diet

Yesterday we found out that we might be getting another roommate!!! We are all so excited to have a new friend and have less rent to pay! :) That was the highlight of my day yesterday, except we still don't know for sure. I am so tight on money right now, books are killing me and until my first paycheck comes in I am not going to have much money for anything. My budget breakfast had become home made granola and Grapefruit. :) Mom sent me up with a whole box of grapefruit and so did Lindsey. I just hope my roommates and I can eat them before they all go bad! :D

Oh and this is really funny I just thought I would share it with everyone. I took a whole bunch of picture one night right before I went home for winter break. I was just sitting on the couch looking through them and Anne was very interested in what I was doing. She was sitting next to me and when I got to this picture of Jerah she tried to do the same pose. It was so darn cute! Then later Rachel wanted to join in the fun so I got one of her too. Once again those girls are way to cute....I hope that won't get them into trouble when they are old enough to start breaking hearts. :P