Last weekend my five year old niece was in a dance competition with her dance troupe. I’ve been to one performance at the Galleria Mall and really enjoyed it so when my sister told me about this, I totally wanted to go. So both days I drove down to Cashman Center to watch Sarah perform. I was loving it! Not only did I enjoy watching Sarah, but there are a ton of dang talented kids out there. (I believe this is why I am addicted to So You Think You Can Dance..I love to watch dancing!) So anyway, here are some pictures from last weekend. I had a great time cheering for her!

So it has been a while since I had a girls night (ok I take that back, Michelle, Brittany, and I had one the other week). But, I mean a girls night where you go to some crazy restaurant and have some fun. Andrea rallied up the girls and we all headed down to Margaritaville. I had never been there. Of course, I loved it because of the beach theme, plus the fact that my dad has made me listen to every Jimmy Buffet song out there! Here are some pics:

I told my sister that I am going to start blogging about being a teacher because I don’t have any kids and my single life is a drag right now. Basically I will do this to help me remember how to raise my kids when I actually do settle down to have kids.

It’s teacher appreciation week and so my kids were told in their math class to make a card for one of their teachers, so in my mailbox today I got a stack of them. So cute.

Here are some quotes:

“All of my teachers are wonderful, but I choose you because our class has been giving you a hard time this week. I am sorry for that. You’re a great teacher.”

“You were so nice this year. You didn’t really give that much homework. You let us toilet paper Mr. Fogler’s classroom. Thank you Ms. Bray.”

“Out of all my teachers, you are my favorite. Thank you for being my science teacher.”

“Dear Ms. Bray. I picked you out of all of my teachers. That means you are my fav! OH YEAH! I apologize for being late to class, but believe me, I try my hardest to get there on time. Sorry its sucky. I would write more but we only had 15 minutes.”
(She was on time today.)

“You are the coolest teacher that I know of.”

“I really appreciate what you have done for us through the whole year. Science is my favorite class.”

“Thank you for everything. You are my #1 favorite teacher.” (He also drew a random chicken in Paris on my card.)

“Thank you for helping me out with my work.”

“You are a very bright, colorful, and kind teacher. I am glad I had you as a teacher.”

“Science is probably one of the best subjects ever. Everything we do in your class is fun! No matter what we do it is never boring. The crazy conversations we have are hilarious.”

“You rock! For the best teacher ever. I present you with this award.” (She made a pin out of notebook paper with a #1 on it.) “P.S. Please don’t move.”

“Thank you for all the good times in class. Especially all the labs that we have. My favorite lab was when we did the cookie dough lab. Thank you for everything.”

“You have taught me a lot!”

“Yay for Bray! I guess this week we are supposed to like, appreciate teachers. You’re a teacher, so I guess you would like some appreciation. At least I picked you over Mr. Fogler. Well, anyway, you’re a radtastic teacher! Yay for Bray! I suppose I’ll tone down my hyperness in your class. Maaayyyybeee.”

I just wanted to post some pics of my new place for all of those people who haven’t seen it. My room rocks!

So you all probably knew this but I am totally amazed by a home remedy Liesl told me. Yesterday I got up to wash my hair and my hair felt so disgusting! It was really greasy and all clumpy. So I hurried and tried to fix it for school (basically I wore a ponytail and looked like I had just rolled out of bed the rest of the day).

So I texted Liesl (my amazing hairdresser friend) and asked her whatI should do. She told me to take some baking soda and add it to my shampoo and then scrub it about three times, just the area where its all greasy. Then I was to only condition the tips of my hair.

It totally works! My hair felt so nice today. It wasn’t greasy at all and it looked kind of like it does after it gets done at the salon.

Isn’t baking soda amazing?

I’ve been in a bad mood all day. I woke up really mad cause I went to bed really mad so I thought I would share a funny story so that I (and if you are in a bad mood) could get out of my grumpy mood.

So Saturday night, Britt and I decide to go to an Institute dance. Yes, I know….we were bored. So we get all primped up and drive across town. Miles decided to meet us there. When we pull up and get out of the car, Miles jumps out and looks in (we see about maybe 20 people and thats it) and cusses really loud! That’s not the story but if you know Miles, that is so him.

So after the dance we decided to go to Red Rock Casino to watch a show and we kind of got side tracked and ended up at the grocery store because we were cooking a Sunday dinner the following night. I’m so tired I was “drunk tired” (You know when you get so tired EVERYTHING is funny..) walking through Albertson’s trying to carry a handful of a lot of stuff. So we go to check out. I asked the guy how he was doing and he goes “Better now.” He kind of creeped me out so I hurried and bought my stuff and told Britt I was going to go return the cart.

So the guy tells Brittany that her hair flatters her face and that he liked it. He then goes “That pasta looks delicious..I love this pasta, may I ask how you are going to prepare it?” Brittany then tells him that she is making pasta salad and he goes “I like that. Then again anything those hands prepare would be amazing.” AHHH!! Then he asked her how tall she was and then goes “It fits you well.” And then tells her e is not flirting, just being courteous.

All I heard was him yelling out after she left that “He hopes to see her again”. Needless to say she was angry at me for taking the cart back.

My sister called me the other day and was telling me about a book that someone recommended for her to read. It’s called “21 Days to Christ”. We decided to start a book club where we read a book at the same time and talk about it. I am totaly blown away and I have only read three chapters!

Not only has this time in my life been very humbling, but reading this has totally helped me with the whole “worrying about what other people think or do” mentality. All my life I have had that struggle and in a nutshell this book has taught me to quit it!

Is it sad that I quoted it in one of my classes the other night too? 🙂 But anyway, go get it. It has been such a comfort to me.

I just threw this together in one second. This week I have been around my family a lot, especially my brother and sister. It has been so fun. We went to a show on Wednesday night and then to dinner and had a blast (It was Dave’s birthday!). Then today my nephew and my dad were baptised and I got to spend more time with them.

We were thinking back about how far we have come. Eighteen years ago our family was in a totally different situation. I was just baptised Mormon along with my sister and mom. A year later my brother and his best friend were baptised. Seventeen years later, we all live in Vegas and we get to watch my nephews and my dad get baptised. It’s just funny…there’s so many stories behind our family. It reminds me of this quote:

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO what a ride!”. That’s my family.

So my ex got me back this week! Monday afternoon I got a phone call from him at exactly 2:11 when school lets out. See, I went to my new school and he went to his new school so neither of us were on campus. He told me I better go to school early on Tuesday..and that was basically it. I totally thought he was bluffing!

So I walk in my room in the morning and ALL of my desks are moved. One of them is completely flipped over (let me remind you I teach science and the tables are VERY heavy!). There is confetti EVERYWHERE!, paper towels from the ceiling, my books are everywhere, and silly string all over my pictures, posters, etc. Not to mention, all week I have been finding confetti in EVERY drawer in my classroom. Today I opened my lab cabinet and pulled out a paper and all this confetti fell on top of me!!!

Pictures coming soon…pretty much the silly string is crusted to my walls and good luck to the teacher next year that has my classroom…she’s gonna have confetti on everything!

Let me know if you have any ideas.

A- Attached or single: Single
B- Best Friend: Liesl, Jen, Britt, Michelle
C-Cake or Pie: Cake
D- Day of Choice: Sunday
E-Essential Items- Cell Phone, My Paycheck, and My Car
F-Favorite Color: Blue, Green, and Pink
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Worms
H- Hometown: Las Vegas, NV
I- Indulgence(s): Crystal Lite Fruit Punch
K-Kids: I teach 180.
L-Life is incomplete without: My Testimony.
M- Marriage Date: Six Months.
N- Number of Siblings: One brother and one sister.
O- Oranges or Apples: Oranges
P- Phobias or Fears: I worry too much about what other people think!
Q- Quote(s): “No one can make you feel inferior, without your consent.”
R- Reason To Smile: Love.
S- Season: Summer! Summer! Summertime!
T- Tag: Liesl.
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I pretty much tell everyone everything.
V- Veggies or Fruit: Fruit.
W- Worst Habit: Paranoia.
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: X-rays
Y- Your Favorite Food: Seafood!
Z: Zodiac: Gemini