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

These were taken a month ago on my Spring Break trip, but I thought I would post them anyway! 🙂

The last month or so I have been so confused with things and feeling like I was being put through the ringer. I lost a friendship that was really important to me and it sent me into a tail spin. I’ve questioned a lot of things about myself and have learned so much. I feel like I am growing up. Well…sort of..haha. (See below.)

So I pulled my first prank today. All week these three students I have had been bugging me to get my ex back at school. My ex and I are pretty good friends now so I was willing to have a little fun with it. So today was the day. This morning I emailed a fellow staff member that has a master key to the school and asked her if I could borrow it. She totally let me have it. Then I emailed my ex on the school mail and asked him if he could come to my room for lunch because I did something bad and wanted to talk to him about. Poor thing. He’s been so good about talking to me lately that I totally took advantage of that. He wrote back and said “Of course”. So I knew I had a ten minute window at least cause he is all the way across campus. So as soon as the lunch bell rang, the three boys go running to my room and grab toilet paper that I had ready for them. I sneak outside and watch my ex leave his classroom and walk to the cafeteria. So we book it down the parking lot to his room. All of my other students are watching me run across campus. I open the door, let the kids in, and the totally destoy the room. Toilet paper everywhere……his desk, through the ceiling tiles, and then they wrote on the board “Your car is next”. I lock the door and send the kids to the cafeteria. So I totally run into my ex on the way back! I had to play it off that I had to run back to my classroom and told him I would talk to him later. Long story short, the dean found out! But thank goodness my ex was a good sport and totally let it slide.

So I am expecting a backlash…let’s see what happens.

So I found a survey, so here it goes:

10 years ago
– I was graduating high school! AH!
– I was deciding on whether to move to New York or not.
– I was working at Hogi Yogi with Adam and Chris and having a lot of fun.

Snacks I enjoy
– Crystal Lite Fruit Punch
– Chocolate
– Sheridan’s Grants Grosshopper
– Triscuits

Five things on my to-do-list today
Considering it is 11 at night I will list tomorrow’s stuff:
-Sleep in
-Decorate my new room
-Go to the gym
-Buy Noodles food
-Clean my dad’s house

Things I would do if I were suddenly made a billionaire
– Buy a house
– Buy a vacation home
– Buy tons of clothes!
– Invest money
– Buy stuff for my family
– Go to South Africa an help people

Three of my bad habits
– I’m way too emotional.
– I hate change!
– I eat when I am upset.

Jobs I have had
– Day care worker
– Hogi Yogi
– Delivery girl
– Cashier
– Walt Disney World Cast Member
– Science Teacher
– Retail
– File clerk

Things people don’t know about me
– I weighed almost 200 pounds in high school.
– I used to be in community theatre when I was little and also danced at Indian pow wows.
– I love Hannah Montana.

Today I had it. I have heard so many mean things from people saying stuff to me, or to my family, or to my friends and I was so mad. And I got so mad at everything!! But then I started thinking about something, especially after a talk with my coworker today. Through all the trials that I have been through, my beliefs have been my one constant thing. Even when I get so angry and I want to give up, if someone were to ask me to deny my beliefs, I could not. I’ve even thought about why things happened or why God lets bad things happen to people and I still could not be the least bit angry at Him.

Even if I feel like the crappiest person ever sometimes, I do know that I am human.
I wanted to share this with you all. I’ve been all mopey the last few days, but I’ve played this a few times and it gives me hope. I loved President Hinckley just like a lot of people. The one thing I liked about him is that he made me feel real. When I watch this, I see him with all the same emotions we all go through. He was human too, yet such an example. It made think about my life and the important things. He makes me want to be a better person and even though I screw up a lot, I don’t feel like a complete failure. I thank him for giving me hope about myself when others make me feel so low about myself. What a great guy!

So with the way things have been going lately, I am again overdue for a vacation (even though I did take off to Utah last week, but hey, one more road trip won’t hurt!). My mom and I are taking off tomorrow to sunny California. I am SO excited. We are heading to the beach or IKEA or any other random spot. Wednesday we are heading off to DISNEY! I’ve been to that place three times now this year and I can’t get enough of it. It will be great.

The best part is our hotel is walking distance from Bubba Gump, which is like the best seafood place in the world. I’ve been to the one in New Orleans and San Fran and now I am marking down one more for Anaheim. My life’s goal is to go to all of them (well, not really but that would be really cool). Hmmm.. maybe I should be a food critic.

But anyway, I am very happy to get away phone free and boy free. I’ve been a little upset about losing a dear friend of mine and it’s been making me crazy. I get SO emotional about things. So here’s to a GREAT road trip with GREAT food and GREAT fun!

So Brittany posted this video on facebook. The main guy singing is Nate Smith. He has the most hilarious brothers. You probably have seen Ike in all my Halloween pictures, he is the one with the massive beard. Anyway, I love those boys! (I want to marry one of them..secretly..) Anyway, I thought you all would enjoy the video.