We bought our plane tickets yesterday for DC. WOWZA it's really happening!
Also, this happened the other day:
Me: "I had a dream last night that we forgot to go anywhere for Thanksgiving. So we just stayed here."
Katelynn: "Wow, that sounds like a really exciting dream"
Me: "Yeah my life is really intense"
And this happened yesterday:
Billy: "If I go through the intersection right now I'll hit that fatty"
Me: Start crying (really, I started crying. How funny is that?) "Sometimes I am amazed by how perfect we are for each other"
that's all
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Big News!
Most of you already know about this big news (and I just put it on Facebook) but...
We are moving to Washington DC in January! Yay!
I decided I wanted an adventure for us so I applied to do my student teaching in DC. We talked to my cousin Greg who works for Senator Mike Lee about getting Billy an internship at the Capitol. Billy applied and just got offered the internship last week! Hooray! So we are officially moving out there. Billy's internship ends May 3rd so we will be out there at least until then. Then we don't know what we're doing...but we'll figure it out :)
I'm really nervous but pretty excited. I'm mostly nervous about finding a place to live. We haven't found one yet. And I'm stressed about all we have to get done (I'm a stressor...Billy is not. I think he gets annoyed at my craziness sometimes but at least he balances me out haha). We need to sell our car so if anyone is interested in buying our awesome 4-runner let us know!
Also some other kind of big news is that I got released from being a Sunday School teacher!! Yayaya! Callings in our ward are usually only for a year or less and I had that calling for a year and 3 months. It was a great learning experience and honestly I've never studied the Book of Mormon harder before in my life, but I'm excited to sleep in on Sunday mornings again!
Also, Thanksgiving is NEXT WEEK! What?! Time flies! We'll be heading out to AZ to spend time with Billy's fam and can't wait. So excited to have a few days off of school.
We are moving to Washington DC in January! Yay!
I decided I wanted an adventure for us so I applied to do my student teaching in DC. We talked to my cousin Greg who works for Senator Mike Lee about getting Billy an internship at the Capitol. Billy applied and just got offered the internship last week! Hooray! So we are officially moving out there. Billy's internship ends May 3rd so we will be out there at least until then. Then we don't know what we're doing...but we'll figure it out :)
I'm really nervous but pretty excited. I'm mostly nervous about finding a place to live. We haven't found one yet. And I'm stressed about all we have to get done (I'm a stressor...Billy is not. I think he gets annoyed at my craziness sometimes but at least he balances me out haha). We need to sell our car so if anyone is interested in buying our awesome 4-runner let us know!
Also some other kind of big news is that I got released from being a Sunday School teacher!! Yayaya! Callings in our ward are usually only for a year or less and I had that calling for a year and 3 months. It was a great learning experience and honestly I've never studied the Book of Mormon harder before in my life, but I'm excited to sleep in on Sunday mornings again!
Also, Thanksgiving is NEXT WEEK! What?! Time flies! We'll be heading out to AZ to spend time with Billy's fam and can't wait. So excited to have a few days off of school.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Carving Pumpkins
On Saturday, after the half marathon, I was feeling really sick. I was starving but I couldn't eat anything or I felt like I was going to throw up. It was weird. So I slept a lot. Billy got in on that action:
I have so many funny pictures of Billy sleeping from over the years...I'm going to have to do a sleepy Billy post sometime.
After I woke up I was feeling a little better and was able to eat some stuff. We went to the store to get pumpkins to carve that night! Carving was super fun! We tried to take some creepy pictures of ourselves with the pumpkins and they looked super creepy on my phone screen...but not so creepy now because you can see our bodies. It looked like it was just our heads on my screen haha. So now these pictures are kind of lame but still funny. (Of course I carved a giraffe. And after much deliberation, Billy decided on the traditional jack-o-lantern).
Yeah on my phone screen Billy looked like a ghost in this one...
Supposed to be a floating happy head
This one is still pretty creepy haha...
So that was fun!
Some other random things...we made a delicious dinner on Sunday! This spinach lemon tortellini stuff with cooked zucchini. SO GOOD!
We had a guy from our ward over for dinner too and he was telling us how he used to be in a band and play the drums. I told him that Billy plays guitar and so he offered to let Billy borrow his nice guitar to play on! That's been fun for Billy since his guitar strings are broken.
Other random things:
-I took the Praxis exam today! It's the exam to make sure you can be a teacher. It was pretty hard and I really hope I passed! It covered tons of Biology topics. Like everything I've learned in my college career.
-We deeply cleaned and organized our apartment today! It was really fun actually to throw so much stuff away! We did it so people could come look at our apartment (!) I'm going to announce that news later though once we have more information!! (I'm not pregnant just in case anyone looked at the word "news" and automatically thought that)
-I've been observing in a 9th grade Biology class twice a week for this semester. Me and my friend Katelynn taught them the other day! We stood in front of all of them and taught them about the periodic table! Crazy I know. And we are teaching them again this Friday! Wowza it's scary.
-I wanted to do "No sugar November" this month because I have been eating really bad and I was inspired by my cousin Kim to go a whole month without sugar (you're awesome Kim!). As November was coming up I kept thinking about how sad I would be if, after a long day, I couldn't come home and eat a cookie haha. Soooo I decided to make it "No soda November" instead! :) Soda is the main thing I have been wanting to cut out of my diet because I always feel so gross after I drink a lot. So it's been 3 whole days of November and we haven't had soda yet! YAY! We are awesome. We decided we would only strongly enforce this new rule until Thanksgiving just in case we got around family and couldn't resist...:) Maybe someday I will be able to go a month without any sugar at all.
I guess that's it. I can't believe it's November already! Time is flying! I can't wait for this week to be over...it's going to be a crazy one. And then I can't wait for Thanksgiving!
I have so many funny pictures of Billy sleeping from over the years...I'm going to have to do a sleepy Billy post sometime.
After I woke up I was feeling a little better and was able to eat some stuff. We went to the store to get pumpkins to carve that night! Carving was super fun! We tried to take some creepy pictures of ourselves with the pumpkins and they looked super creepy on my phone screen...but not so creepy now because you can see our bodies. It looked like it was just our heads on my screen haha. So now these pictures are kind of lame but still funny. (Of course I carved a giraffe. And after much deliberation, Billy decided on the traditional jack-o-lantern).
Yeah on my phone screen Billy looked like a ghost in this one...
This one is still pretty creepy haha...
Some other random things...we made a delicious dinner on Sunday! This spinach lemon tortellini stuff with cooked zucchini. SO GOOD!
We had a guy from our ward over for dinner too and he was telling us how he used to be in a band and play the drums. I told him that Billy plays guitar and so he offered to let Billy borrow his nice guitar to play on! That's been fun for Billy since his guitar strings are broken.
Other random things:
-I took the Praxis exam today! It's the exam to make sure you can be a teacher. It was pretty hard and I really hope I passed! It covered tons of Biology topics. Like everything I've learned in my college career.
-We deeply cleaned and organized our apartment today! It was really fun actually to throw so much stuff away! We did it so people could come look at our apartment (!) I'm going to announce that news later though once we have more information!! (I'm not pregnant just in case anyone looked at the word "news" and automatically thought that)
-I've been observing in a 9th grade Biology class twice a week for this semester. Me and my friend Katelynn taught them the other day! We stood in front of all of them and taught them about the periodic table! Crazy I know. And we are teaching them again this Friday! Wowza it's scary.
-I wanted to do "No sugar November" this month because I have been eating really bad and I was inspired by my cousin Kim to go a whole month without sugar (you're awesome Kim!). As November was coming up I kept thinking about how sad I would be if, after a long day, I couldn't come home and eat a cookie haha. Soooo I decided to make it "No soda November" instead! :) Soda is the main thing I have been wanting to cut out of my diet because I always feel so gross after I drink a lot. So it's been 3 whole days of November and we haven't had soda yet! YAY! We are awesome. We decided we would only strongly enforce this new rule until Thanksgiving just in case we got around family and couldn't resist...:) Maybe someday I will be able to go a month without any sugar at all.
I guess that's it. I can't believe it's November already! Time is flying! I can't wait for this week to be over...it's going to be a crazy one. And then I can't wait for Thanksgiving!
Friday, November 2, 2012
Halloween Half Marathon!!
I did it!! 13.1 miles!
I really love half marathons I decided. They are hard enough that you really have to work to get ready, and you feel so accomplished when you are done. My mom says that every race has its own "labor and delivery" story...and its so true. I've never given birth but I have heard many a story. So now I am going to share mine...feel free to not read it. Haha.
In the morning before the race last Saturday we had to be at the buses at University Mall by 6:30. Laura and Beau picked me up at 5:45 and we headed over there (thanks SO much again guys!!). We got right on a bus and then drove up to Sundance. We got there probably around 6:45 or 7 ish. And the race didn't start until 9!! So we had to sit around and be freezing FOREVER. They had a big tent set up with heaters though. Luckily we ran into Danielle and Brother and Sister Hoopes! Yay! So we hung out with them too which was so fun. We chatted, listened to the awful music they were playing (what's up with that?), asked random people for chapstick when our lips were burning off (ok that was just me), and went potty several times. When 9 oclock rolled around we were ready to go!
The race started off with a super steep hill for like 2 miles. I was running with Danielle and we were running super fast. Then once we got to the main road, I lost Danielle and them (sorry!) and started running solo. I was feeling awesome!! Mile 4 rolled around and I was like "what? This is going to go by so fast!" Then mile 5..."yep feeling great!" Then mile 6..."what that was ONLY a mile?? I need to pace myself better" And then I didn't see any mile markers for forever. I tried to eat my shot blocks I'm guessing around mile 7 and they were FROZEN! So they were SO hard to chew! So I was like choking. At mile 8 ish I ate 2 more shot blocks as fast as I could because I didn't want to walk too long. This is about when my right calf started tightening up all weird! I had been running way too fast in the beginning haha!
I kept cruising along...pretty dead tired at this point. My calf was hurting and I had listened to all my new music I had bought like a million times already so I couldn't use that as an extra boost. I saw mile marker 11 and I was going to cry. But I trudged on. When I saw mile marker 12 I was REALLY going to cry. Still a whole mile! My calf was going crazy and I was so tired. But I kept running and finished! Yay!!!! Once I finished I put my medal around my neck and saw Billy taking a picture of me. I was annoyed because I was tired and I thought he had just gotten there and that was the only picture he took. He had been there forever though and the camera had magically turned off when he saw me come around the corner, so he only got pictures after I finished. So I was wrongly annoyed, but we still only got a few pics sorry!
There were some pretty great costumes. Lots of Captain America's and Batmans. I was a loser and didn't dress up though. Mickey Mouse...
The Pope...
Me just finishing (I look fat because I had tons of stuff in my pockets...gloves, shot blocks, phone)
Soo tired!
(I look really big in this picture too...not sure why. Maybe I really am big but just think I'm not haha. Oh I think the truck behind me is morphing with my body and making me look wide)
I finished in 1:55!! 13 minutes faster than my last half! But that hill in the beginning gave me a way head start. And I was running way too fast.
Well, that's the story! Sorry it's so long! It was a super fun race despite how stupidly I ran it :) I wish I had my fav half marathon running buddy to run it with me (Jessica!)...I felt so great after the Salt Lake one!
I really love half marathons I decided. They are hard enough that you really have to work to get ready, and you feel so accomplished when you are done. My mom says that every race has its own "labor and delivery" story...and its so true. I've never given birth but I have heard many a story. So now I am going to share mine...feel free to not read it. Haha.
In the morning before the race last Saturday we had to be at the buses at University Mall by 6:30. Laura and Beau picked me up at 5:45 and we headed over there (thanks SO much again guys!!). We got right on a bus and then drove up to Sundance. We got there probably around 6:45 or 7 ish. And the race didn't start until 9!! So we had to sit around and be freezing FOREVER. They had a big tent set up with heaters though. Luckily we ran into Danielle and Brother and Sister Hoopes! Yay! So we hung out with them too which was so fun. We chatted, listened to the awful music they were playing (what's up with that?), asked random people for chapstick when our lips were burning off (ok that was just me), and went potty several times. When 9 oclock rolled around we were ready to go!
The race started off with a super steep hill for like 2 miles. I was running with Danielle and we were running super fast. Then once we got to the main road, I lost Danielle and them (sorry!) and started running solo. I was feeling awesome!! Mile 4 rolled around and I was like "what? This is going to go by so fast!" Then mile 5..."yep feeling great!" Then mile 6..."what that was ONLY a mile?? I need to pace myself better" And then I didn't see any mile markers for forever. I tried to eat my shot blocks I'm guessing around mile 7 and they were FROZEN! So they were SO hard to chew! So I was like choking. At mile 8 ish I ate 2 more shot blocks as fast as I could because I didn't want to walk too long. This is about when my right calf started tightening up all weird! I had been running way too fast in the beginning haha!
I kept cruising along...pretty dead tired at this point. My calf was hurting and I had listened to all my new music I had bought like a million times already so I couldn't use that as an extra boost. I saw mile marker 11 and I was going to cry. But I trudged on. When I saw mile marker 12 I was REALLY going to cry. Still a whole mile! My calf was going crazy and I was so tired. But I kept running and finished! Yay!!!! Once I finished I put my medal around my neck and saw Billy taking a picture of me. I was annoyed because I was tired and I thought he had just gotten there and that was the only picture he took. He had been there forever though and the camera had magically turned off when he saw me come around the corner, so he only got pictures after I finished. So I was wrongly annoyed, but we still only got a few pics sorry!
There were some pretty great costumes. Lots of Captain America's and Batmans. I was a loser and didn't dress up though. Mickey Mouse...
The Pope...
Me just finishing (I look fat because I had tons of stuff in my pockets...gloves, shot blocks, phone)
Soo tired!
(I look really big in this picture too...not sure why. Maybe I really am big but just think I'm not haha. Oh I think the truck behind me is morphing with my body and making me look wide)
I finished in 1:55!! 13 minutes faster than my last half! But that hill in the beginning gave me a way head start. And I was running way too fast.
Well, that's the story! Sorry it's so long! It was a super fun race despite how stupidly I ran it :) I wish I had my fav half marathon running buddy to run it with me (Jessica!)...I felt so great after the Salt Lake one!
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