V-DAY 2014!

Hi guys!  IT'S ME CAITLIN!!!  I have not blogged in literally half a year.  I think.  It has been a long time.  I should be doing school work (as always) but I am going to do a quick post right now just because I feel like it.

Yesterday was Valentine's day, and it was the best day ever.  Billy is so great.  We were reminiscing about Valentine's days past yesterday and we both agreed he has greatly improved in his holiday skillz since we first got married.  Our first Valentine's day was a bit sad and there were some tears shed, but this year he completely blew me away!

First of all, let me just tell you a little about my life right now.  Teaching.  Ok that's it.

Haha but really though.  Teaching is my life.  I always say "teaching is the worst job in the world, why would anyone do this?!" because really it is.  So if you ever think my life is awesome, THINK AGAIN MY FRIEND.  Teaching is hard.  But, to be honest, it does have its moments.  So here is my schedule:  wake up at 5, leave for school by 6:30, drive (at least) 40 minutes, teach all day (most days it is literally all day with one period for lunch), then student hours/parent hours/staff meeting, then a little lesson planning for the next day, then drive 40 minutes home, get home at 6, eat, finish planning tomorrow's lessons, grade some papers and go to sleep at 9:30.  And every day is the same.  And every day is SO tiring.  So that is why any free time I have is used eating ice cream and watching a show.  But I also have to make time for running or I start getting depressed and depressed mixed with stressed is NOT a good mix!  It can lead to a weird rash on your legs??  (I won't go into the details haha) So life is crazy.  Whiny rant over.

Ok anyways so yesterday I wake up and have kind of forgotten it's Valentine's day since I'm super tired.  So I go downstairs to grab the keys to leave and this is in the key drawer with the keys on top of it!

Boo yah See's candy!  Side note--Billy has NEVER gotten me chocolates for any occasion in our whole 5+ years knowing each other!  It's pretty hilarious.  We were talking about it the other day.  So this was a big day!  I love chocolate.

I thought "wow!  What a great Valentine's surprise!" thinking that was it until dinner.  And perfectly happy with that.  But THEN I get to school super late so I have to teach basically right when I get there and then one of the front office girls brings me a card and tells me to open it ASAP.  So I do, and it's from BILLY!  And I read it to my class and they were all oohing and ahhing and pretty excited, just like I was.  Then they were trying to guess Billy's name forever and I wouldn't tell them.

Then every period throughout the day I got a little gift delivered by the front office girls!!  The first one was nail polish and had a note that said "is this your favorite nail polish color?  TREAT-YO-SELF".  That made me LOL.  The second one was lotion and it had a note that said "for your purse so you don't have to put chapstick on your hands anymore" (because I really did that the other day).  Then the next one was chapstick with a note that said "In case you run out of lotion" HAHA!  Then the next one was a bag of peanut M&M's and the note said "so you don't have to share with me" (since he doesn't like peanut).  Then the last one was the move Les Miserables with a note that said "so you can have the songs stuck in your head forever".  He knows me.

I also got some gifts from students.  One of them being ANOTHER MUG.  I threw away 6 Christmas mugs (they were all ugly).  Why do they think I love mugs so much?

There was also treats and chocolate fountains in the teacher's lounge at lunch.

Let's just say it was the best day ever at school so far.  Very exciting and fun.  Billy is so great.

Then I got home and these were on the counter:

Sent from my Mom!  Yummmmmmmy!  She's da best.  And THEN I found a brand new Fossil necklace hanging up with my other necklaces from Billy!  That was a super fun surprise!

Then we went to dinner at Buca di Beppo and then watched Ender's Game together, which Billy had all planned.  It was a great day.

I love Billy so much.  Not just because he planned an awesome day, but because he is always trying to help me out and make me happy.  He is ALWAYS helping me with my school stuff because he knows how stressed I am.  He is always offering to make me dinner, or pack me a lunch, or do anything to lighten my load.  He tells me to put my feet up when I get home from school and brings me a glass of water.  I also love him because of the person he is.  He is funny, smart, clever, genuine, caring, thoughtful, responsible, etc. etc.  He makes us say our prayers together every night.  He makes sure we are fulfilling our callings at church.  I'm a lucky gal!

Anyways, this turned into a sappy and super long winded post.  G2G put grades in the grade book, grade some stuffs and plan my lessons for next week all before Billy gets home from work.  Probs not gonna happen.  SEE YA!

P.s. I know we still need to blog about Christmas and new years and about Jody and Dieter and everyone coming out here and about the temple open house and about basically everything else in our lives but it can't be done right now sorry!