Let's review...

Now that I am furthermore finished with Arizona State University I can blog again.
Aren't you excited?!?

So I got two degrees from ASU and I couldn't be happier that I am finally done...



Oh wait yes I could... I would be much happier if the economy wasn't stupid and districts were hiring teachers.

You see earlier in the semester I went to this little rally at the capitol building where people were slightly upset that the state was cutting millions of dollars in education. Aren't these two little girlies cute as buttons? They held up that sign for a good hour before getting tired.

Anyway, let me tell you a little story. Student teaching sucked up all my time. But I loved it. So to catch the world up on my life I will give you an assortment of pictures that will tell you what I've been doing.

For I ♥ to Read week we made green eggs and ham and painted toast. Thanks Mrs. Doreen!
(I stole the idea from my preschool teacher)


I assume it tasted bomb because my kids ate it like lunch wasn't in an hour. But I'm not gonna lie I was too afraid to taste it.

Food dyed the wrong color grosses me out.

Later in the month I made volcanoes for the kids to explode.

Let me just tell you a little secret,
neon pink play-doh + neon purple play-doh + neon orange play-doh + neon green play-doh and little bit of green food coloring = gross orangish volcano looking play-doh.
That might just save you some trouble down the road.

Oh and walgreens is the only place in, say a 10 mile radius that has pop-rocks when you need them at 11:30 at night.

If you can see the clock on the oven then you can tell it's 1:55 am when I made these beauties.
Someone should tell ASU that student teaching 50 hours a week is TOO MUCH!

See the cute dinosaurs? The sand is compliments of the park down my street where all the moms in my ward say you get pink-eye at. Luckily no eyes were hurt in the making of these volcanoes.


Then we made them explode at school.

The kids got to put in a mixture of baking soda, vinegar, water, dish soap, red food coloring, alkaseltzer, red glitter, pop-rocks and minty life savers.

I thought it might make the explosion bigger and adding stuff is always fun. The pop rocks made the explosion sizzle. The kids learned that dinosaurs drowned in the lava and that pop-rocks and gushers are great mixture!

Later I switched to a fifth grade class. We had lots of fun too! We watched "Gone with the Wind" and we made planet models and planet posters. Those pictures are on my other memory card. Come back soon to see the planets. They are AMAZING!

Besides student teaching, we sent Elliot off on his mission.
I have actually been keeping up on his blog.

Isn't this picture of him and his dad precious?


I also hung out with this kid when I had time. I am the best wife in the world because I bought us matching clip-on mustaches.

My favorite thing was going to the Jimmy Eat World Clarity tour this spring. Devin, Me, Emily and Julia all went but didn't hang out together. We also saw half of Mesa there.

Pre sweaty hair

Post sweaty hair

Devin kept hoping that Davey from The Promise Ring was going to show up when they sang "The Praise Chorus". He didn't show. Devin's hopes and dreams were crushed.

I taught Julia how to pump gas too. She failed. It got all over her jeans. She smelt like an auto-mechanic. I made her walk home. Okay not really. But I thought about it.

She also participated in her and Devin's favorite hobby. Taking awkward pictures together.

Normal picture. (sans the rock star gear)

Awkward molester picture.

For spring break me and Emily decided to go and get our finger print clearance cards. Emily needed one to apply to the nursing program and I thought I needed a new one with an IVP number on it.

We got all gussied up to go and then remembered that we were going to a government facility where we should have worn pajama pants and wife beater tanks if we really wanted to fit in.


Of course per usual, the building was near impossible to find. Says the lady who we finally found to give us directions, "oh no, you see when the road says 'No Access Dead End' you're supposed to go past it and then make a left to get to the building."
We were mad at them until they reminded us to buckle up and we promptly forgave them.

Thanks crash test dummy DPS man!


Then we had a party of the century for Annie's birthday.

First week was the family celebrations.

Then we moved on to the friend celebrations.

They decorated purses.


Had brownies with powdered sugar which blew into our faces.


Blew bubbles, had a silly string war and spent the night.

Finally, Teeny was bored and hated me for never being home and decided that a box made a better mother than me. See how she averts her eyes and won't even look at me?!?
I'm crushed.
My cat hates me.

We have since made up and are now best friends again.

Next up girls camp pictures. I went for a FULL week so don't you worry about a thing. There will be plenty more posts a comin'.

Okay so I posted. Can we be friends again?