Just a few minutes

Just a few minutes to post about life.  Well, it's pretty busy! I'm officially done at Hillview Elementary and starting the summer school program next week.  It'll be nice to only go once a week instead of three times, but I'll be filling my extra hours with working at the plasma center.  Whoop. Brennen is pretty busy too, he's been doing a lot of shifts in Idaho Falls and stuff to meet his requirements for the Paramedic Program.  This last weekend he went with Air Idaho and ended up on the front page of the "Scroll"--So proud of you, sweetie! Haha.  [For those of you that don't know, the "Scroll" is our school newspaper.]  Lately I have been working on some new recipes from Pinterest..here are picture of my most recent adventure:

I had to crush Oreo cookies into a really fine powder.  

This was the best way to do that.  Biggest. Mess. Ever.

So, these were not just any cookies.  The were Oreo Cheesecake cookies.  That's right. Cheesecake cookies.  Makes your mouth water, right?

The finished product!  They looked delicious! Unfortunately, they looked better than they tasted :(

They were still good, don't get me wrong, but I will stick to my famous snickerdoodles.

So other than that, not much to report.  I lost my camera so these pictures are with my phone...sorry for the bad quality.  We have just been surviving.  We're still looking for a good car, but can't find one that's in our price range.  Right now it's looking like I'm going to have to start to learn how to drive the truck...yay.  I've been asked 3 times in the last month if I'm pregnant...well, i'm not.  I hope I'm not looking like it. Yipes.  Not for a while folks.  Here's my theory.  One person at work asked me, and two people at church.  I don't know where my co-worker got it from but the people at church must have seen me eating a granola bar in the library.  In a married student ward, you don't eat in church unless you're pregnant.  Sorry everyone, 9:30 church doesn't leave me time for breakfast and I'm hungry! Haha.

It's official

My blog is dead.  My pageviews has literally flat-lined.  haha, I guess this is to be expected..I can rarely keep things alive.  Plants, fish, blogs.  Nobody ever give me children!  Haha.  Speaking of which, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! To all you fantastic mommies out there! Especially to my own mommy who has been such a great example to me of hard work and kindness.  And to my wonderful mother-in-law who lets me do my laundry at her house and keep my car in her garage when it's not working.  Happy Mother's Day to all my friends who are mommies!  I'm so grateful for your example and advice (though you might not know you are giving it).  Guys, I cannot wait to be a mom, but you always amaze me with the sacrifices you make and the time you spend with and on your children.  Sometimes I find myself not feeling well and I think to myself, "I don't think I can feel like this for weeks and weeks when I'm pregnant.' Or, "I'm not ready to stay up all night with a screaming baby."  I'm such a wimp, and all the moms out there are my heroes.  Thank you for all you do for us.

"No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love.  It shrinks not where man cowers, and grow stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star" - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The Best 2 Years

April 16, 2012 has come and gone, but I just wanted to say what a fun, wonderful, frustrating, challenging, BEAUTIFUL 2 years it has been since Brennen and I have been married.  Little did we know what we were getting ourselves into that gorgeous day in April, but I'm glad we did.  Our marriage has had its fair share of tears and trials, but we have learned and grown more together than we could have possible dreamed than if we had done it alone.  Our life the past two years can be described as such.  But, I am SO grateful-lucky-blessed to have this wonderful man in my life.  Here's to many more wonderful years together.

It's a jungle out there..

Well everyone, we're back.  Actually we've been back for a while, but haven't had time to do much more than work or sleep.  It's been a pretty intense week for having no school.  We took Monday and Tuesday off to celebrate our 2 year anniversary. [which I will talk about a little later].  Wednesday it was back to work for both Brennen and me.  Brennen went out welding for his dad for two days and I've been working 8 hour shifts at the plasma center.  It sounds lame, but I'm grateful that even though it has been really slow I never got sent home really early.  We're still looking really hard for a good car to buy and literally every penny counts.  So, I know you have all been waiting for pictures from our little getaway...don't worry, haha, they're all decent ;)

First we stopped in Idaho Falls to grab a few things.

Lunch at Olive Garden!  Yum.

This place is so cool.  

They really make you feel special!

There was a little  waterfall and pond with

real fish!

We got a room with a 3D TV,

which we utilized.

The artwork was fantastic.  

We thought that door led to the outside...

in reality, it led to the toilet.

Ok, a little explanation about this last picture.

Before we went down, we discussed what movies we would want to watch 

while we were there because we wanted to stay the whole time we were there

and get our money's worth.  Well, 4:00 pm to 12 noon is a long time

to just chill in a hotel room.  We really wanted to watch George of the Jungle.

Though it would be appropriate.  But had no idea where we would

find it on DVD.  Luckily, we found it playing on TV!

So we got to watch it after all.

So much fun to be in a fun room, and especially

for "us" time with the hubby!

Loving This Moment

1. do you know what this picture means?

It means that I am OFFICIALLY done for the semester! Can I get a Whoop, whoop?!  Every day i would look at this screen and in that box in the top left corner there would be a never-ending list of things to do!  I am proud to say that this semester's report card should have only one "B" on it.  Ok, maybe 2.  but that is NOT BAD for taking 7 classes.  I will take 2 B's and 5 A's any day!

2. I have no school for 11 whole days.  This means that I get to work my butt off, but also I get to go on my anniversary getaway with the honey in 3 days!  And it means that there will be time for FISHING everyone!

3. I was so busy celebrating the end of the semester that i ALMOST forgot to turn in a very large chunk of my final grade for one of my classes (an 8 page research paper).

4. I am loving this song and video right now:

It took me forever to figure out where I knew this girl from.  She is the goody-goody Christian girl from The Secret Life of the American Teenager...don't worry, I haven't seen that show for a good 2 years.  Things that are awkward about this video: 1] The end.  I'm pretty sure that was their first date, and i'm pretty sure i know what they're gonna do now.  AwkWard.  2] Didn't there used to be a blonde in this group? Where'd she go? and 3] that 2 seconds of Slow-Mo?

5. Can't wait for next week's AWKWARD & AWESOME.  It's going to be epic. (P.s. it takes me two whole weeks to compile like 5 awkward things.)

P.P.S. Just so's y'all know..this is my 100th blog post. WHOOP!

Awkward and Awesome

{Awkward}

1. Spilling Dr. Pepper all over my lap in the car.

Thinking I can make it home.

Realizing I can't.

Making it to Jamba Juice to ask for a rag

and looking like i wet myself.

2. Almost running a lady over at Wal-Mart with

my shopping cart.

3.  Me pushing around a shopping card

in Wal-Mart.

4. Pronouncing Raleigh, "rally"

in front of people from "rally"

5. Trying on shoes at K-Mart.

Because really, there's like you and one other person

in the whole store.  and they happen to be

following you.

{Awesome}

1. My friend Jessica got home from her mission

this week!

2. Conference Weekend starts tomorrow!

3. Getting accepted to a partner school for 

student teaching.

Finding a teacher there that I had in 

7th grade, 

and a lady from my home ward!

4. Babies. Everyone is having them.

I know of 3 this week.

5. Taking off the snow tires and

putting on the regular tires!

Crazy Life

Dear all, this is what life has been like for the last week:

Haha.  Brennen's had about a billion tests and I have had to write tons of lesson plans.  I have this big 200 point project to turn in tomorrow and I think like 2/3 done with it??  So that is what I am going to be doing all night tonight.  Right now i'm in "take it one day at a time" mode.  All i have to do is make it through till next Thursday and then I get my nice little vacation at the Black Swan Inn!  I promise more information about life after that.  So yesterday was a sad day: Brennen had to tell his teachers whether or not I would be going to OKC with him this fall :'(  The answer was "No"  This pretty much breaks my heart.  It's going to be hard, but I feel like we can get through it.  Last night we talked about how we're going to occupy ourselves so that we won't be moping around the apartment all day when we're not at school/work/internship.  My plan so far: Paint my headboard.  I just got this GORGEOUS new bed set from my mom for my birthday.  My dad made my headboard out of some wood of some bunk-beds that we used to have (seriously, my dad is amazing at that kind of stuff).  We didn't really know what color we wanted to paint it, so it's just white.  But since it's made out of pine, it's kind of yellowing.  Besides, white will not go well with my new bedroom, so I'm gonna sand it down and paint it a nice chocolatey brown.  Probably close to this:
And i'm hoping to find more things to do for the room.  maybe repaint the dresser (or get a bigger one because ours is so tiny), revamp the lamp, curtains, etc. So ya, that's about all that has been happening.  Really excited for conference to be this Saturday and Sunday!  I have to work on Saturday though...through the entire thing :(  Sad.  I'm also going to miss my online religion class.  I was doing the Doctrine and Covenants this semester (the second half) and I learned a whole lot of really great stuff. I loved it because it was mostly self-directed learning and we got to read through the sections and the Institute manual...there is a lot of stuff that I learned.  This weeks lesson begins with the martyrdom of Joseph Smith..It's like when I was taking New Testament and we got to the Crucifixion of Christ...You just learn so much about that person and the trials they went through, you don't want them to die!  So it looks like I will be putting this off for a while. Anyways.  That is all.