Life has been crazy, but so good! We only have about 3 more weeks of classes and then it's vacation time! I still have not been placed for my student teaching yet (yes, I'm going crazy!), but hopefully I'll know within the next few weeks. I'm excited to start on this next big step. I'm so ready to put what I have been learning for the past 4 years into practice! I'm ready (and maybe a bit nervous, too). As soon as I find out where I'll be doing my student teaching, I'll let you all know!
I have been lacking in the writing aspect of blogging, but I'm hoping the pictures have been great updates from us. I'll try to write more when I do post.
Sometimes [a lot] I complain about Utah. But really it's a wonderful place to live, and Tyson and I are so blessed to be where we are at today. We have a lot of big changes ahead, and I know that we have loved living here, going to school at BYU. We have been given so many opportunities and I know I do not express my gratitude as much as I should. And though I do complain about Utah, I have loved living here. Here are some pretty pictures lately of the fall and snow recently:
Some pictures from my iphone lately:
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| A typical Sunday afternoon for us: naps and lounging around. |
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| loving red lipstick lately |
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| Game night with old friends! We had so much fun. And baby Cayden is the cutest. |
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| Halloween costume. Selina Kyle aka Cat Woman from The Dark Knight Rises |
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| Although I had to stand in an hour and a half line, I voted. I'm glad that I exercised this right after so many worked so hard to get it for me. |
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| I made some homemade granola. It's yummy (but has way too many WW points, unfortunately) |
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| I have been wanting to watch this show for awhile but held off until I took my Praxis test. After I took the test, I started watching and caught up to the current episodes in about a week. It's such an addicting show. Seriously. And now I have zombie apocalypse dreams about once a week. It's great, but kinda scary. |
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| We're excited for this movie! |
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| homemade pizza. Yummy! :) |
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| Temple and cupcakes. Great Mix. I love to see the temple! :) |
As you can see life is keeping us busy, but we are super happy with how things are going. Some highlights: 1. We saw the new James Bond movie. As someone who is not a James Bond fan, I thought this movie was very well done and I really liked it. I felt like it had a lot more depth to it that most other Bond films tend to lack. I also loved the cinematography and the fact that I got to see beautiful London and Scotland again. 2. Also, I took my history Praxis test. I think it went pretty well. We'll see. I should know in a few weeks. 3. We bought our midnight showing tickets for
The Hobbit. We'll be seeing it in IMAX 3D 48 FPS [
naturally]. 4. Tyson loves Christmas so much that we have already started decorating our apartment. Yes, we have put up our little Christmas tree :)
We recently decided to rearrange our room. This change led to a lot more room in our bedroom that we didn't have before. This new change, along with the lack of space we have for all of our clothes, caused us to come to the conclusion that we needed some end tables and a new dresser. This merited a trip to the IKEA. I'm not sure if any of you watch 30 Rock, but there is an episode about IKEA and how it ruins relationships because couples fight when they go there. We have found this to be true. So we were happy when we came out of IKEA unscathed:
We lucked out and found end tables that had three drawers that were big enough to store our plethora of clothes. The only problem was that it was made of ugly wood. But we couldn't pass up the price! So we bought two, and made a stop at Home Depot and bought some awesome red paint! So we spent the rest of the night painting the dressers/end tables and putting them together. Here was the process/result:
I'm very happy with how it turned out! It was a fun project to work on together.
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| we bought these cute lamps, too :) |
I'll try to update again soon. Tyson and I are both so excited for Thanksgiving break and to spend time with our family! Until next time.
