I love teaching!

I have to say that I love teaching. This year has been a great and the students I have are just wonderful! I think that the younger grades are for me. Where else can you teach, inspire, get hugs and play with puppets all day? To be honest it is hard work, I love the challenage. When they start to read, understand a concept or want to learn more about something we have be talking about...those are the moments I just love. I thought that my life would be different by the time I was 26. There are three of us, but instead of the 21 month old, I have a 21 year old living with us-the Lord works in mysterious ways. (That 21 year old is my sister)I think that is why I am teaching kindergarten-I never thought I would, but now, with no little ones at home, I really can't see myself teaching anything else-1 or 2 grade maybe, but truly I am happywith these wonderful children and learning from them as they learn form me.

I love my parents!!!

SO my parents came down for General Conference-which I needed. I missed my parents so very much, more so my mommy-heart pains! It was so great to see them again. We laughed, ate and were spiritually edified-what more could you want from a weekend!! And it would have been even better if my dear sister Jess-who I also miss dearly and I won't go into it because I will start to cry-could have been there as well with her beautiful family(I miss you Pax and handsome nephew). Funny-Mom gave me my b-day gift early and we took pictures...I thought Nick caught the moment very well. Yes ladies I now own the BBC's five hour version of Pride and Prejudice. (scream now for joy if you wish)As you can tell from my face the moment my mother showed be the gift, I was very pleased...to say the least. Yep I love my family and miss them...thankful for the holidays where I get to see them again!

Dinning room table!

Here is the kitchen and dinning area-with a handsome man sitting at its table. So the only thing we added to the kitchen-besides paint is one mirror(free) the dinning room we added a clock(20@fam.dollar) we repainted an end table that we already had black to paint the repainted table that we already had(both freely handed down to us but now given a fresh new life) We added foam and fabric to the chairs and we also re-stained the table to make it look almost like new-this is my favorite piece in the home because of its grand transformation. Now we are finally done. October has been a great month, living in a finished home that represents us and our personalities. It was hard and we had A LOT of help-thank you, thank you, thank you!-but now we can rest...until thanksgiving anyway. Being a home owner is a never ending job!

Hall, bathroom and over all look.

Here are the other rooms not seen. So what is new-bookcase for all of our book, which was a must and very needed!(50@IKEA)and an end table(5@KSL)all else we had and love.

The Living Room!!!

Okay all this is the living room-the room in which we tend to live. I am sorry but I am a bargain hunter and I love sharing the deals that I find-if you do not like to know then please do not read the parenthesis. Thanks. What we have done: Painted the walls (19per gallon@lowes)New hard wood floors(for the whole house including padding-790 @RC Willy), new area rug(75@homefabrics), coffee table(15@KSL), tree(free), end table(free), lamp(free) and pictures(all pictures through out the house totaled 50@family dollar). We have our old furniture with pillows(total for all new pillows in the house 20@thrifttown and deseret). We love our living room, where it's cozy enough to relax and watch a movie but nice enough to entertain all.