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Eight TV Shows I Like to Watch (I can only list 8!!!???):
1. One Tree Hill
2. Gossip Girl
3. Smallville
4. Desperate Housewives
5. Private Practice
6. Grey's Anatomy
7. America's Next Top Model
8. Beverly Hills, 90210 (the old one)

Eight Things that Happened Yesterday:
1. Watched the season finale of America's Next Top Model
2. Went on a walk with Steve
3. Went to the School Community Council at school
4. Practiced for our school progam on Monday
5. Cooked dinner
6. Watched 2 episodes of Friends
7. Did reading group lessons for up until Thanksgiving
8. Talked to Becca on the phone

Eight Favorite Places to Eat:
1. Olive Garden
2. Red Robin
3. Bajio's
4. Magleby's Fresh
5. Texas Roadhouse
6. Cafe Rio
7. Black Eyed Peas
8. Panda Express

Eight Things that I am Looking Forward to:
1. Thanksgiving Break
2. Christmas Break- time to relax
3. Smallville (starting in less than 3 hours!)
4. Seeing Fiona in Colorado next week
5. James Bond with Steve tomorrow!
6. Being finishing my winter bulletin board on Saturday
7. Finishing our basement
8. Starting our family

Eight Things that I Wish For:
1. A finished basement
2. All my kids could pass their multiplication facts!
3. Angel food cake with chocolate whip cream (yum!)
4. The other 3 seasons of Beverly Hills, 90210
5. My Spanish Fork city bill to be less every month!
6. My brother and sister-in-law to have their new baby by the time we come for Thanksgiving
7. Live closer to all my family
8. My hair to get cut again

What's Up with Us...

It's been awhile since I've updated this thing. Well, not a lot has been going on lately- just the usual busyness.

-Last weekend I had parent teacher conferences and my parents came into town. It is always fun to have them here- we cooked, we ate, we shopped and just had a fun time being together.

-This week we finally got the final piece, an amoire, to complete our bedroom set! We love it- finally a real place to put our tv!

-We had an awesome Halloween in my class yesterday... we had some wonderful moms who planned such a fun party. I dressed up as an angel, the kids told me that it was so fitting- Steve said he wouldn't always agree :)

-Today I hosted a baby shower for my friend Jessica. She is such an adorable pregnant girl- I only hope that I look that cute! It was fun to see her and to see all the fun things that she got!

What Happens in Vegas...

This week we had Fall Break on Thursday and Friday, we orginally we planning on going on a cruise with my sister Becca and her husband Jesse but that didn't work out. So we planned a little get away to Las Vegas. Neither Steve and I had ever been there so we thought it would be fun. We left early Thursday morning in our car- we stopped off in St. George at In & Out for lunch. Yumm! While we were there we saw one of my students from last year and his family- what are the chances!

We arrived at about 2 o'clock and headed for the Stratesphere where we were staying. After a quick rest and freshening up we left for dinner at Chili's (out of the places in Vegas we went there!). Then we headed for west Vegas to go to the "Assylum," this was an old haunted insame assylum. It was ranked one of the ten scariest hanted houses in the country! Steve and I were both a little apprehensive about going- especially Steve, if you know him at all you know that he gets scared so easily. So we all went through and it really was scary but so hilarious at the same time! Steve would not open his eyes and in the end there was this guy that literally chased you with a chain saw. Well, we had to make a train to go through the whole thing and Steve was in the back. When the chain saw guy chased Steve and I, Steve started running pushed both me and Becca out of the way and into a wall. He was quite entertaining.

After the haunted house, we headed down to the strip to ride the New York, New York. Again, Steve was very entertained seeing as he HATES roller coasters! But it really was fun. We then walked around down there, saw the lions in the MGM Grand, took lots of pictures, and just had a good time being together.

On Friday we woke up, went to the breakfast buffett at our hotel and went to the pool for a quick relaxing dip. Of course, in Vegas the pool was filled with drunk people who I have to admit are very fun (but sad) to watch. There was this one group of guys from Colorado who kept thinking that Becca and I were swedish twins! After we got ready for the day we went up the elevator at our hotel 107 stories to the top of the Stratesphere. We didn't ride any rides but just had fun looking at the city- and yet again since Steve is afraid of heights it was all quite amusing.

This is what Becca and I call our Swedish twin picture...

Later we headed back to the strip to go to Madam Tussauds wax museum in the Venetian hotel. This was so cool and we spent a really long time there! We walked around some more and looked at lots of stuff and then went back to the hotel to get ready for dinner.

For dinner we went to the seafood buffet at the MGM Grand- it had the most amazing food and dessert. It was expesive ($30 a person) but totally worth every single penny. Later we went the M&M store and the Coke factory and then walked to the Belagio for the water show!

Saturday morning we got up, got ready, packed our stuff, ate breakfast and headed back for Spanish Fork. After the 5 hour drive home and some more memories, we were back home safe and sound.

Playing Catch Up...

Well, it's been a busy couple of weeks! No pictures for this post because basically our camera is lame. Well, Steve is busy as usual doing the full time school and more than full time work at the same tim- he even has 4 hour classes of class on Saturdays :( The past few Saturdays he has been really into BYU football and always wanting to have football parties.

Let's see... its really just been the usual for me lately. Always busy with school and my cute 27 third graders. And of course, I've kept busy with all the season premieres of ALL my shows. Trust me, this is enough to keep like 3 people busy- One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, 90219, Fringe, America's Next Top Model, Grey's Anatomy, Smallville, and Private Practice and Desperate Housewives (which both premiere this week!). Steve doesn't like me to tell anyone that I watch all of these shows faithfully, but now you can see we are one family who actually uses and benefits from TiVo. Thursday was my birthday and it was a wonderful day. Eight year olds always make you feel so loved- my desk was filled with cards, letters, balloons, candy, flowers, and so much other stuff. I even got gifts from students from last year. I didn't get home until 8:30 that night because we had a Back to School Night at school that night. But I did come home to a candle light dinner from Olive Garden- my very favorite! I also got some very nice gifts (picture below) from Steve... a new camera (yea!) and some new tennis/running shoes! So you can look forward to new posts with lots of pictures!

Except mine have yellow instead of red.

Trip to Breckenridge

Our family met up in Breckenridge over Labor Day weekend- it feels like that trip was forever ago! Its taken so long to post because Steve and I forgot our camera at home and Becca's camera has been acting up apparently. So here are the pictures and few details from our trip...

We left on Friday afternoon- I had to leave school early and we all piled into Becca's car and headed out. Luke and I sat in the very back and hung out eating snacks and watching movies! It actually was a lot of fun!

Steve and I at the top of Keystone...

Me and my favorite little Livi!!

All the boys (minus Ashton)

We spent our time relaxing, shopping, eating, taking the kids swimming, riding rides and playing games as a family.

Fiona and Luke riding some rides!

Olivia having fun on the bounce house, Fiona... not so much!

Steve and Luke roasting marshmellows!

Every time our family goes to Breckenridge we also take a carriage ride- its always interesting to squeeze everyone into the carriage. Here is the picture we took after the ride...

Our last night there, my mom found some shot glasses in the cupboards and was giving drinks out in them (which was very interesting). So Steve and Jesse decided to have a contest to see who could drink a shot of Coke faster- lets just say Jesse won... every time! As did I, Becca couldn't not handle the fizziness!

On our way home, Becca and I did and little snooping.... although Jesse and Steve called it stalking. We loved the most recent Bachelorette with the girl Deanna. Well in the end she chose someone named Jesse, a professional snowboarder from Breckenridge. They live in Georgia during the summer and Breckenridge during the ski season. Well, we looked up his address in the phone book out there and to our most excited surprise the address was there. So went went and found there house and took a picture in front of it!! Ok, ok, so it may have been a little stalkerish!!

29 New Third Graders

We started school yesterday and it really was a great day! The past few weeks I have been worried about starting school because I knew I had some really tough kids and I really just loved loved loved my kids last year. Well... it turned about to be so wonderful! I have so many cute and good kids that I already love so much! It is completely different from last year- last year I had 19 boys and 11 girls, this year, 19 girls and 10 boys. I know its horrible, but I really preferred my boys last year :) I haven't even really had the chance to miss my kids from last year because most of them are in my room or hugging me at EVERY chance they get! I only have a few pictures, but I just thought I would share with you how cute they are...

A Summer Full of Work

Well, I go back to school on Thursday and the kids come back next Wednesday. I have been working at the school all summer and here is the final finished product.