Updates....

Hello blogging world again....it has been awhile. So where to start, we have had some major changes in our lives over the past year all have been great in their own way and hard too. So I finished my first full year of teaching my awesome 4th graders who I absolutely adored even though sometimes it was really hard, I still love them and miss them. Before the school year ended Zac got a job offer we could not refuse so we decided we would move to Utah. We quickly cleaned our house packed everything up and moved everything to Utah all while I am still teaching school May was a whirlwind of a month. Once school was out for the school year Zac and I took a much needed vacation to Mexico and it was awesome. It rained everyday but it was beautiful and we enjoyed the beach even when it was raining.
Oh I almost forgot in May I also started my masters degree, it is a fast pase program that is only 10 months long.
After returning from Mexico I said goodbye to Zac as he had to move to Utah right away and I had to stay to start my third summer of teaching golf lessons. Which I absolutely loved!! I was in the sun everyday and playing the sport I have fallen in love with again. Our summer flew by, we had a family reunion in Nebraska, and to end a great summer we headed to the moutains for a girls weekend.
I then quickly returned to Boise after our weekend and I had to get the car packed up and finish moving myself to Utah. I had one day before I had to start at my new school, crazy cray week let me tell you! So then I got to meet my awesome little 3rd graders, they are amazing and they surprise me everyday with how smart they are. Truly amazing!
So then came the end of August and our family grew by one. Zac's sister and her husband were blessed by adoption and we became an aunt and uncle! We are absolutely in LOVE with our niece. We just wish they lived closer so we could love on her more! While little miss Zoë was being born we took a quick trip to Seattle with my family to cheer on the Broncos. Unfortunately we lost but that is okay we still love them anyways. We had a blast, we ate great food, and I even got to go to my first PAX convention. If you do not know what it is you should look it up.....I did not fit in haha.
Our fall was filled with lots of football games, Zac was able to coach with his dad and brother this fall for the Summit Bears. Even though they did not win very much it was still fun to go to the games to watch my man do his thing! I even made a few trips home to watch my Broncos!!
Our holidays were filled with family, friends, lots of food, and awesome gifts.
Now to the fun stuff! For Christmas we gave Zac's dad tickets to the College World Series in June. We are so excited to go! It has always been a dream of Scott's to go so we are excited to make it come true! Then my gift to Zac for Christmas is a trip to Vancouver, Canada. We are so excited to go explore the beautiful city and hopefully take lots of pictures! So come July our cameras and passports will be ready!
In other exciting news I finish my masters on March 1st! I can see the light and I am so excited! I have learned so much and have even used a lot of what I am learning in my classroom. Even more exciting is I get to walk on April 26th in Portland!! Yahoo! Zac has never been to the coast so it will be exciting to show him all the cool spots in Oregon.
On April 22 I am taking a playing test so I can start being apart of the LPGA I am also so excited about this, it has been a dream of mine ever since I was little and I don't think I could not have come this far without the help the head pro back home at the course. He truly has helped me believe I can do it, so on April 22 wish me luck and keep me in your prayers. :)
Well I think I have posted enough and have updated mostly of what has happened hopefully now that our lives are starting to slow down I will be able to post more, so I can keep track of all our wonderful memories.

January is almost over!!

Wow it has been awhile since I lasted posted! I am going to try to be better it is one of my goals, but teaching has really taken over my world haha. I am loving the challenge teaching has brought me! It is fun when I get to be on the creative side of things! My students are awesome they know so much already and we still have half the year left, probably the most amazing part where my students have grown is in the math department. They came in not really knowing the basics like simple addition and subtraction, we had major jumps backwards and there was a lot of tears on my end. But no worries with lots of love and help and dedication from the students we have made it to where we need to be and they are awesome. These kiddos are multiplying like made and they are awesome at division! Next comes the really fun part of our curriculum fractions, decimals, and graphing data! 

As far as our home goes we had a rough fall, Zac started with AFLAC and has now moved onto work with Wells Fargo and our home has become a little less stressful and more enjoyable. We really do appreciate that we got to experience these challenges together and they have made us that much stronger. 

As far as football went this fall I think the boys did an amazing job, being as it was their first year as a team and they were mostly freshman and sophomores playing juniors and seniors. They didn't end up going to state but I am very proud of how far they did get! My father in law did an amazing job coaching those boys and I can't wait for next season!! 

One thing I am missing desperately this winter is the skiing we have not gone yet and seeing as January is almost over this is a problem....the snow at our local resort has not been the greatest and I got sick with a cold so we were unable to drive to the next closest resort which has lots of great snow. But I am on the mend and we are going to go hopefully really soon. On the bright side though we have planned a little vacation to go down to Utah in February to have a little ski weekend and I am so stoked. So if you are in town while we are there please come and join us!!

Summit Academy's First Football Game!

This past weekend we drove down to Salt Lake to watch Summits first ever football game! This year they are ranked as a 1A school for football. The team they played was Millford High which is 3 hours southwest of Salt Lake, the town is very small and they only have one restaurant which was Subway. It was such a cute little town, you could tell the recession hit them pretty hard but those boys were so excited to be playing! So to start the game there were some pretty dark clouds over head and then it decided to pour right when the cheerleaders went out to the middle of the field for the national anthem. Linda was smart enough to bring an umbrella, she got it out and we thought it should blow over soon but it just kept raining harder, all we could do was just laugh! Then the lightening came and they delayed the game, Linda and I ran to our car and on the way we got even more soaked! It was so funny.....mostly because we were so unprepared. It was a great first memory of Summit football!!! Summit won the game and it was awesome!! I can't wait to go to more games this season!! Way to go Bears!

Oh I almost forgot on the way down we stopped in Beaver at the cheese factory outlet and got squeaky cheese it was amazing!!!

4 years.....

It really is crazy to me that another year has come and gone! So to keep up with the tradition here are a few things that we have done over the past year...

I student taught in Kindergarten

I graduated from Boise State 

I was an ERI/Title I teacher 

Zac is now certified to sell health and life insurance 

Zac has a new job

I got a job as a 4th grade teacher at Star

We went to California 

We went to Florida....AMAZING

We went to the ER for the first time in our marriage....Zac has a kidney stone

I won a golf tournament 

We got a new car

We go on lots of bike rides

We started doing CrossFit and we absolutely love it!

Wow we have done so much in a year! I can't wait to see what this next year has to offer! Love you Zac thanks for being an amazing husband!

Alright Pictures from April till Now!

Alright so I thought I would play catch up by just posting a bunch of pictures! Enjoy!!! 

 These first few pictures our from our trip to Florida. 

These pictures are from our most recent trip out to California when we went and visited Zac's sister and Brother-in-law.

These are a few pictures from the fourth.

  These are the most recent, we went to a Boise Hawks game, Zac got a kidney stone, I played in a Pro Junior Golf Tournament and these were my awesome teammates!! Oh and the picture of my leg is from April, one of my puppies accidently bit me.

  

Exciting Stuff!

Wow I really am terrible at this blog thing....I am going to make it a goal to post at least 2 times a month.

So some really exciting things have happened here lately. First we will do a little recap of what has happened.

We went to Orlando in April and it was so FUN! It was a great little get away, and it was fun to spend some time with Zac's family! Then it was also my birthday and it was pretty low key we just went out to dinner and hung around home! Zac got me some sweet new kicks as well as some new GOLF Clubs! I will put a picture up on my next post....promise! 

In May I started my Get Golf Ready golf lessons that i teach with my friend Kelly and they were so much fun! We just finished our first ladies session and now we are on our second ladies sessions and our first Juniors lessons! I am loving it and learning so much! I also wrapped up the school year with my Title I and ERI job and it was exciting but sad at the same time, I am going to miss working with those kiddos every day! Oh I also had a job interview with Summit Academy and they offered me an assist teaching position which was awesome! 

Okay ready for the most exciting part of this post! I was offered a full time teaching position with Star Elementary and I will be teaching 4th grade! I am SO SO excited, I did my first semester of student teaching in 4th grade and LOVED working with my mentor and now we get to be teaching colleagues and I am way excited!! When I found out I had to immediately go out and do a little shopping! 

Anyways we are getting the car all packed to head down to the OC to spend sometime with Zac's family and I promise when I get back I will post a lot of pictures of the last few months! 

Love love

Where has March gone....

Wow I have been really bad at this whole blog thing....so let me back track a little on what has happened since the last post we have celebrated 3 birthdays in the family and 1 anniversary and they all occurred  a week.....first up was my little brother Ben, he turned the BIG 21!! Oh and he survived Vegas! Next up was my parent's 26th wedding anniversary, Love you Mom and Dad you guys are an amazing example! Then Granny had her birthday! I was very sad I didn't get to go to her birthday brunch but from what I hear it was very nice, Happy Birthday Granny!!! I love you so much! Then finally to wrap up the crazy week was my Dad's birthday, we had a nice little evening at home and ate way to much lasagna, pie and cookies.

So you may ask what has been keeping me busy right....well teaching for one thing has me really busy I am always trying to find new ways I can help my little kiddos on their reading skills and I absolutely LOVE it! Another thing is the golf course is back up and running and this year I am a teaching professional so every chance I get I am at the course either practicing, helping give a lesson, or watching my mentors give lessons! I am so excited about it! 

OH AND HOW COULD I NOT SAY ANYTHING I AM LEAVING FOR FLORIDA IN 1 WEEK!!!! I am so STOKED if you could not tell hehe. Until next time.

Somebody's Birthday...

So I feel like a really bad wife......I didn't get on here and write a birthday post for a very special someone. So here is a shout out to the best husband ever! Happy Belated Blog Birthday Babe.....

P.S. We have a few more birthdays we are going to be celebrating here in the next few weeks! 

Valentine's

Happy Valentine's Day......

Click here to view our card! 

I hope you enjoy our card! Well I have to run I have a hot date with the hubby tonight. Don't worry I will post about it later :)

Date Night

So the other night we had a little date night but we didn't go out we stayed home and just enjoyed each other and it was so much fun! First we started off with making our dinner....pizza...he made the pizza perfectly round and I grated the cheese and then he finished it with his magic touch. While we were waiting for it to be done we just sat and caught up with each other about life and work. 

Then when the pizza was done we ate it in bed and watched Dexter. It was so simple yet it was perfect. 

Love Love

Crazy Last Few Weeks

Wow things around here got super crazy and I am finally making the time to sit down and write a little blog post so here goes.

In the past few weeks I took on a position at Star as a Title I Kindergarten teacher and and ERI for 1st-3rd grades and I absolutely love it!!! At first I was thinking that it was only going to be until April a few times a week but it turns out I will be there full time from now until mid May! This was a huge blessing and we are so thankful that I am able to partake in this experience. Oh and I will also be at the golf course again and I am so excited!!

I also took my middle school mathematics praxis test, if I pass this test then I will have an endorsement in Math and that makes me really excited so keep your fingers crossed....I will find out in about 3 weeks how I did!

Oh and my Mom and Dad are amazing.....they got me this little beauty for graduation...

I love it and I am so excited to have my own...the best part is it came with a few classes to teach me how to use it as well as a couple fun quilting projects! I will let you know how they turn out.

With my new found love....has come some very much needed craft time...I made my friend a tutu for her little girl who will arrive soon....okay so I didn't use my sewing machine for this but it got my creative juices going so we are going to let it count ;) anyways I had a fun day with my friend Bri last week and she was the one who helped me think of the tutu idea thanks Bri!

After I made the tutu I just craved to go back to the craft store and I finally finished my one wall....remember this one....

Now it looks like this and I absolutly love it!

With that trip to the craft store I also got a ton of cute fabric so that I can make a purse and a calendar quilt for February. I will post pictures soon!!

Oh and the best news of all I got this little puppy in the mail! I am officially a graduate now YAY!

Oh and it snowed a lot here in the mountains which meant that our ski resort finally opened and Zac and I enjoyed the slopes on Sunday! Im pretty sure we will be there again this weekend too! :) Well that is about it for updates hopefully I will be better at this blog thing.

Holidays

We had a wonderful very mellow and quiet Christmas, it was nice to just not have to worry about anything and just enjoy the time spent with family. This year we spent Christmas here in Idaho with my family, we have a Christmas tradition on Christmas Eve we always go over to my Grandparents house and we have a little gift exchange and just hang out....this year was a little different from years past in that my grandpa was in the hospital and we were not sure if he was going to be able to be home....so we waited in anticipation and our prayers came true he got to come home, the hospital released him at about 5:30 Christmas Eve! It was so good to have him there.

On Christmas Day we were with my parents and we opened gifts and had breakfast and then went to Mission Impossible 4....it was a great movie I loved it! Then we came back home and we all helped my mom make a wonderful dinner as well as squeezing in some Kinnect Sports.....lets just say I did not win the golf match so we will be having another game here really soon so I can have a rematch haha. We also got so spoiled by everyone and we made out like bandits....Zac's favorite things were all 4 seasons of The Big Bang Theory, his video game Skyrim, and the Roku. Some of my favorite things are I got a cute new purse, silver Toms, and lots of fun new clothes!

For new years we were down in Salt Lake with Zac's family, it was so fun to be with everyone....it has been awhile since we have all been together! We played Dance Central with the Kinnect, apples to apples, and a couple other games but most importantly we got to just hang out as a family and it was so nice!! We also went to The Red Iguana (if you are ever in Salt Lake and and good Mexican food you have to try this place it is amazing) anyways it was so fun...poor Jordan was not feeling well hopefully he is all better now :) and Zac and Wyatt ordered the same dish....oh and they didn't read all the way through the description of what they ordered....lets just say it was a very hot dish and they drank a lot of water and ate a lot of rice with it haha....minor detail in that there was jalapenos in it with the seeds...once they figured this out they started avoiding them....but they loved it anyways! Zac, Mom Linda and I also tried out another little Mexican place and they are famous for their fish tacos, I have the shrimp tacos and they were AMAZING!!!! We will defiantly be going to that place a lot more when we are down there. It is called Lone Star Taqueria (sp) so if you like fresh fish you need to go here!!!! 

Well that is an update on what we did for the holidays....I don't have any pictures this time a) because I am on a new computer and have yet to transfer pics and b) I didn't take a whole lot either!  

It was SnOwInG.....

So when my body decided that it was time to get up at 3:30 this morning I was a little annoyed but then I was greeted with something a little magical.....yes you guessed it there was snow on the ground so it made being up early a little bit worth it....oh and the bowl of trix cereal haha

On other news I was inspired last night and now I am working on a game plan for my inspiration and I am really hoping it works out soon so that I may tell you about my inspiration.....it has something to do with a couple former high school teachers and a few of my alumni friends so keep tuned :)

Oh p.s. please keep praying for snow because this girl would really enjoy skiing soon!! 

The Stockings were hung......

Oh my goodness it has been awhile....so much has happened recently. Friday I graduated from Boise State and it felt so good!!! I still can't believe that I am done...but then again I can haha. I still have that little feeling though inside that I am going to be late for class.

Oh  with graduation my Mom, Aunt Jolene, and Zac threw me a little after party (I helped bake but it was still fun haha, special shout out to them though they did an amazing job, my mom even got Boise State colored flowers for me and they were gorgeous!!!) and it was so fun to get together with family and friends. Thank you everyone who came it truly meant so much to me and thank you to everyone who has helped me the past five years and encouraged me to keep going when it was hard.

Anyways it feels so good!!! Some other things that have happened recently are we put up all of our Christmas decorations and we finished up all of our shopping last night!! Let the wrapping begin. 

For my graduation Zac's parents and grandparents came up for it and it was awesome, it was so good to see them! We even celebrated a little Christmas with them because we will not be down there this year. So it was nice just to have a little Christmas together.

Oh and I finished my student teaching a little over a week ago and it was a bitter sweet day I got so attached to the little kiddos it was hard to say goodbye but I just kept telling myself I will see them again as I will be working part time in the school come January!

Well I better get to all the wrapping and until the next time enjoy a few pictures!

 Flowers from Botanica (Amazing)

My Dad and I at the last home game!

 Cookies I made for my little Kinders 

 Education Friends!! Could not have done it with out them

P.s. Please pray for snow so I can go skiing haha

Thankful NoVeMbEr

So many people write about what they are thankful for during November so I know I am a little late on posting but I just figured you should be thankful everyday right....right. But here is my list none the less, one for each day of the month.

1. My Hubby

2. My puppies (all three of them)

3. My Moms

4. My Dads

5. My siblings

6. My home

7. My health 

8. For the wonderful staff at Star Elementary for making me feel like part of the family :)

9. All of my family....Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Grandparents....

10. The Seasons

11. Sports

12. Warm Drinks...Milky ways & Apple Spice

13. Ice Cream & Pizza

14. Freedom

15.Graduating

16. Future Job Opportunities 

17. Pinterest

18. Friends

19. Vacations

20. My Mentor Teachers

21. Crafts 

22. Movies/TV

23. My Car

24. Chocolate

25. My car

26. My Jobs 

27. All of my favorite stores...to many to list haha

28. Warm cozy blankets

29. Musically/Artistic talented husband (I know I put him twice that is how much I love him :) ) 

30. Technology 

There is so much more so these are just a few.....

P.S. Here is my graduation announcement that I created.......

Love LOVE

Decorations....

So I finally got around to putting up my decorations for fall and I love how they look with our newly arranged furniture. 

I even got really crafty one day and I made some candy corn pillows. They were so easy and the best part is I made them for about $1.50 a piece, you can't beat that!!! Love LOVE

 Our tree in the front is BeAuTiFuL!

FaLl....

I usually am not a hug fan of Fall but for some reason this year I am loving it! I LOVE the colors and maybe it might be the scent of my new candle (sugared pecan)....but I am loving it. I know it has been awhile since the last post but a lot has been going on and we have been SUPER busy so when I get a little breather I will put up some new pictures...until then Happy Fall!

Club Championship

So this past weekend Zac and I played in the River Birch Club Championship...we both had a rough couple days but that just means we need to practice more and play in more tournaments. This was my first competitive tournament since high school.

Guess who was the Ladies Club Champion....That's right ME!

All of the Champions get invited to go and play in Sun Valley in September and I am so excited!

Goodbye Passat

So after a few months of weighing all of the pros and cons and after having a few conversations with our mechanic we decided that it was time to get rid of it.

So after searching the internet and looking at several cars we found our new one.....a Toyota 4Runner and we love it! If you ever need a car Dan Weibold Ford is great to work with!!

Reading

So I am not really the type that would just go and pick up a book to read it just to read but ever since I saw this book in the bookstore....before the movie was announced....I as intrigued by this book and always wanted to read it I just never really had the time.

Well I finally got the book and I seriously could not put it down I loved it so much so if you want a good book you should check it out!!