draper love

So I was booted from my apartment on the 20th and couldn't move into mine until today. I have been staying at Michelle's up here in Draper for the in between time. Yes, the commute from Draper to Springville is not great, but it isn't all that bad either. In fact, I enjoy the drive.

I have used a few of Michelle's guest passes to her gym and swam for a few hours on Saturday - like real lap swimming. It felt so good. I jumped in and it was just like the old days, although I definitely could not swim butterfly, which makes me sad. Then Michelle and I went to the gym again and did weights and gosh - I just love gyms. Gotta get myself a membership once I start making my half teacher salary. :)

I have also decided that Draper isn't that bad. It's actually quite beautiful.

AND I love teaching. I love my sweet kids and while I can stay awake at school, I am drained the minute they get on the bus. We have had a lot of fun and they seem to like me enough!

life is great

catch up

Last day at work
I loved my job. Working in the Student Athlete Building was so amazing. I have never worked with such great people and in such a friendly and exciting environment. I met people that I will never forget and I got to see a whole new side of BYU Athletics - and I just love it even more.



CARLY
My favorite Carly Jean came and stayed with me for 6 whole days! This is the first time she has ever visited in the summer and Utah was a whole new experience for her. It was hot AND cold. Rain, thunder, sun, and more sun. The poor girl got stuck with me getting ready to teach...she decorated my classroom, talked me through stress, all that good stuff. We made pizza and treats and ate J Dawgs (her favorite!). We went on one run and never went hiking. We watched Arsenic and Old Lace at Rock Canyon Park and saw BYU women's soccer play Dixie State (where Abby Monroe is goalie! So fun seeing them at the game). Overall - Carly is such a good friend. I had so much fun with her and I am so lucky she loves me so much :)




Teaching!
I love it. I am in love with my class. I have a jock, a class clown, the princess, the loveable giant, mr. monitor everyone else, and a super happy cutie. There is one that I still have to meet and we get a new girl tomorrow. Definitely still a lot I have to do and figure out - but it is fun and it is where I am supposed to be.


All this good is happening in my life and I am so grateful but a friend of mine was in an accident last week and passed away and I cannot stop thinking about him. One summer I saw him almost everyday and it was tons of fun. Together we pulled pranks, we boxed on wii, we looked at "alien lights" that turned out to only be thunder, we sat in hot tubs, and went to the beach...I miss him. I miss that summer.

OH MY GOODNESS

I start teaching tomorrow...like for real.
Today is opening house. crazy.

Carly has been here all week and has helped me with everything.
This is going to be quick but soon to come is...

1. My last day at work
2. Carly coming! PICTURES
   
3. Setting up my classroom

Just Kidding

They aren't moving anymore.
I guess they just forgot to tell me. haha But my family is STAYING IN SAN DIEGO. So ignore everything I said earlier and just enjoy the cute pictures.

I am glad. I wasn't sure how I was going to survive the Utah cold when my family no longer lived in San Diego for me to visit. Also, I wasn't sure how I was going to live without you all.

love love love

Pictures of the Past

It looks like my family is moving to Utah in approximately 10/11 days. Mom is going through things as she has been packing and she will text me pictures that she has found. Adorable. I am obsessed with them. They make me excited to have my family close.

my door

The door to our apartment often gets stuck. Friends will come over and not be able to get in. No matter how loud we yell, we always eventually have to get up and open the door. I have watched people try to open the door and tell me that it is locked. Silly.

Well, Hannah and Catherine were spending the night. I had work at 8 the next morning and mom was going to come down to be with them around noon. Around 1 I call to see if mom got there and what they were doing. Mom tells me that they have been locked out. The girls went outside and locked themselves out.

I was so confused. You can't lock our door without a key. I kept trying to explain to mom that there is a bolt and it isn't just some flimsy lock, there has to be a key. She tells me that she even tried it and felt it hit the bolt, it was locked.

Then I remembered. You guys! My door gets stuck. I tell mom to go up and give it a big push. I hear her walk to the door, then her body pushing against the door and then the laughing.

I love the simple laughs of life!

fish (not so much) fun

Aubrey left her fish in my hands while she went off and had fun with her internship with NBA this summer. Lucky me. First, we named him something I can't remember. Then she named him Dookie! ahh haha Porter came to visit the other weekend and when he asked, I told him the fish was named Dookie. He laughed and then went over to look at him again about a half hour later and says, "What's his name? Turd?" haha hilarious. On a more recent note though, Aubrey informed me through facebook that he is now Twinkie, but he'll always be Turd to me!

Alright, this is my not so fun part of the story. Part of taking care of the fish is cleaning out his bowl. Ok, I can do that...but it gets tricky because he never wants to come out and it's hard to dump him into a cup over the kitchen sink. Well, Hannah (My family is in town this week) and my cousin, Catherine, came over to spend the night last night. I went do put away some dishes or something and realized it was time to clean the bowl. No biggie, right? Well, I start dumping the water to get him out and he flopped right off the cup and right into my drain! I just saw him flopping there and screamed, a really loud-scared-Tati-dramatic type of scream. AHHHHHHHH I JUST DROPPED THE FISH! HANNAH! THE FISH! IT'S IN THE DRAIN!!! AHHHHH I JUST DROPPED THE FISH! This continued for some time and the girls had no idea what to do. Eventually Hannah stuck her little hands in there and says "Ew. He's flopping!" So we knew he was alive.

End of story - Dookie/Turd/Twinkie made it back to his clean fishbowl and seems happier than ever.