Jenna's Wedding!

My best friend Jenna got married this summer, and it was absolutely gorgeous and perfect! The only problem would have been that my shoes were killing me and I felt like I was going to pass out during the ceremony...don't worry, I didn't!
It was awesome cuz I got to see all my Erie friends!
Here are some pics

                                                           Waiting to get our hair done!

                                                                     Gorgeous dress!!

                                                                   North East Peeps!

Guilt

Well...within a week I was called by both of my lovely sisters, and my mother to start blogging again. That same week I gave a YW lesson on personal records, so I feel like someone is trying to tell me to start writing things down...here it goes!

New York

Mike doesn't have a test tomorrow, so we packed our bags and headed to New York. We were originally planning on going to Toronto, but my brother arrived home from the Middle East earlier this week, so we changed our plans! We left right after my work on Friday, spent Saturday in New York City and at Dustin's place. We then came back today. It was a lot of driving, but we had a ton of fun! Here are some pics:

Mike in a Taxi!

At the top of the Rockefeller Center

On the Staten Island Ferry

Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry

Yes, We're Alive

So I was a major slacker over the summer. I apologize! I will quickly go over some highlights...

• I ran/walked a half marathon
• Michael got a break!
• We bought a car
• Went to the beach a lot
• Went to Michigan, Utah, and California

Overall, we had a GREAT summer! It was even better knowing that I was still getting paid while I lounged around! :)

School has started up for Michael and I. We are readjusting to our busy lives. Too bad it isn't always summer!

I have been trying my hand at a new style of cooking-vegan. We have an investigator who is a vegan, and he is letting me borrow one of his cookbooks. As I read through this cookbook, I am amazed at how many ingredients I don't recognize! We'll see how it goes!

Other than that, not much has been going on out here! I will try to do a better job of keeping this up to date...no guarantees!

Karlie Says To...Again

So I promised two posts this last week to Karlie. I know that I waited until the last moment, but at least I'm doing it! :)

So this last week I had to go to BlockBuster to pick up a movie for the 8th grade to watch. While I was there, I saw that they were having a sale on Wii games so I thought I would be a good wife and buy my husband a game. I was picking through, and there wasn't much there, so I bought a random football game. I was worried that Mike wouldn't really like it, but I bought it anyways.

Turns out that this game is an NCAA game from 2 seasons back. It has you pick a team, and go through their season. Naturally, Mike picked the Cougs. He has been playing NON-STOP! Sometimes I feel like we are actually watching the Cougars by how into it Mike and I get!
Mike started doing the season a 2nd time (yes, a 2nd time!), and he picked his non-conference games to be teams ranked in the top 5. He is currently playing #1 Ohio State, and it is neck and neck! He is stressing himself out!

Other than that, life is going well! I made it through the state testing for math. Now I have to wait until July to see how my students did. I'm amazed at the pressure that is put on the teachers out here! I guess that it makes me work harder!

Karlie Says I Have To...

So Karlie is bothering me to post more, so here it is!

I am training to do a half-marathon in June. Here is the training schedule (the date given is the week that you need to do the miles written):
3 3 3 March 29
3 3 4 April 5
3 4 5 April 12
3 4 6 April 19
4 4 7 April 26
4 5 8 May 3
4 5 9 May 10
5 5 10 May 17
5 5 11 May 24
5 3 (walk) 13.1 May 31

The run is on June 5th. I hope I can make it!

Also, I had a funny story happen today in class. I am not going to use his name, but it is important to know that this student has been known to do drugs, so he is always acting kind of strange. Also, he is very into religion and the bible, so I constantly have to ask him to keep the religion out of the classroom!

On Mondays, I usually let my students tell about their weekends. Well, whenever this student raises his hand, I always am nervous as to what he is going to say. He raised his hand and I called on him. He then, with a huge grin states, "My dog ate chocolate. Then, my Dad and I gave it peroxide to get it to throw up. His name is Chester and I blessed him"
The whole class started busting up laughing!

Anyways, I thought I'd share that for Karlie!

Easter Sunday

Yes these eggs are beautiful, no compliment necessary!

So I told Mike that I wanted to decorate eggs this year. I thought he wouldn't want to. However, yesterday he boiled the eggs, got the dyes ready, and started dying the eggs before I even realized what he was doing. He is so awesome!

HAPPY EASTER! :)