Ring in the New Year!

Lets be real 2011 wasn't the best year for me and my family. There was lots of good things :) but thinking back on it the majority of things that stick out in my mind are not good. SOOO I'm hoping for 2012 to be better, with a few more lows and a lot more highs.

Some new year resolutions for me this year:

• Not to hit all my insurance premiums
• To finally get rid of my annoying shiz (No more blow and go, woot woot)
• Be a better wife/friend/sister/daughter/aunt etc (Just better in general, I'm thinking being less selfish falls under this one)
• Be more productive, if that means a craft a day so be it.
• Make 365 newborn hats! (Need to get started on this one ASAP)

Feeling old

Remember how I have been out of high school 6 years? I sometimes feel like it has been ... 2 years maybe. I still pretend that I have tooons of time to do whatever I want before I have to grow up. Well news flash I am grown up. Anyway, that was kind of a tangent. What I wanted to say was yesterday my awesome friend Zoie and I went to watch her sister play basketball in this tournament they had going on at  my alma matre and walking in the gym brought back some memories! It was so fun to sit and reminisce about all those fun times, remember playing sports, meeting up with all my friends in certain spots (Yeah I was one of those people.),  there was even a couple pictures of me in the showcase still! Oh how I miss high school. I miss the days that I could play an entire basketball game without feeling like I was going to die. Or seeing tons of people that I just love/ it was even fun to see some of the people I didn't love just because, I miss most of my teachers, I miss the days where I had stuff going on all day everyday. But for every good thing I miss about high school I have a good thing to like about being an adult. So for now I'll just be a grown up :)

But I before I leave I gotta say it ..... AAAAHHHH CV!


Were you a high school lover? Or a high school hater? My husbands a hater!  Can you believe it? Its hard for me to wrap my head around because really I loved high school so much, maybe I've just blocked the bad things out of my memory.

Merry Christmas!!!!

I hope you all have/had an awesome day!

I know for me I had a wonderful day with my husband.

Christmas Time-

So this Christmas I really wanted to do something for somebody else. Don't get me wrong its fun to go shopping for my husband and spoil him with gifts but we have a tendency to spoil ourselves year round so its not as special for us on December 25th.

Instead this year I thought of something that has meant a lot to me a newborn's hat. It may not seem like much but I know for me and my husband something as simple as a little hat meant a lot for us. Hopefully my gift will bring some joy to the families that have little ones at the IHC here in Cedar.

As for me this may become my new favorite hobby, I have been given tons of yarn and so I plan to use it all to make many more hats. I'm thinking the next time I donate will be for my birthday so if anybody wants to make some too that would be awesome! You have four months :)

3 months old!

So Koda is 3 months old and we took him to get his shots today.
He did so good, there were tons of other dogs and even a couple of cats at the vet and he did really good considering he is not use to being around other dogs. Also I found out a little bit of info about this pup because we took him to the same vet where he was born. Anyway there were pictures of all of the puppies of the litter and Koda is by far the cutest one and definetly the runt. Also apparently Koda almost didn't make it. He had to have CPR done on him and they were lucky he finally started breathing on his own.

I'm glad we decided to get him that day, even though it was really spontaneous. He is growing so fast and I'm going to miss how cute he is as a little puppy.

Lousy neighbors

I know you don't get to pick your neighbors but if only....
We have lived here for over a year and I'm pretty sure I only know two maybe three of my neighbors names. I do know atleast one of my neighbors and their pets! For example one day when I got home from work, this "said" neighbor was checking the mail (conveniently the community mailbox is in our yard) well he had his dog with him and he let him do his business right there on our lawn, right in front of me! And I'm not really the kind of person that will say anything and he didn't say anything either so instead I just vented about it to my husband. Also this lovely neighbor has a cat that just roams around and has decided that the sandbox in our backyard is its own personal litterbox! It brings its dead birds and all its fun little cat finds and delivers them to the box. So we got rid of the sandbox, but the cat still comes around. Well, what really sparked this rant was that yesterday we found a nice huge pile of cat vomit that I am completely convinced came from this same stupid cat. To make matters worse I have a curious little puppy now that thinks he needs to eat everything left behind! All I can say is I wish I had a bb gun and I wish that neighbors would be a little more considerate/responsible.
Also I'm sorry if you have to listen to my puppy whine when I leave him in the backyard while I'm at work. We're working on it.

Concert Fever

So this is mostly for my mom, she doesn't have a blog of her own but she said "if I had a blog..." So I thought I'd blog it for her. Especially since I can witness for her.
Last night we went to a David Cook concert. You are all familiar with him right? American Idol winner season 7. He beat out David Archuletta in the final round. (Who ironically was playing right here in my hometown last night) Anyway we (My mom, her David Cook loving friend, and I) ventured down to Las Vegas to see David Cook. We got there really early so we were sure to get a good spot. We waiting for hours because we showed up so early, then we waited in line for hours. Let me tell you what the line up was. Doors were to open to General Admission at 7 concert was to start at 8. David Cook however wasn't scheduled to be on stage until 9:45 and he was set to play for 45 minutes. Worth it? I don't know but for my moms friend it definitely was so we endured it with her.

Turns out David Cook is really quite rude, first of all he was a few minutes late getting on stage but thats forgivable. The first thing he said when he did get up there was, "lets get this over with I have a black jack table waiting for me." Which caught a few laughs but I found a little rude and then the rest of his set he was patronizing his crowd. The fans that make him  his living, the living he CHOSE to do. Now to give a little more information it was his last show of the year, and I'm sure he was extremely tired and ready for it to be over but thats no excuse to be rude to the people who make you who you are. Also take a shower! Wash your hair! Don't chomp on your gum the entire show! Don't start singing a song then stop half way and start laughing, to admit to the crowd your having an off night. We can tell. And yes it was a small venue with not that many people in attendance but if you didn't want to do the show say no. And that is all Mr. Cook you lost a fan, however thankfully you had some awesome opening acts that made up for me waiting around crowded Las Vegas to see you.

I will say one good thing about him though, he does sound really good live, just as good as he does on his albums. So if you ever find yourself wanting to go to see him live forget that just put in his CD and listen to that it's a much better show.

MUSIC!

I'm going to go on a little bit of a rant about music now....

I love it, I can't get enough of it :) :) :)

All kinds, techno-classic-rock-rap-country-classic ANYTHING!

Any song that I can put on repeat and sing along EVERY time is a good one.

Any song that I can listen to and just can't help but SMILE is a good one.

Any movie even the crappy ones can be saved by its soundtrack!
Any song that I listen to and it MAKES me dance is a good one.

I love that music can just bring back memories like nothing else can.

I love having it at my fingertips!

So in short I love music, and I can't get enough of it!

"I'm in love I'm in love and I don't care who knows it!" 

(that was my Christmas plug... Name that movie)

Work Work Work ...

Finally, the down hill slope of the week! Woot woot.

This week I have decided to be more of an active employee. At first I was holding a little grudge because my superiors don't really know how to be superiors. So I decided to say "stick it" in my own way and kind of did my job half-assed well actually thats a lie. Only half of my job I did half-assed the other half I do excellent if I do say so myself. (But we won't get into all of that right now.) Anyway, with the temperatures so cold we have been forced to stay inside. Which isn't great for me. (Pray for 40's everyone!) So long story short I have 30, 5 year olds for an hour and a half each day... to protect and serve. Just throw them in a gym let them play tag right??? Wrong: choir meets in the gym. Okay throw them in one of their classrooms and let them play with the activities in there. Wrong: the teachers apparently get a little peeved when I let them use their things.
So me with my teaching degree and my many years of practice with kids get to entertain. Wrong AGAIN: I have no clue what I'm doing and can I just say 30 kids are overwhelming! But I just wanted to do a little bragging because I had an awesome day and only two kids got bored the whole time! (and that was just in the last couple of minutes.)

However, that was one day and I'm pretty sure I can't do the same thing with them every day and not have them get bored. SOO I need ideas on how to keep them busy I'm talking the WHOLE time because you give them any time to think and they get all crazy and once you lose them there is no turning back. And keep in mind any ideas pitched my way need to involve me not providing any materials of my own because I'm not that nice of a person AND I don't have any money for that kind of crap.

Happy December!

I decided I needed a more positive posting habit. And when better to that than on December 1st? Let the countdown to Christmas begin :) I'm so glad it snowed how perfect, I was starting to wonder if it ever would. I may even throw up a few decorations up today, we'll see. I do have one up of course... My advent calender. So, today I plan to drink hot cocoa maybe watch a Christmas movie, and slowly decorate my home with the few Christmas things I have. Who knows maybe I'll hop on pinterest and find some new things to create.