Love for the Small and Simple Things

So this was really random in some ways. I'll admit I'm a fan of David Archuleta and love his voice. I've really started to listen to this song of his called "To be with you" and it started to make more sense tonight. I was talking to a friend of mine this afternoon and she asked me how I knew it was right to marry Clay. After listening to this song, it seems to explain a lot of it and how I felt going through everything and getting all my answers, although they were small and simple, and not huge like I was looking for because it was such a huge decision. Who wouldn't expect a huge answer for a huge decision? Anyway, we were talking about the Temple and how amazing it is. So with this song too, I can't imagine not being sealed for eternity to Clay and I know that Heavenly Father answered all my prayers and blessed me with the best husband in the world for me. I am so grateful so I wanted to share my love for this song with all of you! I didn't know how to get the youtube video in a post so here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALOsa6nOCg0 Check it out!

Seattle Here I Come!

It's now been 2 weeks since Clay has left and fortunately I have been surviving! It does still stink that he's not here but we talk on the phone every night like we were dating again. ha ha I love it though because we really focus on each other and talk about everything! So we've been trying to find a time where I could come up to see him and it was basically Valentine's weekend that looked the best for me because I didn't have school that next Monday (President's Day I believe) and it was kind of a half mark of when he left to when I'd be up there to drive back with him. So I've been trying to find great flights and Southwest was the only 'cheap' one. I love Priceline naming your own price, but I wanted specific times so I could be with him as much as possible so yes, Southwest was the cheapest at $205. Well we decided to wait and see if it would get less but I was getting antsy. Anyway, I came home the other day and jumped on here to see what the prices were and surprise, surprise! Southwest had a special 3 day sale to Seattle!!! How crazy is that!? The tickets were 50% off so it ended up taking about $30 off though. Hmmm, I thought to myself that I should check Priceline ONE more time. I couldn't believe my eyes - they jumped down like $80! I quickly went through the process of about to buy them and it showed that there were only 3 more tickets at that price. Shoot, well we didn't have money in our account yet from Clay's paychecks so I transferred some from another one and quickly bought them! So it's official! I am going to Seattle for Valentine's Day weekend!!!!!! What a blessing it was to get those tickets at the price that I did - Heavenly Father must really want me to be with my husband to celebrate our birthdays, Valentine's Day, and kind of a late Anniversary romantic getaway :) Clay booked a few nights at a Bed and Breakfast place too so I'm super stoked about it all!!!

Clay just sent me this picture today of him at work - I believe it was his first day at work! He's such a hottie! But this is great Tacoma (technically Fort Lewis on the Military Base) with the overcast skies 24/7 basically. He says a good day for everyone there is when it's not raining - ha, not my idea of a good day! He's doing great though getting right into the swing of things. I'm so proud of him - he's such a hard worker!

On another note, I started teaching this week! I really don't have bad kids at all thank goodness! I have 4 Health classes, 1 swimming and 1 lifetime sports class! It's great though because I have all my classes for the first 3 periods and then lunch and my prep hour so I'm done by 12:08 every day!!! I think that's what makes this teaching so great! haha Just on a side note and totally random - I love listening to Pandora Radio on the internet (pandora.com for all you who don't know about it) and I just decided to add a Disney station to it. I'm such a nerd but I absolutely LOVE it! It has songs from Disney movies, shows on Disney channel, music from Disney stars and teen pop stars - yeah I admit to liking that type of music :) You should check it out!!! Anyway, I'll keep ya updated on my stories :) But until then . . . TTFN!

Being Away From Your Best Friend . . .

This will probably be the hardest thing I have done in my life so far. Clay ended up getting a GREAT internship - only it is in Fort Lewis, Washington. These last few days have been getting harder as I counted down when he would leave. The other night his brother, Tyler, called us up telling us he had some Utah Grizzlies Hockey tickets so we took 'em! We still had to run errands that night so we got to the game with like 12:00 left - not bummed. It was great just to be there. He didn't have to pay for the tickets so we didn't lose out on anything - it was just great to go with Clay and spend time with him and he could spend time with his brother which they have been all week long! I started student teaching this week and let me tell you my cooperating teachers wipes me out! She is fully of energy - almost too much for me! I'm fine in the morning but after classes and not even doing anything, I'm dead and she's still on full throttle. She is already helping me out greatly and I'm excited to teach Health. However, I found out what P.E. classes I will have - Lifetime Sports and . . . Swimming! Yeah, I haven't really been a swimmer in a pool since I was like 7 and here I have to teach now! WOW! Well it really won't be hard just challenging and time consuming. I'll start teaching in a week or so when the new semester begins. I'm glad that a friend of mine from back home is teaching Orchestra at the High School too so I'll at least be able to know someone and vent with her! haha But, today was the day that Clay left for Washington. It's already been quite hard, mostly last night. He's probably about settled in to his hotel room for a couple of days and hopefully he'll find an apartment this weekend for when he starts work on Monday. Luckily too he gets reimbursed for driving the 13 hours there and back here! It was weird coming home to no one, no roommate. I'm more worried for him because he knows no one there compared to me here I have friends and family all around me. This will be a great experience for both of us though and this internship will be great for him - it's a superb company and there's a better possibility of having a career with them now. Anyway, I'll try and keep you updated with student teaching or whatever fun things I do. Hopefully a Jazz game is in sight soon :) Hope all your new years have started out great!

2008 Comes To An End

I don't even know where to begin seeing how I haven't written since Thanksgiving! I'm not even going to go into much detail - so sorry, but I'll try and fill ya'll in with everything that's happened since then. Clay and I finally got through the Fall Semester with having gone to school all year long except the 8 week break. We got on Fast Track so we could both get done this coming July and can I tell you that it's exhausting to go to school that long! haha I was getting ready for student teaching in the winter semester in South Salt Lake and Clay was going to do his internship which I will talk about later but we rented our apartment for the winter semester and we'll be back in it for the summer! We spent Christmas with his family - we were supposed to go visit my family for Thanksgiving but everything fell through so we never got to see them and then we didn't want to have to travel to Burley, back to Rexburg, then to Utah right before we moved. Christmas was awesome though! Mamasita's side of the family has a dinner Christmas Eve and a gift exchange so that was fun. I got the best presents this year! haha I got a Magic Bullet that you see on TV that you just push down on the "blender" to chop everything - it's absolutely amazing! We also got a crock pot - finally! We never got one for our wedding, kinda weird because it seems like everyone gets one. Clay got me a scrapbooking program for the computer, I got an electric blanket/sheet! I love this because I am always cold! I also got a Deron Williams jersey - Go JAZZ! - and tickets for whenever I want (my bro in law has the hook ups :) It was great just being able to be with Clay and not have to worry about work or school. I obviously quit my job at ARTCO which was driving me crazy and Clay quit Sinclair which he had been there for like 3 years! Well we moved the Saturday after Christmas - it was quite a blizzard but we had everything packed so we still left. Clay's brother, Brandon and his family - Barbara and Leland flew in the night before and so we drug them to Utah with us to help move which we really appreciated. We had 2 trucks and 3 cars hauling everything! Luckily no one went off the road and we all got here safely. Wow, this is getting long. I may just make 2 posts! Well we got a great hook-up by my friend Kelsie Sterzer who had just done her student teaching in West Jordan and they were living beside her Aunt/Uncle's house (Brian's Aunt and Uncle) and they had a basement that they fixed up and let us rent it! Great price, great neighbors, great location (5 minutes from Taylorsville High School where I'm student teaching)! Couldn't have gotten better. We ended up going back to Rexburg for New Year's Eve and had a party at our Aunt Mel's which was a blast! Our friends Nicole and Nathan came and joined us too and we got to play Rummy - my latest favorite card game :) So this ends the year 2008! I can't believe that we have been married through a full year! We loved every minute of it and spending all the great holidays together. Clay is my best friend and it's always hard when you can't spend all the time with your best friend as you will have probably already read with the newer post above this one . . .