You know you are like your sister...

You know you are just like your sister when you look at her blog everyday just to make sure that you have not missed any new pictures of the kids and you never notice her background. Then you decided that it is time to change your background and you start looking again at your sister's blog. Guess what, out of all the backgrounds that there are out there you seem to have picked the exact one that your sister has. 

I used to always laugh at my mom and aunt they seemed to always buy the same stuff. Like one year they both bought new couches. Come to find out they were the same pattern only my mom's was in green and my aunt's was in blue. Well I guess the apple never falls far from the tree!

You got to love all that you share in common with your sis. 

I am finally doing a Tag.....

Quirks

The Rules:-Link the Person who Tagged you- Mention rules on your blog- Tell about 6 quirks of yours- Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same- Leave a comment to let them know.

So here it goes. Six Quirks about me.

1. Well first off I am completely a sucker for my husband and cannot stand not seeing or talking to him all day. This whole Law School thing is really making this girl not want her husband to go to school. The joke for Law students is that they has mistresses known as their law books. Boy, do I ever believe that one. It has been hard. Some people might sad so sad for you but oh well that is how I feel. I have decided that I need to create a shirt that says... Wife of a Law Student...I need some attention!

2. Still to this day I need to be tucked into bed before I can get  good nights rest. I have to make sure that I am in bed before Justin just so that he will tuck me in. I know you may think you are a 23 year old girl why should you still be getting tucked in? Well I think it just stems back to childhood. I always remember my dad coming up the stairs every night with his big mug of ice water. I always had to take a drink and him or my mom would have to tuck me in to help me sleep. I really don't think that I will ever get over this quirk.

3. I love having people over at my house just so that I can clean it to make it the way that I always want it to look. The fact is that most of the time I am just to lazy to really clean my house every day. So if I just invite people over I get it cleaned the way that I want it to be. So if you ever want to come over I will be more than willing to let you come so that I can get my house cleaned.

4. Whenever I am sick no matter what it is I cannot go to sleep without my humidifier by my side and a bottle of Vicks. I put the Vicks all over. It is underneath my nose and on my neck/chest. I have to wrap a washcloth around my neck in order for the Vicks to stay on my body and not get on my covers. I don't know what it is about these to very important things but I just cannot seem to sleep when I am sick without them. Some times I even have the humidifier running well after I am better because the sound of it just soothes me. This too is something that stems back to my childhood. It is just such a comfort to me. 

5. I am a complete procrastinator. I am just so glad that I am finally out of college, Justin will agree to that one too. I would always procrastinated writing papers and instead of just writing them myself I would call up Justin and ask him if he could "HELP" me write a paper. He sometimes jokes about that he too should have a degree in Elementary Education. I don't know why I do it. I do always get my work done but I guess I just have to wait until the very end for the inspiration to finally come.

6. I could not live outside of Utah. I love the mountains. I could never live without them. The funny thing is though I do not ski and I am not a camper or avid hiker. I just need my mountains. They are almost like a security blanket for me. I feel so safe with them. It for sure makes watching fireworks a whole lot more enjoyable. 

So there are some quirks about myself that I hope you enjoy. I tag my sister, Rachel, Rosann, Katie, April, and Alissa

Well I Have Finished My Classroom

Here it is what my new classroom finally looks like. I am so happy that it is complete. With the help from my mom my classroom has now transformed into a room that totally reflects my outlook on school. Bright fun and inviting to my students. I cannot tell you what a relief it is to finally have my classroom decorated and things put away in the place that they need. There are still some things that I need to work on but for the most part it is complete. 

To me it is still amazing to think that I am a teacher in my own classroom. Since school has started I still have not had the opportunity to teach a full week. The first week of school was a bomb trying to change from one school to another. The next week we had Labor day, therefore no school. And then this week I had a reading conference that I had to go to all day. Will I ever be able to teach a full week?

Speaking of the reading conference I had to of course prepare for a sub. Hello I am a new teacher  I don't even know what it is that I am doing. How in the world am I going to be able to explain to a sub in detail what it is that they need to do for my class and how to handle them. Hopefully I got a sub that knew what they were doing. I guess I will find out tomorrow how my class did. I threatened my class. I told them if they did really well for the sub then they would get a treat tomorrow. Well we will see they actually get the treat. 

These are the joys of being a teacher that I am just discovering.

My Classrooms

I finally have uploaded my pictures of my two classrooms to my blog because I promised that I would show everyone what it looks like. Well what took me a week and a half to put together took me a only a couple of hours on Thursday August 28 to take down. This was the day that I said goodbye to Freedom Elementary and walked into the halls of West Weber Elementary to become a Cowgirl. 

I cannot believe that it has been a week since my huge change. To tell you the truth it has really been a great experience. Minus the fact that I have to redecorate a classroom. The thing is most of the stuff that I have bought was meant to fit in Freedom but with the help of my mom and the other teachers we will make it work for West Weber. 

So let me show you what my classroom at West Weber looked like when I arrived last Thursday. The first four pictures are of West Weber, all of the crap that you see is my classroom stuff. Basically all that I wanted to do last Thursday was just get my stuff there and see what I had to work with. I do have to give kudos to the substitute for putting the classroom together for the kids to start school, she put a lot of work into it. But since I have bought so much I want to make sure that I put up my own stuff.

The last four pictures is what my first classroom looked like finally after I had put it together. For me that was the hardest part, taking down my room that took me so long to create. Well life goes on. I am now in the process of recreating my classroom. More pictures are on there way. Day by day my class is looking more and more like me.