I love Flickr!

Those of  you who know me, know that I love to sleep - I mean REALLY love it! So you might be surprised that I am posting something at 8:30ish on a Saturday morning. I usually have to get up at 6:00am every day for work and this morning my body just did it on its own. BUMMER!!! So what do I do? I find things that I'm certain no one really is interested in to blog about! I found this fun tag on a friend's blog (thanks for letting me steal it Patty!) and I think flickr is so cool so here it is...

Directions - Type the answer to each of the following questions into Flickr Search. Pick an image that comes up and it has to be in the first page of results. Then post the pictures with each question and answer.

Sounds like fun...

1. First Name: Rachel (how perfect is this picture?!?)

2. Favorite Food: Chinese food

3. High School I went to: Westerville North High School (sorry I had to cheat the rules on this one b/c the first page results were all pics of when Hillary Clinton came there)

4.Favorite color: Green

5. Celeb Crush: Currently its James McAvoy (see post about the movie Penelope!)

6. Favorite Drink: Coke a Cola

7. Dream Vacation: Anywhere that we can go scuba diving

8. Favorite dessert: Mint Chocolate Cake (yummy even in the morning!)

9. What I want to be when I grow up: A teacher (I know - how corny but I seriously LOVE my job!)

10. What I love most in life: Family (get my reference to The Sopranos???)

11. One word to describe myself: Sweet (I don't really get the picture, but it's time to be done!)

Midnight Sun

For those of  you who are fans of the Twilight series, which are great books, I have found out some disappointing news concerning the latest book. Stephenie Meyer was in the process of writing "Midnight Sun," a version of the original book "Twilight" told from Edwards' point of view, when an unfinished copy of her book got leaked onto the internet. So she has stopped writing it, which is totally a bummer for us fans, but she has posted what she had so far. There are about 260 pages and I'm slowing reading it, but it's hard since I have to read it from my computer. Anyways here's the link if you want to read what would've been her next great book.

 

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html

Random...

I just wanted to post a few pictures and give a quick up-date about our first full week of school. The first picture I'm posting is of the clock and I found at a garage sale and that Sean fixed up. This isn't the best picture, but I assure you, it looks great! It's currently hanging up in Sean's classroom (while the fork and spoon still sit in our house). 

The next picture is of some cool jewelry I got at an estate sale yesterday. I've never been to one before and it felt kind of weird going through a deceased lady's possessions, but she had some awesome stuff. My friends and I left with a ton of treasures. 

Lastly, we've completed 8 days of school (172 left till summer!!!) and it's been a rough week, but not entirely bad. Sean's still getting to know his students (he said his seniors are awfully quiet) and I'm trying to figure some of my kids out (like my student with ADHD who cries all day).  All in all though we have good students and I think we'll have a great year. It's just a hard adjustment for all. 

Back to School

Sean and I started back to school yesterday. Sean is in his second year, teaching sophomore and senior English at Sugar-Salem High School. This will be my third year teaching first graders at Lincoln Elementary. It's been an exhausting couple of days and I'm thinking it'll take a little while for us to readjust to our work schedule. The good thing is that we both really love our jobs and (most days) we really enjoy working with our students. Here's hoping for a great year!

Our classic first day of school pictures!

 

One Man's Trash...

This past weekend I went to Idaho Falls looking for some garage sale "treasures." For those who know me might be kind of surprised. I really don't go to garage sales very often because I feel weird looking through other people's stuff. I only went with my friend, Amy, who was redecorating and didn't want to spend much. As it turned out, Amy didn't get anything, but I found some cool things. The first thing that I found was this cool clock. It has these black sun-like rays and then in between those are brass sticks. The clock part sits in the middle. I thought Sean might like it. As you can see from the picture below he has completely taken it apart. He's going to paint the brass sticks white and put in a new clock. I think it's going to be so cool looking! Then I bought this classic wooden spoon and fork (I put my shoe next to it so you can see how big they are). Sean is not a fan of the spoon and fork, which is a bummer since I think they're rad! Anyways I got everything for $3 so that was exciting. So....I guess if anyone wants a spoon and fork just let me know. Oh, also school starts tomorrow for both Sean and I so wish us luck!!!

Great Getaway

This past week Sean and I were able to go to Yellowstone and stay in a beautiful cabin! A friend that I teach with owns a cabin in Island Park, which is just 10 miles from West Yellowstone. She was so nice to let Sean and I stay there for two nights while we enjoyed the area. It was very relaxing and beautiful there, and they had tons of fun stuff for us to do: pool table, dock by the lake, and LOTS of old movies for us to watch. 

On Thursday we drove to Yellowstone National Park. We've been there about six times now since we've been married and I think five out of those six times we've really just gone to the Old Faithful part (it's a huge park!). So this time we headed to the north end of the park so see the sites there and get away from the crowd. We ended up pulling off on some random drive and went for a hike. We only saw four other people on the hike so it was nice to kind of be by ourselves. It was so beautiful and we even got a see a buffalo on the way.

Our friends, Alisa and Trent Christensen and their little baby Lucy, came up to spend some time there as well. We always have a fun time with them. It was sad to come home, because that trip pretty much marked the end of the summer for us. School starts on Aug. 20th, which is just a week and a half away. So that means starting this Monday we'll be back in our classrooms getting ready for the students. At least this last trip was a great one.

Sean and I on our hike

Beautiful view of the park

Alisa, Lucy, Trent, me & Sean at the cabin

Holding baby Lucy

Two fun family activities

I (Rachel) have recently discovered two great things that people at every age can enjoy. First of all is geocaching. When you go to the website you type in your area code and it'll tell you where you can find the geocaches. It's basically like a little treasure hunt. The website tells you the coordinates and a clue or two and you have to use that information to find the treasure! It's too fun! Sean and I have already found three in Rexburg, but there are like 30 hidden here in our little town. I looked up Westerville and there's a TON there! So go to www.geocaching.com to check it out! 

The second thing that I really love that the whole family can enjoy is the movie Penelope. It is fantastic! It's a modern day fairy tale with a couple cute twists in it. I thought it was a great movie and I'm going to watch it again right now. It just came out on video last Tuesday so you should go check that out too.