Lights, Camera, Action.....

So...I am going to make a commercial. This story begins a few weeks ago when my principal was at a workshop in New Orleans. His booth was next to a Provo Craft booth promoting a "Cricut in the Classroom" project. My principal volunteered to have our school help in their promotion. When he came back to school, he asked me if I would help, and because you don't say no to your principal, I agreed. I met with a team from Provo Craft today and they were telling me all the free paper, vinyl, cricut fonts and classroom supplies they were going to give me. My eyes were wide and I was so excited! One of my favorite parts about teaching is decorating my room! They looked around my room at the things I had already done with my cricut machine and started telling me all the things and project ideas they had. I wanted to jump up and down I was so excited! Then they started talking about their promotion video, and my stomach kind of sunk and my fingers started to shake! They will be coming into my room to video me and my kids working on a project together. They will also be shooting a short narrative piece where I am basically talking about how I use the cricut in my classroom. Not going to lie, I am nervous about that. I got even more nervous when the editor started to talk about the video promotion being posted on the internet and available in their store! I am really nervous/excited about it. They are coming to film in a couple weeks, so I will let you know how it goes!

Easter Weekend

We had such a fun easter weekend. Chad's weekend started Friday morning as he went golfing with his dad, grandpa and others in the Barton family. He complained of being tired and sore after walking 18 holes, but I know he loved every minute of it! Later that night we got together for a dinner at Aunt Lisa's. We had fun chatting and catching up with everyone.
Saturday morning we headed down to Gunnison for the Dyreng Easter festivities. It was a rainy day, but that did not get us down. We relocated the picnic to Grandma's backyard and waited for the sun to come out to go roll eggs. This is a Dyreng tradition that I thought was normal. Apparently it is not! Our family finds a hill, digs a little trail, and rolls our eggs down. Eventually the eggs break, and we just end up throwing them at each other! The best part is that I actually have pictures and not silly clip art pictures!


I came outside to find Canyen and Chad, and where else would he be, but up a tree!

Even Chad got into the egg rolling fun!


Payton showing off his eggs.


Connor and Brooks at the top of the trail rolling their eggs.


Everyone getting ready for the Grand Finale!

When Chad and I get together with family, we basically play Aunt and Uncle. We love to see our nieces and nephews. I smile every time I see how cute and playful Chad is with kids! So, thanks to all our siblings for sharing your kids with us!

Spring Fever!

This past week has been a real doozie (if that is a word?) This past week was parent-teacher conferences. This week comes 3 times a year, and is usually fairly busy. It takes lots of after-school hours to get report cards ready, while also staying on top of my lesson plans and my extra master's classes. For some reason, this week topped all past parent-teacher conference weeks. The only explanation I have for the misery of this past week is.... spring fever.

After spending most of my week inside, looking out at the beautiful weather, I cracked! I dropped all my lesson plans for Thursday afternoon, and went outside to play kickball! I just couldn't take it anymore! I had to be outside!


After I came home and complained to Chad about my severe case of spring fever, we decided to get together with our friends for an outdoor campfire/hot dog roasting. We went up to Bridal Veil Falls to a little campground. We were right next to the river. It was cool but not too cool. The campground was beautiful. The company was great! We had so much fun! Although, we were lacking on the organization. We will be more prepared next time! (Sorry you get to see lame pictures found on google. I didn't take any real ones!)

I spent my day Saturday outside painting a little microwave stand we have in our kitchen. I painted it black and stained it to match our kitchen table. I think it turned out all right. (I will try to get pictures up sometime.)

After treating my spring fever with kickball, campfire and an outside painting project, I think I am cured. Let's just home I can keep my sanity until summer!

I was looking through wedding picture's to help Chad's mom with a project. And I know it is lame, and that my wedding was 4 months ago, and I should get over it, but I just loved that day so much. It will forever be one of the best, if not the best day of my life. So I wanted to share it with you, yet again!

Wedding Pictures

The hills are alive...

So we do not have cable. Downstairs on our TV we have a wicked awesome set of bunny ears donated to us by Casey and Sam, complete with a wire hanger attached for better reception. Upstairs in our bedroom, however, we have nothing to watch on my TV/VCR combo except old videos. I have quite a collection of Disney movies on VHS and for anyone who knows me well, you know what a Disney fanatic I am. Chad is a close runner-up. Chad will put a Disney movie in and watch it for days, over and over while he gets ready for work or school or whatever. A few days ago, I put in The Sound of Music while I got ready for bed. It has been about a week now, and I think he has watched it almost 3 times! He even sings along with me in "How do you solve a problem like Maria". I have heard him humming "Doe, a deer, a female deer..." And he might be angry at me for blogging about this and exposing his sensitive side! I guess we will see :)

Blessings

Chad recently got a new calling as Executive Secretary in our ward. It is a big calling and I am so proud of him for being able to hold such a calling. He is at a lot of meetings on Tuesday nights and Thursday nights. And on Sundays he is at meetings from 6 am to around 2 pm. The 6 am is a BIG deal to him cause he is not a morning person! During a short moment of complaining about the time spent, he teasingly said with a half smile on his face, "We better see good blessings for this." I told him I that I think we are already so blessed, and this is just payback.

We are blessed with a means to provide for ourselves. We both have good jobs. If there is something we need, we can afford to get it. Even if there is something we want, we can afford to either get it, or save towards it. We have a warm home (thanks to our little space heater!) full of lots of luxuries.

We have great supportive families. We know they love us and would do whatever they could for us.

We have friends close around us. We had a little super bowl party last week and I felt so lucky to have friends to laugh with. We also went out to dinner with Stacy and Jared last night. It was so fun to see them!

We are happy, lucky, and blessed to have each other. Basically, things are going good for us! Thanks for reading our fairly boring blog, hopefully it helps you think of the blessings you have received in your life!

P.S. I was going to post some pictures of the wicked awsome fort Chad and I built a few weeks ago, but the ports in my laptop are not working, and Chad's laptop shutdown this week. So sorry, but you are missing out on the fort!