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Yeah I loved these. Just thought I would share.

Glad I am gonna be a teacher

Perhaps most significant of all classrooms is the classroom of the home. It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are the laboratories of our lives. What we do there determines the course of our lives when we leave home.
Ensign, Nov. 1991,

V-Day for ur guy idea

So Valentines is awesome when you have some good ideas. Guys don't normally want flowers but I got an idea the other day to make him a bouquet out of chocolate covered strawberries. Here is waht you do.

Go to local grocery store and buy a package of strawberries, BBQ scewers, tooth picks,and styraphome cups, bakers dipping chocolate (this come in a little plastic bowl that you just put in the Microwave, look at pic to the left.) A red vase or something to put them in (I bought a cheap plastic cup) and those clear pebbles that you can put inside of a vase to keep the flowers in place.

Rinse the strawberries and then pat dry with a paper towel so that the chocolate will stick. If they are wet the chocolate won't stick to the strawberry. Melt the chocolate according to directions on box. Stick a toothpick into the green bottom of the strawberry so that you have something to hold while you dip them. Let excess chocolate drip off and then turn over and place the toothpick into the styraphome cup so that the chocolate can dry all pretty with out having to set it down on wax paper or something. But if you are just dipping the strawberries for the heck of it, wax paper is best.

Stick the styraphome cups or you could also se a styraphome to go box etc.. in the fridge for the chocolate to harden.

Place the pebbles in your vase. and cut BBQ scewers into different lengths so that there is some height variety to your "flowers".

Once chocolate is hardened, remove toothpicks and place the BBQ scewers into the green end of the strawberries, then arrange then in the vase, and wala. A strawberry bouquet. :)

Also, cool idea I got from a friend. most guys at one time or another have dreamed of flying a plane. And you can buy these Discovery Flights from Airport #2 out in West Jordan where your man will get to actually fly a plany for like a half hour! It is a little bit pricey like about $120 but I think the experinece would be worth it. (Josh LOVED it!) If you want more info give me a call or just type in Discovery flights on google and look in utah.

7 Random things about Alies

I was tagged to tell 7 random things about myself by chelsea. So here you go chelz...

1. Cheese is the most amazing thing. I love it, all kinds. Gouda, mizithra, swiss, cheddar, sharp cheddar, smoked, mozerella, parmigiano reggiano, asiago, blue cheese, Koleby jack, cream cheese, fondue, cheese sauces, cheese spreads, easy cheese, CHEESE. But what is so depressing about cheese, is that it makes me so so so so sick when I eat it. but I don't care, I can eat cheese all day, and be sick as a dog, but still will ask for more.

2. I love the internet, but I hate remebering all of my usernames and passwords!!! There is my Umail for school, yahoo, myspace, blogger, gmail, class webpages, teacher sites, ETC ETC ETC. And I really just can't remember all of that stuff. You know how there is a universal control for all of your television/vcr/surroundsound/dvd needs? There needs to be a universal username and password created for me.

3. I love to read in the bathroom. I have a stack of various books in my bathroom ALL the time. I read pretty much evertime I am using my bathroom, even if it is the directions on my toothpaste, but books are prefferrable. And I love to read in the tub. A nice hot bubble bath and a good book is like the best thing ever. I can stay in there for hours.



4. I have an obession with grooming myself. I love to shave my legs, pluck my eyebrows (Almost to the point of not having any), clip my toenails and finger nails, using a special file for my feet calusses( I don't think I spelled that right), using lotion, chapstick, popping zits, brushing my teeth, even flossing. I can't help it, but I love to do it.

5. I love to get lost. I used to not have a cell phone,and no way of anyone knowing where I was or what I was doing andI loved that feeling. I used to go to book stores for hours and read or take myself out to dinner and thrift shopping and I would revel in the fact that I was completely alone and no one could find me? I still will do this sometimes. I will leave my phone at home and just take off for a few hours. Josh gets really mad when I do this though, and I have like 8 missed calls from family when I get back to my phone ????

6. When I read books, I feel like I am making new friends with certain characters. It is sometimes so hard for me to finish a book or a series because I feel like I am losing a good friend and we have been through so much together!!! Anyways, I still haven't finished the last chapters of some books because I didn't want it to end.

7. I really hate confrontation and competition. I am so passive it is just sad. And I hate to play cards, or board games, or anything competitive. I want everyone to win, and I hate being mean or deliberately screwing people over like you have to do in so many games. For example, when playing phase 10, I will skip myself after I have laid down so that other people will have the chance to get into their next phase. Or in Monoploly, I will lend people money, and let people owe me money, or pretend that I didn't see them land on my Green property where I have a hotel. I just don't like it. And it drives Josh crazy too.

Ok there you go, I tag Bree, Scooby, Becky, Katie, mel, and who ever else wants to do it.

Ginger Bread Houses Dec. 08'

So these are the ginger bread houses that me and Chels and my mom did during December. We decided to gowith a beach theme this year. It is a Christmas Tradition of ours to make a monstrous ginger bread house but we each made our own and put them together this year. The Light house is made around a lamp and that was how we got the light inside. We had a blast, and can't wait to start on the one for this year. Just thought I would share some of those pics with you guys. BTW the sand is brown sugar, and instead of making mine only out of candy I tried to do a cracker theme and dried bananas. The Charcoal in the fire pit is crushed up oreos and the stoops around it are reeses. The palm tree is made of cocoanut coated marshmallows and the leaves are an apple fruit roll up. Anyways, it is way fun.

Updates

So school is already stressful and a bore. But I am looking forward to a few of my classes. So that is nice. Not much going on though, I just feel like I haven't put anything on here in a while. So here are a few updates.

Josh: He finished his bachelors in Decmeber. YAY! So he is applying for jobs all over the country. We are praying to stay here, but we will go wherever the lord wants us, so we will see where we will end up. He is enjoying just hanging out and only working instead of school and work.

Alies: I took the praxis this past week and I am applying for the Elementary Ed program at the U for this fall. I want to be student teaching this fall, but with the whole not knowing where I am going to be has me up in the air about everything. But I am figuring to just keep doing things as I had planned incase we do stay here. Still waitressing and hating it, I can't wait to be a teacher.

Family: Mom and mike and andrea are moving home from Australia in March. So that should be fun. We are taking over the basement because we don't want to get stuck in a lease incase we are moving. We might keep the basement while I am student teaching and Josh is getting his masters this fall just so that we won't have to worry so much about money.

Koleby: that dog can't stay out of the freakin' garbage no matter what kind of negative reinforcement that I give him. If you have any ideas for punishment besides killing him Please let me know.

Life: Life is good. I want babies, and I can't wait for my mom to come home.