Running

I have been doing a lot of running lately, and I think I am improving a lot. In fact, on the cruise I got my best 5k practice time ever!! 27:50!. I was so excited. Then last week I was running on the treadmill and got 27:05!!! I can't believe it! The fastest I have ever run a 5k in a race is 28:30. I know it will be a lot harder outside with hills and such, but I can't wait to run in a race and see what time I can get.

Anyway, I saw this picture the other day, and I thought it was hilarious!

Baby Language

So I saw this on Facebook and thought it would be really good to know someday when I have kids. Here it is!

Minute To Win It

When I watched the first episode of the game show Minute To Win It, I thought it looked like so much fun! I sent an e-mail to find out how I could be on the show. They told me to make a tape, and I hadn't had much success with that in the past, so I didn't do anything.

Then a few weeks ago I got an e-mail from them saying that they were having a casting call in Salt Lake. I was so excited! I called Kellie and she wanted to come try out, too. They even sent us a VIP pass so we didn't have to wait in the general admission line.

So we were in a group of about 12 people, and they wanted us to tell them what we do and something about ourselves. Kellie went right before me and talked about how she is a speech therapist and so she makes kids cry. I went next and said that I am a second grade teacher, and I also make kids cry. Then I told them about how Kellie and I jumped in a giant vat of green jello. I guess they liked that, because they chose 4 people from our group to stay, and I was one of them!

They said they are doing a new trivia show and wanted to know if we were interested. So I stayed a little longer and took a trivia test. Then that night I got a call saying they wanted me to come in the next day!! I was so excited!

So I went to the KSL studios on Sunday and did a little trivia game with about 12 other people in my group. It was so much fun! We got up and told about ourselves in front of the camera and then got to answer trivia questions. Some of my questions were:

"Who was the political figure that shot someone when he went hunting in 2006?" I got that one right at the last second. It was Dick Cheney.

"Which Beatle's first name comes first in the alphabet?" I had to go through all the Beatle's names, but I got that one too.

The one I didn't get was "Who is the quarterback for the NY Giants?" It was Eli Manning. Duh!

Anyway, I don't think I did so well, because they split us into groups and all the funny, exciting people were in a different group from mine. But it was a blast anyway! They said we would be getting a call between now and summer if we got chosen.

Now I want to go on the Price Is Right. I've got the fever!!! (not the Bieber fever)

A Year Ago

Well, it has been one year since I interviewed to be an intern. I can't believe that much time has gone by! I remember how excited I was when I found out. I didn't get anything done at work that day! They told us that if we did not get chosen, we would get an e-mail, and if we did get chosen we would get a phone call. So I was sitting there watching my e-mail and my phone. Any time I got a text or an e-mail, my heart skipped a beat!!

Then I got the call, and here I am! I have been teaching for about 7 months, and I have loved it! I love my school, and I love my students, and I love my parents! They have all been amazing. I think I was definitely blessed with very supportive parents, and students that don't have too many problems. : )

I don't know where I will be next year or what grade I will be teaching, but I have had such a wonderful experience and hopefully next year will be just as great.

Dog Training/Yard Saling

Today we went to a bunch of yard sales in Daybreak with Kellie. I was so excited by what I got, I had to share! I was mostly looking for books for my classroom, since I have a total of 3 right now. I was able to get 37 books for $16.00!!! I was so excited!! Here they are:

I also got some other things for myself and my classroom. My total purchases were less than $30. I think it was a successful day.

After the yard sales we went to dog training. We have Stella working with a trainer named Greg in Alpine. He is awesome! We are going to have her learn to do agility courses. She does some of it right now and loves it! He mostly does attack dog training, which is really fun to watch. So today I got attacked! It was pretty scary, but it was fun. I had on the arm protection and the dog just bit my arm. It didn't hurt. Just a little pressure. But man, when that dog jumped at me, I was so scared! The dog's name was Q. He was a Belgian Malinois. He was really sweet (even though it doesn't look like it!)

The very first of the video got cut off, but drag it to the very beginning and look at the still shot. It's pretty funny.

Working with Stella on following a scent.

Bronson's Miracle

Today I was looking on MSN and saw a story about the Staker family. They are a family from Provo who witnessed an amazing miracle. The mom was bathing her 16-month-old baby, Bronson and his brother, and she stepped out for just a few minutes. She heard the other boy screaming, and when she ran back in, Bronson was lying face up in the bathtub with blue lips and no color in his face. She tried to rescusitate him, but he was unresponsive. The ambulance came and took him to the Emergency Room, where he was pronounced Dead on Arrival. They kept doing CPR and finally his heart started again. I won't tell the entire story here, but it is an amazing story. He was "dead" for at least 11 minutes, probably more. They didn't think he would survive, and even if he did, he would have severe brain damage. But he lived, and he is just the same as he was before. It is an amazing story. The Staker's Blog tells all the details. It is hard to read, and I tried my best not to cry while I was sitting at work reading it. But I couldn't pull myself away. It is such a miraculous story, and Sara's testimony is so powerful. This story truly shows that Heavenly Father is watching us and can hear us. My testimony has been strengthened by this family that I have never even met, and it made me remember to cherish the things that I have and not worry so much about the worldly things.

http://stakerzxposed.blogspot.com/