Happy Birthday to Me!

December 31st is a very good day to have a birthday, everyone in the world has a party on my birthday!  And Happy Birthday to my new niece, Annie, she was born on the 27th!

Christmas in review

All in all, we had a pretty good Christmas. We had fun spending time with the Serafines, as well as all of the Bradshaws. Santa treated us pretty well, too.

What a day

Have you ever had one of those days where one unexpected, somewhat stressful thing happens and the whole day is shot? Today is one of those days. In my first hour, I have a student that has frequent seizures. I've always lived in fear that he'd have a seizure in my class. Well, today was the day. We were playing a review game, and I looked at him and he was twitching. Now, this student is Samoan, plays football, and is not little. Immediately I had to get him out of the desk and onto the floor. I found myself with superhuman strength (not really) and moved the desk, and pulled the student to the floor. He started seizing pretty bad, and I had one of my students (bless her heart) call the office. Pretty soon we had the school nurse, the head secretary, the student's sister, the paramedics, and the fire department in my classroom. Needless to say, my first hour didn't do much today. In high school, I took a first responder course and learned a bunch (thanks Miss King) of first aid stuff. I also worked as a nurse aid (which stunk) so I knew what to do. Whew. What a day.

Gingerbread Houses!

It's been a while since I've posted anything; we haven't had much going on and haven't had much time to sit and put things online. I'll try to catch up on some of the things we've done. This last Monday, we got together with the Sommerfeldts and made gingerbread houses. I'd never made real gingerbread before by myself, and that was an adventure. When the recipe says 6 1/2 cups of cake flour, you probably don't really need that much real flour. Be careful. It makes your KitchenAid make funny noises.

This is my best friend, Claire. She didn't make a gingerbread house, but did sample all of the candy to make sure it was safe to eat. : )

Laurel's house was much more artistic than ours.

See our little Santas on top? They even have sleighs. The Sommerfeldts have reindeer. We aren't as cool so we just copied their Santa and Laurel made us a sleigh. Ours is the one on the left.

Stinkin' Jazz

A few weeks ago we got to go to a Jazz game courtesy of one of Matt's patients. It was my first Jazz game, and not suprisingly, the Jazz lost at the last second to the Bulls.

Thanks, Matt

I just wanted to do one quick post and publicly tell the best husband in the world thanks. Thanks, Matt, for being the best person in the world, for being extreemly supportive, for being the one who always knows what's best, and who always knows what to say at just the right time. I appreciate your kindness and love for me even on the hard days. I love you and am so grateful that I was lucky enough to be your girl. Thanks!

They lost his luggage!

At this very moment, Matt is in Arizona heading to his interview at Midwestern. This is the school that we want to get into. Last night, Matt calls me and says, "I'm here at the airport, but I can't find my luggage." The airport didn't put his luggage on the plane!!!!!!! So, Matt doesn't have his suit, his shoes, his tie, his shirt, his razor, his toothbrush, or anything else you would absolutely want to have the day you go to interview. He borrowed some slacks, a shirt and a blazer from his uncle Logan. Meanwhile, I am freaking out. What is he going to do? If I were the one interviewing, I would have panicked and gone to WalMart in search of the things I lost. Matt, on the other hand, won't let this kind of thing worry him. Good thing it's him and not me.

Apples!

Earlier this month, our ward did an applesauce canning activity where we could buy quarts of apple sauce for $1.25. Thinking this was a deal-of-a-lifetime, I bought 12 quarts. The week after, I got a bunch of apples from Matt's grandma and grandpa Bradshaw (and thank you Lori for getting them to us!). There was no way Matt and I could eat so many apples and not have some dire consequences, so I decided to can them. So with my mom's recipe, and Matt's mom's canner, I began the chore of canning the apples. I ended up with 14 quarts of apple pie filling, 6 pints of apples, plus the 6 other jars of apple pie filling my mom gave me last month. Now, we have no where to put our 40 jars of apples. I don't know what I was thinking, but if the stores stop selling apples, we'll be okay.