What I/We've been Up to....

First off, I'd like to apologize for those who are so eager to read about the next exciteing happenings in our lives. HA! Just kidding. I know we're not that exciting, it's Dave and his new adventures. But this post isn't going to be much about him, sorry. Mostly me:) Ok I'll mention one thing about my crazy husband....Way back when we got back from our weekend of Lotoja, Dave discovered that his wallet was gone. These things happen to him more than anyone I know. It stresses me out because there is always a worry bout if its in the hands of the wrong person and so on. Last time he lost it in San Diego! He has also been through 3 or 4 phones since we've been married. Anyway, so today we've been helping my dad clean out their garage and crawl space in the basement (more pictures to come of this great event). Dave walks out of the crawl space with his wallet! I couldn't believe my eyes! It took me a second to process it even. He threw it down and said, "Come hug me." thinking that he was the coolest person...ugh! I did give him a hug but I wanted to beat him up at the same time:)

Well now bout me some. My student teaching is taking up a lot of my time lately, but I absolutely love it!!! I love my 6th graders! They are so stinkin cute and amazing! I only have 2 1/2 weeks left with them and I am so sad:( Here are a few of them:


On Thursday, I taught them this great song and they loved it! I'll be posting the video of it here soon so look for it! I don't know if you'll get a kick out of it as much as I do but I hope it entertains!

Last week, I entered myself into a tennis tournament. Now that we're back in Salt Lake, I have a lot more opportunites to play and a lot more people to play with so I'm taking advantage of that! Well this is me in the finals! I was stoked to get to the finals! I ended up losing but the lady I played didn't know how to keep score first of all and then she was one of those people that you couldn't change their mind. I had fun though and it was a good first tournament back!

My Brand New Car!

Well not really brand new. I got it last December but the worst happened! After having it for only 2 months I got hit by an inconsiderate, anonymous hitter! I was furious! Well then a little bit after that my good ole momma backed into my car on the driveway! We were going to get it fixed in St. Louis and we got a quote for it and all but it was triple the estimate we had here so we waited. Well after my car being hurt for almost 7 months out of the 9 of having it, it looks as good as when I bought! If you have body work that needs to be done on your car, go to Jack's Auto Body on State Street! It was such a good price and they did an amazing job!

No more dents or paint chips! Wahoo!

Lo-tuh-juh!

The starting line...

Ok, ok so I finally get to brag about my amazing husband!!! I am a little late and behind others posting about it but I have been super busy with my student teaching so this is better late than never! So anyway back to my amzingly, awesome husband Dave. Ever since Dave volunteered for Lotoja (the bike race from Logan to Jackson Hole being 206 miles in length and to be completed all in one day) a few years back he had made it a goal of his to be one of those bikers to finish the long and treacherous ride. Well this last Saturday, September 6th, he was able to check it off on his list of things he'd like to accomplish! I am so so proud of him. I can't say it enough. As well as completing the race, he surpassed his and all of our expectations. His goal was to just finish the race and before dark in order to place but he, as stated above, surpassed that goal and finished 2 hours before dark. He was going so fast that his support crew (Brittany, Cris and I) missed him at one of his stops and barely made it to his next stop to get him fed. We were stressed the whole way to that last stop because we passed rider after rider and we couldn't find Dave until about 7 miles to the stop. About a mile out from that stop there was a traffic jam and Dave passed us while we were trying to get into the parking lot. It was crazy but we had a lot of laughs about it. There were quite a few mishaps like that the whole day and I just laughed them off. I had to keep saying, "I'll do better next year." It was a really fun experience. Dave left the starting line at 7:37 am and crossed the finish line at 6:37 pm with a time of 11:00:35.029 (thats down to the miliseconds!). His average speed was 19.3 mph. He finished 10th in his class out of 49 and 444 out of about 1200 riders which doesn't seem that super until you know that it was his first bike race EVER and obviously his first time doing the Lotoja, so yes pretty amazing I would say!
This was the last stretch of the race. Only 47 miles to go!

Dave learned the quickly in the race about the advantages of drafting.

So along with the many things that didn't go as planned in the day. I was supposed to receive a text from the timing people when Dave was 5 miles from the finish line. Well I didn't and by the time we heard Dave's name being read riding into the finish line we didn't have enough time to get the video camera going and the picture I took was of a guy standing in the way of my view of Dave so this is the video I got after he crossed the finish line.

Our plan was to camp in Jackson but due to a broken down car that was towed to Idaho Falls we had to migrate to Idaho Falls for the night. I think it was better for Dave and I because we weren't prepared enough for the cold night in Jackson. We are so grateful to all of you who were such great support in Dave's first Lotoja experience. Thanks for all the sacrifices that were made ie. money, cars, yards being postponed, money, oh and money:) and everything else that I failed to list that was sacrificed. We love you all!!!

The Fowers are out!

This was on the drive home and I thought it was so adorable!

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Ok ok I know it's been awhile and I have some really good explanations! We have been go go go since we've been back from St. Louis. We only had a couple days to get settled in before school started and honestly that was not enough! We are still not even close to settled but we are dealing with what we have:) My student teaching is keeping me hecka busy but I am loving it! Honest! I didn't think I would really like it and I thought I would just be dragging my feet through it but I was wrong. It could be cause I am with an amazing teacher or that my 6th graders are so great, I don't know but I love it! It makes me excited to teach (I know that's a shock huh? I just wanted to get done with school and never look back but I actually think I really wanna teach for at least awhile now:)). Dave has been driving up to Logan twice a week to finish up his great education at USU. Though the first week he rode his bike back and forth in order to train some more for Lotoja.

Labor Day weekend we were able to make a trip down to Powell! Wahoo! We were stoked to be able to still fit in a trip even though we were gone all summer. It was a different trip. The first day was a good normal day in Powell but that night a storm moved in. It made the night a little uncomfortable with sand filling our tent and water leaking through. The next day we had great water all morning then the rest of the day was spent under the houseboat's docks and on the beach playing and watching the boys do some ridiculously funny and interesting things to keep them as well as us girls entertained. I'll post the video once I get it (you'll cry it's so funny, I did)!