Oreos

Today a 7 year old shared his oreos with me aka my favorite cookie! It was the nicest thing ever. I feel bad for ever yelling at the child to be quiet. Everyone should look to him as an example of kindness. I sure do!

Flowers

We have flowers in our front yard!! Isn't that just awesome, especially since they're purple. So fun! If anyone knows what kind these are let me know. Mom? I'm clueless.

Lately with teaching its been pretty stressful. I have so many projects and observations that makes it hard to focus on the actual teaching sometimes. I love being in the classroom, don't get me wrong but sometimes I leave with a headache that I didn't go there with. Today was one of those days. But then there are those moments that just make me smile. The other day a little girl in the class I'm helping with said with a pouty voice and stomping her feet, "I wanna FLY!!!!" It was the cutest thing because she was really so sincere. It reminded me of a certain *cough cough* Chelsey when bananas were left on her oreos. haha. Another little first grader was singing while coloring a picture today in class. It was even the baptism song about rainbows. (I can't remember the title). The kids around her kept telling her to be quiet. Finally she had enough and said something along the lines of, "Everyone always tells me to stop singing. Stop singing Aurora. Stop singing Aurora. I just can't help it!!!" It was adorable.

Well happy springtime! I hope your yard has flowers too! :)

Random Things You Never Knew

In case you never knew...here are some random things I do.

1. I play with my earrings ALL the time. I don't know why, I just do. It might be a nervous habit. Haven't quite figured out that one yet. However, it does make the back of my earrings lose because I mess with them so much. One day you might find yourself looking for a lost earring of mine.

2. I fall asleep during every movie I watch past 10. I don't know what it is, but no matter how exciting the movie, I fall asleep unless I'm not on a comfy couch or have a nice pillow. Sorry future husband.

3. I stand with my heals in and feet out. I'm sure its some sort of dancer pose I don't know the name of. People say its because I'm a breaststroker and that's the way my knees and ankles are most comfortable, but who knows.

4. I sleep with an unnecessary amount of pillows. The more the better. I like my cushion.

5. As of this year, I wear a watch everyday. Those days I forget are very painful because I keep looking at my bare wrist. Last night, I accidentally slept with it on. Oops.

6. Sometimes (my roommates would a lot of times) I talk without thinking. I'm not saying I have a dirty mouth and just tend to say what I think. Bluntness is what some people call it.

7. I love color coding, labeling and organizing things. I'm not always organized, but I would love it if I had everything they sell at The Container Store. My dream to have an entire house organized perfectly.

8. College has been bad for me as far as eating healthy. My parents did a good job of making sure us kids got our nutrients. Now I eat ice cream almost everyday. Yay! If you ever want to buy me ice cream, I'll be your best friend. :)

9. I'm an avid facebook stalker and yes I did just admit it. Don't put anything on facebook you wouldn't want me to see ;)

10. I LOVE people watching. You probably already knew this, but I couldn't leave it out because it is just too much fun. People are very interesting.

11. I make lists ALL THE TIME. Its a A personality type of thing I think. It just feels good to check things off the list or write things in lists because its so organized.

Hope you enjoyed that little post. Here are some things I've been up to lately.

-Ice skating/dance party=stake activity with awesome people

-Teaching first graders and going on a field trip to see a cute play

-Getting my hair cut. Hello bangs and middle part!

-Playing in the rain.

-Going outside without a coat on.

-Eating marshmallow mateys

-Making a fort in our living room

-Rolling down a hill in a giant blow up ball

Miss Fuller

The teacher in training is busy ALL the time and doesn't have time for anything these days unless its the weekend. I look forward to them a lot more these days. Teaching is a lot of work! I always knew that, but it when they throw you right in...wow....it really is. I love teaching cute little first graders though. They love me, even if I'm strict with them. Maybe one day I'll have a whole class of first graders all to myself. That would be exciting!

Some of my recent adventures include:

The Rex Lee Run

Stake Conference

Skiing during a thunder storm and getting yet ANOTHER voucher :)

BYU basketball

Celebrating Pi Day (yesterday)

Running to the temple LOTS. It's my favorite.

I also can't wait for a field trip on Thursday with the first graders! It's gonna be great!

Curtain Rods

Dear World,

I would just like to warn you that when you step into Chatham 30, your intelligence will multiply. CHECK THIS OUT! We are very creative.

Yes those are sticks and yes we found them in the dumpster, but don't tell. At least we didn't destroy a tree. That's good. It was much cheaper than going to Michael's. For one, I'm not very good at measuring, but with a stick you can just saw the thing down. Lucky for us our friend Dallas put them up for us and we supervised :) Great teamwork, I know. Don't worry we gave him freshly baked cookies and milk. It was a definite success.

First Graders

Teaching 1st grade is crazy, amazing, and awesome all at the same time. They have such active minds and soo soo much energy. The greatest are the pleas for help, in my opinion. "Miss Fuller, how do you spell people?" It's wonderful and so adorable coming from a 7 year-old's mouth. They get a little confused with the whole Miss vs. Mrs thing. I correct them sometimes. Today I got a great comment. "Miss Fuller, when are you going to get married?" Good question kid. I wish I knew the answer. It was so cute the way he asked though, because it was a honest, sincere question like he was concerned for me or something. Melted my heart. Good news everyone, this cute child thinks I'm old enough to get married! But, then again...is that a good thing? Hmm.

Passport

So yesterday I went to apply for my passport at the post office with my dad who is in town. First of all, when you pull into the parking lot there is a sign that says, "15 minute parking only". I laughed. When do you ever stay at the post office for only 15 minutes?! It seems like the people who work there are always ridiculously slow. In my experiences at least. We walk in and this creepy motorcycle man with the bandana and everything asks my dad if I'm his wife. Weird and definitely awkward. We cleared that up for him. Then the passport guy was at lunch so we had to wait til he came back around 1:15. Us normal people eat lunch at 12, but that's just me I guess. So skipping to getting the passport. I had to get my picture taken. This is an interesting process. You sit in an old wooden chair in front of a sheet hanging on the wall and stare at a strange looking camera. It was too wide for it's own good. The old guy working there took about 2 minutes, it seemed like, having me adjust my face at just the correct angle. Then I was told that I had to take the cute flower out of my hair so the hair was not quite at it's prime. And I was told that I couldn't smile with my teeth. These are my thoughts at this point, "Oh, great. I have NO idea how to do that. This is going to turn out bad." I ended up giving up because I was imagining a super cheesy smile that you might see on a two year old. The whole "smile with your eyes" thing was a complete fail. I didn't really care. Then I found out that a passport lasts 10 years. So unless I change my name to Esmerelda or get married I'll have to love and cherish that picture in my passport. Loverly. It's humorous to say the least. Dad said, "At least you don't have numbers above your head." Yeah and good thing or else I could be posted as a criminal. Yeah for awkward pictures! They even gave me two copies! haha

Good News

I got the greatest news today. My TELL 400 test was canceled/made into the final instead of me having to take it today through Thursday. It was such a relief that I wanted to run up and give my professor a big hug and tell her thank you. All of you who don't understand college yet: This never happens. Never. Maybe the test will be put off a couple of days because the professor is behind, but not put off entirely. So great. And now I have time to work on my many projects. The latest is creating a VoiceThread on constellations. Great fun.

And more great news is that I have a new cousin, Sophie, and she' s adorable and so tiny! Little does she know I will be her favorite babysitter.

Oh, and Dad is in town and I'm going skiing again this weekend. Woop!