Tag I am It!

Ten Years Ago:
I was 12 years old which puts me in 6th or 7th grade! I probably thought I was way cooler than I really was.

Five Places I have lived:
Sad to say, but I only have 4!
Lindon, UT
London, England
Sandy, UT (1st Apartment)
Sandy, UT (2nd Appartment)

I am sure within the next three years this list will grow quite a bit!

3 Bad Habits:
Hmmmm................ This is a hard one, I am sure Cory could tell you several!
1. Washing and drying the laundry but not actually folding it and putting it away.
2. Looking at blogs. . . seriously it needs to stop!
3. Getting mad over stupid little things.

Places you have worked:
Hahaha... there are only two!
1. Pizza Factory in Lindon.
2. Ridgeline Elementary, kindergarten teacher.

5 things you don't know about me:
1. I absolutely hate animals. Mark my words we will never be a family that has animals, unless it is a couple fish in a fish tank.
2. I love kids! I guess that is kind of obvious from teaching kindergarten. But I really enjoy listening to all the things that they say. They never hold back the truth.
3. I love to travel, especially with my husband. Since we have been married we have been to Boston, MA., Seattle, WA., and Jackson, Tenn. all of which I have never been to.
4. I guess you could say that I am a home body. I love to be at home and spend time with Cory. Currently this doesn't happen very much, but we look forward to the day that it will.
5. I dream of opening a preschool. When we build a house I would love to build a one room school house in our backyard and teach preschool out of it.

That is it! Hope you enjoyed:)

Trapped at school for 30 hours!!

Wednesday, February 13, 2007 I was almost done with a long day of teaching school. At about 3:20, ten minutes before the kids get out of schol, I look outside and see that it is snowing AGAIN! We finished cleaning up and I sent my students out to their buses. Fifteen minutes late our principal gets on the intercom and tells all the teachers that they need to leave the school asap because the weather is getting worse. By the time I had packed up all my stuff to leave, the snow storm was so bad that we had no choice but to stay. It was snowing so hard that you couldn't see anything but white, and the winds were blowing 75 mph.

4:30 rolls around and they announce that all eight of our school buses never made it home and that the buses were all stuck. The buses were trying to turn around and get the kids back to the school. The students started trickling in two hours later at 6:30. My students were in my classroom doing anything and everything they wanted. Painting, dancing, playing with playdough, reading, you name it. My classroom was a tornado!

At about 9:30 we still had two buses full of kids that were still stuck (let me remind you that they had now been in the bus for six hours). The police brought kids by the car load back to the school while the other bus was sent to a near by church. By this time parents had brought TONS of food, sleeping bags, and blankets! Most of the kids thought that it was pretty cool, because they made it on the news and they got to sleepover at the school. As for me, I didn't think it was cool that at 12:00 AM the district was still telling us that we would have to wake up and teach school. After much complaining by teachers the district decided to cancel school the following day. And I finally made it home around 10:00 A.M. on Valentine's Day! All I can say is that it was an adventure that most won't ever experience.

P.S. For everyone who has ever wondered if the floors at an Elementary School are comfortable to sleep on, the answer is no! I got about an hour of sleep.