Creepy Crawling Cupcakes

There was a fundraiser at the school. I saw this book that showed step by step how to decorate really cute cupcakes. It has all holidays, a lot of animals and birthday themes. I flipped through it and decided to do the one that looks the easiest.
I think the scorpian is my best one. It's because it was my last one and I started getting the hang of it.

Halloween!! a little late & weather

So, I know Halloween was last month but I figured it is never too late to post about Halloween.
My pumpkin is the spider and web, Jim's is the skull.
Our ward does not celebrate Halloween due to a Bishop we had a few years ago that doesn't believe in celebrating it so therefore, we have an entire ward that does nothing for it. However, James and I still celebrated without them knowing it. We carved pumpkins again this year. We also went to a Fall carnival at the elementary school I work at. We were walking to the door when the fire alarm was pulled so we went back later and it was pretty fun.
Our current weather: 5 inches of snow, negative 7 this morning, currently 1. Sunrise around 8:30, sunset around 5:00. Forecast, blizzard this weekend. We are supposed to be getting 18 inches of fresh powder this weekend.

Our Dishes Taking a Stroll, Sally Needing to be Washed, and Dark Northern Lights

Sally had a playdate with one of my co-worker's dogs. They ran everywhere and slobbered on everything. Sally needed a bath afterward.


We stayed up till midnight last night standing in the driveway looking up into the sky at green wavy lights. Northern lights are pretty cool. We were not able to get a picture. Evidently our camera is not hightech enough because they came out black. It was our first time seeing the northern lights.

Our dishes decided to take a little stroll through our kitchen. It happened because our dishwasher is still not bolted to the floor and so when I rolled out the bottom drawer I forgot to push it back in when I rolled out the top and the bottom decided to roll away.

2 Really Exciting Things in my Life!!!!!

I found out Monday that I will be a long term sub for a teacher that is going on maternity leave. I will be paid teacher SALARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is so good to have a full time teaching job lined up even if it is only for 3 months.
ALSO, something else happened that I have wanted and waited for for a little over a year. You see, when James and I moved up to Alaska, we were not able to see our house before we moved here and the company pays rent so I wasn't too concerned. Well, the very day I got here, I saw the kitchen and was not very happy because of the size, amount of storage space (we keep a lot of our kitchen things in the garage, not just food storage.) Well, there also wasn't a dishwasher. I came up with the brilliant plan to buy a portable dishwasher and put it where the fridge was and move the fridge across the kitchen. Well, we checked with our landlord and he said that if we bought a regular dishwasher, he would install it and put an extra cupboard in. We bought a dishwasher about 6 weeks ago. It had been sitting in the kitchen in a box till yesterday, when Jim had the day off and went and bugged our landlord to come install it. It is still not 100% put in. As you can see it needs a counter top and also needs to be bolted to the floor. But IT RUNS!!!!!! I am ecstatic.

Tae-Kwon-Do..... GREEN BELT!!!!!

Yeah!!!!!! I am a low green belt in Tae kwon do now. I just got it. I am really excited in case you haven't figured that out.

2nd snowfall of this autumn

This is the second time it has snowed this fall. It won't stick forever yet. It is slowling melting. Last time it snowed it was here for about 2 hours.

No longer just a substitute

I am happy to report I finally received my Alaska State teaching Certificate in the mail. I also have a new job. I am no longer a traveling subtitute. I am a building substitute.This means I am guaranteed work till the end of the school year and don't have to sit at home and wait for the phone to ring. I show up at one school everyday no matter if I am needed in a classroom or not. If I am not needed in a classroom as a sub. teacher then I float around and help make copies, tutor, and so on. Today out of almost three weeks, was the first day I wasn't in the classroom and I kept myself plenty busy. Building sub looks really good on a resume for future full time teaching positions.