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.

Our Growing Family

Well, I am happy to report that our family is finally starting to grow.
We got a dog from a family in our ward that had to get rid of her because their son is allergic. She is a very sweet 2 two year old. She seems like she is missing her old home though because she started to whine a little. The other family has 4 children and since we have none, she seems to just lay there and do nothing.
Her name is Sally.

Work

Well, I started back to work last week even before school started and no I do not have a full time teaching job. It is really competitive up here. I thought it was bad in Washington, it is worse up here. However, I am subbing full time and am in the same classroom for the first 2 1/2 -3 weeks. Today was the first day of school and we all had fun. Sorry, I don't have any pics.

I no longer sleep with my husband!

Yes, you read that right. I sleep with Darth Vader.


Jim was diagnosed with sleep apnea about aweek ago. Now he sleeps with a mask on. He says he feels like Dumbo because of the tubing. He sounds like Darth Vader, so that is what I get to hear all night. The good news is, he doesn't snore anymore and the machine is actually quieter than his snoring. It is hilarious when he tries to talk with the machine on. It sounds like he is plugging his nose and trying to breath and talk at the same time.

Tae-Kwon-Do and Birthdays

So, does he look 30? Yep, I am telling the world that Jim is 30 but when I turn 30, no one better know!

This is a picture of one of the Birthday cakes I made. I found these really cool food coloring markers at Wal-Mart and decided to try them out. They worked well.
I tried to light candles on the other cake, but when I was half way done, the wind came and blew all of them out:-(


All the kids, we were the only ones there that didn't have kids,and Jim and I had a water balloon fight. It was a blast. The people in the background are our guests picking up the water balloon scraps. (don't worry we helped as soon as our picture was taken.)


This is me and with my high yellow belt. I broke my first board tonight. (For those of you who don't know, they changed the ranking of the belts it is now, white, low yellow, yellow, low green, green, low blue, blue, low red, red, recommended black and then black with all the different degrees in the same order. Sometimes the yellow or blue or green and such is refered to as high blue, yellow etc.)