what have we been up to?

1. We moved.

I know.

It was ridiculous.

And technically we downgraded.

So here's the deal....when we started looking for apartments, mid-Augustish, we didn't have much of a selection. (as you can probably imagine) We saw a lot of creepy basements and then saw some even creepier basements. (Seriously, I still shudder every time I think of it.) Finally, we were discouraged and driving around Rexburg when we pulled into a parking lot to think about our choices, and to try not to think about some of our choices. As we were discussing and shuddering, I looked up and said, "Hey hon, how about these ones?" and pointed to the pretty little buildings in the parking lot. We got a number and discovered there were some openings. 

Wonderful!

But they only had a 3 bedroom available. And I know we have enough junk to fill up a 3 bedroom, but we still didn't feel it was necessary. But we moved in and told the manager that if a 2 bedroom opened up, we would definitely be interested. 

Fast forward about two months and our manager called us and let us know there was a two bedroom opening up and that we could come look at it. I thought this was a dumb idea, but was willing to play along, so we trudged over there and......I didn't want to like it, I really didn't.

But I did.

So we moved!

And I feel the need to give a big shout-out to our buddies Allens, Pearsons, we couldn't have done it without you.

And I hate to drag out this first point some more, but I have one more little thing to mention...

We were planning on moving a little bit on Friday, but the bulk of the junk  stuff on Saturday. By some miracle, Kolton happened to look at the weather and discovered it was calling for snow on Saturday. So we called our buddies and they came over at the last minute to help us out. (Do we have awesome friends or what?) So after we finished moving every single thing out of our apartment, we decided to go our for some ice cream. While eating our ice cream, I looked out the window to see SNOW! holy cow-we were so lucky and right on time.  

2. School.

Enough said.

3. Okay, actually I just have a teeny little bit to talk about about school. I'm in a class right now where twice a week I go to an elementary school in the area and get to mess around with third graders for two hours. (Okay, actually it's not entirely messing around, we do actually do some work too.) It is the greatest class and I just really love it. There are millions of stories I could share about it, but Ii'll just share one for now.

I was reading with a group of three kids about a gorilla named Koko. Well of course, being third graders, (and I maybe might have thought of it too) every time we read Koko's name, someone would attach a "loco" to the end.

"Koko loco".

And I'm sorry, but it really was funny for some reason. I was trying to be mature and stuff, but I just couldn't help releasing a little giggle every time one of the kids said it.

Does that make me a bad teacher?

4. Bananagrams.

I LOVE this game.

Mostly because I always WIN this game.

And if you know me, you know that I NEVER win at ANY game.

This is monumental.

I don't know what it is, but when my brain gets a-going, I can think up the strangest words. Most of the time, I don't even know what they mean-but I can spell them.

for example:

We played a total of five games this weekend.

I won four of those games.

(It's killing Kolton)

5. We watched Tangled a twice in a row last week. I am completely in love with that movie. Every time the floating light/singing part comes on, I get a little teary eyed and wish and wish I could just see that in person.

But basically that's all that's been a-going on.

That, and every day I get more and more excited for Christmas. I'm putting a restraining order on the Christmas music.

I got it bad.