My little friend Landon

I got to hang out with Landon for a few hours while everyone else went to the temple. He is a pretty funny talkative kid so we had a lot of fun together. He watched Little Einsteins while I finished getting ready. Then after that we played with some play dough for awhile. I actually suggested it because Landon got a sweet Playdough kit for Christmas and frankly I wanted to play with it. So we set it up and he made himself a balloon. After awhile he told me he had to go to the bathroom so I took him to the bathroom but when we got there he had to run back and get his balloon first. While he was going potty he told me that I needed to go find Emma (his toy dog that he takes everywhere). He was on the potty for quite some time so this took up a big chunk of time. Afterwards we played with some more playdough then he told me that he wanted to dance to some Christmas music. He specifically requested "rocking around Christmas tree", so luckily Jess and Shane have a Landon playlist on thier ipod and we rocked out to that song. Then he requested Jingle Bells and Polka (by Jim Reeves, I'm glad Jess and Shane have taught him to be a Jim Reeves fan.) The rest of the family got home later but lucky for me I was his favorite for the rest of the day, he's my favorite too.

Catchin up

It has been awhile since I have written, which is no good since I am supposed to be writing about 3 times a week...whoops! Life in Utah is moving pretty fast but is still lots of fun. The last BYU football home game was the weekend of Thanksgiving and BYU came out victorious over Utah. It was a pretty sweet game that came down to the final seconds....those are always the most exciting. Here are a couple pictures from the game. It was freezing, especially since we were in the shade the whole time. I'm pretty sure I had 15 layers on and I was still cold!

We were down by something, and it was 4th and 18 with only a little bit of time left and Hall threw a long pass down the field to Collie. And then we scored. (Don't worry, I have no intentions of becoming a sports writer because clearly I have no idea what I am talking about here. But it was sweet nonetheless).

Thanksgiving at the Terry home was a lot of fun, they took good care of me. I even got to take a nap while the food was being prepared. Jerika and I had taken a break for a little bit and were watching some show on tv, and I was completely out in about two seconds. She was nice and let me sleep but I felt bad when I woke up and most of the cooking was done!

I have officially left the elementary schools and am now back in regular school. I already miss my little fourth graders even with their bad attitudes. I have decided to stick around BYU for a little bit longer and get my early childhood endorsement. I'm hoping everything will work out there, that I can get in the classes I need and such. It will be quite a bit of work trying to take all the classes in one semester this winter, but I just decided that now was my chance to get it. So I won't be graduating til December or next April if I do an internship in the fall instead of student teaching.

Anyway, enough of the boring stuff. We went to Freeze fest last saturday. It was a ton of fun. They host it at Seven Peaks Ice Skating and they have all sorts of activities. We played broom hockey, listened to some bands, drank hot chocolate and got a couple of pictures with Cosmo. Jackie's goal was to get a picture with him before she graduated. She graduates this month so we got it just in the knick of time!

We went with BJ (who I work with, he is standing next to me on the end in this picture), and his two friends came along. We also went with a couple guys in our ward who were off getting hot chocolate at this time. We took a late night Wendy's run after this and stayed for awhile talking and things. It was a good time.

Yesterday we took a trip up to the basketball game in Salt Lake. BYU was playing #10 Michigan state and we were winning for the first half, but then lost in the second. We ended up lost by 7 but it was a pretty exciting game nonetheless. Jerika, Kimi and I decided to stay and do some shopping at gateway then we were going to go see the lights and possibly go to the Joseph Smith movie. However, we got word that it was snowing bad at point of the mountain so we decided to leave after about an hour of shoppping and head home before it got any worse. Kimi was a safe driver and we made it safely home. It was quite and enjoyable outing. That's all for now!