Career, House, Future!!

I LOVE teaching 2nd grade. Here goes my first year as an official, I'm in charge teacher! It has been a LOT of work!! I have such adorable kids though! I am lucky to have an experienced teacher as the other second grade teacher. She has been very patient and willing to help. I also have the best instructor in the school to help in my classroom. The only downfall is she is in charge of all the other instructors and so she is not in the classroom very much. But when she is there she is wonderful.

I love teaching at SNA (School for New Americans). My class is so diverse! Each child has a unique personality and is just so adorable! My first parent-teacher conference is coming up at the end of this month so I am anxious to see how that goes. :) I do have very helpful parents!

Tyler just started school online through Western Governors University. It is a really awesome University where you pay for 6 months at a time and you can take as many credits as you can during that time. So he is just cruising through it to get it done. It is a very credited school and I've spoken with several principals and directors that are very enthusiastic about that school. Tyler is studying Elementary Education as well. We plan to move to Dubai, Qatar, or Abu Dhabi to teach once Tyler has his degree. We have done a lot of research and are getting very excited about the programs they have for teachers there. We would have all summer off to come stay with family and travel. :) That is our latest crazy plan! :D ha!

We are closing on a house in West Valley around October 20th!!! We are super excited! We got the foreclosed home through the good neighbor next door program for teachers, firefighters, and police officers. We got an INSANE deal on the home. It is definitely a fixer upper, but not too bad really. It is about five blocks from my school so that will cut our hour commute by about infinity! I am soooooo excited about that. It has a good sized yard, garage(not attached), 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, a laundry room, and it is fully gated. We are super excited!!! We want to move in now! :) I will post some pictures in a little while. Hopefully we can get some good before and after pictures. :)

Tyler is also working at my school. He came in and did some trainings and they were all VERY impressed!!! He is a natural, and he has a good coach for his wife ;). Ha! But he really is such a wonderful teacher and he hasn't had any experience! He is going to be a groups teacher so he will be teaching Reading and two Math classes. This will help give him a lot of good experience and will be good on his resume! The kids love him!!! :)

Sorry no pictures! Our camera is lost at the moment. Oh, I don't remember if I posted but we bought a new car. We sold our Nissan Exterra in Alaska and bought a much better on the gas millage car. We now own a 2009 Hyundai Elantra. We love it! Every time we put gas in it and calculate our gas millage we take a minute to rejoice! ha! Seriously, we went from getting maybe 16 miles to the gallon to 31!!! Hallelujah!! :)

Well, we are going to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving over at our friends the Godfrey's. It has been a tradition for many years and one of our favorites!

P.S. Isn't the cold weather exciting!!!?!?! The leaves are changing, everyone is bundling up! The mountains are getting a layer of beautiful white powder!! Bring on the hot cocoa and warm soup!!! :)