I love Pre-K!

Some pictures of my class.... The Blog is underneath them!!

At the Art Table
In the Science/Math Area
Some of the boys in the house area. My classroom during center time.

I wanted to dedicate a post to how much I love Pre-K! I am teaching Pre-K now, and am loving every minute of it!! There are 18 kids in my class. I am amazed by how much fun I am having. The eagerness these children have to learn is inspiring. I love when you teach and teach something and then days later the child some how shows you that he's grasped the concept. Example: Last week we were working on the letter A and the number 1. This week we were working on the letter B and the number 2. There is this boy in class, Jorge, who is Mexican, but is picking up English very well. Today right before they were to go home, he has a book out (the infamous Cat and the Hat). He says to me in his cute Mexican accent "Miss Emily - one! two! A! B!... he was pointing out these letters and numbers on the page. It made my day!! Here he is Jorge- who is just learning English - showing me what he's learned!! I LOVED IT!! I love teaching!!!

Other than this, Life is going great! Morgan is on fall break - sadly I think that he will be doing school work during the bulk of it, such is the life of a grad student. The weather is finally cooling down. It's so funny to see people wrapped up like eskimos when it's 55-60 degrees outside in the morning. I hope it says cool!! Morg is staying pretty happy with success of the Boston Red Sox. Nothing like baseball in October!! My sister Rachel is going to be having her baby pretty soon. Only about a week left. I'm flying to Atlanta two weeks from today. I'm getting really excited to see the new addition to the family. I'm also really happy to be flying rather than driving! An 1.5 hour flight is much better than an eight hour drive any day!

My house (the downstairs)

Backyard Patio

Our Kitchen (Note the table top made by my grandpa!)

Our Living Room with our massive Love Sac

So, here are some pictures of the downstairs of our townhouse. We are really enjoying it so far. We've bbq'ed a good bit on the patio already. I think we will even more when it gets a little cooler outside. Our furniture is so comfy. We are happy to have it at last!

Has it been a month?

I cannot believe that I haven't posted in almost a month! Morgan and I have definitely become much more busy lately! Morgan is starting his thesis. . . along with work and school! He is also working with the Cub Scouts in our ward. He's going to have a lot of fun with the 8 - year olds!
I've started working! I'm teaching Pre-K and am LOVING it!! I enjoy circle time and all the fun things that we do in class. My day starts at 7am. It's nice working early, and since I really don't get a lunch hour (which I almost prefer) I'm done with work by 3pm daily!! I am also working with the Young Women's now. I'm in with the Mia Maids. I have just three girls, but it's been a lot of fun so far. I'm also starting the preparations needed to start a Master's program next year! I'm applying to the Masters in Teaching at ECU. It's just one calendar year, which makes it really appealing! Hopefully everything will go well with that.

We finally have all of our furniture! It's taken long enough, but that's OK. I'll post pictures once I take some! I think now we are completely settled. (such a sigh of relief). It's been a lot of fun setting up house.

Cooler weather is here! I think this past week was the first week since moving here that the temperature didn't reach into the 90's or high 80's. I love fall and all the things it brings. Morgan is anxiously awaiting the outcome of the Red Sox Baseball season. We are also enjoying BYU football! We've found some more BYU Alums in the ward, we get together to watch the games. It's fun. But mostly, I love the crispness in the air, fall foliage, and cooler evenings.

Hope all is continuing to go well with you. I'll try to be better at posting!

Moving, furniture, DIY

So, Morgan and I have recently moved to North Carolina. Besides the sweltering heat and humidity, we are absolutely loving it. I parents and sister, Laura, came up last week to help us settle. It was so nice to have them up here. Our place looks so much better due to their help!!

Morgan and I bought new furniture! Although, it hasn't been delivered yet(it's taking FOREVER!). Here are some pictures....
I LOVE the armless chair. Hopefully they will be delivered this week, (I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I had my first attempt with "see it on HGTV, and make it" as well. We didn't have a headboard and I have seen many times in HGTV (my fav. channel) how to make upholstered headboards, so I decided to make one! With some help from just about everyone, it's made! I'm so impressed with the way it came out... here's a pic

It's made with UltraSuede material. It also has covered buttons on it, giving it that classy look.

Right before the family went back to Georgia we went to Wilmington Beach. It was so nice! I think that Morgan and I are going to enjoy living so close to the Atlantic!


Morgan is getting ready to start school on Wednesday. This is his last free weekend for a while. He's pretty excited though.

Well, I gotta run, I'll post more later!

And We're Baaack!

So, I figured that the reason why I haven't posted in the last 3 months (yikes!) is that I've been having SO much fun! (Plus, I haven't gotten in the habit of posting...)

After graduation Morgan and I packed up our belongings shipped it across the US to North Carolina. We went to Georgia for about 6 weeks. He and I drove to Georgia nonstop (since our hotel money went towards an unexpected first speeding ticket for Morgan in Nebraska). Nonetheless, we enjoyed the roadtrip! While we were there we had a great time spending time with the family. We went up to my Grandparent's house in Ellijay. While there Morgan, Lollie, and I hiked all the way to the top of Amacalola Falls (It's the beginning of the Appalachian Trail) Morgan and I also went to a Braves Game. We also had a lot of fun by going to Grandma and Grandpa's pool and also going to Rachel's pool to play with Mikayla. Mom and I drove upto Greenville so I could scope out the place where we'll be living. We found a townhouse and placed a lease on it! I was relieved to know that I have a home when we move there! When we got back, we got ready to go on VACATION! But out highlight of our time in Utah was, simply having a blast with our time with my family!!

After our time in Georgia had passed, my whole family toke our biannual trip to Seaside Beach in South Carolina. We stay in the same house and everything. It was nice to have Morgan as a husband this time around. Seaside Beach is pretty special to us, since that is where Morgan surprised me by being there without my knowledge to propose to me! We spent our days being beach bums getting sunburned (see photo of Lobster Morgan) and our evenings having boys vs. girls games nights. Mikayla was so much fun at the beach! She loved the water, making sand castles, and looking for sea shells. We had a family portrait made by the pier via Dan's contraptions. There was actually no one behind the camera! He had a remote. We thought that was pretty cool. We really had a great time and can't wait until our next vacation there!

After the Beach, Morgan and I drove the 20 hours (nonstop once more) to Orono, Maine! For the first time, I saw a bit of New York City. I see why it's called the city that never sleeps. When we were drving through Lower Manhattan at midnight, there was a traffic jam!! I was also surprised once we got into the state of Maine at about 3:45 while I was driving the sun started to come up! By 4:15 the sun was up!! (this made it much easier to stay alert!!) I was fabergasted. While here, we have had a great time spending time with Morgan's parents. It's been nice for me to get to know and love them much more. We kayaked one day to our "Private Island" and spent the day relaxing and reading books. We saw a Bald Eagle that day! We have also gone Strawberry picking (for the first time for me). They were the sweetest strawberries! We picked 40 quarts! (we probably ate a quart or two while picking them) It doesn't get any fresher than that! Morgan has enjoyed working with his dad and going to the gym and golfing together. I've been working through a temp agency and have mainly been working in downtown Bangor. I've really enjoyed poking aroung during my lunch hour. There are a lot of neat little shops and bakeries.

Well, know our summer is nearing over. We are moving to North Carolina next week. We are getting pretty excited. We thankfully have a place to live in a nice area and Morgan has school and a job lined up. (I'm still working on the job thing). We'll keep you posted!