Unfortunately..... Fortunately.....

Unfortunately.....
Well, we were supposed to go home to California on Monday, but the weather over donner pass was too bad for us to go. Sadly, we decided we needed to wait for Wednesday :(

Fortunately....
My best cousin friend in the world was here in Boise with her family for Christmas! She came in Sunday night, and we weren't going to be able to hang out very much. But now we could! So we had a treat day! We made about a thousand cookies and built gingerbread houses! It was a much needed wonderful cousin day. Cody and Jeff tried to help, but they weren't as enthusiastic about the whole thing. :) So in the end, I was glad we had to wait a couple of days to leave! :)

peanut butter balls

snow balls

carmel chocolate cookies with white chocolate on the top! yum!

sewing time with grandma

For the past few days my grandma has been in town! She's been staying at my cousins' house, but I was over there all day yesterday and today. I recently got a sewing machine for my birthday, and I had my first pattern and material all ready to go, but no one to teach me! So my wonderful grandma helped me through it! We had fun. Turns out the "easy" pattern I chose (with help from a Joanne's lady) was not as easy as I thought. It looked easy to me, but I was wrong. It involved scallops and gathering, which are not really beginner things. But with a little help from grandma, I think I did pretty well!

a slow start..

So I finished student teaching, and I was pretty excited to make some money subbing! But here I am...sitting on my couch... not working. There are hardly any sub jobs and I am having a hard time finding enough productive things to do! I've only had 3 days, and they were all last minute, emergency sort of things. I feel a little guilty for sitting around so much. I was expecting to get sub jobs almost every day and stay pretty busy. So I'm not sure if it's just a slow time of year for subbing, or if it's going to be like this for a while. Hopefully it gets better soon...

Baby it's cold outside

It's cold outside! The other day we woke up to a thick layer of white powder over everything! It is really pretty here with all the trees around. I drove Cody to work, then when I got home I decided to take a walk and enjoy it. It's beautiful, but freezing. And it hasn't gotten any warmer. The roads are hard to drive on and I'm always afraid I'm going to slip and fall. And I get tired of putting on 5 layers to walk from the apartment to the car. Too bad the snow isn't warm. :)

Cody hates putting lights on the tree. haha. here he is being frustrated.

23!

Thank you to everyone who made my birthday special! It was just me and Cody here, but all the phone calls and presents from my family and friends made it great! I had a good day just hangin out by myself. :) I slept in, watched TV, put up some Christmas decorations and it was wonderful. I went to Walmart and went to lunch at Fuddruckers to get my free birthday lunch! I ate an 8 dollar salad for free! It was awesome. Then for dinner, I met Cody at Chili's! Then after dinner I blew out the candles, ate cake and opened my presents! Thanks family for the purse, the cookbook, and the Christmas platter! (My family is also paying for us to come for Christmas!) Thanks grandma for money for my SEWING MACHINE!, the fuzzy blanket and the PJs. Thanks Carla for the card and the money! Cody got me my sewing tools and money to go get a pattern! :)

A few happy things

I just wanted to write about a few things that have made me happy lately.

1. I'm done student teaching! I finished on Wednesday. I can't believe I'm completely done with school. I had a great experience and I loved my kids and my teacher, but I am happy to be done. It was stressful and exshausting. Although it was difficult, I now know that this is what I was meant to do. It's nice to know for sure that I chose the right profession. This is also nice because now I will be making a little money for the work I'm doing.

2. We went to Rexburg for Thanksgiving to visit Cody's family! It was really fun. We left right after school on Wednesday, and stayed till Sunday. Thursday, we had a good time eating and visiting with family. We ended up having 10 pies to eat because of lack of communication. Cody's aunt and uncle, Jed and Vicky, and their four boys came over. I loved playing with them all week. The littlest, Rayce, is only a few months old and he's the cutest, best baby in the world. We had fun playing with him. On Friday we woke up early in the morning and went shopping. Cody and I did some shopping for each other, and we helped Cody's mom and Vicky shop. It was fun helping Vicky shop for those little guys. While Cody did an excelent job of hiding everything he bought for me, I managed to accidently reveal all the presents I bought for Cody. oops. :) On Saturday, Jessica (my sister-in-law) and I had an awesome day of doing Christmas crafts. The boys were good helpers, helping us sand. On Sunday, Cody and I visited all the Corbridge relatives in Aberdeen. They conveniently gathered for lunch so we didn't have to go a lot of different places. It was good to see everyone there. Sadly, we forgot to bring our camera on this trip, so I dont' have any pictures. :(

But here is a picture of the crafts we did. Cody's mom did the nativity.

3. Happy thing number 3 is that my birthday is tomorrow!

4. This actually happened a while ago, but it still brings me joy. Cody refinished our table. We didn't have a table, so my parents gave us their old one that's been sitting in the backyard for years, exposed to the elements. It was old, and yucky, and there was paint on it. The chairs were in really bad shape too. They were basically falling apart. Cody is amazing and he made it look like this:

I love it so much. He also did the leaf so we can use this table for years to come, when we have several people that need to fit.

5. Jessica and Dakota (Cody's brother, and his wife) were sealed in the Salt Lake temple. It was amazing and I was so happy we could be there to see that.

6. We went to a Boise State game. We figured we should go while Cody was a student and he got a free ticket. It was awesome, but it was SO COLD! They won of course.

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Update

I've decided it's time to stop pretending I don't have a blog. A lot has happened since the last time I blogged, so this post is dedicated to catching up. :)

Cody got into Boise State!

We had our first anniversary and went to see wicked!

We went to Tahoe with the fam

We moved to Boise!

I'm student teaching, and I'm going to be a real teacher soon!

That's pretty much it! We really like Boise so far. We live in a really cute apartment really super close to the Boise river. Cody rides his bike to school on the greenbelt along the river. He's really liking school. He got into the graduate assistantship program, and his tuition is covered for at least a year! So that was a huge blessing. I'm really busy student teaching at Trailwind Elementary in Molly Gustavel's fifth grade class. I'm teaching full days now for the next six weeks or so! Life is great. :)

Camping

This weekend we were invited to go on a little overnight camping trip on mount diablo with a few of the couples from church. The entrance to the park is only about 10 minutes from us, so it was really close and easy. It was really fun to get to know some of the other people in our ward a little better. The next day we drove the rest of the way up to the summit, and after that went to "rock city." When I was little, rock city was one of our favorite places to go, so it was fun to show Cody.