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.

It took a while, but here we are

We finally have a blog! Since we've been engaged, friends and family have been telling me that we need to have a blog, and now ten months into marriage, i've finally done it. It turned out to only take about 5 minutes to create. :) . Anyway, Cody and I got married August 9, 2008 in the Oakland California temple. We live in Walnut Creek now. Cody just completed an internship at a firm in San Francisco and is now a BYU-I graduate in accounting. We are heading to Boise in August where Cody will go to school at Boise State for a masters in accounting. I am a major in elementary education. In Boise I will (hopefully) do my student teaching in the fall and then finally be done! We love living here in the bay area close to family and we will miss it a lot, but we are optimistic and excited to go on to new things! I will try my best to keep up on the blog thing and keep everyone updated!

Erin