Count Your Many Blessings!!! Part VI

91.  Steve
92.  Shar
93.  Dad
94.  Mom
95.  Alyssa
96.  Brian
97.  Addi
98.  Beth
99.  Devin
100.  My marvelous, fantastic, amazing, magnificent, great and full life!

Count your many blessings!! Part V

81.  Halloween
82.  Jazzmin
83.  olives
84.  Electric blue
85.  Rock Band
86.  my iPod when I'm running
87.  Time off-track
88. Weather forcasts
89.  Spell Check
90.  When people tell other people how wonderful a teacher I am and how all the kids want to be in my class.  Then I find out because they tell my mom. :0)

Count your many blessings!!! Part IV

71.  make up
72.  zippers
73.  the color purple
74.  batteries
75.  Chap Stick
76.  students with great parents
77.  milk
78.  orange juice
79.  Limeade
80.  Playdoh

Count your many blessings!!! Part III

I am SO far behind!  I go off track tomorrow and then hopefully I'll have more time to keep up on my blog.  I'm trying really hard.  Here are blessings 41-70.

41.  President Thomas S. Monson
42.  Poetry
43.  Chuck :0)  It's always good for a laugh!
44.  Uno  The best game on the planet!
45.  Wireless internet
46.  Hoodies
47.  Zip hoodies
48.  a recorder on my TV :0) so I can watch Criminal Minds even though I have class when it's on.
49.  A family that is not annoying to have around.  We have fun together:0)
50.  Pumpkin cookies with chocolate chips
51.  Carrot Cake
52.  Sugar cookie dough
53.  Fabreeze
54.  The letter L
55.  Jeans
56.  T-shirts
57.  Tube socks
58.  Dark chocolate
59.  Volleyball
60.  blankets
61.  tomatoes
62.  French Fries
63.  Food Network
64.  Revelation
65.  Being able to attend the temple
66.  Titanium, so I can wear glasses without breaking out in a rash.
67.  graham crackers and chocolate frosting:0)
68.  witty friends who keep me entertained
69.  Pumpkin Gutz
70.  People who can get the pumpkin gutz out without puking!  (Funny story...at least now that it's in the past LOL)

Count your many blessings!!! Part II

So I've fallen sadly behind on posting my list of blessings, but I have been doing it on a piece of paper! :0)  Here are blessings 11-40.

11.  My Job
12.  A healthy body
13.  Eyes
14.  Ears
15.  tongue
16. nose
17.  Warmth on a cold day
18.  Coolness on a hot day
19.  mouth
20.  USA
21.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
22.  Jesus Christ
23.  The knowledge that my Heavenly Father loves me!
24.  Music
25.  My trials
26.  Piano
27.  Crayons
28.  Scriptures
29.  Preach My Gospel
30.  Medicine for Migraines
31.  Rain
32.  computers
33.  document cameras
34.  InterWrite Mobi's
35.  Criminal Minds
36.  bananas
37.  Treadmills on Rainy/snowy days
38.  Oxygen
39.  Trees
40.  Micorsoft Power Point

Enjoy!  I will try to be better and really post tomorrow! :0)

Count Your Many Blessings!!

So I've been sitting down and trying to blog all week, but every time I sit down to do it all I want to do is complain and whine.  Not cool!  My life is great and so I've decided for the last ten days of October I will write down 100 things that I'm blessed to have in my life.  So here are the first 10 things:

1. My family  I can't even begin to tell you how much I love these guys!  They are truly an amazing group of people.  We have tons of fun together and I know that no matter what they will be there for me through thick and thin.
2. Addi :0)  Yes, she gets her own number!  She is absolutely adorable and says the most hilarious things!  Last week we went to Black Island Farm and played around on the slides and corn mazes.  We also went on a hayride and picked out some pumpkins.  She got a small green one.  We then went home and used my Mr. Pumpkin Head kit on my pumpkin.  Then we used it on Addi's pumpkin and she insisted on putting it in the fridge.                                                                
3. Chocolate...Need I say more?                                                                            
4. My bed  I got a new matress last year and it has been heaven!!!  So soft and comfy!  I fall into bed at night and go right to sleep.                  
5. Comfy running shoes My old shoes always gave me blisters all the time.  I went and got some new ones that fit amazingly and even better don't hurt my feet!  These will come in handy when I run my marathon! :0)                            
6. Autumn  Driving around town yesterday I noticed all the beautiful trees with their gold, red and brown leaves falling down.  So beautiful!!!!  The temperature outside has also dropped!  Now I don't get too hot running outside!!! Yay!!!
7. Diet Coke...again need I say more?
8. My jeep  It's so wonderful having a vehicle getting you from point A to point B.  It's even better when it can get from point A to point B while it's snowing!  And it's just so cute!!!
9. Education I'm thankful for the education I've gained throughout my life....I use all that knowledge all the time!  It's also nice to be able to teach others both young and old about what I have learned.
   
10. Pretzel M&M's  I absolutely LOVE whoever thought this up!!!!  They are my new favorite!!!

Here are some great quotes I've found this week:

If you're not prepared to look stupid then nothing great is going to happen.

"There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity." ~Washington Irving

Did I ever tell you....

Just a moment of reminiscing...I love October!!!  My favorite month it is!!!  The weather is starting to cool off and the leaves on trees are beautiful colors.  I makes me feel great and ready for a fresh start.  I also love love LOVE Halloween!!!  Why you ask?  Well lots of reasons....One of the biggest reasons is that it was Steve and Shar's favorite time of the year too.  I remember going over to their house on Halloween night after trick-or-treating and having a party with all the junk food we could want and of course the old black and white Halloween movies!  I think that started my love affair with October and Halloween!  Good times...

Another reason I like it is because it is just plain fun!  I love making pumpkin sugar cookies and decorating them to look like jack-o-lanterns!  I love making all the fun food that we eat. 

I also love having fun with my students.  Of all the holidays we talk about in our class, I have the most fun with this one.  Right now we are reading The Witches by Roald Dahl.  It is one of my favorite books and I absolutely love reading it out loud!  Talking like the Grand High Witch is entertaining to both the students and myself.  We also start talking more about characterization while we are reading this book.  We analyze the characters and their different traits.  It also gets them thinking about Halloween stories!  Like many of you know, I love to write and getting my kids to have that same love for writing stories is fun for me! 

I wish it was October all year round!!!  I <3 it!!!!

Stressed Spelled Backwards is Desserts!

Wow!  Life's just been crazy the past few weeks!  In an effort to be a better teacher I started two graduate level classes on reading.  It has been so much work and I feel so scatterbrained and exhausted.  Stress is never a good thing for people like me.  I've been walking around for about two weeks fighting a migraine and trying not to let it get the best of me.  I'm sitting down tonight and writing up a strict (LOL!) schedule to follow, so hopefully I will get more sleep and not stress about everything. 

Last week I was reminded that my life might be hard, but it is really really great!  I am so bLeSsEd!  I have an amazing family who support me in all my craziness.  I have a rewarding job!  My class this year has been so amazing that I want to cry from happiness everytime I think about them!  I'm learning so much in my reading classes that I'm excited to go to school everyday to try out new things.  I also have a SuPeR aMaZiNg mother!

I can't even begin to describe how grateful I am for my mother.  She has been such a rock to me.  Just watching her through everything she has had to deal with has been a perfect lesson on faith.  She has such a strong testimony and everytime I think about giving up I just think about her and I am reminded that through God nothing is impossible.  Thank you mom for everything!

Most of all I'm thankful for my Savior.  There is no way I can repay Him for all that he has done for me.  I was at a fireside for FHE on Monday and I heard a song about the perfect unconditional love Christ has for each of us.  It reminded me that I might not be perfect, but if I'm striving to be better each day, I will one day make it back to live with my Heavenly Father and brother Jesus Christ and that is all He wants for me.  I'm so thankful for the faith that I have developed in the last two years.  I can't say it has been easy, but I have learned so much that it has been worth every bad day to learn all that I have.