my future husband??

 Here is a teaching story for you! But first some background knowledge. I teach 5th grade (10-11 year olds) and they are awesome! They are also OBSESSED with finding me a husband. In their eyes they just don't understand why I am single. In fact, one told me once "I thought you had to have a husband to teach!" This obsession means that any single male in a 20 miles radius of our school is a potential match for me. Their top choices for my future husband include...

1) Michael Phelps (I DO!!) 2) Any of the Jonas Brothers as long as I get them to give a concert at our school. 3) Zac Efron 4) Tony Romo (unfortunately I have a lot of cowboy fans in my class...DONT WORRY IM WORKING ON BRING THEM TO LIGHT!) No worries Mom about me being an Old Maid...I won't even make it through the school year single if my students have anything to say about it!   ;o)

So here is the story. ENJOY!

Every Tuesday we have DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). The DARE officer assigned to our school is a very good looking 29 year old Officer Adams. One of things he does is answer questions from the classroom DARE box ( a box where students can ask whatever questions they might have about drugs, alcohol, or being a police officer without having to sign their name.) Today 7 of the 8 questions he answered were "ARE YOU MARRIED?"  He answered NO which was then followed my half of my class turning to me and smiling and cute Jess saying "Well you can marry Miss Wells. She is cool and so are you!" HAHA Yeah...I just starting laughing. I mean what else do you say? Officer Adams handled  it very well  he simply laughed said MOVING TO THE NEXT QUESTION! haha You have to have a sense of humor to be a teacher or you just won't make it through the day. Anyway just thought I would share that with you!

I Am Full of Random Knowledge

You know that saying "You learn something new everyday." Well, being a teacher I hope this is true for each of my students, although, haha, for some of them its probably not. ANYWAY, here are some of the things I learned this week.

1. Iraq is 9 hours ahead of us.

2. I check my email a ridiculous amount of times each day!

3. Little Miss Sunshine is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. Thanks Jack for paying way too much money for Edited DVDs. In case you haven't heard of it its about the classic American dysfunctional family and yet with all their crazy antics (vows of silence, gay uncles, bad fashion sense, broken horns, dead bodies in trucks, and AWESOME dance moves) there is a real unlying message of love your crazy family for exactly who they are!

4. February cannot come soon enough!!  :o(

5. Statically boys have a better sense of direction although I'm not sure I believe this fact.

6. M&Ms DO MELT ON YOUR HAND!

7. My pirate accent always and without fail slowly turns into a southern redneck accent so my poor students have to listen to me read "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" (a GREAT BOOK!!) and learn about redneck pirates.

8. I am the most easily amused and distracted person! I should be working on a paper for my master's program.

9. Oregon beat USC in one of the most amazing football games! Long live the little guy!!

Play by Play

One of the great things about fall is FOOTBALL. It's the American sport! One of the bad things about fall is that it means winter is coming, which here in the Rockies mean 8 MONTHS of snow, ice, and bitter cold! Hopefully the winter wonderland will hold off a little longer than it did last year (we had our first snow fall the last week of September!) 

This year I decided to join the ward intermural flag football team and tonight's game was awesome!! We won in the last play of the game! Now this wasn't any old play it is a play that will go down in the the history books. It is a play that should be ESPN's top play of the day. It is a play that by all means should not have worked and yet it did!! So enough build up.... here is the play by play. 

We are tied 7 to 7 with 3 seconds left on the game clock. We have the ball. It's 20 yards to the end zone so we decide to HAIL MARY! Down! Set! Hike! The line tries to hold everyone and the receivers high tail it out as far as they can. The QB just throws the ball right as her flag is pulled and it just goes sailing. Katie reaches out her hands and has her fingertips on the ball just as come ogre of a girl tackles her to the ground! Remember this is FLAG football so tackling is a big NO NO especially in a BYU league! Flags go flying everywhere and we get to try again this time 10 yards closer.

This time the QB rolls out of the pocket and launches one as hard as she can. Katie once again reaches for the football this time making contact! The ball bounces from hand to hand but she is able to pull it in just before she hit the ground for a TOUCHDOWN!!! WE WIN!!!!

It was an amazing ending!! I play defense but my stats for the game include catching an interception and blocking 3 passes.  Our next game is Thursday the 25th. Check back for another play by play!!

MY MASTER'S DEGREE

Ok I have an announcement!! I am heading back to school well sort of anyway. I am going back to get my Master's Degree in Educational Leadership. Ok well I have a hot date sooo more details to come (on both the date and the degree!!)

BREAKING DAWN RANT

****WARNING THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS READ ON AT YOUR OWN RISK****

Ok this is pure venting but I am sick and tired of hearing how wonderful Breaking Dawn the most anticipated and final book in the Twilight Series is. So I am here to set the record straight. Agree with me or don't...I don't really care but at least respect my opinion to not like this book. I mean I do have my constitutional right of free speech and all! Not only was Breaking Dawn a HUGE letdown but it is some of the worst writing I have ever read and AS A PROUD BOOK WORM I can say that I have read A LOT!! 

The plot was weak and and a solely uphill climb. At first I was just bored reading. I could put the book down and walk away no problem (something that didn't happen in the other books). Then when it finally looked like we were getting somewhere, it just kept building and building and building and then NOTHING HAPPENED! Nothing at all. Everyone just walked away with a smile on their face as if their entire existence had not been threatened! Not to mention the numerous cop outs that Stephanie Meyer wrote. I mean come on! I like a happy ending as much as the next "single and looking for Mr. Perfect" girl does but this was over the top. She was afraid to get her hands dirty and actually write a good story line. Forget that in the first 3 books we learn vampires can abstain from human blood BUT ONLY at great personal sacrifice and with incredible self control learned over hundreds of years. And that as a new born vampire you are ruled by instincts and cravings. While these can be controlled it is very hard to do so even by the most composed vampire ever, Edward. Need I remind you that in Twilight Edward could barely stand to be around Bella because her blood sang to him. So do you really think Charlie could walk right in and hang out with Bella for a whole day...the day after she becomes a vampire? Yeah, I think not but no Bella acts like its nothing! 

Now lets talk about Nessie...despite how seriously disturbing that pregnancy was...it is even more disturbing that Jacob imprints on her! I mean one minute he was ready to kill her and picturing her mother naked as his wife and the next he is drooling like a love struck puppy. Its just weird. Which brings me to  another point Edward and Bella are parents but only when convenient, which basically means once Bella's sex drive has temporally subsided. Way to set the example guys!  

Yes, I get that Bella has found her place in the world and became the vampire that she apparently was meant to be but it all seemed like a little too much. Too convenient. I really don't feel like self-control was one of her talents. I mean she didn't have very much of it as a human...do the numerous times she punched Jacob, or tried to seduce Edward  scream self-control to you? So why would that be amplied and suddenly fool proof. Then there is the shield effect. That is the one thing that actually made sense. It was the perfect power for Bella. You know what else was perfect? The fact that Bella could learn to control it and project it to protect a good 40 people against massive powerful vampire bombardment in about 2 weeks!!  I mean seriously! That was just bad. I honestly don't believe it and that is saying something in a book written about vampires and werewolves!

All in all, Stephanie you let me down. You wrote the story you wanted to right, "the picture perfect, birds chirping in the background, sunny skies in Forks" book instead of the story you should have written. And for a New York Times Best Selling Author that is just a sad, sad statement. You could have at least made Nessie clumsy like Bella or even better... had a fight scene...you know that thing you were foreshadowing for like 200 pages. Oh well, better luck next time!

Just Cruisin!

In July I went on a cruise with one of my best friends from high school, Alicia. She is awesome and we had a blast! We left from Tampa and traveled to Grand Cayman, Cozamel (I know I probably didn't spell that right but I'm too lazy right now to look it up soo just deal it), Honduras, and Belize. Here are some highlights from our many adventures!

We went snorkeling at just about all the stops! But our stupid waterproof camera turned out to be not so waterproof so most of those pictures got ruined. Anyway... my favorite place to snorkel was in Honduras. We went all the way out to the "drop off" point. It was crazy! There was amazing coral, reefs, and bright colored fish everywhere you looked then suddenly the ocean floor dropped dramatically and the water went to a dark dark blue. It was one of the most amazing things I've seen in my life. 

HAHA To add to the already beautiful scenery Alicia had a dream the night before that while snorkeling I got attacked my a shark and only got away alive because she stuck her flipper in his mouth. Needless to say while actually snorkeling over and around the drop off point Alicia would not let go of my arm. NO worries though that was one dream that did not come true... THANKFULLY!! 

In Mexico we went LOCO while ROCKCLIMBING,

ZIPLINEING,

went TRAMPING through the JUNGLE

   

and ATE THE MOST AMAZING FOOD EVER!!! 

CONGRATS TO HANNAH AND JOSEPH!!

Ok before I can start telling everyone about my adventures I need to say CONGRATS to Hannah and Joseph on GETTING MARRIED TODAY in the Washington DC Temple. Wish I could there guys!! Aren't they the cutest couple!?