F to the A-L-L

2-1 days left until Halloween. Can you believe it is already that time again?

That is right I love this time of year. I love fall time. I love the colorful leaves, sweaters, sweats, the sound of crunchy leaves under my feet walking through campus, my birthday, HALLOWEEN, thanksgiving, pumpkins, festivals, parties, carmel apples, new TV show seasons, orange and everything else that comes along with this season. Honestly my birthday and halloween are my two favorite holidays. They both seem like holidays kids are most excited for but I guess that is the kid in me then. I have loved halloween ever since I was little and was a princess who knows how many years in a row.

I think I love this holiday so much because my due date was actually halloween. I still sometimes wish I was born right on my due date. When I was little I used to have halloween themed birthday parties, just another excuse to dress up right?! I like the whole spirit of the day especially pretending to be the character I am dressed up as. In my opinion you are never too old to dress up and poor Ty I make him dress up with me.

I am so stoked to have trick or treaters this year. Last year in our apartment complex there weren't really any kids, but in the neighborhood we are in now their are kids everywhere, so this year we get to see all the cute chickatees all dressed up.

These are some of the decorations that Ty and I got to put on the outside of our house. They aren't the most fancy of decorations, but I thought they were fun for the money we decided to spend.

You can't really tell in the but we have to spider webs all over the house and bushes. They took a while, but I think the look cute.

This is my favorite halloween decoration. Our skeleton pirate Arrr

Double Duce

It is official I am 22! Wow I can't believe it. My birthday was on monday the 20th and it was awesome along with the rest of the weekend. It all started out on friday. Friday after ty's class and after I was done planning my lesson for Tuesday we pack and drove down south to Vegas. Ty's parents Mom and Dad Ulrich were vacationing there at their time share and were kind enough to invite us to come down the last couple days they were down there. When we got down there on Friday we headed straight for the buffet. It was delicious and very filling. After the buffet we went to the venitan and then then treasure island just to walk through and see them inside since. It is fun to see the difference and all the personality in all the hotels on the strip. We watched part of the treasure island show. Also when we were walking through some of the shops we stopped in a jewlery store and Julie and I tried on a very expensive ring and it was beautiful. I put it on my finger and took it off almost right away it made me nervous that something would happen to it. Julie loved it though she had a huge rush from it and fell in love with the ring. That night we drove back to the hotel and relaxed the rest of the night.



Saturday we first when to the Mandalay Bay, the Excalibur and the Luxor. Ty has always wanted to see inside the Luxor and he told me when we have the money we will stay there. We took the tram to each of them and went to see the different trade marks of each of them. Ty loved how the Luxor is in a pyramid and wants to stay in one of the rooms that are on a slant. We got some pictures in each of these. And Ty and Dave liked looking at the cars in the Mandalay Bay. We then went to the outdoor outlet mall north of the strip. This outlet is HUGE! We didn't even see all of the stores because we were running out of time and we wanted to do other things. Ty and I bought some sunglasses and Ty picked mine out they are pink and so stinkin cute. I also got a realy cute converse beanie they my sweet husband let me get. And of course I HAD to get some fuge and the fugery.



We then went Mine and Ty's favorite restaurant there Magiannos. We wanted to introduce the place to Dave and Julie. We hope that they liked it as much as we do and that we didn't talk it up too much. I loved it just as much the second time as I did the first. We then walked throughout the Fashion mall because I'm a girl and I need to walk through a mall if it is there. Then lastly we went to the Ballagio and saw there cool halloween decorations and the beautiful chocolate fountain. We have some pictures but we will have to get them from Julie, she said we just had to see this chocolate fountain and she was right it was so pretty I've never seen anything like it. Then we went through Planet Hollywood, because Julie wanted to see it then of course I went throughout the shops again and found a cute Roxy shirt on sale that my nice husband let me get. He spoiled me this weekend. We then went back to the hotel and hung out. We played a few games of Lucky Under and it was so fun! I love playing card games with the fam. Then right before bed they gave me a birthday present. Thank you Mom and Dad U. You guys are so nice! Thank you for the fun time and memories.



On Sunday we left Vegas at about 8:00 am and then stopped in Cedar City to get a few things and then straight up north we went. Again Ty is so sweet to want to go to both Vegas and up North for my birthday. We met my parents at about 8:30 when they were just getting home from Colorado (visiting family over UEA). It was soooo good to see them all. It was really fun to hear about their little trip but I could tell it just went by way too fast for them all. So sunday night we spent the whole time catching up and talking. I stayed up talking to my mom until about one. We do that a lot when I come visit.



Monday was my BIRTHDAY! Right when I came downstairs my mom and Ammon said happy birthday to me! I was so happy to be up there. Although there was one damper on the day In the morning I quit my gymnastics coaching job. I stil have my job at Lin's but I was only working at the gym 3 hours a week. They just weren't treating me as well as I thought they should treat employees especially becasue I have been there longer than most of the coaches there. Long story maybe I will post about it another time. I was glad that I finally stood up for myself and quit, but I am sad because I am going to miss my girls that I taught and I am going to miss being involved in the sport I love. So if anyone hears someone needing a gymnstics or tumbling coach let me know. After I was sad for a minute I felt better because my mom and Ty told me it is what I should have done.



I then got to open my presents :) From Ty I got cute white sweat pants, a orange jacket, some Ugg boots, and Scrubs season two. Isn't he so sweet! Then from my parents and siblings I got these awesome storage bins that I have wanted since I saw them at my mom's house. They are really cute storage bins for scarpbooking supplies. When I first saw them I couldn't stop talking about them. So mom got me two of them. One of them has two drawers for paper and the other one has four drawers for other supplies. I put it together the next day and put all my stuff in them and I just love them I feel like everything is so much easier to find and much more organized. My mom is the organizing queen after all. Also Ammon had emilee help him right me a little note for my birthday which was sooo cute! Then Amanda, Emilee, Ty and I ran to the mall and also to get my ring cleaned which looked awesome after it was so sparkly.



The funnest part of the whole day was all of my family went to dinner together. My brother had work and he even made sure that he would come during his break. We went to Golden coral Yum Yum. Everyone seemed to like it and seemed to have fun. When we first got then my mom gave me a huge hug and said happy birthday. That meant so much to me. I am so happy that we didn't have school on monday so I could see my family. Last thing we did was go to a party store and mom, Amanda, and I bought costums for halloween. I am going to be a 70's girl and so is my mom we are going to be twinners.



Thank Ty for an amazing birthday. Thank you for understanding when I want to go up North for my birthday and that you for understanding that I needed to move on from the gym job. You are so sweet! Thank you Mom and Dad Ulrich for inviting us to Vegas and for all the fun. Thank you Mom and Dad and kiddos for all of the fun on Monday, for letting Amanda stay home, and for a fun dinner!

Stress Case

So I have been a huge stress case this semester and we aren't even half way through yet. Even though I am taking a lot of credits I didn't think it would be as stressful as it has been.



#1 Tests and school in general: All of my teachers like to give tests at the same time. When I have a test I have at least three that same week. And I know I am a Physical Education Major so how hard can my classes really be well let me tell you it isn't all fun and games playing sports all day like everyone thinks. I have had to take anatomy, Physiology and kinesiology (I didn't even know how to say that word at first). I have also had to take sports spychology which is one of my hardest classes. Right now I am taking exercise physiology which is kickin my butt, but I am suprisingly doing pretty good in but I have to study a lot. My other classes I am taking are all time consuming and a ton of assignments. I know it still may be hard for everyone to believe that Physical education is a hard major but just ask professor lyons how hard the classes really can be. I sure didn't know until I had to start taking all the upper division classes.

These next few couple of weeks I have two tests this week, a quiz and 3 papers due. Next week I have two more tests, a paper due and I have to teach an hour lesson to my peers as if they are in jr. high or high school for my health class. I am teaching on emotional abuse which is not very interesting and I have to mak it interesting, make a poster, have and have an activity. I know I want to be a teacher but I will be teaching jr. high and high school students not college students. Teaching my peers terrifies me.



#2 graduation: Also right now I am stressing about graduation and graduation papers. They are a pain in the butt and I have no idea everything they want on them and my advisor never is in her office. I just want them done and over with. I will graduate with exactly the amount of upper credit hours I need and exactly the amount of credit for my major I need. Talk about cuting it close eh?! I am just hoping that I don't have a million time conflicts spring semester and I hope I pass so I can for sure graduate. So far I am getting good grades but I am hoping these last two semesters to do even better so that I can reach my goal of graduating with honors.



#3 Work: I have been working in the Lin's Deli for about four months. First of all I am not fond of the job what so ever. The only thing I like about it is the couple of friends I have made. I have continued to work there to help Ty pay the bills so all the responsibilty wasn't on him. I don't mind working there as much and I am getting used to it, but I don't think the deli manger likes me. I don't understand why because when I am there I work so hard the whole time, and I don't ever even work with her, but I have felt like she hasn't liked me since I have started. Plus she is a little scary. Well right now I am getting so mad and nervous because last week I looked at the schedule for this week and she didn't schedule me all week it said 0 hours. Luckily I am working again the next week but not working at all killed me money wise. Speaking of jobs my other job is rediculous. I coach gymnastics which I love and I love the owners but we have a dushe of a coach (Jeff) in charge of us other coaches. He is the biggest jerk and treats us like we are babies and idiots. It is almost to the point that I can't work there any more. The tiny amount of pay that I get from this job isn't worth the amount of stress he puts on me.

#4 Jeep. I love our jeep and I am so happy that we got it but I am so frustrated with the cop that pulled us over. We only got a fix it ticket but its so dumb. We didn't have mud flapps which most people who have SUVs in the state of Utah don't have mud flapps and he also put that we needed bigger fender flairs. I was so mad and of course it was in millard county they just try to look for an excuse to pull people over there. We have been driving it for a month drive by cops all the time and we haven't gotten pulled over except in fillmore. The mud flapps weren't a big deal but the fender flairs are like $400 and we for sure just don't have $400 laying around. So Dan gave us a great idea that one of his old neighbors did for his jeep. He got the garden curbing that you can get at home depot and cut them to the length of the tire and screwed them into the existing flairs which just extended them out covering the big tires. It worked great it was only $8 compared to $400 and it will get our fix it ticket signed and then off they are coming because the ones we have now passed safety so there wasn't anything wrong with them. Dumb cop. So by Friday we have to find a cop to sign it off for us so we don't have to pay the ticket.

#5 Life. sometimes I just have no idea where our life is taking us and it scares me. I don't know where we are going to be next fall. Where are we going to live? Where are we going to school? I don't know how long my teaching licensure is going to take. I don't know when we are going to start a family of our own. I don't know if I will ever use my degree or if I will get pregnant when I graduate and be a mom without working or if I will be a mom and work. I am terrified to student teach. How do you know when the right time is to start a family? Sometimes I feel like it is and sometimes I don't. How is Ty going to do on the LSAT? Is he going to like Law school? Is he going to like being a Lawyer? I am just bleh right now and it kills me I want to be up beat, fun and social but I haven't been. I feel like I take way too much onto my plate and try to please everyone and honestly I just can't do it all.