Well guys, I am alive I promise! I just forget that I have this blog sometimes and then when I do remember, I have mounds of homework that I should be doing instead.
That's the case today as well, buuuuuut I don't want to do any more homework right now so I'm not going to :)
So, what's been happening lately with the Smith's? All sorts of stuff!
Let's start with Halloween. We don't have that many pictures (and the ones we do have aren't that wonderful) but here they are!
I was Maid Marian (the dress is actually a deep purple but apparently my camera wanted it blue...)
And as you can see, Jake was a Muggle. haha silly boy
We got all dressed up for our ward Halloween Party and went. It was pretty good, but we snuck out before the games started. We're not huge fans of games, especially with people we barely know haha.
This semester for one of the classes I get to go to Burton Elementary here in Rexburg and I worked with 1st graders until Halloween and then I was moved to the 4th grade. (don't tell anyone but I like 1st grade so much better) When I left, my cooperating teacher Mrs. LaRue had all of the kids sign a white gift bag and in it there was a Campbell's Soup to Go and a package of goldfish crackers. On the outside there was a note that said "Thanks for being so Souper!" It was so sweet!
Here's a picture :)
I was really sad to leave my 1st graders. I got really attached to them. They were all sad to see me go too! They all kept saying that they wanted me to stay and not go. It was nice :) If we are still here during the Winter Semester I am going to go help out in this class again. Mrs. LaRue is in my brother and sister-in-law's ward and one night while we were out there making gingerbread houses (don't worry, pictures are coming), she stopped by and I talked to her about coming out and helping. She said she could always use help and that if I am able to come on a regular basis she will give me a group to work with. I'm pretty excited and I hope we are here so I can do that!
One day Jake thought I was mad at him I don't remember why, but I wasn't mad at him. Anyway, I came home to this one day after class. It was so cute that I had to snap a picture of it haha He made it out of our left over Halloween candy. We only had one trick-or-treater that night, it was kind of sad but also what we were expecting since we live in a 4-plex where the lights are always supposed to be on.
So as I mentioned before, I made a gingerbread house out at my sister-in-law's house. Every year my Mother-in-law makes gingerbread houses with the girls in the family after Thanksgiving. Since both Madaline and I weren't going to be there for Thanksgiving, she came up to Rexburg with all her gingerbread making goodies and we made them one day. It was awesome! We had so much fun :) here are some pictures of my ginger bread house.
My shot at icicles. Not that great but oh well
I thought it turned out pretty good :) I was very happy with it. Now when I sit on my couch, I can smell it from the table, and it smells super yummy!
That's what we've been up to lately. That and trying not to blow our brains out during finals. It's really tough this semester, very full and all at the end it seems like. But it's almost over. Tuesday is my last day of class and hopefully I can get my last test done that day too so that I will be completely done! It'll be tough but here's hoping haha
Another thing that happened in the last little bit, Jake interviewed with Brighton Homes out of Boise for an internship and then last Saturday was invited to come to breakfast with the company. There were only 3 people there that were "in the running" so to speak for the internship. We are hoping that we get the internship, the only problem is that it would start in January. So we would have to move. And I don't want to pack up all of our stuff and move it again. I also really want to help out in Mrs. LaRue's class so I want to stay here but it would be the best time for us to do the internship. We would both be off track so we wouldn't be giving up any of our on track semesters, and we don't have any kids so it will be easier to move in the first place.
So I have mixed emotions about Jake getting the internship. I get really frustrated with internship people though because they don't let you know when you have to move until like the week before or week of. So we have to find a place to live, find someone to take our apartment, and get all of our stuff packed and moved. I am too tired for that! I don't want to! Don't make me! But do make me at the same time because I want to get it out of the way while we still can do so easily.
Ok, Enough of my ranting. We will do whatever we need to and if that means moving again, we will do it. If that means staying here and finding another internship at another time, we will do that. We are just leaving it up to the Big Man upstairs :)
Yesterday we went to the Temple and it was awesome. We went with some friends and it was so nice to go again. It had been a while and when we went I felt so much better. I love having the temple so close :) We need to take advantage of it more often.
Well, I think this post is long enough for one day. I'm excited for the semester to be over. I'm excited for Christmas and I'm excited to see our families and give them the presents that we have for them.
Merry Christmas!!
