So sweet

OK since I told a silly story last week I thought that I should also share a really sweet story. We have been talking about the earthquake in Haiti in my class a lot since it happened. We are collecting money as a school to help the people. One day I brought up some pictures on the smart board of Haiti and the damage the earthquake has caused. The student's were getting really involved in the conversation, and they really want to help the Haitians. As we were looking at the damage one of the boys in my class, Alejandro said, "Mrs. Wright, is it alright if I cry?"
How sweet!! We talked about how when we learn about sad things it is alright to cry. He put his head down in is hands. I don't think he really cried but it was very touching to see my class, full of 7-8 year old children so touched! They are such caring kids. It is fun to see them thinking of others, who they have never met and being so compassionate.

Gas...

What is it about farting that causes so much hysterics in young children and adults (or at least young at heart adults) alike?? Well, like I already said, I know that stories from me cannot possible relate the silliness of actually being there, but here is another funny story from classroom Orange 3. It was during an innocent science lesson on the states of matter. My class was naming the three states, solids, liquids, and yes, Gas. The particular student who happened to be called on to name the 3rd state had a bit of a hoarse voice when he answered. And "Gas" came out sounding, well a bit too much like the bodily function. My whole class sprang into fits of laughter that of course I could not escape myself! We were all laughing so hard that it was causing us to laugh even harder. Anyone who has ever played the laughing game will know what I mean. Finally I turned around to my white board took a big breath and tried for some much needed composure if I was ever going to get my class back to the science lesson. The class calmed as well and we were able to get back on task. But seriously those few minutes were hilarious!
Morale: There is just something about the word gas that is beyond funny, my students don't laugh as hard when one of them really farts (which happens more often then I'd like to smell)
Oh, the life of a 2nd grade teacher is not dull. :)

Back to real life...

I have to work 5 days this week!! It already feels like it should be Friday! Lol. We had two weeks of fro Winter break, and last week I had a work day Monday, taught Tuesday and then had 3 snow days. So this week feels like a lot! :) I am enjoying being back here with my student's though.
One of my little girls had an exciting event this week. She missed Monday and Tuesday because her mom had a baby. She has a new brother and she is so excited!
I also have to write about one of my little boys. He is hilarious! He is always making me laugh. Today we were walking back to class from lunch and he says, "Mrs. Wright? Can I talk to you?" in a very serious voice. He then tells me, "I know you are going to be VERY worried when you see this... But I need to show you something." His voice was so dead serious, and knowing this young man that almost made me laugh out loud. He is very robust and very silly, and very frightened by spiders... and the list could go on. So I ask him what it I figure out that he got hurt somehow, but he tells me that he will have to show me when we get to the class. I think he reassured me by telling me that he was not bleeding. So when we get to the class he dramatically pulls up his sleeve and shows me a scratch that is maybe a 6-7 inches long (but not very deep). It happened at home and it was half wrapped in a cast like homemade bandage.
I know this isn't nearly as funny coming from me... but it made me laugh so I thought I'd write it down.

Christmas Vacation

Well Dave and I had such a wonderful trip home! But now we are home.... in Omaha that is. And it is FREEZING! No seriously School has was cancelled Wednesday, Thursday and its cancelled for Friday because of the temperature. Today the high was, well not high!

Forecast for tomorrow...

Friday Jan 8

Holiday Safety Tips

AM Clouds / PM Sun

AM Clouds / PM Sun High

-2°F

Low

-22°F

Precip: 20%

Yes bleak. A high of -2. That's right. Right now the temperature is -3 and feels like -30 with the wind chill! This is craziness. Why do I live here? Oh yeah, Creighton Medical School.

Well at least I only have 3 1/2 years of this place. We will not be staying here for Dave's residency. We have made a promise to only apply to programs in warm places. (Hawaii, California, Florida, ect. and Utah) If we don't live by our families we might as well be warm!

So what have I done on my days off? Wednesday I used my new Shark cleaner, thank you Mom and Dad! My floors look better than ever. And today I started painting the upstairs! Yeah! I also went to see The Princess and the Frog with Betsy Larsen and Chelsea Miller. We had so much fun. We saw like 15 cars and a semi-truck all on the side of the freeway as we drove to and from the movie! It is crazy out there. People are sliding off the road all over the place. It looked like Antarctica out there. We were glad we made it home safely.

Betsy teaches high school math and Chelsea works in a 2nd grade classroom so we all have the week off basically. We decided that tomorrow we are making breakfast and having a movie day at my place. It is seriously too cold to go outside for more than a couple minutes. So we are going to drink hot chocolate and try to stay warm in our houses!

Well here are some pictures from our Christmas vacation...

Jenn, Alli and Dahlia

"The Buds" Christmas party. This year we did presents for a family. Usually we exchange gifts. I really liked this better. Great idea guys!

Greg and Kami

Dave and Chelsea

Mark and Natalie

This house had the sweetest lights ever!! They were on a timer so they blinked and went on and off in cool patterns. It was better in real life.. But it still looks cool.

The Wright family

Russ and Kathy

Dave and Mike getting ready to shovel the drive way.

Ryan getting ready to ride!

Lexie, Ryan, Dahlia and Dave at Snowbird

Dave, Chip and Dahlia

Grandma and Grandpa Farley

The Boys and Mary

The girls and Bill

Oh our sweet gingerbread house competition... The girls won (the one on the right) No competition. :)

Dave Christmas morning

Lexie

Ryan

Chip

Mom (this is the best I could do... its her own fault, she wouldn't let me take her picture!)

Mariah Anne

Yes I look high.... Apparently I needed more beauty sleep.

or a little hot chocolate to wake me up! :)

Yes and a mud mask. K this Dead Sea mud mask did leave our skin feeling very soft. But it didn't feel that great while it was on! But we sure looked awesome!! lol!

Merry Christmas....

I love Christmas time!! It has always been one of my favorite times of the year. I love getting together with family, singing carols, giving gifts and celebrating the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. There is such a fun feeling in the air. We all seem to care a little more for each other. It is even more fun for Dave and me this year because we haven't seen our families for about 5 months! We have missed everyone and have loved visiting with everyone in person. When we flew in I was so excited to see the mountains, Utah is so beautiful. We have been busy with family parties, shopping and snowboarding. :) Dave and I are VERY sore today. We went boarding with my family yesterday, by the end of the day we didn't think we would make it down the mountain to our car.... our legs were melting down! We need to get in shape! Oh my!
Well I will write more later I better get back to the Christmas celebrations!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! Have a wonderful day!

Just pictures... because I am lazy and I ate too much today :) HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Update….

This last weekend Dave and I were invited to go to South Dakota to stay with Teissa’s family. We were there Friday evening and we got back Sunday night. We had such a great time! Teissa and Casey’s family are so sweet for inviting us into their home. :) Teissa and her sisters walk a lot, speed walk that it. This is not for babies mind you! They are hard core and I am sore! And I am a rhyming, lol.

Saturday we went to dinner at Johnny Carino’s, (delicious!) and went hot tubbing. Friday and Saturday morning it was pretty chilly. But Saturday afternoon and Sunday the weather was so nice. On Saturday we went out to their families’ property and rode 4 wheelers and had a fire. That night we took Isaac and Bella trick-or-treating. It was so funny! There was the two of us, their parents, their grandparents, and Dan and Chealse. Ha ha! We definitely LOOKed like overprotective parents! They really aren’t of course. We just all wanted to go trick-or-treating! :) Their kids are so cute! It was such a fun night. Afterward we watched a movie and relaxed.

Isaac, Teissa and Casey's son really wanted to play Red Rover... so we did. The guys loved it. HA HA! They all ended up on the same team. I love these pictures! Don't they look happy!?

Teissa’s and her parents are amazing cooks! They made so many great things! I am going to have to try out their recipes. We definitely got spoiled. That is the closest feeling to going home we’ve had in the last 3 months. It was really nice.

Last weekend the married students in the medical school had an activity. We all went to a place called Vala’s Pumpkin Patch. We were thinking that it would have a corn maze and a couple other activities. But no, this place was huge. It was a full amusement park almost. There were haunted houses, 3 different racecar tracks, little restaurants, mini-golf, pumpkin and apple launchings, pig races, and I am sure I have forgotten something. The list was endless.

So while we were in Kansas City we went to Liberty Jail. It was really a neat experience to see that jail and to learn more about the history of the LDS church. There are so many things that I do not know about church so it was really fun. The jail was actually torn down for a while but the church rebuilt part of it and now they have a visitor center there. Joseph Smith wrote many sections of the D&C while he was there.