Happenings of Late

At the request of some....I will post again. Give a little update. Fill you in on our life, as exciting as it is. The summer has really gone by in a flash. A HOT (utah county is so much hotter than cache county) flash. My last post was me graduating from the lovely, and ever missed USU. And here it is almost 3 months later at the end of the hot month of July with the first of September fast approaching and bringing with it my first days of teaching. I was to spend this summer reading great books, finishing sewing projects, learning to love exercising again, and preparing with out rush the curriculum I would share with those students at Salem Hills High. Instead I got a summer job at the daycare I worked at when I was 15 and spent most of my days in the hot sun trying to understand why it is so hard for 7-11 year olds to just play nicely together. It wasn't too bad. We went to movies, roller skating, bowling, swimming, arcades, Jump On It and lots of parks....I guess it doesn't hurt to get paid to play. With that behind me it is time to focus on the things I planned to do. Ok, mostly I just need to get my butt in gear and start planning and preparing for teaching.
Starting Sept. 1st I will be teaching Child Development and Clothing I at Salem Hills High as well as helping out with the Interior Design and Fashion Strategies classes. I am really excited but I am as much nervous as I am excited. I am sure the nervousness will dissipate as I prepare more. While I'll be a teacher, Danny will be a student. Danny will be attending UVU and is enrolled full time in the Automotive Technology program. He is pretty excited, finally doing what he has always loved...working on cars and trucks. I am a bit jealous. I am sad that I will not be going to school as a student. I love school. I love reading my textbooks and learning new things and taking tests. Instead I'll be trying to teach new things and be the one giving tests. When we went to UVU and met with his advisor, it really hit me that my undergraduate education has come to a close. I guess I can look forward to my masters someday. I just hope being a teacher will be as great as being a student. Danny will also be working full time at PDM at nights...he is a champ! I am so grateful he is willing to do that for us. I know it will be stressful on him and hopefully I will find a job quickly in December to help lighten the load. That is what the future months have in store for us....here is a little of what we have done the past few months.
Recently, all my brothers and sisters and their families were in town and we got to spend the week of the 24th together and welcome the new addition of Bryson Dennis Gull (John and Heathers forth son) to the family. It was lots of fun. We went swimming, had bbqs and rodeo'd. Earlier this summer Danny and I helped John and Heather move into their new house in Elko. It was fun to get out of Utah, enjoy cooler weather, hot tub, and explore the hills of Elko in the Razor. We also had the really great experience of traveling to Logan and having Dannys dad ordain him to be an Elder. It was amazing the things that were said and the wonderful blessings that will come to our family because of it. We are also looking forward to being sealed in the Provo Temple in September. Among all of these really great things we have also....attended family reunions, found great friends in Shad and Jessica, bought my first Bernia sewing machine, got Big Blue back, and enjoyed our time starting over in a new city as a family of two.
Sorry there are no pictures to make this post interesting...maybe a new camera will inspire me to take pictures...until then, sorry. Hope you enjoyed the post. I'll try to make them more frequent. Thanks for the push, Rachel.