My dear friends, my life has made a complete turn around since last week. Shall we discuss all the changes? On Wednesday I moved home from good old Logan, Utah. It broke my little heart! I have loved the last four years in Logan and have no idea how it went so quickly. Will someone remind me why I zipped through college so fast? I love my major/career field, but man, part of me really wants to still be living the college life. Wednesday was also my last day at Lowe's. I was leaping for joy because I was leaving retail FOREVER, but again was torn because I was leaving some amazing people behind. They truly have become a second family to me, and it was hard to say goodbye. I plan to visit often but it wont be the same. Lowe's peeps who are reading this, I love ya! Another change, moving back to Farmington aka moving in with Mom. Now don't get me wrong, I love my mamasita something fierce, but I have become accustomed to living on my own. Not only that but I rather dislike becoming part of that statistic of college grads that move back home with Mommy. So ya'll better not be judging me. It's where I need to be right now. I'll be able to make a dent in my car loan and such, and adjust to my new income. So I'm here for now, until it's time to go somewhere else. Hopefully a nice gentleman will be delivering that message.
So school. School is now work FYI. That confused my dear cousin Kynzi the other day so I thought I better clarrify. I'm excited to work with these little kiddos, that is for sure! I'm glad they are the main part of my job because they make everything else worth it. I've had to go to multiple different trainings in the last few weeks. Three so far and only one of them has really pertained to me. Throughout my entire education I felt that Sped Preschool always got forgotten about. The same thing has happened now, except at some district meetings they forget about special education all together. HEY! WE HAVE KIDS TOO! In fact they are the tricky ones to teach. Sooooo can we talk about that?! It's just frustrating to spend a whole eight hours in training that is completely useless to me. The bad news is.... It's probably not the last. The good news is my training on Monday IS JUST FOR PRESCHOOL! I'm kind of excited about it!
Today I was able to go set up my classroom with Irma (my coteacher), and work on some other teacher stuff. It was fun to start getting into stuff and learning my new job. I even got to see a few pictures of my students and they are stinkin cute!!! It'll be exciting to get started!
That's my update for now. Gotta run before my siblings start yelling at me to come help set the table. Love ya oodles!
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Adventures in Flip Flops
Hello! So much has happened and it will take me a little while to catch up, so lets get started! I had a great Pioneer Day with Miss Makenzie Pitcher! We left Logan in the morning and drove to Grace, ID to pick up her siblings and head to Lava Hot Springs. Grace is SO small! Kenzy kept trying to prepare me, but I did not see the small house turned into public library coming! Seriously so tiny, but it was cute! Lava was great! I haven't been there for ages and it was fun to hang out and go off some pretty awesome water slides. When we got back to Grace Kenzy gave me a tour of her grandparents farm. I got to see sheep, cows, bulls, some SUPER smelly, but cute pigs (I may or may not have gagged), and just the awesome farm itself. Farms are just cool. Made remember when my dad gave me a tour of my grandparents farm in Rexburg. It's just such a different life than the one I live, it's fascinating. After touring her farm we went to her neighbors farm to take care of his animals because he was out of town...or something. We drove over on a four wheeler which was so much fun! I haven't rode on one for a long time! I got to herd goats! Or rather watch Kenzy and her brother herd goats. There were some baby piggys too, cute! They fed the baby bull calves from the goats which was pretty crazy to watch. Unfortunately I did all of this in flip flops, which isn't the best foot wear to choose when walking around farms. Had I known we were going to have so many adventures I definitely would have prepared better. Overall it was a fantastic day! Here are some pictures.
On Thursday I was finally able to go to the Temple! It made me super happy. It was fun to go with my ward and get to know them a little better...even if I'm leaving in two weeks. It was really cool because a non-member came with us. She walked around the Temple while we did baptisms and afterward we talked about the Temple. We then got talking about the Brigham City Temple openhouse and told her that she could go in and see all of the rooms even though she's not a member. She got really excited about that. I hope she gets the chance to go and hope she becomes a member! The church is amazing and can bless our lives in so many ways!!!
The rest of that week was pretty unadventurous. I worked a lot and played Donkey Kong on Super Nintendo. I'm so happy Kenzy bought that beautiful, ancient device. It seriously brought tears to my eyes when the Donkey Kong music started playing.... a little ridiculous I know. I came home Tuesday night for a week at home. Wednesday my good pal Brit called me and we went to the airport to welcome Miss Karianne Knowles home from her mission. It was great to see her and great to catch up with Brit as we waited. We decided to make a whole day out of this little outing. We went up to the U and met my mom for lunch and then met up with Ryan. We went to Station Park to walk around....which ended up being a walk around Gordman's and then went swimming at Farmington pool. Oh my goodness did it feel good! It was SO hot that day. Here's a picture of Ryan and Brit messing around in the toy aisle.
Kenzy's awesome pen cap cruise control. It wont work without it.
The Pitcher's kitty Max. He loves me.
Feeding the bull calves.
What we look like after swimming, a four wheeler ride, and a stroll around two farms. Admit it, you're jealous of that hair.
On Thursday I was finally able to go to the Temple! It made me super happy. It was fun to go with my ward and get to know them a little better...even if I'm leaving in two weeks. It was really cool because a non-member came with us. She walked around the Temple while we did baptisms and afterward we talked about the Temple. We then got talking about the Brigham City Temple openhouse and told her that she could go in and see all of the rooms even though she's not a member. She got really excited about that. I hope she gets the chance to go and hope she becomes a member! The church is amazing and can bless our lives in so many ways!!!
The rest of that week was pretty unadventurous. I worked a lot and played Donkey Kong on Super Nintendo. I'm so happy Kenzy bought that beautiful, ancient device. It seriously brought tears to my eyes when the Donkey Kong music started playing.... a little ridiculous I know. I came home Tuesday night for a week at home. Wednesday my good pal Brit called me and we went to the airport to welcome Miss Karianne Knowles home from her mission. It was great to see her and great to catch up with Brit as we waited. We decided to make a whole day out of this little outing. We went up to the U and met my mom for lunch and then met up with Ryan. We went to Station Park to walk around....which ended up being a walk around Gordman's and then went swimming at Farmington pool. Oh my goodness did it feel good! It was SO hot that day. Here's a picture of Ryan and Brit messing around in the toy aisle.
They're pretty awesome. Later that night we went country dancing at the Union Station in Ogden. I have been spoiled! The Logan peeps are so much better, but it was fun. I think the most entertaining thing was being allowed to watch Brit and Ryan pursue the young ladies and hear their thought process while doing so. I've never been allowed in like that so to speak. It was great! We drove by the Ogden Temple that night on our way home. It is so big and not even finished yet! I couldn't believe it. It looks about triple the size of Brigham City. I'm excited to see it when it's finished.
Oh goodness this is getting long, no worries we're almost finished. Folks, I'm officially 22! Where in the world is my life going? I can't believe I'm a college graduate and certified teacher. I have to choose what insurance I want over the next few weeks.... weird. Anywho, for my birthday I went to the District building and got everything ready for teaching. I went and visited my grandparents after that and spent the rest of the afternoon with them. They are great people if you didn't know. I could sit and talk with them for hours. My mom met us there after work and we had some birthday cake (courtesy of Miss Whitney Smith)
and then went to City Creek to walk around. It was my first time, that place is crazy cool! I loved the creek that went all the way through. It was a great birthday that ended with some chocolate covered strawberries....my favorite! Yum!
This weekend I got to go to my cabin with my roomies from this past year! It was so much fun to see them and just relax, play games, and go shopping! Ariel's birthday was the fourth and mine was the second so we had a great party weekend! I love them all so much and I'm bummed the weekend went so fast. They are all great/amazing girls and we will be life long friends for sure! That's it for now! I'm going to enjoy the evening with the fam before I head back to Logan tomorrow. Much Love!
Monday, July 23, 2012
Thoughts
Hello again! I'm not doing too shabby about keeping this up am I? This week has been alright, I've been working a lot and I'll say it again... I CAN'T WAIT TO BE DONE WITH RETAIL! Oh it will be a beautiful day when I can walk out of Lowe's forever. Kenzy and I have been having a blast with little adventures in Logan. We went swimming a week or so ago, went and saw Hunger Games again which involved me having a major laughing attack in the middle of the movie, walked around Logan Golf Course, wandered around the mall, and much, much, more. Our friend Troy and his sister came up this weekend and we got to go to lunch with them on Friday which was super fun! I got to hold his amazing wand from Harry Potter World, which was fantastic! Tomorrow Kenz and I are heading to Lava for the day! It's been ages since I've been and I'm super excited!
Here's a little odd fact about me... I've been kind of obsessed with the news lately. Odd right? During the wildfires I was checking every hour to see the progress of firefighters. Something about it just glued me to ksl.com. The same thing has happened with the shooting in Colorado, but it's been even more addicting. It's unbelievable the horrible acts that occur in this world. It's so sad to see twelve people's lives just come to an end so quickly, in a movie theater?! This world just becomes more and more insane. Watching all the coverage I just became extremely grateful for the knowledge I have that my Heavenly Father lives, has a plan, and is watching over all. I pray that all of those families can find comfort in Him. I was also thinking how great it is to have the knowledge that eventually all of these tragedy's will end. Eventually we will no longer have sadness and will be with our family members forever. What a blessing it is to know that these horrendous acts will end and that the world as it now will not just continue on forever. If I didn't have this knowledge I would become so down in the dumps every time something like this occurred. It's not forever!!!!!! Our forever will be thousands times better than this world we live in and I can't wait!
I need advice ladies, and gents (if any are reading this which I find very unlikely). It's about lovely boys. I feel like I get nervous and awkward every time I'm around a boy I have the smallest of feelings for. Why!? Why can't I just chillax, take a breather and act normal. I just over think every little action and I very much despise it. I've improved over the last little while but for example, I dropped by this young man's house the other night with a group to drop something off. I said like one thing to him and then kind of avoided eye contact, because I don't want it to be obvious I'm interested...and we barely know each other. I'm thinking avoiding eye contact isn't the best way to get things moving along lol? I just don't take advantage of any opportunities when I'm around them to really go out of my way to talk to them, sit by them, etc. How do you get the courage to do such a thing? I've been told that I should just wait for them to make the move.... but if we're going of prior dating experience, they've ALL forgotten how to do that. So do I keep waiting or do I need to be more out there and make the first move? Any and all advice would be much appreciated, please comment below. Hope you all don't think I'm ridiculously silly for that paragraph.
That's all for now. I get to go to the Temple this week and I am so excited!!! I've wanted to go for the last month but I called the Temple and found out they were closed until the 17th.... So I called on the 17th all excited and discovered the Temple was OPENED, but the baptistry was closed until the 25th... LAME! Anywho it's finally opening this week and I'm going on Thursday with my ward and I'm so stoked! There is nothing else like the spirit there and I'm in withdrawals! Love you all and hope everything in your life is going swimmingly!
Here's a little odd fact about me... I've been kind of obsessed with the news lately. Odd right? During the wildfires I was checking every hour to see the progress of firefighters. Something about it just glued me to ksl.com. The same thing has happened with the shooting in Colorado, but it's been even more addicting. It's unbelievable the horrible acts that occur in this world. It's so sad to see twelve people's lives just come to an end so quickly, in a movie theater?! This world just becomes more and more insane. Watching all the coverage I just became extremely grateful for the knowledge I have that my Heavenly Father lives, has a plan, and is watching over all. I pray that all of those families can find comfort in Him. I was also thinking how great it is to have the knowledge that eventually all of these tragedy's will end. Eventually we will no longer have sadness and will be with our family members forever. What a blessing it is to know that these horrendous acts will end and that the world as it now will not just continue on forever. If I didn't have this knowledge I would become so down in the dumps every time something like this occurred. It's not forever!!!!!! Our forever will be thousands times better than this world we live in and I can't wait!
I need advice ladies, and gents (if any are reading this which I find very unlikely). It's about lovely boys. I feel like I get nervous and awkward every time I'm around a boy I have the smallest of feelings for. Why!? Why can't I just chillax, take a breather and act normal. I just over think every little action and I very much despise it. I've improved over the last little while but for example, I dropped by this young man's house the other night with a group to drop something off. I said like one thing to him and then kind of avoided eye contact, because I don't want it to be obvious I'm interested...and we barely know each other. I'm thinking avoiding eye contact isn't the best way to get things moving along lol? I just don't take advantage of any opportunities when I'm around them to really go out of my way to talk to them, sit by them, etc. How do you get the courage to do such a thing? I've been told that I should just wait for them to make the move.... but if we're going of prior dating experience, they've ALL forgotten how to do that. So do I keep waiting or do I need to be more out there and make the first move? Any and all advice would be much appreciated, please comment below. Hope you all don't think I'm ridiculously silly for that paragraph.
That's all for now. I get to go to the Temple this week and I am so excited!!! I've wanted to go for the last month but I called the Temple and found out they were closed until the 17th.... So I called on the 17th all excited and discovered the Temple was OPENED, but the baptistry was closed until the 25th... LAME! Anywho it's finally opening this week and I'm going on Thursday with my ward and I'm so stoked! There is nothing else like the spirit there and I'm in withdrawals! Love you all and hope everything in your life is going swimmingly!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Trying this again. . . ?
Hello folks! I'm kind of surprised that I'm doing this again. I tried blogging a year or so ago and it flopped....terribly. I could never get into it. Today however I was looking at a few and thought "Hey I'm entering a whole new chapter in my life, it might be fun to keep a record of the grown up Jessica Smith's happenings," so here we are. I'm not promising it will be super successful but we will give it a shot.
So I think I've officially become an adult and it's freaking me out a little. For those who have not heard, I was hired by Davis County School District as a Special Education Preschool Teacher and will be teaching at East Layton Elementary school! It was a relief to finally be employed and to have a position in Davis. I love Davis County and really wanted to come back, but more importantly felt that was where I needed to be, and it must be because it worked out! I start teaching in 37 days but have trainings I have to go to before then. I'm so excited to start this new adventure! I've been studying for four years to be able to work with children with disabilities and now I'm capable and can be a great influence in their and their families lives! I can't wait to start!
While I'm so very excited to move on in life, I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm going to miss being at Utah State. I stayed in Logan for this summer to finish my Lowe's career in Logan, but also because I couldn't bear to leave yet. I have grown so much here. If I could come face to face with the Jessica that arrived here four years ago I wouldn't even recognize her. I have had amazing professors, wonderful classmates that will be life long friends, roommates that have become sisters, great church leaders, and life changing institute teachers. I feel like I have grown more spiritually then temporally while studying at USU. Heavenly Father has been with me every step of the way. I've had to rely on Him through some extreme trials and in doing so discovered my inner strength. To put it simply I feel extremely connected to this city and university and it's going to hurt to cut those strings. The college atmosphere is just so great. I'm going to miss walking on campus and feeling the connection we all had together of bettering ourselves through education. USU games.... there is nothing quite like them. I know that I will be buying tickets and coming back up just for those. Most of all I'm going to miss the Institute building. I have found so much comfort within those walls. I've loved being able to go in everyday of the week and feel of the spirit and receive the necessary strength to fulfill all of my obligations. If any current USU students are reading this, take full advantage of everything this campus has to offer, especially institute. Oh and who can forget Country Dancing! I may also be making trips up for that. I have one more month to suck it all in, and then to Farmington I go!
That's all for now, my goal is to write on my blog weekly so hopefully you'll hear from me soon! Loves!
So I think I've officially become an adult and it's freaking me out a little. For those who have not heard, I was hired by Davis County School District as a Special Education Preschool Teacher and will be teaching at East Layton Elementary school! It was a relief to finally be employed and to have a position in Davis. I love Davis County and really wanted to come back, but more importantly felt that was where I needed to be, and it must be because it worked out! I start teaching in 37 days but have trainings I have to go to before then. I'm so excited to start this new adventure! I've been studying for four years to be able to work with children with disabilities and now I'm capable and can be a great influence in their and their families lives! I can't wait to start!
While I'm so very excited to move on in life, I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm going to miss being at Utah State. I stayed in Logan for this summer to finish my Lowe's career in Logan, but also because I couldn't bear to leave yet. I have grown so much here. If I could come face to face with the Jessica that arrived here four years ago I wouldn't even recognize her. I have had amazing professors, wonderful classmates that will be life long friends, roommates that have become sisters, great church leaders, and life changing institute teachers. I feel like I have grown more spiritually then temporally while studying at USU. Heavenly Father has been with me every step of the way. I've had to rely on Him through some extreme trials and in doing so discovered my inner strength. To put it simply I feel extremely connected to this city and university and it's going to hurt to cut those strings. The college atmosphere is just so great. I'm going to miss walking on campus and feeling the connection we all had together of bettering ourselves through education. USU games.... there is nothing quite like them. I know that I will be buying tickets and coming back up just for those. Most of all I'm going to miss the Institute building. I have found so much comfort within those walls. I've loved being able to go in everyday of the week and feel of the spirit and receive the necessary strength to fulfill all of my obligations. If any current USU students are reading this, take full advantage of everything this campus has to offer, especially institute. Oh and who can forget Country Dancing! I may also be making trips up for that. I have one more month to suck it all in, and then to Farmington I go!
That's all for now, my goal is to write on my blog weekly so hopefully you'll hear from me soon! Loves!
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