terrible horrible no good very bad day!

Lost my keys.
Late to staff meeting.
Bus duty.
Afternoon recess duty.
Student has out of school suspension tomorrow.
Iowa testing.
Feeling sick.
Tomorrow can only get better:).

Really, it wasn't all that bad, but I have had better days:). It's funny when one event turns out crumby it's a like a contagious germ and effects the rest of the day...

THE Good News...TODAY WAS PAYDAY! Still no insurance, but I got paid! I'm pretty sure that this rough patch of no money has taught me one thing...NEVER CHANGE FROM YEAR-ROUND TO TRADITIONAL AND NEVER CHANGE SCHOOL DISTRICTS:).

New Pics of Elder Finley this week!

GoTtA LOVE P-DaY!

Ladies Night...Relief Society Conference Tickets...

So I had 5 tickets to RS conference last night!
We were so excited to go!
Mom, Sister, Niki, Tasha, me!
We drove there early.
Not early enough.
Couldn't park anywere!
Drove to a chapel nearby.
Loved the talks!
I have a desire to fill my life with more service and to learn more and more!
We went to Chuck-A-Rama!
Ate Yummy Food!
Had lots of fun!
The End!

Classroom Prank Wars!

Inside the tent...Muhahaha!

Just look at all those back packs!

A couple of weeks ago, I took my students to lunch, as usual, we left our classroom right at 12:20. We get to the lunch room and there are only a few classes in there and everything just looks a little off...then I look up at the clock and it's 12:00! We arrived 20 minutes early! The lunch lady said it was fine and to just enjoy my NICE, LONG LUNCH! I told her that my clock must be off, but it just seemed weird.

I get back into my class only to realize that the clock on my wall was brown...and I have a silver clock! Tasha had switched our clocks at recess because her clock sucks and has issues! (She didn't know I'd get a long lunch out if it, SUCKER!) Her clock is a little slow...(I will refrain from cracking a joke right now...:))

About a week later I had a few of my students help me take all of her students back packs and come hide them in our tent. I wrote a note on her door that said "You'll get your back packs back when I get my clock back!"

A few minutes before the last bell was to ring, Miss Radman's Class came into my class on a hunt for their back packs (PS I told them that they were in the lunch room, hehe!) They instantly looked in tent, it was a mad house all of the sudden and all the kids were shouting and looking like crazy for their backpacks!

The kids really love these pranks! It's so much fun! We have a few rules about safety and feelings though, don't you worry!

PS...A little birdy came to my classroom on Friday afternoon to tell me they are in on helping prank Miss Radman's room...so tomorrow she has a little surprise waiting for her...shhh!

Miss Finley & Miss Radman GO CAMPING!

My students are going to have a hay day when they see all of these camping pictures! As most of you know, I have a camping theme and even have a tent for reading and stuff in my classroom...so naturally the kids know that I love camping and the outdoors!

This was a first for me, going camping with another teacher that is... I went with Tasha's branch, yep you read that right, BRANCH! There are branches all over Utah apparently...she lives in Sugar House and goes to a branch, weird. We went camping up by Kamus. It was beautiful up there! With all the leaves changes...I wish I had some pics of that, gotta love the foliage!

PS Ask me about our crazy directions some time! It took us like 5 hours to get there, just kidding I'm exaggerating, but it really was quite the adventure, let's just say a man wrote the directions, hehe!

Happy Birthday Day! Dad!

On September 22nd, my dad had a birthday! My dad doesn't brag about himself very much...so let me for just a second... he is amazing! My dad is what you call a "HARD WORKER!" He always has a hundred projects going...building sheds, painting, staining, fixing cars, hammering things to the walls, making new stuff to duck hunt with, etc. He's always helping people with their cars or their houses... especially me...one time he drove all the way to Little America to fix my car! What a trooper!

Guess WHO Came to Dinner!

My ward does this thing where you sign up to go to "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner!" A few weeks after you sign up, someone calls you, tells you that you are in their group and what to bring when you go to dinner. It's a surprise who's coming, well except for the host and even then it's still a surprise (there's a lot of people in the ward!)

Today I hosted "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and it was a B-L-A-S-T! I decided to spice up the night and I made name tags for everyone. The name tags said their name really big and then had five questions underneath that said...

You’re going to ask anyway…so here are my answers…
1. I grew up in… ___________________________________________________
2. I went to high school at… _________________________________________
3. I spend my time….working at…going to school at....______________________
4. When I have an hour of free time, I like to… (Ex. Video games, Shopping…hehe!) _____
5. There are three adjectives which describe me?_____________________

We also played a game called, "Two Truths and a Lie." Everyone wrote two things that were true about them and one lie on a piece of paper, then we read off the papers and first tried to figure out who it was and once we figured out the person, we tried to figure out their lie. It was fun to get to know other people and have fun while doing it!

For dinner we had English Muffin Pizza's, which were surprisingly good!