Update!

Well I did it again...made it to the bottom of your blog lists because it took me so long to post!! That's my new goal I decided! I haven't been in the blogging mood or the sharing my life with the world mood lately. Probably because I don't have much happy to share and everyone just shares happy right? I do have lots to be grateful for they just get covered up sometimes by trials making them hard to see. But I am starting to see my blessings now so life is good!

We got a new camera for $70! We were pretty excited about the price! It's a Nikon 1omp and a 5x zoom. We got the warranty this time just in case Chad drops it again it's all covered! So here's a few things we've been up to lately...I say few cause we really haven't been up to much! I don't think you want to see any pictures of me on the couch eating chocolate! We're excited for Thanksgiving and excited that Chad only has a couple more weeks of school for this semester!

This is what I look like now!!haha Chad got me this cute dress for a

fun date to Legally Blonde the Musical! I love my romantic husband!

We went to Safford 2 weekends ago well cause I wanted to! The Temple looks so pretty!

I can't wait until it's finished! It's so fun to drive into town and see the spire.

We went rock climbing while we were in Safford just the two of us and my mom. We had fun although we are out of shape!

I know I know...

I know it's been forever since I posted but get over it I'm posting now! I finally got a teaching job so I finally have fun news to share!!! It's not exactly what I wanted but at this point I'll take it! I'll be teaching the ELD class for 4-6 graders. The bad part is it's only part time. But it sounds pretty stress free with only 9 students never at the same time. It's kind of like a special ed pull out program but just to tutor them in English. I'm excited and hope my experiences in China will help me. Oh it's at Ishikawa which is the school I student taught at. I absolutely love the school and the principal so I'm really excited to work there. Hopefully this will open some doors for me and when a full time position is available I will get it.
Currently I've been working at the Child Crisis Center in the family resource part. I really like it and hope I can keep working there part time. We'll see. Since I just got the teaching job yesterday and it's a long weekend I guess I won't know till Tuesday...and that's when I start my teaching job so it should be interesting!! They've known from the beginning that I've been looking for a teaching job and are very supportive so that's good.
Chad just started this semester and is liking it so far. He's in all upper division classes now and even a graduate course. He loves sharing all his new knowledge with me and I LOVE learning it all!!haha He's going to be a great engineer. The current plan is to continue on with his masters which will only take a year. So he'll get his bachelors in May 2010 and then his masters in May 2011. Should be a good plan considering work is still very slow in Safford. He was in school all summer taking 14 credits. He did amazing and got 2 A's and 2 B's. I'm so proud of him and all his hard work. Sometimes I wish he didn't care so much about school but I'm also glad he is dedicated and works so hard.
We just keep on keeping on and are trying hard to enjoy the ride! Life isn't always easy but the good times make it all worth it. Hope you enjoy our little update! I will try to do better...maybe! Our camera broke after it suffered a hard fall on our cruise so it's not as fun to post without pictures. Maybe Santa will bring us a new one!!

BAHAMAS

We had an aboslute blast on our cruise to the Bahamas! I love travelling and can't get enough! I will tell all about our trip through pictures!

This was our first ever taxi ride...in the US that is! Our taxi from the airport to the seaport after flying all night! We were exhausted but excited!!

Sailing away from Miami. We got on the ship about noon and ate some lunch. Then we had to wait until 2 to go to our room. Once they let us in we crashed for a few hours until we started sailing! Boy did that nap feel good!

We decided this is our future house!haha Right on the ocean with a huge yacht parked out front!

I loved all the coconut trees and island foliage! This was in Freeport right on the beach. We weren't too thrilled with this stop. The snorkeling wasn't great and the water was pretty cold. We stayed a few hours on the beach, did some shopping, then headed back to the ship to eat and relax by the pool.

This is our beautiful ship docked in Freeport. Aren't the flowers cool?haha The ship was so pretty on the outside but man it had a funny smell inside. Chad was allergic to something in our room which gave him a sore throat and flared up his asthma. Thank goodness he's tough and pretended he felt great!!

Yes, I'm super white but try to just look at the beauty of the beach! We walked and walked and walked out to this spot because they told us this was the best place to snorkel. Ya totally not worth it. I don't know what the deal was but we only saw about 5 fish. It was neat to feel like we had our own private beach though! We took a jet ski taxi back and it was definitely worth it!!

My HOT husband figuring out what to do next in Nassau. See the huge hotels in the background... ya that's where we walked from!! We had to work off all that cruise food!!

We walked through the Atlantis Resort until we got caught! A day pass for the waterpark was $110 per person! Crazy! We saw some neat stuff before we got caught though. This was a pond with huge turtles in it! I wanted to snorkel with turtles! They must've caught them all and put them in the pond cause they were nowhere to be seen in the ocean!

They had a tunnel through the sharks! That was pretty cool! I am glad we didn't snorkel with the sharks!

This is Atlantis. The entire resort is like a mile long! It's HUGE! The arch is a 5,000 square foot suite that costs $25,000 per night and you have to book at least 4 nights! It's booked solid for 5 years! I can't believe people spend that much money just on a room! It was a fun resort though and would make for a fun vacation!

This is Paradise Island, the big hotels in the back are all part of Atlantis. All along this little island are houses of the rich and famous. Land on this island costs $1000 per square foot! I'd prefer my own private island!!haha This is all part of Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas.

Our towel elephant in the cave! Never again will we get an inside room! It felt like a cave! We slept with the bathroom light on just so we could get up in the morning. I don't know if we will cruise with Norwegian again. The service wasn't as good as Carnival. We didn't like the Freestyle part as well either. We liked having things organized! The food wasn't as good either. Probably because they had 5 specialty restaurants and wanted you to spend money to eat there. They didn't make any money off us! Considering we don't drink or gamble!! We were tempted to play some blackjack but didn't give in!!

This was our favorite place! Great Stirrup Cay. This island is owned by Norwegian Cruise Line and is completely a private island. There were a couple dorm like housing for the crew off in the distance, but other than that it was just island. It was absolutely beautiful!! We liked it too cause everything was included on the island! Free food, beach chairs, and hammocks! At the other islands just a beach chair was 10 bucks.

Isn't this such a cute picture! We loved relaxing in the hammock!

The view from the island to our ship.

This spot reminded me of the song, Do you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean? We snorkeled down by these rocks. This was the best snorkeling. We saw an octopus and some really pretty fish. I was dissapointed we never saw any dolphins! Overall we had a wonderful time! It was the best graduation present I could've asked for!!

Guess how much?

We just went shopping!! We got 47 boxes of crackers for a total of about $3.00! That's counting the money we spent to print all the coupons at ASU. Then we had to pay 18 cents for tax for every 10 boxes! I'd say it's a steal of a deal though! That's what we do all day when we have no work!!!

We got the coupons from coupons.com and kraft.com it will only let you print the coupons once from a computer which is why we went to ASU so we could use a different computer each time.