Odds and ends

Here are some other random photos of the last month in our house.

This is what our farm looks like from the road

I'm finding that life after buying a house is all about compromising. In this case Brad got the upstairs closet in the spare bedroom for all of his hunting stuff and I got the white cast iron sink:) Yay, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!

If you haven't noticed in the posted pictures below...everything in our house is yellow, the house is even yellow. Yellow just so happens to be my favorite color but not so much when anything and everything is yellow. So I painted my yellow door Red. This was one of the many compromises I had to make with Brad, I can't remember what Brad got out of the deal but all that matters is that I got a red door. :)

My new looking counter tops. I used Rustoleum Counter top paint and painted over the old yellow laminate. It looks amazing if I say so myself.

The new bath tub/shower, waiting to be put in

Turns out that you need to read/look at the post below....from the bottom up it was posted backwards...only I am capable of doing that I think. ha

Before/afters and in the process

Pepper Spray and Origami!

This weekend there has been 2 sexual assault attempts on the little campus of Gustavus. CRAZZZZZY! Sooooo I now have pepper spray in my back pack at all times and never walk alone.

On a happier note, there is an origami guy coming to campus this week. This announcement was on our college homepage and the picture next to this article was none other than a...


MOOSE! SO now I have to go, because it's my favorite animal of all times and I just gotta know how to make one.


oh yea and we close on the house on WEDNESDAY! Yipppy Skippy!!!

Last semester of college

This semester has been flying by already. All my classes are with the same 14 girls and we have really gotten to know a lot about each other and have become very close. We spend most days practicing our teaching and if we are not practicing we are pretending to be elementary students.I have now become a pro at morning sing-alongs (not to mention the silly little dances that go along with them), reading picture books,raising my hand, show and tell, handwriting and last but not least... sitting Indian style(cross legged). These are all things that have consumed my 7 hour school days, and I'm absolutely loving it.

My show and tell the first week of class was Crowley, my new puppy that Brad and I just got. Brad had brought Crowley to class so that my prof and all my girlfriends could meet and see Crowley. She was loved by all:) It was also funny cause Brad's face was beat red when he came into my class...I don't think he has every been surrounded by so many women.



I consider this semester to be my "how to..." semester, meaning that I am learning how to teach math, science, social studies and language arts. I never thought I would say this but school is actually fun and I look forward to going everyday. Each week we get to teach a lesson in these subject areas, which has been helpful because we get to practice both writing lesson plans as well as get to teach.

This week we had to design our ideal classroom and provide a rational as to why we chose the layout we did, now I wont bore you with my 4 page rational but I was thinking it would be kinda cool to share my classroom with you.

So here is my ideal classroom



and to end this post I will share a couple more picture of my adorable little puppy:)