I'm thankful for...

Top 5 things I am thankful for:

1. BRODEE

2. Dad, Mamma A, Loralee, Carl, Bradley, Emmet, Holly, Adam, Bonnie, and Max-- I am glad they were all here over Thanksgiving break

3. Being a 2nd grade teacher

4. My house

5. Good health and strength :)

I figured pictures say a thousand words...

 Yep we have the same shirt on...haha it was funny! No one really even noticed either, which is funnier.

 He is such a good hubby...I had to beg, give the pouty face, make a deal, and gather every

thing up for him to put the lights on the roof. :) Looks like it worked! haha

 The final look

 One of three christmass trees in my house ;)

Busy weekend

This past weekend has been pretty eventful and busy. On Friday after school Brodee and I went to Twin Falls to go Christmas shopping, Thanksgiving food shopping, and any other things we could do. Sadly to say we didn't get all the Christmas shopping done, but I can only drag Brodee around in "the city" before he cracks. :) He was a good sport :) We went to D&B and found Brodee a pair of snow boots for work...the best part = they were on sale!! Then we went to Costco, Sportsman Wearhouse (for Brodee), the mall, Target, Winco, and finally Cold Stone :) It was a pretty long night.

On Saturday, in the morning Brodee and I went and dropped off our last load of wood for the winter. Yay!!!Rayanne came and helped, and of course we had Adam with us :) Later that day around 2ish, we headed into Burley to meet Linday and Chase (friends). It was Brodee's company party for Butte, so we went to Jackpot, Nevada for the night. The dinner was amazing. They paided for everything...it was awesome. We had a lot of fun! We got home Sunday around noon, ate lunch with my parents, went to Elba, and finally we made it home...oh how I appreciate Malta, my bed, and my own house. Even though we were only gone one night, I was glad to be back...I think Brodee is wearing on me. I don't really like to leave much anymore! ;)

Random Updates!

Novemeber is moving right along. Here are just a few things that have been going on in both mine and Brodee's life:

Brodee-- Work has slowed down for him at Butte Irrigation, but he manages to pick up a few side jobs here and there so he is staying pretty busy throughout the week. For the past few months, on Saturday's we have been going to get wood. Brodee has been selling it to quite a few people. Therefore, we have been splitting, loading, and "he" has been delivering pretty much every Saturday. (Thank goodness only one more Saturday of this ;) He finished up school the first week of Novemeber, passed his final exam, and finished with another semester. He starts back up with a new semester here in January. He only has 3 more to go and he will be completely finished. Sometimes I wonder if his body ever just runs out of energy, but that is proven when his head hits that pillow...

Very sleepy boy right here :)
(At least he sleeps with important things...his scriptures :)

ME-- As for myself, life is still the same. I get up, make breakfast and lunches for both Brodee and me, get ready for school, then about 7:40ish I head over to school (long commute I know ;). I am at school all day...which is exactly where I want to be.

I have the best class and I know all teachers say that, but I really do :). People often ask me how I do it with 33 students in there, I just tell them that my classroom is basically, "Organized Ciaos." And yes we do learn, but everyday is full of new happenings behind that door. I have kids that throw up, kids that constantly want to call their mom because they need to tell them something that can usually wait till after school anyways, kids that call me "Mrs. Mom", kids who are constantly repeating, "Mrs. Boden, Mrs. Boden, Mrs. Boden", kids who get excited over one smarty for being in thier seats on time, kids anxiously waiting for the next things they are going to learn, kids talking in the hall and having to turn the whole class around till everyone is silent while walking to music, P.E., computers, library, or lunch, kids telling me "The Whole" story and then getting to the main point of why they came up to me, and kids who just love to see you everyday because they love being at school. It truely is the best way to spend my time..

After school, I come home, do random things around the house, wait for Brodee to get home, cook dinner, clean up dinner, hang out, and finally its bedtime. Then the next morning...I bet you can guess what I do? THE SAME THING =)  We do love our busy lives and we wouldn't have it any other way.

Halloween...glad it's over!

So I really hate to admit it, but I hate Halloween. It is by far the worst holiday! However, I do love all the trick or treaters that come in cute, unique costumes AND I love handing out candy, but the whole concept and dressing up, I just do not like it at all!  At school, we had a Halloween parade for all the students to show off costumes and we also had a classroom Halloween Party. My students loved it! Since I love Halloween so much (haha) I had to make sure I put on a face, so that the students wouldn't see the true dislike of this holiday. However, it was pretty fun to see all the students excited as they dressed up in thier costumes.

 Holly and Echo...they dressed up like grapes. They looked pretty cute, not to mention they won best dressed at school.

These are only some (yes some) of the students in my class with Holly and Echo. Holly is an aide in my classroom, so they all just love her and they made a new friend Echo. Holly and Echo took them through the spook alley which the NHS put on for the elementary students.

These are all of my students..yes I have 32 of them. I just adore each of them!! :)

Rayanne and Me showing our spirit of Halloween...I really had a hard time getting dressed up for this, but I did it with a smile on my face. I guess it's really for all the students, but then again thats what you get when you decide to go into a profession like mine. :)

Date Night with the Boden boys

Last Saturday night, Bradley, Brodee, RayAnne and I went on a little date up the Elba canyon. We built a fire, roasted some hotdogs, marshmellows, the fish that Bradley caught, and ate some jello. It was a pretty good night :)

Brodee, Bradley and Rayanne anxiously waiting for the fish to bite the stick pole with a worm dangling off the end.

Bradley and Brodee with the 1st (and only) fish

Cooking the fish. It actually wasn't too bad.

Bradley and RayAnne hanging out on the log.

In Bradley's words..."Gotta take a picture with the sister-in-law"

Bradley and RayAnne...with the fish

Cute little fellow

Trying to get the fish...it was jumping all over the place

Elba Canyone from the barn

Wake up call

4 Boden Boys + 4 guns = several dead coyottes

Since all the Boden boys are back together, this is what we get. On Monday morning Brodee, Max, Emmet, and Bradley went coyotte calling and came back with a few. From the way they talked, it sounded like they had a great time. They all spent the night at Brodee and my house Sunday night and were up around 5:45 am to get out and start this fun time.

Changes...

About two weeks ago, Brodee and I finally purchased our house. We were so excited to get moved in and settled. Both our families were lots of help during this moving process.. so here are a few pictures to show what only some of our house looks like. It has an upstairs and downstairs, and for right now, we mainly live in the upstairs... 

Master Bedroom...I sure do love our bedspread :)

There are three other bedrooms downstair

Guest bathroom. This is 1 of 3 bathrooms in the house.

This is my favorite room, we call it the 'RED WALL ROOM" =)

The kitchen!

The living room, which really never gets used...I guess it is for decoration and looks more than anything :)



The garage (AKA Brodee's Man Cave) He really likes it out here. He has everything set up just how he wants and he seems to be enjoying the free time he can have out here (which isn't much).

Movie night at the Boden's...Holly and Emmet decided to join us, we watched Transformers 2

Brodee laying on the bed

Not only were we able to move into our house, but the second big change was starting school. I started school on the 29th of August. I teach 2nd grade at Raft River Elementary. On the first day of school, I asked myself after seeing my 32 children, "Why did I choose this profession?" But as the week continued, I've settled in my classroom and come to find out my children aren't so bad ;) I also am coaching 7th grade volleyball, it's nothing like high school, but I guess this will test my patienct..so far, not so good, but working on it. One top of all that I also have to take two classes this first year...just when I thought I was done with college, the work starts back up again. My mom used to tell me that I would have the most 'spare' time while I was in college, and I would always just say "whatever mom", because I was pretty busy, BUT I guess I should have listened, because of right now, she is right. I do love my life, I feel so fortunate and blessed to have what I do, have such amazing families and a good husband. Life couldn't get any better than this =)

Brodee, is also pretty busy. He works for Butte Irrigation still and is clocking in more than 40 hours a week. On Tuesday and Thursday nights he has school where he is finishing up his Electrical; after this semester he has 3 more; so by the time he gets home it is usually between 10:00 and 10:30 pm and he leaves in the mornings at 6:30, so for him, it is a fairly long day. However, he never seems to complain about school or work... I think he just does it cause he has too ;)