It's a BOY!!!

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Little updates

Drugs in the Elementary-So last Friday one of my students brought marijuana to school.  I teach 4th grade.  What in the heck is a 9 year old doing with drugs.  He told the principal that he was hanging out with a few 6th grades from school and that they smoked it on school grounds.  He claimed that his was just crushed leaves, but when the principal and vice principal searched his stuff they found a bag of marijuana in his coat pocket.  He had gotten in two different fights before and after school earlier last week so he was in In-school-suspension when they confiscated his drugs.  I guess this is one of the disadvantages of working in harder area.  This whole week has been a tougher week to teach.  I think it's the weather with the other students, but for Sergio he's just making some really dumb choices.

Skyfall- My husband is in love with the James Bond movies.  He's already informed me that if our little one is a boy that our child will be a huge James Bond fan as well.  In fact there will be a battle about how to decorate the room: Sports or a James Bond theme.  We went to the Skyfall movie yesterday.  It was really good or at least I think it was.  My contacts started to fog up so I was having a hard time seeing.  I took out the contact that seemed the worst and cleaned it.  When I was trying to put it back in my eye, I dropped it.  I tried to find it, but the movie theater was dark and I couldn't really see.  The popcorn man, that was next to me, kept giving me the weirdest looks as I tried to feel around and find it on the ground.  After the movie Kelly helped me look for it, and he found it right away under my chair. Needless to say I couldn't see during most of the movie, and I had a huge headache at the end from trying to strain to see. Kelly told me that we are going to buy it, so I guess I'll see it then.  I would like to see what the villain looks like.  I could tell he had blonde hair, but not much else.

Baby Furniture- We own a crib.  It's a little weird and I find myself freaking out when I look at it.  There have been a couple of times when I've gone into the room and I found Kelly in the room just staring at the crib, so I know that he's a little nervous as well. :-)  Tom and Kelsey, Kelly's brother, were getting rid of their crib, changing table, and rocking chair so they gave it to us.  They bought a bed for their son, and they wanted to get the crib out quick, so we got it.  It looks good, but I don't want to start decorating until I know what it is.  It's either going to have a brown and blue or a brown and pink room according to the sex.  We won't find out what it is, though, for at least 4 more weeks.    

We're having a baby!

This is the baby!  You can see it's head and little body.  Apparently it is the size of a lime right now. 

I'm so excited, tired, nauseous, and a bunch other things.  The baby is due the end of April or the beginning of  May.  When I went to the doctor last Wednesday I thought that I was 10 weeks in, but according to the size of our little one I'm 12 weeks.  The doctor said that there is no definite due date until we get a little closer to the time of birth.  I'm so excited, but I don't want to start planning for it until I know if it is a boy or a girl.  I'm hoping for a girl so I can use a lot of pink and purple in everything, and, of course, Kelly is hoping for a boy so we can have another Denver Broncos/sports room and so he can do all of that manly stuff.  Kelly and I have a little bet going.  If it's a girl he has to do 100% of the dishes for a month and if it's a boy I have to do all of the dishes for a month.  We'll hopefully figure out the sex around Nov. or Dec. and then it's dish washing time for one of us.

The thrills of being a teacher

As a school teacher little darlings walk into my class with things to share with me.  Sometimes it is really good things like an apple or a chocolate bar.  I even got a huge cupcake and flowers on my Birthday, which I loved and they made me feel extra special.  But, then there are other things that they share with me that I really don't want.  Two weeks ago my little Jasmine shared the flu with me and this last week another cutie shared bronchitis.  Needless to say I have been feeling really awful and I have become obsessed with cleaning my hands.  I have stations of hand sanitizer all over my room to try and cut back on disease, but it just isn't working.  I also feel like I have no immune system these days.  Unfortunately I had parent teacher conference this last week before I knew how sick I was.  I felt pretty awful, but as soon as I could I made it to the doctor (sadly that day was my Birthday), he prescribed me a lot of wonderful drugs that have helped a ton.  So, I'm slowly feeling better and better, and if my students stop sharing I have a feeling I will be back to normal one day.

SCHEELS

It's finally here: Scheels is up and running!  Today is the Grand Opening and last night was the VIP night for all of those special people like me. : -)  The VIP night was a lot of fun.  The store was fantastic, just like the newspaper said it would be.  Kelly had to work last night ushering people to different areas of the store and straightening things out.  I went with Lynne and Ken and we had a great time.  Kelly was able to join us for a little bit so that was good.  There were free shirts, hats, and other random goodies for us VIP folk.  They were giving away little tastes of fudge that were divine (I think that might be my favorite part of the store).  There were tons of supplies and a lot of people.  All of the games were free last night too.  I didn't play anything because I wasn't feeling super up to speed, but Ken and Lynne tried out the golf simulator.  Ken's score was the second highest.  Anyway, the store is a lot of fun and it has a lot of really cool features.  I would highly suggest going over and giving it a little looksee when you have the time.  I promise you won't be disappointed.          


  

Hole in One

While I was in Bear Lake, Kelly went up to Idaho Falls with his family.  While he was there he hit a hole in one while golfing.  Those don't come around very often so this is a huge deal.  He even got his name in the local news paper.  He sent me a text when I was in Bear Lake to tell me about it.  I don't have a fancy phone so I have no idea how to get the picture on to the blog without taking a picture of my phone.  I'm sorry that it is a little blurry.  If I was a little more tech savvy this would have looked a lot better.  It's just that it's a big deal and I have no other means to show you his amazing-ness.

He also got a cool magnet that he proudly put on our fridge.

Bear Lake

Last Saturday I drove up to Bear Lake to go to a mission reunion.  I hung out with Emily Jenkins and Kelley Konzak and caught up with a few other missionaries.  I missed the missionaries that weren't able to make it this year.  Hopefully next year they will be able to come.  It was a a ton of fun to see people and play around.  

California

Erickson Reunion

This last weekend we went to Idaho for the Erickson Family Reunion.  You can't have a reunion in Kelly's family without playing a little golf. 

 Grandpa Mel and Grandma Cal Erickson in their cute golf cart.  When they were driving around they had a big, red and white umbrella to keep the sun off of them that added to the their look. 

Our golf team

Lynne and Ken's golf team

Me waiting for the game to begin.

Alaskan Cruise

About 2 weeks ago Kelly and I went on an Alaskan cruise.  It was gorgeous.  We flew up to Seattle, and then on the cruise ship we had ports in Juneau, Skagway, and Victoria. The cruise ship also went through Tracy Arms Fjords that were incredible.  We had a great time, and we would love to go on another cruise sometime in the future.  It was so great seeing good entertainment every night, having food to eat whenever we wanted, never cleaning, and waking up in a different city every morning.  I love being treated like a princess and being pampered all week.  Kelly's goal was to gain 10 lbs. when we were there, but he didn't quite make it.  After our cruise we stayed in Seattle in an interesting hotel that was a little on the sketchy side.  They set us up in their Jacuzzi Suite, which was the strangest part.  The Jacuzzi was in the middle of the room without any curtains or anything.  There wasn't a shower or a bath either.  I thought I would try the jacuzzi out and it didn't even work.  It was basically a huge, unenclosed bathtub in the middle of the room. We decided to stay at a hotel that was next to the airport since it was so much cheaper.  The walls were paper thin, and people were coming in and out ALL night long, so I could hardly sleep.  We did like the employees, the continental breakfast and the shuttle that took us back and forth to the airport.  The accommodations were very clean, but old.  We would take the light rail into the city to see all of the sights.  We went to Pike's Market, the waterfront, and the Aquarium.  We also walked around the city a lot.  We want to go back to Seattle and catch everything that we missed.

The fancy restaurant on the cruise that we ate at every night.

Mendenhall Glacier

Mendenhall Glacier

Buchart Gardens-GORGEOUS!

Killer whale that we saw from the cruise ship

Tracy Arms Fjords

Juneau

Skagway-Dewey Lakes (lower lake)

Train at Skagway

One of the pictures Kelly took from the train in Skaway

In Skagway we saw this little guy and we thought he was adorable.  He was one of the ticket takers