The greatest day of my life

So not only did we move into our new house on Saturday (more to come on that!) but kU lost to Northern Iowa. Yes, Mizzou lost too, but it's totally fine because kU choked yet again. We can now add Northern Iowa to the list along with Bucknell and Bradley. Man, I love March Madness!!

Cake!

For Valentine's Day, I made a cake for me and Brandon. Not that cool, but I was impressed with myself. It is super good too!
Yeah, that is 2 different flavors of icing. Brandon likes white fluffy icing and I like chocolate. So I just split it in the middle!



Yeah, that's 2 layers!

VEGAS BABY!!

Brandon and I decided to finally take a trip to Vegas in January (yeah, I'm just now posting about it!) Before this trip, we had never taken a trip by ourselves before! We never had a real honeymoon and all the trips we had always taken were with other people or we went to see other people like family or friends. So it was pretty sweet! I've never been to Vegas before, so I was amazed! Totally not my scene (the gambling, the drinking, the scantily-clad women, etc. ) but it was so awesome! I just loved the lights and the excitement!

Some of the highlights:
1. We rode the Big Shot at the top of the Stratosphere. This was probably my favorite part of the trip! I love heights! It was so cool to be up that high and then they shot us up the tower super fast, it was so awesome!
2. We saw the Cirque Du Soleil show "Beatles Love"...it was sweet! I didn't know all of the songs, but it was really cool and we had really good seats (3rd row!)
3. We stayed at 2 hotels: Stratosphere and Trump Tower...after staying at Trump, I don't know how I can stay anywhere else! There was a TV in the bathroom mirror! It was pure luxury and after we checked in, we didn't want to leave our room!

Here are some pics:Thank you Donald Trump for making the best hotel I've ever stayed in! It was so beautiful! And so classy!


This is the TV that was in the mirror in the bathroom at Trump... so awesome! I took a bath and watched Price is Right at the same time!

Spongebob!

That is a lion...well the underside of a lion. This was at MGM and we could walk through the Lion house. It was awesome! I wanted to pet them!

The famous sign...it really isn't that big. I always thought it was bigger than it really is.

I wasn't supposed to take a picture of this, but I did anyway. This a poster of almost all the Harry Potter characters and it was signed by all of the cast members. Grand total: $4000. No problem, pocket change.

This was the ceiling outside the Beatles Love show. It was pretty cool!

The Beatles Revolution Lounge. You can actually walk through those letters!

Outside the Mirage, where we saw Beatles Love.

At the top of the Stratosphere. Wow, we are pale!


View of the Strip from the top of the Stratosphere.

Overall, it was an awesome trip!!

Our first Christmas tree!

So now that Thanksgiving is over, we decided to get ourselves a Christmas tree! This is our first Christmas tree (although not our first Christmas since being married) and it's real! It smells so good, but it's really strong and it fills the whole apartment...like overwhelmingly fills it! We got it at Lowe's and it only took us like 3 minutes to find it, it was probably the fastest tree shopping I've ever experienced. It's really soft too, not sharp and painful when you touch the needles. I'm also really happy that we got one, because we won't even be here for Christmas (we'll be in St. Louis, Yay!), but Brandon knew that I needed a tree!

Here it is strapped to our little car. We are lucky that it was so nice out today that we could ride with the windows down to hold the ropes.

Here is my really strong husband carrying it into the apartment. It's kind of strange to me that we can wear t-shirts outside because it's so nice, but we are putting up our Christmas tree!



All we have to put on it right now are the lights. The ornaments are currently being shipped to us from St. Louis so it will just have to have lights for right now, but it still looks really good!

My Classroom!

Finally! Here are some pictures of my classroom!! Here is the name sign above my door...the first time I saw this, I was so excited! Finally my own room!

I had to make a giant Mizzou sign! I have to represent my school in such a strong BYU area.
My students definitely know who I am loyal to though! (I'm not sure why this is underlined? I can't figure out how to turn it off!)





This is my bulletin board, I have multiple things of Mizzou fabric to cover the boards.
Gotta represent!!


My desk area.


I didn't take any pictures of the front of my room beacuse my students were in there at the time, and I legally can't put pictures of them online....I'll get those pictures up another time!

Ron VS Draco

So, I'll give warning here: These pictures are not the best of yours truly. Brandon looks good, but I do not at all. We were both characters from Harry Potter...Brandon was Ron Weasley (he even grew his hair out for it!) and I was Draco Malfoy (that is a boy, so it was kind of hard for me to pull off.)

Oh and I crocheted that scarf that Brandon is wearing...first crochet project ever!! Also, my character is supposed to be evil, but I couldn't stop laughing to make my evil face. Brandon kept making these goofy faces at me!


This was Brandon's head half shaved. He grew it out and could not wait for Halloween to be over so he could shave it off. It was probably 2 1/2 inches long! (This was before I shaved a bald spot into the back of his head)

My BFF Lucas

So I've told a few of you about our neighbors across the street and their son, Lucas. This kid is so cute and he is one of my favorite little kids. He looks like Charlie Brown kind of, he's adorable! Anyway, I thought I'd put up some pictures of him since I talk about him so much.


He calls me and Brandon both "B". We are trying to get him to call Brandon "Red", but it's not really working all that well. In these pictures, Lucas decided to wear our tissue holder on his head!

This is Lucas with our neighbor Nic, a fellow Missourian.