Long Time Gone

Wow! Here we are in 2010 and beginning the second week of February. I, for one, have been pleased to have the time pass. Although I feel that it is extremely important to enjoy the present, I have been looking forward to moving out of these first weeks/months of pregnancy. I am at week 13 and am feeling loads better than I had. We found out we were expecting the beginning of Dec and right before Christmas break, morning sickness joined my life. I ended up in the ER because of dehydration and now take medicine for the nausea but I've been able to cut back a lot since the first weeks. I would never wish morning sickness on my worst enemy! Andrew, of course, was affected as well by the whole thing and has been such a gem in helping me out. Also, thanks to my friends that have helped with dinners, survival bags, and listening ears, I have made it through. I haven't decided if going to work has helped or hindered...I think it's good for the most part so that I get up and get going. I just wish in fourth grade we could take naps at 1 in the afternoon! :) We heard the heartbeat at 10 weeks and that was a cool experience. Anyway, that explains why I haven't updated this in a while.

We went to MT for Thanksgiving and enjoyed our time up there. Then we stayed here for Christmas because Andrew's family came here.

These pictures are from a "photo shoot" that we had Andrew's twin do for us in order to get a Christmas card picture.


Well, this is just our update and hopefully I'll stay on it a little better! :)

Organzing

We live a two bedroom apt., one of which is basically just storage. But we decided to buy some great shelves for our food storage so that we could actually see all that we had and to open up the room.
The funniest was that when we were all finished, Andrew's comment was, "It looks like a store, but not for the public."

Hooray for more floor space!

November

Hi Friends and Family! This year has been going by SO fast. I have a student teacher right now that has been awesome! She is so helpful and let's face it, I love being able to chat with someone all day. I've never liked doing things by myself. Don't get me wrong, of course I like "me" time, and I'm finding that I'm a home-body. But, when it comes to work, I love working with other adults. :)
Most of my life I have had short hair, but with encouragement from Andrew and the girl that cuts my hair, I have been growing it out. So I have the before and after pictures of it. I also got some low lights. We discovered that my hair pulls red so I actually had to go back and get it fixed. The total process from beginning to end was 41/2 hours (over a course of two days). I don't know if it was worth it, but it's done. Good thing hair grows!



I do like to ccok...but not when I'm tired. When I was young, I remember my mom beginning to prepare dinner when I arrived home from school...about 4 o'clock. I've decided that that is a great idea because if you wait when you are hungry you either snack along the way and are full when dinner is ready to be served, or you have cereal. Since getting married, I have tried to make real meals (not cereal or sandwiches). I'm usually tired and starving when I get home from work, so I have found myself making meals that take 30 minutes or less. :) Anyway, so I was proud that I thought of this pizza meal while grocery shopping. I actually have seen these before on bagels and I'm sure that on the muffins too...but I was proud so I wanted to post. Anyway, these little pizzas were cute, fun and a big hit in the Long household.

Fall Break

Over Fall Break I went to WA to visit my sister, Penny. They live in small town north of Bellingham, WA. It was a beautiful time of year to visit! I only got pictures of three of the five kids...I don't know why!! Dang.

This is Evan. He wanted to make his own sandwich. Check out the two items that he put on the bread...mustard and ketchup!! So funny. Penny said that he always chooses that when he is making one himself.

Maggie was sporting a fun hat for "Hat Day."

Brayden isn't the biggest fan of getting his picture taken, but I was able to get him! :)

Streets in Bellingham...Gorgeous!

October Fun

Andrew was gone to a career fair thing, and so my mom came down from MT to come and visit me! We got crafty after having to attend a Super Saturday that I had to participate in. I'm pretty excited about these new additions to our home. Also, we tried to spice up our entry with corn stalks, pumpkins, and Andrew eating a cookie. My mom and I had a great time. We really didn't do much but we just chatted a ton!! I used to be kind of critical of those who visited their moms often...mainly because I couldn't. But I would love to have mine close enough to visit often.

Andrew, Mom, and I went for a drive up Provo Canyon! We loved the colors, of which are not captured in this picture.

My cute mom!!!

I painted this and added these sticker things.

SALES!!! The day of Halloween, I went into a store here in Springville and saw this dang cute Halloween decoration on sale for 40% off. I was happy to add it to our decor.



Halloween night we went over to some friends house in the ward....everyone and thing was so festive!

The Classroom

This year has been the most fun teaching so far! The kids are fabulous and I feel that I am more efficient in my planning, teaching, managing, etc. Don't the pictures of the room make you want to come back to fourth grade and enjoy the simple things of life, like learning long division, adding fractions, and about the state of UT?!

Ikea makes it betta

One trip to Ikea, made our house more homey. It's amazing what fake stuff adds to a place. :)