Saturday, March 20, 2010

We're Home Owners-and other news

So, it's been a while. Here's a quick update:
  • We bought a cute town home in Huntington Beach! We will close on March 29 and start moving in later that week!! 2 bed, 1.5 bath. Washer/dryer hookup, fireplace, our own upstairs and downstairs, patio, and lots of opportunities to fix up the place. The location is just down the street, but we will be in a new ward at church, so it should be fun to meet new people. Our commute to work will be the same. And we can still ride our bikes to the beach! Now we have a guest bedroom, so come visit!!
  • My school had their Open House in mid-Feb. It marked my one year of teaching at this school! It's so weird to think that I've only been there one year. It feels like ten!
  • Jeremy has been really succesful with selling new Hormel products to his grocery chain customer. This store has been really notorious for not buying new products like Hormel's party trays and yummy pork tenderloins, so Hormel has been giving Jeremy high fives for all the new things he's getting this store to buy.
  • I went to Sacramento last week for a 3 day MENC conference (music education thing). I stayed with Jeremy's family and had a BLAST. They took me to Sutter's Fort, Bowling, and Grandma's. We also celebrated our youngest cousin's 1st birthday! It was actually pretty fun being there without Jeremy. I got to have Matt, our little brother, all to myself. Oh yeah, I also learned a lot for my job at the conference.
  • On Thursday, my 3rd graders performed their musical. I wrote the show and called it "So You think you Can't Dance." It was a spoof on the dance TV shows. In this show, the contestants think they can't dance, but the judges know they can. It was really cute. The students danced to folk songs and works by great composers, showing what they've learned about tempo, rhythm, melody, and beat. They choreograhped some dances and improvised to others. We also sang a few choral pieces. I was SO proud of them.
  • Last night, Jeremy and I fell asleep at 6:30pm watching TV. We woke up at 10:00pm, but only long enough to roll into bed. We were zonked out until 8:30am this morning. That's 14 hours of sleep!! What the heck!? I guess that's another testiment to the fact that we have been really busy.
  • Today we went to the beach to play beach football. The weather was gorgious!!

6 comments:

Katrina said...

Congratulations on your new house! That's so exciting!

MomR said...

Thanks for the update! Always nice to get some news, glad your conference was good, sounds like the Zavoral time was even better and lots more fun. You lucky gal! Aren't you glad you married into such a great family?! I am happy for you.
Your school concert sounded so fun- what a clever idea so you think you can't dance! Wonderful!

Alyssa/Jo said...

Congrats to you 2! That is so exciting you a place to call you own. Fixing it up will be so much work but lots of fun!

Way to go Jeremy on selling more stuff to the store. It seems like you broke through their defenses ;)

Did you write the script on So you think you Can't dance SarahLynn? (I still can't get used to call you that. You are sarah with an h to me.) I love little kids on stage. They are so cute!

Holly said...

Glad that your jobs are going so well in Cali! And congrats on your own place!! I want to see pics!

cardwellclan said...

Congratulations on the house!! I hope all goes smoothly with the transition and it sounds so exciting!! Glad Jeremy is doing so well too!

Love ya,

Becky

Chelsea said...

We keep wanting to call you guys to tell you in person just how totally awesome you are and CONGRATTTTTTSSSS!!!! on the new house and high-fives and your trip to Sacramento and your musical and all that fun stuff. But especially the town home. I guess you should have already closed! We are so excited for yall!