We will see this little bean around May 24.
10.24.2009
Big News
I will just let the picture speak for itself....
We will see this little bean around May 24.
We will see this little bean around May 24.
9.20.2009
Crimson Trail
For Labor Day we decided to hike up Crimson Trail which is up Logan Canyon. We got up at about 8 and started our adventure. The Gardners , Chet and Annaliese, came with us.
It was a beautiful day, I love hiking.
Here we are at the beginning of the hike.
Taking a rest in the middle, once we finally made it to the top!
A cool spot to take a picture :)
Later that afternoon we had to live up to the day and rest from our "Labors" So we took a good nap, in place of doing our home work.... oops :)
It was a beautiful day, I love hiking.
Here we are at the beginning of the hike.
Taking a rest in the middle, once we finally made it to the top!
A cool spot to take a picture :)Later that afternoon we had to live up to the day and rest from our "Labors" So we took a good nap, in place of doing our home work.... oops :)
9.14.2009
The 80's Dance
For W.O.W (Week of Welcome) up at USU they had an 80's dance. And being the cool married couple that we are we didn't have anything else going on so we decided to take part.
It was pretty rad... Chad and I both dressed up with a variety of clothing that I had adopted over the years.
Chad wore one of my tie die shirts along with some of my running tight that were previously my older brothers (Toph remember the black tights with blue and white stripe?) Along with some of my runny shorts and a head band. He looked pretty hott not going to lie :) It was so funny
My outfit wasn't quite as exciting but I made up for it with my big hair and bright makeup.
All in all the night was a hit with the millions of people 80's music videos and lots of sweaty people.
We represented all the married couples at USU, for I am pretty sure we were the only ones there. :)
Rock on!
It was pretty rad... Chad and I both dressed up with a variety of clothing that I had adopted over the years.
Chad wore one of my tie die shirts along with some of my running tight that were previously my older brothers (Toph remember the black tights with blue and white stripe?) Along with some of my runny shorts and a head band. He looked pretty hott not going to lie :) It was so funny
My outfit wasn't quite as exciting but I made up for it with my big hair and bright makeup.
All in all the night was a hit with the millions of people 80's music videos and lots of sweaty people.
We represented all the married couples at USU, for I am pretty sure we were the only ones there. :)
Rock on!
8.27.2009
Back to School to School to School
We are officially back in the real world, after about 6 months of play time we are back in the swing of things.
Chad and I are both starting our last year of our undergraduate schooling. And things are looking good. I have a pretty chill semester, I don't have any math courses, I finished all of them up last year. So I have only 13 credits of Education courses.... good news not to many intensive assignments... bad new lots of busy work... I think I would rather have Math classes.
Chad on the other has as a very intensive semester. He is taking 19 credits and none of them are show up and pass classes. So all sympathy goes out to him this year :)
Work has been keeping me busy for the past few weeks, for some reason all the students who needed a math class forgot to take the placement exam the past 3 months where there was plenty of time for us to help them. Instead the all remembered last week and this week that they need to take the Placement Exam and they haven't had Math of 4-5 years, and they HAVE to have this class or they won't graduate/getting in their program/live.... Fun times.
Overall life is good. We are moved into our new house. Trailer #165 :) Its a gem. More updates later.
Here are some pictures of us going to school :) Happy first week of school!
Chad and I are both starting our last year of our undergraduate schooling. And things are looking good. I have a pretty chill semester, I don't have any math courses, I finished all of them up last year. So I have only 13 credits of Education courses.... good news not to many intensive assignments... bad new lots of busy work... I think I would rather have Math classes.
Chad on the other has as a very intensive semester. He is taking 19 credits and none of them are show up and pass classes. So all sympathy goes out to him this year :)
Work has been keeping me busy for the past few weeks, for some reason all the students who needed a math class forgot to take the placement exam the past 3 months where there was plenty of time for us to help them. Instead the all remembered last week and this week that they need to take the Placement Exam and they haven't had Math of 4-5 years, and they HAVE to have this class or they won't graduate/getting in their program/live.... Fun times.
Overall life is good. We are moved into our new house. Trailer #165 :) Its a gem. More updates later.
Here are some pictures of us going to school :) Happy first week of school!
7.09.2009
Confession...
I just had a good cry after looking at pictures of my babies in China...
I miss them so much.
I posted a few pictures so you can see the cute faces that I love.
I miss them so much.
I posted a few pictures so you can see the cute faces that I love.
I miss you my little trouble makers
Love Teacher JoAnna
7.08.2009
Back to real life
We have been back in the States for almost three weeks now, and real life is hitting us hard. There will be no more sleeping in, checking emails for a few hours, teaching for 3 hours then relaxing from the hard day of work. It is now get up super early (for Chad at least) working lots and lots and school (again just for Chad). So mostly I just work lots and have normal work hours while Chad gets up super early and has lots of work and school, he is amazing!
Both of us got our jobs back, Chad at Impact Payments and I at the Math and Stat Advising Office up at USU. We are so blessed to both have good jobs.
An update on our trip home: The last day at our school was so sad, we had to leave at 3 am so the night before we packed our bags and put them on the bus. While we were doing so there were about 10 little girls that were just standing at the door and in their window crying their eyes out cause we were leaving. It was the saddest thing I have ever seen, we didn't even teach these kids they were just students at the school that we saw every once and a while. They are so sweet.
Saying good bye to my kids was one of the hardest things I have done, they are just too cute, even though I some times wanted to lock a few in a closet for a bit I love them all so much. I went into their class room to give them a portfolio of the work we had done in class and a few started crying and I couldn't control my self. I had 3-4 kids hanging on me crying so hard they couldn't breath, so anyone who knows me knows that I was the one crying the hardest yet trying to be brave and tell them it will be ok and we will always be friends. I will forever love those kids in China.
Both Chad and I miss all our friends in China like crazy! There are so many amazing people all over the world.
We left the school at 3 am and had a grueling 25 hours and four flight of travel home from Changzhou. Everything went rather smoothly we made all our connecting flights and our last flight actually ended up leaving an hour early so we got home at 6:30 instead of 7:30 on Thursday June 18. Both our families where there to meet us and we went out to Crown Burger for some good American food. :) It was awesome!
For about the next 1 1/2 we were extremly turned around on our sleeping schedule, it didn't help that we were at a Bischoff family reunion in Bear Lake where we stayed up until 1-2 every night. Bear Lake was so fun, staying up late getting to know family better and eating great food.
The next week we were back to work and now starting this past Monday Chad started school. So here we are back in real life... I think I may like the only teaching 3 hours a day .....
Both of us got our jobs back, Chad at Impact Payments and I at the Math and Stat Advising Office up at USU. We are so blessed to both have good jobs.
An update on our trip home: The last day at our school was so sad, we had to leave at 3 am so the night before we packed our bags and put them on the bus. While we were doing so there were about 10 little girls that were just standing at the door and in their window crying their eyes out cause we were leaving. It was the saddest thing I have ever seen, we didn't even teach these kids they were just students at the school that we saw every once and a while. They are so sweet.
Saying good bye to my kids was one of the hardest things I have done, they are just too cute, even though I some times wanted to lock a few in a closet for a bit I love them all so much. I went into their class room to give them a portfolio of the work we had done in class and a few started crying and I couldn't control my self. I had 3-4 kids hanging on me crying so hard they couldn't breath, so anyone who knows me knows that I was the one crying the hardest yet trying to be brave and tell them it will be ok and we will always be friends. I will forever love those kids in China.
Both Chad and I miss all our friends in China like crazy! There are so many amazing people all over the world.
We left the school at 3 am and had a grueling 25 hours and four flight of travel home from Changzhou. Everything went rather smoothly we made all our connecting flights and our last flight actually ended up leaving an hour early so we got home at 6:30 instead of 7:30 on Thursday June 18. Both our families where there to meet us and we went out to Crown Burger for some good American food. :) It was awesome!
For about the next 1 1/2 we were extremly turned around on our sleeping schedule, it didn't help that we were at a Bischoff family reunion in Bear Lake where we stayed up until 1-2 every night. Bear Lake was so fun, staying up late getting to know family better and eating great food.
The next week we were back to work and now starting this past Monday Chad started school. So here we are back in real life... I think I may like the only teaching 3 hours a day .....
6.23.2009
Back in the States
So I know this is a very big jump to the end of our China trip. But unfortunately I couldn't update my blog for the last month because blogger was blocked all through out China. Now that we are home and adjusting I could update on everything that we did the last month but it could take me over a month to do so.
These pictures of of my kids and their preparation of the final performance, we did a play based off Peter Pan. We had 2 classes of pirates, 1 class of mermaids, 1 class of Indians, and my class was lost boys. They each memorized about four lines and sang songs, it turned out pretty good they did awesome. I am so proud of them.
There are also pictures of our last day in China, saying goodbye to all our great friends.
The pirates
Three of my lost boys :) So Cute. (by the way I made their costumes and did their makeup)
Cade my little baby Lost Boy! haha so cute!
A Mermaid, an Indian, and a Lost Boy
Chad and a bridge near the school.
Just hanging out at the market (notice the crazy hair, it was crazy humid the last few weeks)
Willy and his sneaky face.
Serina, she is an English teacher at the school we were at.
Chad and Jon two of the PE teachers.
These pictures are also of some of our friends in China that we already miss! Love Them!
This is Jordan, Chad would play basketball with him often.
This is Chad, Serina, and King on our last night in China.
These are my kids just being cute.
Chad and Andy, he is the supervisor over the cafeteria and a very dear friend.
Our friends on the last night in China.
We got back on Thursday June 18 at about 6:30 in morning, after almost 25 hours of travel. All four flights went good. It all started at 3 in the morning when we left the school to bus to Shanghai where our flight left at 8 to Hong Kong. We sat on the plane for about an hour before take off so our lay over in Hong Kong was only 1 1/2 hours. Our next stop was Taipei, Taiwan then a 12 hour flight to LA, Californina where we had to claim our baggage then recheck them to SLC. And then found out that our last flight was scheduled to leave a little earlier so we ended up arriving home an hour early then expected.
Since being home everything is going well, Families are fabulous, clean air is a treat, soft beds are amazing, sitting toilets are great, and the food is loved! :)
Now it is just time to find a place to live, jobs to support us, and stabilize our diets again.
These pictures of of my kids and their preparation of the final performance, we did a play based off Peter Pan. We had 2 classes of pirates, 1 class of mermaids, 1 class of Indians, and my class was lost boys. They each memorized about four lines and sang songs, it turned out pretty good they did awesome. I am so proud of them.
There are also pictures of our last day in China, saying goodbye to all our great friends.
The pirates
Three of my lost boys :) So Cute. (by the way I made their costumes and did their makeup)
Cade my little baby Lost Boy! haha so cute!
A Mermaid, an Indian, and a Lost Boy
Chad and a bridge near the school.
Just hanging out at the market (notice the crazy hair, it was crazy humid the last few weeks)
Willy and his sneaky face.
Serina, she is an English teacher at the school we were at.
Chad and Jon two of the PE teachers.These pictures are also of some of our friends in China that we already miss! Love Them!
This is Jordan, Chad would play basketball with him often.
This is Chad, Serina, and King on our last night in China.
These are my kids just being cute.
Chad and Andy, he is the supervisor over the cafeteria and a very dear friend.
Our friends on the last night in China.We got back on Thursday June 18 at about 6:30 in morning, after almost 25 hours of travel. All four flights went good. It all started at 3 in the morning when we left the school to bus to Shanghai where our flight left at 8 to Hong Kong. We sat on the plane for about an hour before take off so our lay over in Hong Kong was only 1 1/2 hours. Our next stop was Taipei, Taiwan then a 12 hour flight to LA, Californina where we had to claim our baggage then recheck them to SLC. And then found out that our last flight was scheduled to leave a little earlier so we ended up arriving home an hour early then expected.
Since being home everything is going well, Families are fabulous, clean air is a treat, soft beds are amazing, sitting toilets are great, and the food is loved! :)
Now it is just time to find a place to live, jobs to support us, and stabilize our diets again.
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