Guilty pleasure...

So, I was at a movie with my friends a while ago and we were talking about our favorite guilty pleasure movies. Movies that you love, but you are embarrased to admit it. It was fun to hear about some really awesome movies.
I had a hard time thinking of one since I love most movies... The closest I could think of is Son in Law. I haven't seen it in a whild, but I do own it. It brings back a lot of memories with my little sis. (Bec........ca)
So I want to know what are your favorite guilty pleasure movies??

So not worth it...

So yesterday I took the day off because I was sick. It's always hard to be gone as a teacher and you just hope and picture your kids doing a good job,listening, working; your substitute has everything he/she needs and expects good behavior from your students; your plans are detailed enough and easy to follow.

NOT SO yesterday. I come to my desk this morning and see a note: "Miss Gray, today was not the best day, I'll be honest. I had problems with every child. Except for (insert only 3 names here out of 20)"... Then, the secretary comes and tells you of 2 students needing to be sent to the office, the teacher next door needing to come in for help, the students said that kids were playing with timers and staplers, and saying they should have a party when the sub had to leave the room... etc. etc.

WOW! My students are so much better than this. It's especially not good since this same sub is coming back on Friday while I go to a conference. So, of course today was not a fun day at school. We made lots of changes, missed recess. I was just so disappointed. So, I question myself, and other teachers... is it worth it?

The one thing I did gain from yesterday was U2 tickets!!! June 3rd!!! I can't wait.

Catch up

Once again, waaay too long since I last blogged. I'll do my best to recap the exciting winter months since September.
In October, I made my first trip to Moab with my family. It was so much fun. I am proud to say that I survived a somewhat scary and very bumpy ride on Hell's Revenge. Almost everyone in the family was able to go (minus Cole and Norm, since Cole was in the choir that performed at General Conference). One of our favorite trips and I believe we are planning on making that an annual trip.
Perhaps the most exciting thing was the birth of my 3rd niece: Ruby. She is just perfect and such a cutie! She was just blessed 2 weeks ago and is already getting big! Now I'm so excited for my 4th niece to be born in May to my other sister! I LOVE being an aunt.
For the holidays I mainly was with my family at my parent's house. We had lots of games (including a new family favorite - Rock Band), lots of food and fun. I have the best family and have the most fun with them.
Since the New Year, I have not had anything too exciting to speak of, just teaching away - trying to make sure my students get all of their content for end of year testing!!
I have been pretty engrossed with the Olympics however. My favorite people/moments so far: Evan Lysacek winning gold (so tall dark and handsome for a male figure skater!), Hanna Kearny's gold in women's mogul, men and women's half pipe, love Simonn Ammann (Swiss ski jumper, he is always so enthusiastic it's hard not to be too), USA hockey beating Canada, and not a favorite moment, but certainly memorable was Nodar Kumaritashvili: the Georgian luger who was killed in training the day before the games. Very tragic and sad.
Now, just crunch time until the end of May and then SUMMER VACATION!!! I can't believe how fast this school year is almost over... Hopefully I'll blog again before that.

A fun weekend

A few weeks ago I went to my cabin with my family and friends. We had some good, times and a visitor!!!!!

I woke up to find this creature hanging INSIDE the window screen of my bedroom. AHHHHH!! At first I wasn't sure what it was, or subconsciously didn't want to accept the truth, but after telling me dad there was something weird on the window in my room, we realized it was a bat and quickly closed the window. The bat was then trapped between the window and the screen. What to do? How to get rid of him? Would we turn into vampires? We decided to quickly open the window, cover the bat with a bowl and push the screen, bat and all, out of the window. My main fear was that upon opening the window, the bat would freak out and fly back into the room for some bat/vampire fun...When we opened the window, however, the bat didn't move and we successfully removed the window screen and bat from the house. Apparantly the bat was dead and had been in the room for a while. Yikes. Gross!!!!

After safely evicting the bat, we went on a fun four wheeler ride. Me, my friend Andrea, mom and dad. It was a beautiful day and had a great, dusty ride!

Olan mills hands? Not in these family pics!!!

My family had our pictures taken at Wheeler Farm a few weeks ago. We had so much fun and it was a great place for pictures. I think I went to Wheeler Farm on a field trip in Elementary school, buy haven't been again since. If you haven't been, you should check it out. Chickens roaming free, wagons, tractors, sleighs, barns, etc. Most importantly, we got some fantastic pitcures. Enjoy my awesome family (especially my cute nieces and nephews)

Miss Gray is back at it again

Well, I am now officially a teacher again. I am so excited for this year. So far, I have a much smaller class than last year and they seem to be a really great group of third grader. Most of my students have now been at our school since they were first graders so they are used to it and are doing a good job ! Yeah!!
My favorite thing about this year is the new third grade teacher that I work with. She is fabulous. A smart, hard worker and I think we work well together. It makes such a difference to have a great teacher to collarborate with and share ideas.

I am also still keeping my second job at staples, at least for now. I'll have to see how it goes balancing the jobs. I spent my Saurday at Staples today. What was supposed to be a 7 hour shift turned into a 8 1/2 hour shift. It was a crazy day. I wish I was at Bear Lake with my family instead! I do get to go next weekend for Labor Day though. It will be a good time.

Staples and Spiders.....

A couple of weeks ago, I started a second job at.........

STAPLES!!!

and yes, "I am literally standing" right at the cash register by myself during my working hours. A little less exciting than teaching, but the extra money is helping!!!

As for other exciting happenings this week:

QUESTION: What kind of spider causes human flesh to rot for as much as six months if bitten, and can run, very quickly, AT humans?*

ANSWER: a hobo spider.

*my sister told me these facts, they may or may not be accurate, but still very scary!!!!

My neices and nephew were cleaning out the window wells at my mom's house last week and think they saw hobo spiders in the window of the room I was sleeping in and I have been freaked out ever since!!!! I came home to my apartment to find a suspicious brown spider in my bathtub!! EEK! He was quickly drowned and disposed of. I didn't wait long enough to get a close look to see if it was in fact a hobo spider, but does it really matter what kind it is????

All spiders are evil.