Dr. Seuss? e e cummings?

This semester I am taking an English class. I procrastinated way too long to do this and they don't even offer the class I need anymore! I had a few other options that would fulfill the requirement and American literature was one of them that actually fit into my schedule. Today we read this poem and I thought I'd share it with you.

anyone lived in a pretty how town

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did 

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain 

children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more 

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her 

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down) 

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was 

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
 noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes. 

Women and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain

ee cummings

So, what do you think? Does it sound like Dr. Seuss?

Blueberries

Over the long weekend, Anthony and I were invited to pick blueberries with some other couples who are attending BYU and BYU-Idaho.
It was so fun and super cheap! (a little over a dollar per pound!) Here are a few things we learned about blueberries...
1. You can tell if a blueberry is ripe if it just falls off when you try to pull at it
2. The smaller blueberries are the sweeter they are
3. I don't like super sweet blueberries... they don't even taste like blueberries
4. Make sure you inspect the blueberries carefully before eating... bugs live in the little hole
4. I don't really have any recipes for blueberries, but it's okay because they are delicious alone! However if anyone has a good recipe, feel free to share!

Eureka Springs

For Memorial day weekend we decided to explore Arkansas. So we got online and after a lot of research we decided to visit Eureka Springs.
Eureka Springs is a Victorian mountain village that was founded in the late 1800's. And it just happened to be only 30 miles away.
We spent mostly the entire day there and there was never a dull moment!Here are a few pictures of our trip.

Shopping in the historic loop Exploring one of the many springs in the area Christ of the Ozarks (biggest statue of Christ in North America... I think) A funny sign that we saw on our way home... what does that even mean?

Welcome to Arkansas

Anthony started his internship the last week in May and things are going really well. He works in the transportation building and is working on a project dealing with truck back loads (or something like that). He seems to be fitting in really well and is enjoying the Walmart scene.
Walmart hooked us up with an apartment, which really turned out to be a great deal!We live on a country club with a golf course so the view from our apartment is great.
Here are a few pictures of our new place.

Social Probelms

This is my Social Problems book that I am taking THIS semester...And this is the date that it was printed
I'm so happy that I am learning about social problems "today" from 20 years ago.

Yesterday Anthony got an offer to work at the Walmart headquarters in Arkansas for his internship!
This internship was very competitive (I mean Walmart is probably the best place to work if you are looking to go into supply chain) so I am very proud of him!
They have given him two weeks to accept or reject the offer, so he is going to contine looking for the time being but most likely we are going to be moving to Arkansas for the summer!
It is such a relief that he was offered this internship- pretty much everyone at BYU-Idaho needs an internship to graduate. So it is nice that we can check off one more thing on the list.
Congratulations Anthony!

After-School

This semester I am taking my practicum. For my major we have the choice of either working at the BYUI preschool or at an after-school program at the elementary school in town. I decided to work at the after-school program because I think I get a long better with older children. Maybe I should be saying that I don't want to pull my hair out at the end of the day. And this program is a lot more relaxed than the preschool at BYUI.
Me and 3 other girls in my class are in charge of the kindergarten through 2nd graders on Monday and Wednesday's, it turned out to be about 24 students in our group and boy are they a handful! But it is really great to be able to work with them.
We started about two weeks ago on the 25th. The first day went... well... not so good. Ha! There was an assembly that day so they were more hyper than usual and we didn't really know what was going on... so it was kinda crazy! Luckily, the next few days went much much smoother. I think we are finally getting the hang of it now. It also helps that we know all of their names too!
We have been going off of the theme, "Fine Arts" and have had a bunch of fun painting, making little crafts, and even working with clay! We are also planning a field trip to BYU-Idaho next week to visit the ceramics lab and the art gallery. The kids are getting really excited!

So here are some experiences that I have had with the students so far... There's a lot more than just these, but I don't have time and I don't want to bore you with it.
We give the students about 30 minutes every day to finish their homework. During this time, a boy asked me where my homework was. I told him that I didn't have any, but then he said that I must not really be a student at BYU-Idaho because if I were, I would have homework to do. Then he said that if in college you didn't do homework then he doesn't need to do his because he is only in elementary school. I didn't even know what to say, I just laughed!
While we were waiting for some of the kids parents to come pick them up, they decided that it would be fun to try to guess each of the teachers ages (do you see where I am going with this?). Of course they go through all of the other teachers guessing 28, 35, 23, ect. Then they get to me... "uh... 17?" So sad.
kids say the darnest things...

:(

i will write soon!
but for now... must. do. homework.

Birthday

I know it's been awhile sense my birthday, but I just wanted to sayto everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday and was so thoughtful to make my 21st the best!

Just a little update: It was great having Darcy come and visit us! We did a lot of the things on our list, some we skipped and decided to do other stuff, but all in all I think we did pretty well. We had chocolate and biscuits Saturday morning (Thank you Lorelei for that recipe!) then went to the caves. We even got to stop by the sand dunes on the way home, but it was REALLY windy so we didn't stay too long. Later that night we checked out the Overtime Sports Center then went to the straw maze. And good news! We went through the straw maze in record time! 36 minutes! However, it wasn't very hard to break our last time since last time it took us over 2 hours to get through! Anyways, it was a great weekend and I'm glad that Darcy could come up to visit us!

By birthday was great! We had a mini party that night with some friends and yummy cupcakes. Then Anthony took me out for a birthday dinner that weekend, then shopping :) Then for Halloween we just watched scary movies and ate way too much candy and junk food... We actually had on trick-or-treater stop by our apartment earlier that day, but when he looked in the door and saw us he ran away! I was so excited to give him candy too, but it was too late, by the time I walked over to the door he was already gone.

Next week Anthony is going on his big Bentonville Expedition with the school! Wish him luck for his interviews with WalMart!

Midterms

Man, I had forgotten how much I hate midterm week. Things have been so BUSY this past week. I took 4 midterms already and I have one more the beginning of next week... yuck!
On other news my sister is coming to IDAHO this weekend to visit! I am so excited! She came up once my first semester, but I was a loser then and we didn't really do anything. So this time I can hopefully to make it up to her. Haha!

Here are a few things we have on the agenda:
1. chocolate and biscuits
2. ice caves
3. sand dunes (with a bonfire and s'mores)
4. straw maze
5. big judds (but probably just for ice cream, last time we ate there it didn't really agree with our stomachs...)
6. overtime sports center
and I think thats it... I don't think we can do all of these things but we can try.

Broken Powercord

This is why I haven't posted in awhile...

My power cord starting looking like this a couple months ago... then one day the end just broke off :(
So my computer hasn't been used for the past week (becasue the battery died of course) and its driving me crazy not being able to do my homework whenever I want. And of course other things like blogging. I either have to wait for Anthony to finish doing stuff with his computer (and he has been very busy this past week writing up his IBC business plan) or go to the libary. And who wants to walk all the way to the libary in this freezing cold weather...
Speaking of weather... It snowed on Monday! I couldn't believe it, it was a pretty snow though, so I didn't mind too much... its just that dang wind that makes it so cold!
Anyways, we finally broke down a bought a new powercord (found one for $30 on Amazon... I love that website)but its not going to be here for another week :( Luckily I'm a secretary and sit behind a computer all afternoon so I can sorta catch up on my electronic time... haha.

School

Anthony and I started school last Thursday. Classes have been good so far. Anthony is taking IBC. Its like 4 classes into one and you have the experience of starting and running your own business on campus. You can read more about it here and here if you are interested. I am taking a 2 food classes (yes, I actually get to cook! So I'm pretty excited about that). And some other classes for my minor (Home and Family Living). I am also taking D&C, which is pretty intense but it seems like that's how all religion classes are here.
Anyways, things are good :)

End of Semester

Done with school! ...At lease for awhile... haha! It was a really good semester for both of us. It's a lot easier to do homework and stuff when you already live with the one that you want to be with all the time. We have a 7 week break till school starts again the September. Anthony has his online accounting class that he will be busy with during the break. But I need some ideas! Anyone have any suggestions to keep me busy?

One Week!

Only one more week of school! Yay!
We are excited to have a nice long break coming up and really excited that we get to visit GEORGIA for a little while!

4 Day Weekend

This weekend was a four day weekend! We had Memorial day off and Tuesday the school had an "examination" day.... don't know what that means, but we got the day off of school so I'm not complaining.
It has been very relaxing just staying in Rexburg. Its actually kinda nice when everyone leaves for long weekends, it gets really quiet and it feels like you have the whole place to yourself.
Anyways, we decided to go camping for a day. Anthony's parents got us a tent and a double sleeping bag for our wedding and we were glad we could finally use it. Thank you!!
So here are a few pictures from our trip...

Anthony setting up the tentIt had rained right after we finished setting up the tent (Good timing!). We were sad, but luckily it only rained for an hour or two.

Our sweet fire that we cooked our foil dinners on.Well thats all for now. Just a short week left for school then its the weekend again!

Nexflix

So Anthony and I decided not to get cable this semester... instead we got
It's great! We both love it! Right now we are getting two DVD's at a time on a free two week trial and we can watch a lot of movies and tv shows online too! Anthony and I have always loved watching movies, and now it seems like there is an unlimited selection. If anyone wants to try the two week trail here is the link. http://www.netflix.com/FreeTrialInfo It really is free, just make sure you cancel it when the two weeks are up. They even tell you how to cancel it when you sign up.
On other news, my parents are coming out west this week. They flew in today and this week they are going to be down in Provo helping Scott and Katie with their lawn. This weekend a few of us(me and Anthony, my parents, Darcy, and Scott) are going to Yellowstone. I've never been there before, so I'm pretty excited for it.
Anthony signed up for his BYU online accounting class yesterday. So he is going to be taking BOTH accounting classes at the same time! But he has a whole year to finish the one online so its not that big of a deal.
I am still looking for a job... anyone got any ideas? Haha, just kidding.
It has been so cold here recently! Anthony and I finally broke down today and decided to turn on our heater. It has even been snowing! Not enough to make it really stick, but honestly Rexburg, its almost May! Haha.
Anyways, I need to get back to my homework. I have my first test this weekend, wish me luck! Peace Out!