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"Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God."

-The Family: A Proclamation to the World

 

Cooking With James

One reason I love being married to James is that he is a lot of fun. 

From what I've heard, sometimes guys expect their wives to make the dinners, but I think James was really eager to show off how much he knows about cooking. (He knows more than I do about lots of things...) So we make food together a lot.

Anyway, earlier this week I was going through some of my pictures and noticed I had quite a few funny James moments. Even if we are just making pancakes, he makes it fun!

Case in point: I told him to put an egg in the pancake mix because that way the pancakes won't fall apart as easily. His response:

Another good one happened before we were married. James and his roommate decided to make dinner on James' little grill, and invited me over. Here we have a well-rounded nutritional meal made by men:

With your beverage choice of root beer or mountain dew.

Of course when a man is making a cake, what else would he use to frost it?

Yes, apparently it's a real thing.

Here is a more recent photo. I was at the computer, listing off the ingredients to James so he could mix them together. I didn't notice until he was almost done...

Another reason I love being married to James is that he's so happy.

One time we were making cookies and I had dumped all the dry ingredients in a bowl, and then had to leave to get butter. When I came back, James had mixed the ingredients very nicely.

He's a great one! :)

End of Semester

Final exams start tomorrow! Yeep! On the Saturday right before Easter, James has a final where he has to go out to a canyon and map it and whatnot. I'm pretty sure I should go up there before it happens and hide a bunch of Easter eggs everywhere.

We are hoping finals don't kill us. Mostly James. Mine won't be too bad, but James might be swamped. He went yesterday from 10-3 to explore the canyon he has to map. Today will be all day studying. With religion, statistics, math, and petrology.

Here's a video that somehow links me (I work at Independent Study), James (he is good friends with the guy in this video, who happens to be a geology major), and studying for final exams.


So there you have it. Study.

Well, in other news,  a week ago I got my student teaching placement for the Fall! It was the best email to receive. I'm so excited! It just feels so great to know who I'm assigned to and what's going on. It was like opening a mission call!

Except not quite the same, I guess.

Yeah, not at all, actually.

Dear Miranda:

Thanks for being patient while we have worked our way through placement issues this semester. You have been assigned to student teach at American Fork Jr High School in the Alpine District. Your cooperating teacher will be Travis Lemon. You will work closely with a partner who has been assigned to the same school and cooperating teacher. You will also belong to a cluster group involving students who will be assigned at a nearby school. Scott Hendrickson will be your university supervisor. You will report to your school on September 3rd.

We are looking forward to the semester and hope that you will find it both challenging and rewarding. We hope that you are excited as you anticipate it.

Sincerely,

Bob Wadley

Mathematics Education

And now I have a whole summer to wonder how it will be and what I will do. Will the teacher be nice? Will the students like me? Will I be so nervous that I do a terrible terrible job? I know the person who's assigned to be my partner, and she's awesome! I had an observation class with her a few semesters ago. We used to go to Einstein Bagels for breakfast after driving to schools to observe (very boring) math classes in the mornings. I aspire to be a non-boring teacher someday.

People will call me Mrs. Moore! Isn't that just awesome?!

Yes, yes it is.