This Little Pinky

My whole life I have had crooked pinkies. Not only are they crooked but for some reason I can not straighten them all the way...I know what a freak. My family and I have always joked about them, telling me that I should get physical therapy to fix them.

I have come to realize just how honest kids are! I was doing flashcards with a few of the 3rd graders at school about a week ago and had something funny happen. One of the boys was doing the flashcards when he yelled out "Mrs. Meyers, there's something wrong with your pinky!" I looked at my pinky, realizing that he was referring to how crooked it was. Then, about one minute later he said still very shocked, "Seriously, I think it's broken!" I had to laugh, because to a young kid it may be scary looking. The below picture doesn't give the crookedness justice, its hard taking a picture with one hand.

New Beginnings and Snow Day

On Tuesday our Young Women's program held our yearly New Beginnings program. It went pretty well. We asked 8 wonderful ladies from our ward to present the 8 values to the YW. Each lady got their own room to decorate and many gave out handouts to the YW too. I made some mini cheesecakes that seemed to be a hit (which I am very proud of, since I was baking for hours the day before). Since the theme was "Be Thou an Example" we gave the YW Moroccan lanterns :

They turned out really cute with a tag that says the theme tied on with black ribbon. We also put the flameless candles in them. Overall the night went well.

The same day we also got a few inches of snow here. This is kind of weird for Prescott in mid February. I even got to miss student teaching because they declared it a snow day at school. There were snowmen all over the place too. It was a great day!

More puppy pictures...

I know a lot of you are getting sick of seeing the puppies all over our blog, but there are some people that enjoy the updates, especially the potential owners :). They will be ready for a new home tomorrow! It makes me happy and sad.

Too Many Puppies

So here are a ton of puppy pictures. Not much else is going on here in Meyers land. Anyone looking for a puppy please direct them to these picture. We will be able to sell them in 2 1/2 weeks. They are super sweet. We are also hopeing to get a supplemental income out of this situation :).

New Year update

I haven't updated since Christmas so I thought I would let everyone know what is going on in our neck of the woods:

• I started student teaching on January 5th. This means that I had to quit my day job at Northcentral University and basically pay to work now :). I went into student teaching (having been a frequent substitute teacher and done my practicum) thinking that teaching was common sense and easy. Now that I am seeing the evaluations and the parent/teacher contact and all of the countless hours that goes into lesson planning I am starting to stress out a bit. I guess I need to change my attitude go back to the way I felt just a few months ago and not sweat the littles things. It is hard because I am a worrier. I really do enjoy the class I am in though. They are 3rd graders and I am really starting to love each of them. They are so cute!


• My sister had her fourth baby! Little Liberty Jean was born on December 31st. She is a cutie and I can't wait to meet her. There are pictures on my sisters blog. Jeff and I now have 24 nieces and nephews, with the 25th on the way next month. They just keep coming.
  

• Our puppies are getting big and they are so cute. They are in their third week now and their eyes opened up just a few days ago. They are still sleeping most of the day and don't squeek nearly as much.

Not much else has happened around here, worthy of blogging. I don't make resolutions because I never keep them, but I do hope to go back on my diet and lose a lot of weight. We would also like to add a new addition to our family soon, hopefully by next year :).

Christmas Miracles

This Christmas season has been pretty good. Jeff and I usually go to San Diego and visit my family, but unfortunately because of his work schedule we had to stay in Prescott. I really miss my family a lot but we did have fun being with Jeff's family and enjoying our time at work parties and relaxing at home.

Last night we had our Christmas miracles. At about 11pm we came home from Jeff's family to find our little doggie in labor. She had her first puppy about 12am and the last one at 3:30 am. There are four puppies in all, sooooo cute! Belle, the mommy, did so well and she loves her babies very much. Unfortunately we already have too many pets sowe will be selling these four cuties in about February. They are pure Shi-chi (Shi-tzu/Chihuahua).

If

you know anyone who wants to buy a little puppy, send them our way :).

Thanksgiving & Birthday

Jeff and I did Thanksgiving with his family. We had a lot of fun with a family scavenger hunt and a talent show. I decided to sing a church song...which I should have practiced more :). My sister in law and I have a birthdays one day apart so we celebrated together over the Thanksgiving

weekend. One of Jeff's sister's also gave me a haircut. It was much needed!

Below: Birthday breakfast at Cracker Barrel, Jeff and puppies, bday pic, and haircut.