Peanut Butter Bars

These are delicious and really easy! Plus they don't use the oven annd you refrigerate them (perfect summer treat) Anyway here is the recipe...

2 1/2 Cup Crushed Graham Crackers (You can use a blender/Processor to help with the crushing)
1 Cup Peanut Butter
1 Cup Butter (Melted)
2 3/4 Cup Powdered Sugar
2 Cups Semi-sweet chocolate chips (Melted)

To make these you take all of the ingredients (minus the chocolate) and mix them together. I use my hands to mix it well. After mixing put the ingredients into a cake pan (You shouldn't have to grease it but you can if you would like to). After spreading the mixture in the cake pan melt the chocolate chips and spread them over the top. Put the pan into the fridge to set (you can get it out in about five minutes to score the bars and then put it back in the fridge) after they are set you can eat as many as you want! ;)

What a day...

Let's just morn the fact that I lost over 200 dollars today in fees for class and my internship application:

$30 for Science

$30 for a temporary teaching license

$150 (yes really) for the PRAXIS (Let's hope I don't fail any of the subjects...)

Now that we are done with that I can say that I am halfway done with the internship application and I will finish the rest tomorrow. After a full day of spending money, attending classes, and work I was exhausted but I decided to take a break and go to institute. It was a great choice, the spirit and friends were just what I needed tonight. One of the instructors is the director of studio C and decided to show the following clip which was thoroughly enjoyed...

Side story: I didn't know where to sit at institute but ended up sitting next to a guy who I was talking to before institute started and then some good friends came in to sit by me as well. As these friends sat down (right after the musical number was announced) we started talking, basic hello's and all. The piano started playing and the boy next to me turns to me and says (in a serious tone) "When the music starts the performance starts". I guess he wanted us to stop talking but didn't want to ask... It made me laugh a little. 

Drowning already

Just a thought but when your reading for a math class (Three chapters) takes longer than your reading for a literacy class I'm pretty sure there is a problem!

By the way only two days of class so far and I am behind... This last semester is going to be harder than I thought...

Welcome Back

So today is the first day of school and this is how I feel after attending my math class:

"I've just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, which means that the test we take each Friday on what we learned during the week will now take place on Monday before we've learned it. But since today is Tuesday, it doesn't matter in the slightest. Pencils ready!"

Tad bit confusing, right? The teacher is great, very sweet but at the same time very scattered. I'm sure she has her own way of organizing the class. I just haven't caught onto it yet. Well here's to hoping that it makes more sense soon...

Oh and did I mention I bought myself a planner? I'm going to try to become a planner person so we shall see how it goes. I bought a really cheap ugly one and tried to make it cute, that way if/when I lose it I didn't waste much money on it but let me just say it is a cute one! Travel size ;)

Linnea and I with out lovely planners...

Bump! Set! Spike!

As much as I dislike the freezing cold that is the winter in Utah I love that volleyball has started and that I got to go with friends to watch BYU win tonight! I have loved going to the volleyball games every year, it will be one of the things I miss the most once I graduate but it is easier to leave when the players I love have graduated and left...

Here are some memories in picture form because I love pictures and sharing said pictures!

This last picture has nothing to do with BYU but everything to do with volleyball... On Thursdays I play volleyball with a group of friends. One of my friends decided he was going to make 'volleyball pictures' for everyone. Here is mine, along with the caption...

As our fourth reveal, we have Corrine Fiso. An iconic figure for not only female empowerment, but all things dance. Though she's a cunning volleyballer, her true strength lies in her flawless dancing finesse. She's been known to bust out a pirouette, foutte, split center leap, or even a straight-legged scorpion into a down, while at the same time being ready for the hardest fastest driven dall. All of this resulting in a truly asthetive athletic play, just as one would expect from a dancer of her skill. Also while she's not actually a trained CPA, she can keep score like no accountant's business. If anyone is in doubt of the score, one doesn't have to go far. Look to Corrine as the end all authority. Coupling these skills together, she's a vital and important part of any team.

Just in case you can't tell... I love volleyball!

No Greater Call

So I got Teaching, No Greater Call for a class a while back and I loved what I read of it but I didn't read anymore than was required for the class. I recently decided that I should read the whole thing and on the first page there is this quote that got me thinking about the power of teaching:

"As teachers you stand upon the highest peak in education, for what teaching can compare in priceless value and in far-reaching effect with that which deals with man as he was in the eternity of yesterday, as he is in the mortality of today, and as he will be in the forever of tomorrow. Not only time but eternity is your field."

I love the last sentence "Not only time but eternity is your field". I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I believe that the knowledge gained in this life will carry over into the next. Due to the knowledge I have of this I see the importance of teaching. Not only teaching so that students are more knowledgeable when they leave my classroom but also so that they can see how to act. I want to teach through my actions as well as my words. I love the idea that what I teach my students will be with them in the eternities but as much as I love that idea it also scares me. My actions and words will be shaping the youth of the future and as scary as that can be I know that the Lord is watching over me and will help me to teach my students successfully.

Happy New Years!!!

Sometimes I don't understand all of the celebration and resolutions that come with the New Year. But I do understand the need for change and the importance of trying to become a better person. So I pray that this year brings hope and that we all can become better as we look forward with faith.