NEW BLOG.

Please see here for our new Hopper Family blog.

It is still under construction.  It'll be awhile before it's all ready to go, but I'll still be posting on it.

wedding pictures {V}

, this is our cake:

and this was the dessert table.

love cheesecake.

sweet tooth now?

yeah...it's sunday.

craziness in room 9.

last year i was room 21.  no windows. just a window into the library, which had a skylight. and one door--to the hallway.

now i'm in room 9.  huge window{s}. 2 doors--hallway and outside!

so here is the current state of my classroom.

after changing my calendar wall like 4 times, this is the final product:

the reason why i changed my calendar wall a bunch of times {yes, lots of wasted staples} is because i discovered some teacher blogs {1st grade, to be exact}. umm, spent like all weekend looking through them.  here are two of my favorites: the inspired apple and the first grade parade.

there are just a million cute ideas. and i downloaded 100+ printable templates, games, activities, posters, etc. seriously.

they really got me pumped for 1st grade!

so this is kinda what the rest of my room looks like.  i took these like thursday and have done more work since then, so there are a few more things on the walls, but other than that, the mess on the desks and counter still remains.

reading corner 

word wall

so i have a list a mile long of things i need to do before friday {and then another list of things to do during my 4 prep days before school starts. whoops}. we are meeting the fam in mammoth for a nice weekend stay in a nice condo with some nice scenery, tennis, pool time, hiking, and yummy food. it's the last hurah, so i'm pretty pumped.

wedding pictures {IV}

temple photos

{round 3}

ps- blogger lessens the quality of photos.

{this was really awkard for me.}

happy 1st of august!

husband.

let me just tell you about my handsome husband here.

he is so caring, thoughtful, forgiving, selfless, loving, diligent, etc. so Christ-like. and just plain amazing.

last week i was really sick with constant fevers, chills, body aches, and a horrendous stomach ache. after 3 days of pain with no improvement, we went to the urgent care and after talking with the doctor, an x-ray, and drinking some nasty stuff, i was told i had a peptic ulcer. (stomach ulcer.) crazy, huh? all those fruits and veggies are making holes in my stomach! okay, not really. it's from the bacteria h.pylori, or heliobacter pylori which i learned allll about in my microbiology class and nutrition classes. nasty bugger. 

anyway, my sweet husband was working so much but doing everything he could for me.  filling up my water bottles, making me drink the water (which was so painful), calling his nurse mom, calling my unofficial nurse mom, taking my temperature, getting me my drugs, making me what little food i could eat, and making like 3 jamba juice runs (oh and lauren and emily each made one for me, too. it was about all i could get down).

things were crazy but this husband of mine was there for me every second. 

his brother, michael, just left town yesterday morning. it was so fun having him stay with us the past few days. steven is so good to his siblings and such a good example. he wins brother of the year award every year. and definitely wins husband of the year and will win father of the year in a few years...not yet.

i love him.

going green

i'm going green.

okay, i already am.

i'm pretty much obsessed with vegetables and salads.

mom bought a juicer.

she made us some vegetable juices last week.

i covet.

steven and i don't really need one right now.

erin found a good recipe for a green smoothie.

i normally put a handful of spinach and sometimes put in some carrots or cucumbers too, but today it was all veggies. well, and half of an apple for some sweetness.

it was good. really good.