Ultimate Tournament and New Hair

Last weekend Justin and I drove with our friends Todd and Christine Brooks to Morgan Hill, California (near San Francisco) for the USAU Ultimate Frisbee Southwest Regional Tournament. Back when we went to Idaho for James's wedding, our team played at Sectionals in Arizona and qualified for the tournament. I was totally deceived because I thought we were driving to San DIEGO not San FRANCISCO, so what I thought would be a four-hour drive on Friday turned into an eight-hour drive. Not fun. But I wasn't feeling well so I slept most of the way.

The flu is going around at my school, and even after diligently washing my hands after each class period, before eating lunch, and before going home, it caught up to me Thursday night. It was a bummer that my health was not up to speed for such a fun tournament, but I was still able to play alright.

We played four games on Saturday. One of them was against the #1 team in the nation! We managed to score one point on them...haha. We lost all our games but we were happy we qualified in the first place, so we had a lot of fun. There are several Mormons on our team, so Sunday we didn't play and our team knows we don't play on Sundays, so that was a good opportunity to share a little bit about the gospel with some of our teammates. Super funny: we went to sacrament meeting in Morgan Hill, and Mitzi's ex-boyfriend was conducting. I recognized the name (because, though I don't remember him or any of that relationship, I do remember joking about "Mitzi Frisbey" or at least hearing family joke about it) and sent Mitzi a creeper picture to see if it was him: it was!! It is SUCH a small world when you are Mormon.

Epic Catch... I know

Our huge umbrella was a hit! 

We had some legitimate Mexican food after the tournament...too hot for me!

Last Monday I cut my hair! I read Dressing Your Truth several weeks ago and purchased the online course to learn more about dressing my truth. It's a program that teaches you to dress on the outside true to the nature of you on the inside. After doing a ton of research, studying, and searching for the perfect stylist, I went for a bold new look that I absolutely LOVE! People seem to either love it or hate it. My 1st period class pretty much all hated it. One of my kids came in, took one look at me, and with a grimace on his face said, "Do you like it?"

I replied, "I really do!"

To which he replied, "Well...I guess that's all that matters." Ha! Gotta love the honesty. 2nd period, however, totally validated me and said it looked great. My favorite line of the day came from one of my 2nd period students. She said, "Mrs. Rose... you slay." Oh my gosh. I died. So funny. These kids have tons of personality. They're my favorite people!

I'm donating my hair, but locks of love won't accept bleached hair, so I'll have to explore other options. Behold my new hair....beware of selfie overload.

Ha...crazy kids. But I loved it!

Date night with this guy! Cafe Rio and Pitch Perfect at the park :) aca-amazing

I cut his hair today....lookin' fine!

This week the temperature got down to 70 degrees during the day!!! What???!!?!?!!! It was AMAZING! The weather says next week it should jump back to the 100's...boo. Justin and I are practicing with our team regularly to get ready for a tournament here in November. That's pretty much our news. Everything else is same-old, same-old. Until next time!

James and Bonnie's Wedding and Other Events

Last weekend Justin and I flew to Idaho for his brother's wedding. I flew into Idaho Falls on Thursday so I could attend part of a Mary Kay event scheduled for that weekend. Trisha picked me up and I had a great time hanging out with her all day. We went out to lunch and also watched Hailey in her cross country meet. She is so talented! It was fun watching her. That night I went to my event and when I got home Trisha and I watched "The Help" while eating banana splits: yum!

Friday I hung out with Trisha all morning and then picked up a rental car and headed up to Rexburg for additional training. At 3:15 I left and headed to Emmett for James and Bonnie's reception. There reception was from 7-9 so when I pulled into into Boise at 7:00 I thought, "Awesome, I'll be there in 20 minutes!"...WRONG. Little did I know that Emmett is another 45 minutes away, and their house in particular (where the reception was) took an hour to get to! Oh...that was painful. And my phone was about to die with the directions on it so it was also quite stressful. But I arrived safely and had fun visiting with Justin's parents, Joe, and Jon and Laura. Jon and Laura got to leave their daughter Clara home and get away for a few days. It was great seeing all of Justin's family. The reception was really nice: they held it in Bonnie's parent's beautiful yard. There were a lot of mosquitoes, but other than that it was great! Turns out Bonnie has a great friend from Emmett who was one of my very first roommates at BYU-I so that was interesting...and also a little awkward considering we didn't really get along. #awky

Jon and Laura

The bride and groom to be!

My handsome man and his bow tie =]

After the reception the Roses headed back to their hotels while James and Bonnie stayed and hung out with her family. Laura hopped in the car with me and we enjoyed gabbing for the 30 minutes it took to get back to Caldwell where they were staying. We are really similar and get along so well, so we had lots of fun with just the two of us. After we dropped the family off, Justin and I headed to drop off my car rental and then head to Mitzi's. We got to her house at like 11:00 so we just went straight to bed.

Saturday morning we got up at 6:00 to get ready by 7:00 to drive to Twin Falls for the sealing. The sealing was at 12:00, but we were told pictures would be taken at 10:00 so we needed to be early for that. We grabbed McDonald's breakfast and waited for the rest of Justin's family so we could split up into both rental cars to have a good visit with everyone. On the way to Twin Falls I rode with Jon, Laura, and Judy and those two hours FLEW by from all the talking we did. We got to the temple shortly after 10 to find we were the only ones there (we weren't late: phew!)....but as 10:00 turned into 10:30 we figured we must've missed something. Somebody called James and he said that he and Bonnie were taking pictures at 10 at the "gorge"...so we were two hours early for the sealing for no reason. For Jon, Laura, Aunt Cathy, and Uncle Joe, that made them three hours early....Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what you'd call a miscommunication... Jon and  Laura with Uncle Joe and Aunt Cathy took off to explore the views Twin Falls had to offer while the rest of us waited around until it was time for the sealing. The Burk clan showed up at 11:30 (like they were supposed to) and we all went inside.

While waiting "to take pictures" we decided to take pictures!

Joe, Justin, and Jon

Jon and Judy!

hawt

Aunt Cathy and Papa Jon

Jon and Laura

No bow tie for Joe!

selfie with my bestie

The sealing was really awesome. The temple president sealed them; he was Bonnie's brother's mission president, so that was really cool. The temple sealer made it really special/awesome for them so that was really sweet to experience.

James and Bonnie had a luncheon planned for the afternoon at a cute place - The Brickhouse - and had a nice program to go with it. From there, we switched up the driving arrangements and made our way back to Boise. That drive felt a little slower after quite the eventful day, but Jon and I had fun exploring the world of ethics which kept things upbeat. We decided to go to Chick fil-A for dinner. I was so excited to get a peach shake but they were out of season!!! So sad!!!! Keaton will understand how much this pained me...but they recommended the "ladybug shake" which is a strawberry/oreo shake and it was awesome! We had a lot of fun at dinner with all of us and had some great laughs before they had to leave for the airport to fly home that night. Overall it was a great weekend spent with Justin's family. Justin is considering taking work in Washington, so we might end up moving there...but we don't know. We'll see what the future has in store for us.

We caught both father's making notes for the toasts they had to make...ha!

For now, I am in my first month of teaching and loving it! While I was gone for the wedding I had my first sub, and my 3rd period class was a disaster for her. Poor girl. Apparently the kids got a hold of some sunflower seeds and were spitting them all over the floor. Seriously? Who does that? So I had fun taking care of that when I got back... But overall I am truly loving it. I just love those kids so dang much! One of the teachers in a different hall saw me on Friday and said, "My students can't stop talking about you." That felt so good to hear! It feels good to run the show.

Not a lot is new with Justin. He has seen a lot of progress in his fitness goals and it's fun to see. He's had to get new pants because his others are too big! That's always a good feeling, right? That's all our news for now! We're glad James and Bonnie are married and that we got to be there on their special day. We look forward to seeing Justin's family again for Thanksgiving. Until next time!