30 May 2009

Europe - otra vez!

Yep, we have been so blessed recently - we get to go to Europe again in July (finally!)

Honestly, we feel a little spoiled, but we've worked so hard to save our money and have patiently waited to go on vacation. So finally the right time came and we decided on going to Europe again. We also have to thank Dan's parents for helping us out with their frequent flyer miles (a christmas gift and more!)- THANK YOU! Also Mt. Angel SD for hiring me so quickly - haha!

We've decided to fly into London and go directly to Paris for 5 days (Dan will be in art heaven again at the Louvre). Then we will spend about a week in Budapest, Hungary and Prague, Czech Republic. The last week we'll trek around Greece (so excited!) and then spend a day in London (we were there on new years before and didn't get to go into many museums and such because everything was closed) and then head back home. We'll be traveling for about 22 days!

It's so exciting! We really wanted to go to Croatia too, but it just turned out to be too difficult to get there and back. So guess we'll have to go another time! :)

If anyone has been to any of these places and has ideas on where to go that would be great. Specifically about Greece and the top sites to see in London with only one day (tough!)

PS - we also added clocks to our blog to keep track of the time in the places we will be in just over a month. fun! :P

19 May 2009

I GOT A JOB!!

Okay, most of you know this already but amazingly enough.....

I HAVE A JOB FOR NEXT YEAR!!!!

I really should have blogged about this sooner because I got the call around April 28th or so...but really it was too good to be true, I just had to wait a little while to let it settle! :)

I will be working in Mt. Angel (a tiny little town North East of Salem...look it up!) at John F. Kennedy High School. As far as I know, I will be the main science teacher in the building! I am going to teach Biology, Oceanography, Anatomy/Physiology and even Chemistry (crazy!).

It is so hard to even find a job opening right now, so I am so blessed to have a full-time job for next year. I was the first one to get hired in my MAT class and currently I only know 2 other teachers who are hired (1 is a science teacher, the other is math and science). So science is definitely the way to go right now!

I am so excited and I can't wait to have a classroom that is my own. I'm kind of nervous too....

05 May 2009

I <3 Oregon


I really like these sites. They have a lot of great ideas for traveling around Oregon - especially because this year is Oregon's 150th birthday. Check it out! In fact.....if you live far away from us and need to come visit, it is required of you. Please please come visit us!!!!

http://www.traveloregon.com/
http://iamoregonian.com/content

01 May 2009

24 April 2009

Frisbee golf with the Stuarts!

Here are some photos of the Stuarts that I snapped this week. The weather was so beautiful on Monday that we headed out to the park to play frisbee golf during our normal FHE time. It was great to spend time outdoors with our friends! Ice cream at Coldstone after was pretty fabulous too! :)



Grayson and his cool shades



Happy little Calvin!

Seattle Pictures


Finally! Here are some pictures from our trip to Seattle during Spring Break. We had a fantastic restful couple of days! We splurged a little and stayed in a nice cozy hotel (see below :) ) We went to Pikes Market, walked around downtown, went to the Seattle Aquarium (and saw my favorite animals - Sea Otters!), ate a delicious dinner at Wild Ginger (yummy mango pork!), we also went to the Seattle Center and people watched and went up to the top of the Space Needle. We took a detour on our way home and stopped at Snoqualamie Falls and nearly stayed forever in that beautiful little town in between the mountains.










08 April 2009

04 April 2009

carlie + teaching + MAT+ track + life = exhaustion

2 track meets until 10pm this week
finishing my evolution unit and pulling my students out of their "spring break funk"
dentist appt
presentation at the OTEN conference
babysitting all weekend
work sample due in 6 days (AHHH!)
oregon job fair in 2 days
= a "very busy, not happy, nothing is done that needs to be done, exhausted Carlie"