2 Weeks?!

Ok, so I know my due date isn't for almost 3 weeks but I logged onto my blog today and saw that my count down started with "2 weeks" and it kinda freaked me out.... :) I'm still excited, though!

Work and Exotic Animals

For the first half of the school year I loved my job. I loved teaching music and I never dreaded going to work. It wasn't even that hard waking up at the crack of dawn in order to catch the bus by 6:50. Then as my pregnancy progressed and I realized I wasn't going to come back out I have been counting down the days. Plus the kids have seemed to get more and more lazy as the year goes on and they are driving me crazy!

So I took a sick day yesterday and I dreaded coming to school today but I actually had a lot of fun with the kids and I realized that I actually am going to miss it! I feel like I'm pretty well liked by the students and staff and it seems like I just got started with my "career" so it's sad that I'm leaving. But I can't even tell you how excited and impatient I am to just be at home with my adorable little guy (cause I already know he's going to be adorable, of course)! :)

I am also a big fan of all sorts of animals and lots of them are kinda strange (my favorites are foxes, penguins, and various odd creatures I see on the Planet Earth DVDs). So this afternoon when we had an assembly about the rain forest and I realized there would be animals involved I was pumped! They were just kinda roaming around the gym one at a time while the lady talked about them and it was really entertaining. Here are some pictures of some of the animals we saw but not the actual animals cause I didn't have my camera. I found these online. I seriously feel just like one of the little kids with how excited I get. :)

Iguana

Blue and gold macaw

A kinkajou. She was really cute!

A ring tail lemur

And last but not least a red tail boa. I actually held this guy!

A bunch of randomness

My concert is finished! WAHOO! I think it went pretty well but it wasn't as good as the Christmas program. Oh well, what can you do. It's over. The elementary kids were awesome, the strings kids forgot to listen for intonation, the jr. high choir was really good but it's too bad no one past the 4th row could hear them, and one of our high school choir altos decided not to show up (that means we ended up with 3 sopranos and 1 alto. Good thing that one alto really knows what she's doing).
Now I'm moving on to other things such as organizing and cleaning my classroom as well as starting to move stuff out that I don't really need here anymore. I have four weeks left of teaching and it's bitter-sweet. I will also have a little more time to actually get stuff ready for a baby to move into our apartment. I keep telling Matt that I don't want the baby living in the junk room. Now I can finally transform it into a baby-type room.
Also, my little friend is no more. Our head maintenance guy came in and set a trap for me and the little guy was done for before the next day. I was strangely kinda sad to see him go...
I got an interview for the choir position at Laramie Junior High and found out this morning that I didn't get it. I wanted the job but at the same time I want to stay home with the baby and now I won't have to decide! :) When the principal called to tell me the news I actually felt really relieved instead of sad. Plus Matt got a job at Walgreen's in Cheyenne and that is GREAT.
I haven't had many cravings during my pregnancy (except cinnamon) but lately it's chocolate!!! I like chocolate of course but I have never WANTED it before and it's probably not a good thing if I don't want to turn into a blimp... I swear I ate half a LARGE bag of peanut butter m&ms all by myself the other day. Help?

My Little Friend

Sorry for all the blogging, I bet everyone just loves to hear about the silly little things going on in my life.
But I have to share. My little friend is back. The mouse. I realize this is not that big of a deal, but I am a WUSS and I don't like little creatures hanging out around me where they don't belong.
First thing this morning at about 7:30 I was just sitting peacefully in my office putting grades into the gradebook when I see a furry critter sitting in my office doorway gazing up at me with his beady little eyes. He ran away after I screamed.
A few minutes later I look across the room to see him sitting in an open cupboard on one of the choir folder shelves about 4 from the bottom. At this point I kinda wanted to get him on camera so I slowly got up from my chair, grabbed my camera and took a few steps forward at which point he leaped out and started running along the wall toward me. So I screamed again, dropped my camera, ran into my office and closed the door.
Believe it or not, I see him again a few minutes later scampering across the floor toward my marker board on wheels. He ran underneath it and stayed for awhile. So I watched him for a few minutes to see what he would do and he creeped out and started trying to climb the markerboard. The bottom of it is slick plastic and kind of slants downward so you can imagine the bad luck he was having. It made me laugh so hard watching him. Again I wanted to get him on camera so I opened my door but he heard that and ran INTO a little bin I have for brightly colored mini maracas (for elementary) and burrowed himself beneath them. I haven't seen him since. Needless to say, I probably won't be letting the kids play those until they've been cleaned.
After weeks of hiding he finally comes out and stays in plain sight doing the most ridiculous things. Maybe he's been cooped up in here too long.

Fish and Stuff

Last Saturday Matt convinced me to wake up early (even though that's my sleep-in day) to go to North Crow reservoir between here and Cheyenne to go fishing. It was a chilly, foggy morning but it cleared up and it was actually really nice. I told Matt I would catch more fish than him (that never happens) and I did! I caught one little guy and Matt didn't get anything. Here is me and my little rainbow trout.

Here's a picture of Matt and I at the reservoir. Now, while I have gained weight that's not just in the belly, I swear my rear end is NOT as big as it looks in this picture. I was wearing pants that are very saggy in that area so that's why I look huge-o. Plus my hat kinda covers up my eyes... ha ha

Later that same day, Matt raced in a pinewood derby with the student ward where he was in the bishopric. It was a no rules derby so he raced a car with a rat trap on top... he didn't win, which was too bad, and I didn't get many pictures but here's one of the group.

An updated picture of me at 32 weeks. Baby in less than two months!!!! Yikes and YAY!

And lastly, some very pretty flowers that Matt got me yesterday just because. He's very sweet. And he knows how stressed I've been at work! :)