Funny things in our lives...

I have been wanting to blog for a few weeks now, but the time seems to escape me somehow!  I have also wanted to take pictures of the house (inside) to show everyone, but once again time seems to escape me somehow.  Instead I thought I'd take a few minutes to tell about some funny happenings at the Merket household.

1.  The other day in my honors class a student told me she wanted to knock on our door on Sunday and make us go to church.  Only in Blanding would this happen.

2.  On accident I pronounced "sex" while slowly pronouncing successor in class today.  (The funny kind of stops here.)

3.  City continues to make us laugh every other minute.  He is such a funny puppy.

4.  We are trying to get used to having our new roomie.  The lack of privacy isn't bad because he is rarely home. I get a little irritated when the window is open 24/7 and we are paying to heat the house.  Malia is awesome and its fun to go on weekend getaways around Blanding.  They share a lot of the same attitudes towards Blanding.  I'm thankful we have them.

5.  Malia found this video on youtube.  On our honeymoon Chris and I took a foods tour.  At the end they asked us for a video.  We had completely forgotten about this video until Malia brought it to our attention.  Apparently she searched for "Utah Luaus" and this was on the results page.  I laughed when I saw it.



6.  I have rearranged my seating chart in 5th period about 15 times to accommodate the students who cannot manage to keep on task.  I even got 2 extra desks from the basement of ARL to put in my classroom.  I have one student sitting right in front of my desk and a student in the very back of the room.  I also have a student who sits by the pencil sharpener in the front of the room.  It's very similar to babysitting... BUT IT WORKS!  Now I am rearranging a few students so the races are mixed a little more evenly.  Its sad to say that some students will stop talking when they are placed next to a Native American or a Caucasion.

7.  We are excited to decorate our house for Christmas.  I'm going to really try to get into the Christmas spirit.  Its been a few years since I've really tried...