Easter time...

SO, this year Easter was kind of sad! We celebrated Easter on Saturday, with Devin's family. Everyone was there and it was nice to spend time with my nieces and nephews. We had a yummy ham dinner and the kids received some baskets from Grandma and Grandpa Hardman and Great Grandma and Grandpa Vineyard. It is so celebrating holidays with little ones. It makes it so much more exciting! We left before the official egg hunt started, because we were heading up north to Farmington to play some games with our good friends, Amy and Andrew. They were at Andrew's parents new house for Easter. Chad and Cindy, Blake and Becky were also there. (Chindy and Blecky) :) The girls played some fun card games and chatted while the guys golfed on the Wii. When the boys were done, we played "murder in the dark." The objective was to catch a murderer, obviously! We turned off all the lights in the basement and one person drew a paper that gave them the job of murderer. We all crawled on our hands and knees, in the pitch black dark, trying to avoid being "choked" by the assassin! I never got to be the murderer, but I did manage to get my arm banged up pretty bad. First, Blake rolled over me as I lay on the floor dying, and shortly after, Chad stepped on my arm. Both guys were attempting to oust the murderer by racing to the light switch and exclaiming that they know who the murderer is. Even though I was injured, it was a lot of fun! It's great having good friends who are at the same stage of life as you are. 

On Sunday, we went to church and got some nice reminders about the true meaning of Easter. I am so grateful for Christ's atonement and for the resurrection of our savior!!! The sad part came when we came home and napped for HOURS and ate pasta for dinner, followed by watching Twilight. Not very Easter-y! Amy and Andrew came by for games and brownies but it was sad not being with my family doing all those fun Easter things. Maybe next year we wil be in California, and perhaps with a little one to enjoy all the fun with! :)

We will however, be in California TOMORROW! I am so excited to see my family! 

GOSH that was a long post...hope you all care! :) 

Our internet has been down at home so I will post pictures soon!

We're rich!

Okay, not really. But, good news is, in about 1 hour, we will have sold Devin's 2007 Toyota Corolla to some friends of ours! This is great news for us! We have 2 cars, both 07's, and work less than a block from our home, and Devin rides the bus to school. We are happy to have some extra money to stash in savings. Hooray for provident living!

Picture Time!

April Fools Day

So, last year I tried to trick my class, and it went....not so good? This year was a different story!

First, we write in journals every morning. I give them some topics, and they scribble away! Yesterday I chose some interesting topics. They read:

1. Why do you love me? Why am I so great? Why do you cry when I'm not here?

2. Write a letter to Mary (she's my fabulous aide) and tell her how much you love her and what a fabulous person she is.

Fix: happie aprul foolz day! the furst to figure this out getz a treet!

We read through the prompts, and tell them to read the fixer on their own.

lots of writing and 45 min later I get responses like this:

"I love Mrs. Hardman becuase she is beutful and she is nice to me all the time and she love me and i love her she is my favrite teacher in the hole wurld she is nice and she takes us to honks if wur good. i think mrs. hardman rocks!" -Tommy

"Dear Hardman is pertty teacher mom and dad love you mrs hardman you are funun i sad mrs hardman not come to work or scool niec hardman wedding husbun devin fun and hims nice and cute. i love hardman. best friend hardman!" -Maria

So, maybe you didn't understand the words but all I know is I have wonderful kids who brighten my day and mean the world to me!!

On a funnier note, they did trick themselves! We decided to trick a student who went to the restroom. The kids hid and told me to change the clock so she would think she missed the bus. That prank flopped. Upon exiting their hiding spaces, one girl cried out, "oh no! look at the time! We are late!" This caused a FRENZY! They went absolutely nuts trying to get out to the bus. Once the got outside they were furious that the bus was gone. I calmly asked the kids if they remembered that I switched the clock per their request. The smiled, and turned around to go back to the room.... :)