power of ASK

so i'm doing my student teaching in the spring, right?  
i'm moving back to salt lake for it.  
i wanted to teach in granite district.  
my advisor said no, they don't place USU kids in granite. 
i asked if i could put it as my first choice anyway.  
she said, ok, doesn't hurt? 
i turned my application in.  
the office lady said, oh we've never had anyone request granite. 
i said, that's because it's on your no request list. 
she said she'd make a few phone calls and see what she could do. 
i smiled.  
i got my placement on wednesday. 
i'm student teaching in granite district.  
granite district is huge.  30ish elementary schools. 
i could've gone anywhere. 
the office lady didn't know my home address BUT
the school she's placed me at is oakridge... 
oakridge is not 4 minutes from my house.  
i cried when i opened that e=mail. 
the Lord is so good to us. 
the power of ASK is incredible and real.  
you get what you want when you ask for what you want.  

in other news, it's the weekend!  huzzah!  

p.o.p.c.o.r.n.

you learn something new everyday.
sometimes things that you should've known before.
TOTALLY should've known before.
yesterday in science class, mrs. scheele was teaching the little ones about physical changes.
we were talking about popcorn... and hypothesizing whether it was a physical or chemical change.
when she was talking about where popcorn comes from, i was astounded to learn it came from corn!
did you know this?  i think i'm probably the only one that didn't realize this... ha ha ha...
but i sat there in awe.  they take it off the stalk and shuck it then dry it out and shake out the kernels and you can pop them to make pop corn.  you'd think with the name "popped corn" i'd catch on... hah!

life just makes so much sense.
i'm glad to be educated now.

ps.  americans consume 500,000,000 pounds of popcorn every year!  i'm pretty sure a good 1,000 of those pounds happen at grandpa anderson's house :)

our big gnome.

today we lost our dear cousin, brian condie.  after a battle with colon cancer for years, it finally took him.  my thoughts and prayers are continually with him, his sweet wife and 2 beautiful daughters, and all other family members.  life is so fragile.  we'll miss the "big gnome".  i'll be wearing this shirt tomorrow in honor of him.