A blog worthy week!

This week has definitely been blog worthy. After moving out of the Colony (apartments) to our condo we tried to apply for instate tuition and were denied.
Then we appealed (I totally went in front of a panel of people and everything)...and were denied. All because Ty was subbing and taking masters classes. He didn't have what they considered a "steady full-time job".
So now that he's teaching, we thought we'd give it another shot...and this week we got the letter!

Dear Ms Heid:

I am very pleased to inform you that you are considered a resident of the state of Pennsylvania for tuition purposes...

Yeah! This will save us sooo much money.


AND, I was reimbursed for a ticket for parking in a spot in Philly (behind the van) with a parking meter with this sign. They told me this was a tow zone, but I took a picture of a sign a block away with a towing sign on it. My sign clearly didn't have the No Parking, tow away stuff on it. At first the traffic judge didn't let me win my case, telling me I wouldn't until I mailed in the picture of the sign a block away. So I did. And now I don't have to pay the 40 bucks. I know, it's not much, Ty said I should have just paid it, but I just couldn't do it! I got my inspiration from Janell Gregerson. She's the best at getting out of stupid tickets!






And finally, we had an awesome weekend. On Fri. we went to our first professional indoor lacrosse game with some friends in our ward. I guess "The Philadelphia Wings" are really good. The game was at the Wachovia center. The game was a mixture of a hockey game and a rock concert, but they were using lacrosse sticks. There were fights and everything! We won (in case you don't keep up on the team like us). Oh, and our friend's two sons had a high school lacrosse scrimmage after the professional game (on the same field) so we were able to see them play too. I definitely will be going to more Lacrosse games in the future.














On Saturday we went to the Temple with the Carrs. It was really nice. And seriously, if you want your temple drive to seem like it is only 30 minutes, then go with Greg and Jenna. Ty and I have decided that going with friends to the temple has been so much more fun than going with just us. And the drive sure goes a lot quicker. We've had the chance to go with a lot of different friends to the temple and it's always really fun. The rest of the night we hung out at the good old Colony Arms apartment eating and playing games. Fun times. Oh yeah, and Tyler wanted to remind everyone that he dominated Ticket To Ride, twice. He's so humble.

Friends

We started this blog a long time ago as a family blog and have been avoiding adding friends, mainly because we don't have any cute kids yet like everyone else. Today I decided to add friends because I realized this is the best way to keep in contact with everyone. And by adding all of these links, I'll be able to get to them easier and look at everyone's blogs. I'm not the greatest blogstalker like some of you (Val :) ), but I'll try to check out everyone's blog once in a while. We may not blog very much (well at least until Seminary is over), and sometimes Ty types and sometimes I do (so you'll have to figure it out), but we hope you enjoy our blog. Oh, and if you didn't recognize, this is the Colony picture(PA)of the girls 2006. Fun times.

Working for the Weekend

I think I understand that song now. I actually have a real job and it is funny that all I do is count down the days until the weekend. The school I work at is very small and I teach a small number of students in each class. This is nice, except for by the end of the week I am sick of those same students and they are all sick of each other. Many of them have been going to this same Charter School for years and years with the exact same kids in each class for ten periods a day (yes, I said 10 periods). An example of this is our Senior class. There are 12 of them. They have all been going to school together since 8th grade. Some of them have been at the school since 5th grade. They pretty much have the exact same classes all day, every day. The school is small and the hallways are smaller. Between each class, the students have to run into the same kids all the time. They definitely get on each other's nerves, and a lot of times they get on the teachers' nerves. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy teaching, but I love that feeling on a Friday afternoon when school gets out.