January Snapshots

The brief version of what's been going on with me the past two weeks.

Back to school = face painting and balloons

Aggie Basketball

Watching this three times in one week

making the best of the cold

I made my first 911 call after Alexa and I saw a big group of people 

crash into a tree while sledding on Old Main. Scariest thing ever.

Aggie hockey

game nights

We Shot the Moon came to Utah State...not the best, but free is good.

Alexa and I are taking Raquetball

Mustache party

Poetry and a Beverage

MLK Day in Hooper...tubing behind snowmobiles

We became fish mothers. (One only last six days. Hugh had a very nice funeral service.)

Playing Bingo with our adopted grandparents. Alexa cheats by having 3 boards.

The semester is hectic as usual, but happy!

I am busy with work, but have easier classes than ever before. (Assessment Design, Teaching Social Studies, Teaching Literacy, Mythology and Raquetball).

Because my class load is lighter, I'm really putting a lot into volunteering. Alexa and I are both volunteering at Sunrise Elementary as reading tutors. It's out of my comfort zone to work with first graders but I know it will be rewarding. We're trying to stay tight with our friends at the retirement home and I'll be working on a volunteer committee for the campus SAAVI office (sexual assault and violence information). Also, the plan is to go to HAWAII with the service center in March to work with Habitat for Humanity, the Boys and Girls club, and to save some seals.

I'm stressing a lot about passing the Praxis this weekend, deciding where I want to student teach TWO YEARS from right now, and financing my life.

I'll just keep reminding myself that things have always worked out before, and they will work out again!

Peace and love.