The ride to work

THE RIDE TO WORK

I love my drive to work. I have always said that I would prefer to drive 30 minutes on a country road to work over driving 15 minutes on the freeway. I enjoy that kind of driving time so much more. There is nothing quite like the smell of manure and skunk. Surprisingly I can take them pretty well.

Feeling so GRATEFUL!

A one room School House like unto Little house on the Prairie

I finale got a job and teaching. It is in a small one room school house sort of, but not exactly like this one. I have to drive through fields, past the cows and the dairy farm and down a bumpy dirt road to get to it. I LOVE IT. I love the incredible view of Mount Timpanogus as I get out of my car. I step into a room of children who just need to be cared for and all the live long day I try to find the balance of educating and giving them the correct tools to be successful, while also helping them to feel loved. I teach them art. It isn't the most incredible job financially, but there are many joys that life can't buy. These kids bring out so much good in me.

This is not my room, but I guess we could just say that it is symbolic of what it is

that I am doing next in life.

oh what do you do in the summertime....

... You join in on the biggest waterballon fight in the history of the world at BYU.

This is mearly the aftermath of the event. Soaked to the bone, with a little bit of gravel remaining on the legs, with a free tee shirt

A few of us got to go to be on television with fox 13. I'll get those pictures later.

... You go swimming at the resevoir with friends!!!

...Go Hiking and working at the Heber Valley with your friends

A Daughter-Daddy date and a tender mercy

Tender Mercy

Yesterday was A-mazing!!! First off I went to have a check-up number on my skin at the doctor. Turns out it is looking really good, almost gone. However she said I still need to keep going with the medication. It is a fabulous medication, but it cost is apx. $500 for a 21 day supply, and $130 dollars when you have a coupon. That was still quite steep for my budget. While discussing options my dermatologist determined it was best to stick with the expensive medication that works. She left and came back with a full size bottle that couldn't be sold, it was an office sample. I could hardly believe it. I offered to pay the $30.oo cost of what would have been the original coupon price before it got expensive. She said she wanted me to have it. I felt like crying I was so excited. I know that blessings come where you least suspect them. When one is faithful in paying tithing the Lord may not always give blessings in the format of a pay raise or money on your front porch. More often the blessings appear in cases such as these, where a tender mercy of a simple but much needed medication is made available. Feeling so grateful right now.

Great Day Part II

Daughter-Daddy date. Dad was so gracious to accompany me today to get my balanced and checked at Walmart. Well, that on a regular day sounds quite boring, but Dad and I made it fun. We picked a couple of needed items, then migrated toward the Root beer and then to McDonald's. I bought us a bottle of root beer and a cup of ice cream and we had lovely root beer floats in the McDonald's restaurant in Walmart. It was quite lovely.

Roomate 2004-2005 Reunion

Merika, Amy, and I all got together in Salt Lake Today. We later went to Park City to window gaze. Later this evening we landed at Breana's and I headed home. Breana is 9 months and a day pregnant. So crazy. According to the order made by the roommates over 5 years ago I am the next in line to get married. NO PRESSURE!!! Guess I have some work to do here in the land of plenty.

The lovely lemonades we had at the California Pizza Kitchen.

The Maine like shop in Park City. Oh, how I love the bright beautiful colors

This fudge looked so delicious, until we found out that it was $16.99 a pound. Then I decided one mint truffle would have to do. Oh how lovely they look.

Peppermint bark, Mmmmmmmm. One of my favorites in Alaska.

I just wanted to digest it all, all at once.

I whistle a happy tune

So, I did something the other day that has been on my buck list for years. I have always wanted to be a part of a musical. So I tried out. I love to sing, but used to be terrified of any audience. Over the last couple of years I have gained a strong confidence and love for performing and speaking in front of audiences, while working in the adventure education environment.
I am not sure what I was thinking, the last time I tried out for a musical my throat seemed to swell up at the moment I walked into audition. My voice came out as some strange frog-like croak. Since then it has been such a scary thing to even think that I could audition for a play. I decided this summer that I would get involved somehow, and muster the courage to sing in a musical.
I came across an old high school friend who introduced me to a group doing several vignetts including the King and I, for a benefit concert for the cancer society. They were already well into the rehearsal schedule so I expected little other than the back up for the back up singers. I went to the first rehearsal I knew about last Saturday. I was quite lost, but just before I left they asked me if I wanted to audition for a solo. I was super nervous and was only given 2 quick run throughs. I didn't even have the words memorized. Right before we began they asked us to act it out. As I went up I almost quit, I was so afraid, they encouraged me to try and so I said to my self....

"Whenever I feel afraid

I hold my head erect

and whistle a happy tune

So no one will suspect

I'm afraid."

(That is the song we sang.) I went with it and was shaking in my boots, I was terrified. However, I was so shocked to find that the frog that used to come out of my throat did not make an appearance that day. I was just grateful to sound decent.

I was super late to the rehearsal tonight because of work. I was not sure if I should just give up on the venture, but I decided to go and at least tell them in person. So as I did they asked me if I wanted to give up my solo with the King and I. I was so excited I screamed inside my head, and later proceeded to scream to Elise on the phone. I also tackled Elise out of excitement later. I told them promptly that I would make time for the rehearsals.

I was not sure if Provo would hold any kind of grand adventure for me. Turns out that Provo is holding up to it's end of the bargain.