Top 10 of 2010 (in no particular order):
10. I moved home! Moving to Provo from Cedar City was the biggest breath of fresh air, the biggest drink of fresh water, it was like learning it would be Christmas everyday, it was the greatest! I loved my time at SUU, but it was definitely time to get the heck out of Cedar City.
9. I student taught some of the cutest 2nd and 4th graders in the world. They were so great. I loved my time at Scera Park Elementary and I worked with the best mentor teachers ever. They taught me so much and gave me all kinds of awesome ideas.
8. Some of my family from California came into town during the 4th of July weekend. I met my mom's cousin's kids who are adorable. We had a lot of fun catching up, eating good food, and just spending good quality time with the family. It was a definite highlight of my summer.
7. My first real friend got married. It wasn't as weird as I thought it would be. I am super happy for her and her husband (we totally went to high school with him). She had a very classy and elegant reception up Provo canyon and her dress was spectacular! I'm glad she decided to go along with the reception.
6. I relieved my teenage years and went to 4 concerts in 4 months. It was great (you can click on the links to get full coverage)
October: The Lower Lights on the rooftop of Central Bank in Provo (part of the Rooftop Concert Series) This CD is the greatest CD of hymns ever. You can listen to sitting on your bed on a Sunday afternoon and driving to Salt Lake when it 18 degrees outside on a Thursday morning. It features Provo's finest. If you want a copy, let me know.
Brandon Flowers I love Brandon Flowers. I love him so much that I scheduled all of my Parent Teacher conferences for Tuesday night and only 2 on Wednesday and used one of my "Leave Early" passes on Wednesday night to make it just in time for the show at 9. It was worth the stress and worth being smashed between other fans in the audience. It was a good show. And Ronnie Vannucci (the drummer from The Killers) came in for the encore (see video-which I didn't record, just found it on youtube. I was excited to see Ronnie, but not that excited haha). Good night fo sho.
5. Family camping trip to Manti. It was Manti, but it sure was fun. We had a good weekend seeing what Manti could offer us. We camped in this cute little campsite from the 70's, went on some hikes, visited the temple, and visited the town a few times. It was a lot of fun. My family is awesome. Be jealous.
4. I joined the BYU 229th ward legitimately. (229th! I went from 24th to 229th! What the freak) We got a new bishopbric in May and they are amazing. I love my bishop and my ward. I am the institute c0-chair (so BYU) meaning I work with the chair to make sure people are enrolled in institute and promote the stake institute class every Thursday night. It might sound lame but did I mention ward council? Yeah, I attend ward council every other Sunday. It's totally a legit calling. And it's fun. And I don't have a ton of responsibilities, but I know all the upcoming activities. It's great.
3. This summer I put so many miles on my car. I applied to over 150 jobs and interviewed all over. Lame, huh? It wasn't that bad. I traveled all over from Springville to Tooele. I met a lot of people and drove through some pretty interesting place and dodged as much road construction as I could (I am queen of the back roads). I almost made an interview in Morgan (past Ogden) and one in Cache Valley (by Logan) but I didn't quite make it to those places. I had 1 interview in Nebo, 2 in Provo, 2 in Alpine, 9 in Granite, 1 in Jordan, 2 in Tooele, and 2 in Canyons. Granite was the lucky one.
2. I graduated. I love school, but I was so happy to be done. It was the best feeling in world.
1. I am a teacher!!! I have the best little 5th graders ever. I am so grateful for my job and for the little ones. I love the little boys who draw mustaches on their face with my overhead pens. I love the girls who check out origami books from the library and make me all kinds of little presents. I love my messy classroom and I even love DIBELS (somedays). I started with 31 kids and I now have 25 (maybe 24...:( ). It is definitely nice to have a smaller class, but I sure miss the ones who moved. There are some days I am super drained and somedays I most definitely countdown until the weekend, but I wouldn't trade it in. I feel like I am still learning a lot and I still have so much to learn, but in the end it is going really great. They are so funny and make me laugh on a weekly/daily/hourly basis. Like when we were talking about the Boston Tea Party and how King George was upset and wouldn't give the colonists any tea until they paid him back. I had a super Primary kid (you know who they are) raise his hand and ask "Is this what started the Word of Wisdom?" and another kid asked "Yeah, what about Joseph Smith? Did he throw the tea over?" Last week was our crazy Christmas week. We had a sing along for our parents and for the school. The 5th grade did great. They did rush through "The 12 Days of Christmas" faster than the piano (wouldn't you?) but it turned out really cute. I lost my voice during the school performance while I was trying to get them to sing louder, but oh well. Santa came out and my class was surprisingly very excited. Like I couldn't get them to settle down. It was weird since when I had them do a timed writing about their favorite Christmas traditions, half of them wrote how Santa is a creepy stalker and the other half wrote their story how they really found out about Santa. I think they just wanted the Taffy he brought for them. Anyway, I love my job and my class. They are awesome!
Some of my favorite movies of 2010:
Inception
Tangled
Alice in Wonderland
Toy Story 3
Some of my favorite songs of 2010: (for some good tunes, click on the links)
The whole Alice in Wonderland Soundtrack: Tea Party is one of my favorites
A Hymn Revival-The Lower Lights: For the Beauty of the Earth
Here's to a better 2011!
3 comments:
Loved this! (But not as much as I love you! So glad you got the heck out of Cedar City too!)
We're happy to have you home and proud of you, too!
I hopy your laryngitis goes away. Sounds like you had a great year!
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