New Hat!

I made a new hat. Followed a pattern and everything.

Kind of. I usually tweak anything I make.

I love it. VERY warm.

Happy Valentine's Day!

New Year

I have decided to make a few resolutions. Nothing big and life changing, but life-bettering.

1. Work out daily.
Most people make this resolution every year. I just want to be comfortable in my body, I'm not hoping to be a size 2. I just want to be able to feel good.

2. Start a project and complete it before starting a new one.
I am HORRIBLE at this. I always will start a project then think of something new and have 5 half done projects that end up being tossed.

3. Be better with my money.
I recently had to move back home because I could no longer really afford my apartment. This was not all due to my negligence with money, I had to take a lot of time off work for school. I used to be really good about saving my money, but recently that has not been happening at all. I want to get my savings account back up to $1000, as well as having my credit card fully paid off.

4. Take pictures more and do things with those pictures.
I am so bad at taking pictures, I always have been. I want to really document my life in photograph, and then display those pictures more. I have so many pictures I have actually taken, but I am the only one that ever sees them on my phone or camera. That is changing.

5. Blog more.
I go through spurts with this thing. I don't have avid followers by any means, but someday I might. I want to get in the habit now so it is a habit later.

Five resolutions should be easy to keep. All too often people, including me, make 20 resolutions then kick themselves when they don't keep all of them. I don't want to be upset with how I do this year.

Preschool Portions

You know those beads that link together? Well we have about 40 of them in the nursery at school. One of our favorite things to do is squeeze them and have them suck onto your face. Today we were able to get 6 on my face. New record.

A Time to Shop

Black Friday, what a night! It is really still Thursday and I am almost done with a lot of my Black Friday shopping. Most people don't like the sales starting on Thursday night, I love it! I can get regular sleep, and am not out when it is the most freezing.
For the past few years I've been going to Park City with my mom and little sister. It's become a beloved tradition.
The first store of the night was Old Navy. I got jeans, slippers, and a ring for $14.07. Thank you Black Friday, thank you.

A souvenir

I'm not a big souvenir person. I rarely buy a snow globe, t shirt, key chain, or stuffed animal. Today I was cleaning out my car and found this snow globe. Last month while I was student teaching in a fifth grade class a little girl went to New York and brought me back a snow globe. I had only known her for maybe 5 days and she bought me a little gift.
This is what I love about teaching. You mean the world to these kids.

Slacker To The X

So I don't know what my deal has been. I'm being so lazy about blogging. I have had nothing to do all summer and I can still tell myself I don't have time for it. But, sadly, I still haven't done much worth blogging either.
I need to learn how to create photo collages for effectively for moments like this. The only way I know how takes SO MUCH TIME!
So I'll give a quick run through of my summer.

Hannah had her birthday.

Hannah and I went up to Park City, did a little shopping. Then we went out to dinner at the Provo Towne Centre, but while waiting for others to arrive Hannah, Britney and I rode the carousal. It was definitely fun!

Then a few days later we went camping. I have no good pictures of the camping trip. They were all taken by Sam. I have yet to even see them!

For the Fourth of July I went to Moab with my mom and two of my nephews to watch my brother-in-law do the firework show. It was pretty fun, we went to the National Park, but didn't have time to hike to Delicate Arch. I have lived in Utah my whole life and still have not really been to Delicate Arch! One of these days...

I spent a lot of my summer visiting Trae. One trip I brought some faux glasses for us to play with. He looked so adorable!

We had fun playing at the pool, too. He is growing up so much and is just getting the cutest personality! I love that little guy.

We finally returned to our traditional Bear Lake trip. Though it was drastically interrupted when my mom got a KIDNEY STONE! Luckily my sister and her family was coming up the next day, so my brother-in-law took my mom home and my sister, her two younger boys, and I stayed and played for a little while. We were not good about taking pictures.

The boys loved getting buried. I didn't get as tan as I was hoping, though. I was good and didn't put on any tanning oil, just sunscreen. I'm not tan, but I also won't get skin cancer. Guess I made the healthier choice...

School started!

I had my mom take a picture of me like she did when I was little. The lace on my backpack, I added that myself! I am so proud of myself. It looks so adorable! I actually am loving school! My professors are all really cool, and since I'm in my major now I'm loving most of the content I learn. It's awesome.

Yesterday I went to the Riverwoods to see their Chalk the Walk event. They had tons of artists making big chalk murals in the parking lot and a percent of the precedes went to a school for autistic children. It was pretty cool. There was even an owl one! I would like to point out, I hopped on this trend before it was even a trend.

They aren't quite as cutsie as I like them, but I loved this one. It was a really cool event.

We also went to my parents' new house yesterday to check on the progress.

I got to stand in my new room! the first picture is through what will be a sliding glass door to the outside, the second is through the regular door from the hallway. At first I was really bummed about my parents moving, but I'm excited now. This house is going to be really cool. And I'll have a walk in closet! Too bad I'm basically grown...