Last Semester

Well I've been considering this my last semester of classes. Next semester I'm technically still a student but I'll be student teaching- aka no classes. So I tried to make the most of this semester. I had so much fun with everyone in this class. I'm a bit sad at the idea that I may never see some of them again.

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The last 4 ish months were spent with this group of people 3 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Here's just a couple of the more interesting projects that I had to do this year: A health fair tri-fold (with matching lesson plan)

And my personal favorite... 250 pages of writing letters. Why? No freaking clue, but apparently it's essential to becoming a teacher!

I went to dinner after our last final with my favorite girls from class

Goodbye to a fun semester... hello to the almost real world!

Breakfast for Dinner Party

Well we threw another party in November- I'm just really slow at posting. But it was a breakfast for dinner/ pajama party. It was really so fun! I made my mom's french toast casserole. My roommates all made stuff, and people brought their favorite breakfast item to share.

We have two living rooms so people were spread out all over enjoying our awesome food!

Once the food was mostly gone we broke out Twister and played games for a while.

We took a group photo before most everyone left. It was definitely a success... I mean who doesn't love breakfast??

White Trash Bash part duex

So my roommates and I made a goal at the beginning of the year to throw a party a month. This one was in September and it was pretty funny. Last year I posted some pictures of a White Trash Bash and the party was actually hosted at this house. So we decided to make it an annual event for the residents of this house.

Sitting on the couch we moved to our backyard... which was right in front of the camp fire where we roasted hot dogs.
On the menu: hot dogs (bread instead of buns), pork rinds, Twinkies, jalapeno poppers, and a 5 gallon jar of cheese balls.
In our best White Trash Bash attire. (My black vest was a $1 find from D.I.)

As part of the festivities we hosted a water pong tournament. It was pretty competitive (note the angry runners up glaring in the background). These guys were our winners, and as their prize they got Macaroni and Cheese.

The roommies by the couch/fire.

It was so fun to see all of the mullets, trucker hats, cut off demin, fake tatoos, and flannel. Hopefully whoever lives here next year will keep our tradition going!

Warehouse Dance Party

A few weeks ago there was a dance party in a warehouse that a bunch of my friends and I went to. It was possibly the most fun I've had at a party ever!

Cash, Me, Caitlin, Stacia, and Marli

Can you spot me in this sea of fun? :)

Belated Birthday

So I know it's a bit late (almost 2 months), but here are some pictures of my birthday weekend. I had a bunch of family come down to help me celebrate :) Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Nathan, Breanne, Elise, Danelle, and Tela. It was so great and thoughtful to have everyone come down!

The amazing chocolate birthday cake Grandma made
Me and my bestie

The whole gang in front of my house...

My birthday was actually on a Monday and my family left on Sunday. On my actual birthday I also went night rappelling in the rain with my roommates and some boys. If I ever get the pictures from my roommate I'll post them... most likely under another "Adventure List" title.

Mae/ Allred Concert

A few weeks ago Marli and I made a little day trip down to St. George. We heard Mae and Allred were performing on a Thursday night and decided to make a day out of it. After class I drove a company car down (yes, a Mustang Convertible!!!) So we drove down with the top down, had dinner at Olive Garden, went to the mall, and had a blast at the concert! If you've never heard Mae or Allred before, you NEED to look up some of their songs!
Marli and Me


The warm, sunny, November drive with the top down!!! So fun! :)

Summit League Conference Tournament... so far

So we flew in to Fargo, North Dakota on Wednesday. We qualified for the conference tournament where only the top 4 teams from out conference got to compete. We have the number 3 seed. Wednesday was a full day of travel- driving to Vegas, flying to Chicago with a 2 hour layover, then flying to Fargo (which in case you were wondering is bitter cold!). Thursday we basically walked around the mall (Fargo's only real attraction), had a mini practice, and then a banquet for all of the teams.

These pictures were taken at the banquet. Obviously the top one is my team. And the bottom picture is my teammate/roommate Tara Sawyer :) We don't even get to play until tomorrow night. Another full day of waiting for us. We play North Dakota State first and WHEN we win we will be in the Championship game on Saturday night! Wish us luck!

Wheelchair Basketball

Ballin'

It's Disability Awareness week at SUU and as one of the many activities that the school provided to raise awareness, they held a wheelchair basketball tournament! Now this is harder than you think. There are real rules:

• After every 2 "rolls" or about 6 feet you must dribble the ball.
• You can not be rolling when you shoot
• You cannot use your feet in any way to assist you or the ball
• Any contact with another persons wheelchair is a personal foul
• All other basketball rules apply (e.g. back court, out of bounds, 3 pointers)

It was so fun! And my team made it all the way to the quarter finals. Not too bad for a first timer!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

All month long our team is warming up in pink warm up tops for Breast Cancer Awareness. And this Thursday we're having a benefit game where all proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. I love that our team is doing what they can to help... and looking cute while at it!

We also all wore pink bows...Alissa did her hair a little crazy so we had fun with hers :)

The Girls of the Purple House

I don't know why, but our house has been nicknamed the Purple House. It's just a name that it's had for a while and people know it as that, so it stuck. Anyways, all of us roommates finally found a day that we could all take pictures a few weeks ago (we all have pretty busy lives) Don't I have some gorgeous roommates??

East Elementary Eagles

Dear Student Teacher,

That's how my letter in this mornings mail started out. I just got my student teaching placement and I'm so excited! I will be student teaching starting this January at East Elementary School in Cedar City, Utah. I will be in either a 1st or 3rd grade classroom with one of two teachers. I seriously can't wait! I am so close to being graduated and licenced and out in the real world of teaching!!!

AHHHHH!!! I really can't contain my excitement! Just ask my roommates who witnessed me dancing around the kitchen as I read this :)

True T-Bird

I'm sure every University has some equivilant of the True T-Bird. The night before the homecoming game everyone stands at a certain place (in our case touching our statue) and kisses at midnight after we count down. This is my last year here at SUU so it was basically now or never. So I asked a friend of mine, my roommates boyfriend's friend, if he'd help me to reach this goal of mine.

As you can see, I'm not one for doing things halfway, so rather than just touching the statue of Old Sorrel, We were standing/sitting on the top of it with a few other couples.

This is with Zach Wall a couple of minutes after midnight, after all of the couples "making out" cleared out of the way. Now I can check that one off of my list of things to do this year ;)

Pretend Camping

Another adventure list item we crossed off: pretend camping. We brought out our extra couch by our fire pit and made dinner and dessert (hot dogs and s'mores). Then the plan was to sleep out on the grass... but then we thought better of it and just brought out love sack and recliners out to the patio and slept there.

Adventure List

So this is my last year of college (Thank Goodness!) And I really want to make the most of it. So my roommates and I came up with an "Adventure List". We wrote down a list of things that we have wanted to do in Cedar City-or in general- but haven't gotten around to yet. And we're slowly crossing things off of our list.

Writing on the football stadium bleacher seats. It's been discovered that if you flip certain chairs up and certain chairs down you can spell things out.

Playing night games at Discovery Park (a tricked out park that overlooks the town)

And wiffle ball. Thanks to my roommate Kim Duke's idea we turned it into glow in the dark wiffle ball. We used glow sticks as the bases, and wove glow sticks into the ball. It was quite the success...

...until of course I was running home, trying to score, and took out my roommate, Haley.

I felt so horrible! I mean when I play games, I usually am able to contain my competitiveness. And in all fairness she was clearly hovering over the plate (which isn't legal for this very reason)... she's fine. But I felt like a total jerk!

I've already posted some other things off our list, like rock climbing. And needless to say there will be many more posts pertaining to the infamous "Adventure List"

Frisbee Golf!

Some friends of mine decided to play some frisbee golf around campus this last week... It was a ton of fun (and I need a better frisbee)
Well my roommate Marli got a frisbee stuck on the roof. So of course we figured out a way to get onto the roof to get it down... Needless to say the next night we got a huge group of people to come out and climb on the roof with us to star gaze. You couldn't really see many stars from there, but it was pretty awesome to hang out on top of our student center!