The End of Another School Year

Well this has been one heck of a school year.  For all of you who talk to me regularly know how hard it has been.  It's hard to believe that I graduated from high school three years ago and started driving and dating almost five years ago...it seems like only yesterday.  I am however proud to say that I am finishing my last full semester before student teaching and after that I will graduate and move into the big world of adults.  I am terrified to be honest although I have no doubt that it will be a great adventure that awaits me.  I begin my student teaching at Crescent Elementary School in West Jordan at the end of August.  I am very glad that I have been placed in a 5th grade classroom and then a 3rd grade classroom which are the exact ages where I want to be teaching.  I left my 4th grade class at Mountainside Elementary School on Friday and it was hard to say goodbye to those wonderful children that have taught me so much and made me feel so welcome in their classroom.  This summer I will be working at ShopKo doing lawn and garden again which won't be my favorite thing, but it will be fun and I'll get a great tan. ;)  I said goodbye to my co-workers at the Logan ShopKo on Saturday and it was a hard thing to do.  I have never loved the people I work with so much and felt so much like I belonged and was loved at a job before.  It truly is amazing how the people in your life can mean so much to you when you never thought they could.  It will be hard to go back to the West Jordan ShopKo and leave them all here and rarely see them.

My last day of class they were kind a took a serious picture for me :)

This is my fourth grade class in their tie dye shirts that they made for their field trips!

And then we got to take a silly picture haha I never know what to do for silly :P

The Updates of My Life

Here comes the update.  I am almost done with my last semester of college classes and in the fall I will be doing my student teaching.  I will be doing this in the Salt Lake valley.  The guy I was previously dating broke up with me and mostly it was because he couldn't handle being an adult and discussing things that had been bothering him about our relationship and he didn't want to be the one who got left behind if we didn't work.  He was very nice about breaking up with me and very respectful, but still.  The guy I was dating before him is now engaged... I have wonderful friends who keep me going strong and keep me smiling when times get tough.  Without them I truly do not know how I would survive or where I would be in this world. 

That's all for now!

Erin

Home For The Holiday

This Christmas break has been pretty wonderful! I spent one week of it in Logan with a few of my friends and had a pretty great time. For Christmas we did the usual and I my favorite gifts were my zebra purse and my iPod :) The pictures below are of the Christmas house I made the past two days. It was a lot of fun! I hope you all have a great new year!

Christmas Time in the Apartment

Hey! This is the update of my Christmas time for now... We decorated our apartment with snowflakes, stockings, lights, tree and a paper chain! It was so much fun to decorate! Also my room-roommate moved out to go on her mission so I'm in my own room and there is a picture of what my side looks like.  I hope everyone is having a great Christmas season! These are the updates of my life.  Oh I also have two fish.  That I love, they don't have names yet... I love you all!

Funny Story...: This is Carly. She decided one day that she wanted to cook a potato so she wrapped it in tin foil and then in that apron and put it in the microwave for five minutes.  I was doing my hair and I hear this little voice from the kitchen say, "It's on fire..." very calmly.  Then our neighbor Karli said, "You should probably take that outside...".  When I walked out there this is what I saw. Silly Carly, you can't put tin foil in the microwave.

This is the same story.  Now this apron hangs in our apartment as a memento.

Our cute little tree that Brianna cut down for us.  The ornaments are pictures of attractive men :)  The star I made out of ribbon! :D It was super fun.

The lights in our window.

My paper chain for counting down til Christmas.  The star says, "How many days til Christmas? It's just so hard to wait! This countdown chain will tell you when it's finally time to celebrate. Each evening when goodnights are said, take off one link and hop in bed. When the star is left alone to shine, then you'll know it's Christmas time!" I modified it a little bit and made the last link really pretty for Christmas day.

This is the whole apartment with snowflakes and all! Oh there is also mistletoe over the door.

This is Carly.

This is Brianna.

These are our stockings. Mine is the silver one.

This is Jogal and Herbert.  They are firebellied toads! Carly and Brianna found Jogal on the Institute grounds and Herbert is for Carly's sister, Bailey, as a Christmas present.  Jogal is the darker one and Herbet is the brighter one.

This is my room! :D

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This is a tea bag rocket experiment!

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My mom and I at the color festival, 2011

Melissa and Erin 2011

Erin at Multinoma Falls Washington

The Awesomeness That My Friends Are! :D

This week has been the best week in the past month! I came home on Monday night because I didn't have classes for the rest of the week and I spent the whole time with my family and friends.  On Tuesday I just hung out and did a lot of nothing.  On Wednesday I spent most of the day with my good friend Laura.  We spent the day running around Sugarhouse and buying Halloween bell earrings and then got lunch and went to Gardner Village.  It was so good to see her and spend time with her.  Then on Thursday I just spent time at home again until seven when Kim and Bryson(her fiance) picked me up and we went to the corn maze.  Kim is a wonderful and amazing friend who truly knows how to make me smile.  She is amazing! They decided to set me up on a date with their friend Justin.  After the corn maze Bryson dropped the two of us off at Kim's and we played Jenga and just talked.  On Friday I spent some more time at home, was called by Justin to ask me on a date and then around eight I went to the movies with Darien and Phil.  We went to see Footloose which was pretty amazing!  I haven't laughed and smiled so much since Michael broke up with me.  It was a great thing for me.  Then today I went to my friend Jessica's baby shower and spent time around the house after that.  At nine fifteenish Justin picked me up for our double date.  We went to the haunted corn maze and listened to Kim scream her head off :) We love her! After we survived the haunted section we decided to go through the regular corn maze and just have fun.  It was great talking to Justin and just being on a date, even if it meant nothing and is going no where.  I'm so blessed to have wonderful friends.  After the corn maze we went to Village Inn, Kim was hungry, and we got shakes and whatever else everyone wanted.  We talked and laughed and all had a great time :) I hope it can happen again.  This night has been the best for me in moving forward and learning to love life again.  I love you all and hope you know how much I appreciate all you do!