With moving and having Pnemonia the last month, I haven't placed blogging as a high priority... so here is a quick update on the events of the last few months.
For general conference in October, my friend Shawn got tickets to the Saturday morning session. We stayed on temple square all day.
For the Sunday sessions, I watched the general conference with my family. It's a tradition to get together and have breakfast burritos and strawberry waffles.
On October 11, I celebrated my 28th birthday. My colleague had her students make me a big birthday sign that they hand delivered. It was great and quite the surprise!
To celebrate my birthday, I went out to lunch with a few friends. Here is a picture of Kristy, Cara and I at lunch at the Macaroni Grill.
On my actual birthday (Sunday afternoon) a lot of friends came over for cake and ice cream. Here are Lani, Nicole, Shawn and I.
Also in October, I was part of the PiMi Charity Race team for the second year in a row. It is a lot of work to put on, but well worth it. All the money goes to a charity organization.
I decided to run it as well. There was a new course that was a lot more difficult than last year, but I really enjoyed it!
For the first science unit of the year, we teach about the biomes of Utah and the animals and plants that can be found there. As as part of our unit, we had a guy from the Bean Museum come and do a presentation. He brought some real animals with him. Greater love hath no teacher than to hold a snake for the pleasure of her students...
At the elementary where I work, we always have a pumpkin decorating contest, where we decorate a class pumpkin like a favorite book character. Our class had recently gone on a walking field trip to the Scera Theater and saw the theatrical production of Stellaluna (the bat), so we decided to decorate our pumpkin as Stellaluna.
On Halloween, I had some past teachers come for a visit in my classroom as guest storytellers. Brienne Dayton came in and brought her little son Owen, who was dressed up as "Frankenstein".
On Halloween night, I went out to dinner with some friends and went to a few costume parties. This is my friend Kaitlin. She was dressed up as Penelope.
My niece Haley also got baptized on Halloween...
I have recently become a part of a dinner group consisting of my friends Cherise, Kali, Kaitlin, Shawn and Mark. We rotate cooking and eat together twice a week. Over the Halloween holiday, we got together, made homemade pizzas and watched some great Halloween movies. Here is Shawn making some great gourmet pizzas...
Kali made a cook cemetery cake and put all of our names on the gravestones. So much fun!
The first week of November, I went to Arizona to visit my great friend Kim. She is in grad school there. It is amazing how when you are really good friends with someone, you can do nothing and still have the time of your life. It was so fun to be in Arizona.
Kim, her sister Pam, Pam's husband Rob and I went to see the Phantom of the Opera traveling Broadway show. It was incredible!
My friend Nate also lives there, so Kim and I met him for breakfast/
After church on Sunday, Kim drove me to see the house that I grew up in. It was very nostalgic for me. Here it is!
We also stopped by the Mesa temple and walked around the grounds.
The day after I moved into my new place, I got sick. After 15 days of horrendous coughing, I finally went to the doctor and found out I had "walking pnemonia". Thank goodness for antibiotics. I felt so much better after being on an anti-biotic for just one day! I talked to another friend of mine who is a nurse and after telling her about my experience, she thought that I probably had the swine flu and it turned into Pnemonia, which is very common I guess...
Either way, I am glad I am healthy again!
