A Major Change in My Life

Here's a little picture of my former roomies and I eating at Costa Azul. Or is it Costa Vida? Who knows. Anyways, we decided to have a little reunion since we haven't seen each other in a while. These girls are some of my dearest friends. Haley (to the left) is in Salt Lake getting her Masters degree in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology. Esther (second) married Sebastian's old roommate and is living a couple blocks from Seb and I . Elizabeth (the hot blonde) is still living in Park Place and will graduate this April. She studied theater and applied for some jobs at CBS and ABC in California. Aubrey and Cheryl are the two that are missing. Aubrey is at home in New Mexico waiting for her job in Arizona to begin this May. Cheryl (whose birthday is TODAY!!!) is in Mongolia serving a mission. She is truly the bomb. I miss my girlfriends SO much!


A major change is about to occur in my life...any guesses? No, mom, I'm not pregnant! I'm changing my major! It's a little nutty considering that I am a senior, but I feel so good and excited about it. I've been doing Art Education K-12 for the past year now, and I've never been really pumped or passionate about it. This semester I was able to do a practicum class, which gave me the opportunity to teach by myself in actual classroom settings, and...I HATED IT! Ha ha! I taught 1st, 7th, and 8th grade and it was an absolute wreck. My 1st graders went wild and the middle schoolers moaned and groaned all period long. Teaching makes me anxious and sick to my stomach and I don't like being an authority figure. I decided to go a completely different direction and have decided to get a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing and a minor in Art. I can't wait to start my classes this summer! Woo hoo!

Other than that, life has been same old same old. I loooove my sweet hubby and enjoy spending the evenings together. This month, we were both called to the activities committee at church in addition to our previous callings (me in Compassionate Service Committee and Seb in the Missionary Committee.) We put on our first activity last weekend--inner tubing at Soldier's Hollow. Soldier's Hallow has a rope pulley that pulls you and your inner tube up the mountainside so that you can tube down and never have to do any exercise. It's great.

Some of our close friends, the Swendsen family, just had their first baby, a little girl they named Reese, last week. We were able to visit them and hold the tiny new person.

I've been "working" a lot lately at the Art Library. All I really do is sit on the computer and do my homework. Gee whiz, life is rough. Ha ha. I also work for BYU's guest services with Sebastian. Last night, we took tickets at a Lacrosse game and this evening we are working at a charity concert for 2 hours. I am so excited that it is finally the 15th--that means I can go grocery shopping again! Woo hoo! We ran out of bread, milk, butter this week making cooking quite a creative adventure. Last night, I made Mac and Cheese using evaporated milk and margarine spread. It was actually super creamy. We ate our mac and cheese and watched the Cougars lose their first round in March Madness. We ended the night with some more suspense--Flightplan starring Jody Foster. Oh my goodness I was so rigid the entire night! (Thanks AJ for the NetFlix wedding gift. We LOOOoove it!)

Well, I better get some homework done. Have a nice St. Paddy's Day!