Life...?

I had a hard time naming this entry because there really isnt a theme. I plan on covering my graduation, christmas break, current life and upcoming events!

Lets start with graduation! I graduated and here is a picture to prove it! I should also mention that my awesome father bought me a fancy new camera for bir-uation-mas (that is birthday-graduation-christmas, thanks to Cassidy) present. All these pictures were taken with this new spancy camera! Anyway...graduation was...weird. It has been over two months and I still cant believe that I am graduated. I have been knocked into the real world in a few different ways, but we will talk about those later. My father, mother, and aunt all made it up to the cold burg for graduation. We spend the weekend moving me into my new apartment, eating, and just playing. It was fun, but I am excited it is over. Moving was too much fun and I like being on a regular schedule a little too much.

The new BYU-I center. First graduating class in the new building!

So now there was Christmas! My mother, aunt, and I all made it to Bryce Canyon for Christmas. It was a very different Christmas for me. I struggled with not waking up to a Christmas tree, but it was still a very good time with my mother and aunt. We watched movies, went to the hot tub, talked, played games, ate good food, and just enjoyed each others company. We also made a short trip to the canyon. We couldnt very well drive to Bryce Canyon and not see Bryce Canyon. It snowed a lot the day before, so most of the park was closed. We did get a quick peek at the canyon. It was so pretty with all the snow! Plus, my camera did a pretty good job of capturing the moment. First, I forgot that we took these pictures. My sister, Bridget, made this wreath for my mother. Me, being the mean sister that I am, decided to take a series of different pictures with the wreath. As we went on, my mother came up with the best one yet!

Its a bracelet.

It is a skrunchy.

This was my mother's idea. None of us could stop laughing! Thanks for new the toilet seat cover Bridget!

Here is me at Bryce Canyon.

My mother and aunt pete at Bryce Canyon.

So now we come to my current life. Well, I am spending most of my days working. I have been working for A to Z family services for 3 years now. We just changed our name to Tueller Counseling. After I graduated, they offered me a position as a PSR worker and also let me keep my job as the Case Manager Office Assistant. I keep busy doing both and I really do enjoy it. I have to remind myself how lucky I am sometimes, but I really do enjoy my job. It never gets boring, that is for sure. So my first day as a PSR worker, I get knocked into the job right away. My client had a little too much fun on New Years Eve and her probation officer took action right away. So within 30 minutes of meeting my client I get to see her cry, her probabtion officer get mad at her, the cops coming to her house, and so much more that I should not share for legal reasons. Thats the job I guess. Because all of my clients are juveniles, they tend to keep things interesting for me. I have a lot of work to do with all of my clients, and I hope that I can help them in some way, we will see.

Now for upcoming events!! Dring work today, while I was eating my lunch, I tend to take a quick peek at my friend's blogs. I ran across my friend, Marianna's, blog and she was going this 30 days of blogging thing. It just gives you 30 different prompts to write about on your blog. becasue I have been doing so well at updating this thing, I decided that I might do even better if I had some help! Plus, I dont have homework at nights anymore. I really dont have an excuse not to blog anymore. I spend most of my extra time with Chase, so we will see if I actually blog when he gets back in to town. I will make it a goal of mine.

Smells Like Team Spirit

This is a little late, but better late then never right? At the end of last semester I got a group of people together to run the Temple to Temple Relay that was to take place at the begining of Fall semester. We start at the Rexburg temple and then make our way to the Idaho Falls Temple. It was a total of 36.7 miles of running, and it was so much fun!!! I only ran 3.5 miles, but the amazing Stu ran 7.8 miles (the longest leg). My team consisted of Tiffany, Me, Stu, Steven, Danny, Kris, Marianna, and Kala. Steven drove his truck and we stopped at the check points to drop off and pick up runners. Below are pictures of the team at the Rexburg temple and the Idaho Falls temple. We even made the scroll (our school paper)!

Before the race (Steven, Danny, Kris, Stu, me, Tiffany, Melissa, and Kala).

After

Death by Homework

This semester is going to be a long, hard semester. Good thing I have graduation to motivate me! Here is a picture I found. Thought it was funny, and so I thought I would share it.

forever changed

One year ago today I landed in Jerusalem to spend the most amazing three and a half months of my life. It changed my life forever because of the knowledge I gained, the people I met, and the placed I went. I miss it so much and can not wait for the day when I get to go back!

This is me on my birthday withe Jerusalem in the background. If you look close you can see the temple mount.

Mockingjay!

So the third book in the Hunger Games series came out. A group of us decided to go to the midnight release of the book at Barnes and Nobles in Idaho Falls. We got there and they gave us mockingjay tatoos, we did face painting, we made mockingjay pins and finally we stood in line to get the book! This was all on Monday night and I have finished the book already. SO good and I want to start re-reading the series. Here is proof of our awesome adventure! ps I promise an update of Zion's will come soon!

Me, Devin, Steven, and Amy with our books, tats, pins, and face painting.

one of those days

When I explain to people what I do for work, the most common response I receive is something along the lines of "That must be a really tough job." I love my job, I have grown in ways that I never thought possible, and I can not wait to grow more in the future. For those of you who don't know what I do, I used to work with children in a partial care and now I work in the Case Management office dealing more with adolescence. Most, if not all, of these children have been abused in some way. For the most part I think I handle my job well, but every now and then you get those days when you hear one too many things. Today was one of those days. I will spare you the details, and simply say that today I love my family.

Here is a tribute to my amazing family. Forgive me for complaining because I couldn't go to a friends house or when you made me do chores (which I was fully convinced only evil parents did), or any time I had to do something I didn't want to do. All members of my family are amazing people. I will forget this fact, but I will have another one of these days to help me realize how much I love them again.

Me, Bridget, Finley, Brad, Shelley, Michael, Iain, and Mother (missing: Cassity and Ryan)

Dad and Bridget. I haven't been home for a few years, and I dont have a picture of my Dad, so I stole this from Bridget's blog.

I am growing up...

Growing up my mother always told us that we were finally adults when we liked grown-up foods like broccoli, eggs, and other foods that children typically don't like. Well, I have come to say that I now like eggs and occasionally broccoli!! I think I am finally an adult.

Second change is about my awesome music collection. I have never really liked country music, in fact I would go as far to say that I HATED country music. Let me defend myself here. In High School there was a certain crowd who listened to country music. They were the lifted truck guys who felt like they owned everything and everyone. I hated those guys in high school, so naturally when I heard country music, I hated it. A perfect example of Pavlov's Classical Conditioning. There were a few exceptions through the years, but for the most part it made my skin crawl. A few weeks ago I was driving home from work, and I felt like listening to country music. "What is this feeling?" I asked myself, but I followed my desire and found country music on the radio and I have not stopped listening to it since. I am actually listening to Lady Antebellum Radio on Slacker.com. Not complaining at all. Idaho is proud of me, and maybe Texas is proud of me now.

COMING SOON!! An update about my funny/awesome/incredible weekend down in Zions.