Sewing Projects

I have completed another semester of BYU-Idaho. I still love it there! It is a great school. My major is Early Childhood/ Special Education. I want to be a preschool or kindergarten teacher. I am so excited to start taking major classes. Since I have been home I have found a job. I am working at Tamarac Medical Inc. I love the people I work with! I get great hours. The hard thing though is keeping myself productive after work. Our family has taken to spending the nights playing this new game Trek to Zion. Alisa, dad, and I could play on average about 3 games a night. It is extremely addicting. But I have decided to limit myself because I want to do other things with my free time. One thing I have always wanted to do is to learn how to sew better. Sewing is not my strong area in the field of domestic arts. Cooking is my favorite. I love making delicious meals especially the desserts.
Well, I have decided to spend this semester learning the art of sewing. So to start I decided to learn how to hem pants. Ever since I was about 12, my mom has had to hem every single pair of pants I have owned. It is time to do it on my own. These are pajama pants I bought at Old Navy on black friday.


Here is the pants after the completion of the project.



I had so much hemming these pants. I decided that same night I was going to make two fleece pillows for two of my nieces.
This is one of the pillows.

Update

Well here is the update of what has been going on in my life. I completed my first year of college. Now I am home for 7 weeks then I start my sophomore year of college. I still can't believe it myself.

Emily, Casey, and Adam visited for a couple of days. It was so much fun having them here. We went to pirate's cove, which is a little water park by my house. There is a big bucket that dumps every 10 minutes. Adam absolutely loved it. We all loved the lazy river and I had my most embarrassing moment while going down the water slide. We saw Despicable Me. I about died of laughter!

I found a job at Tamarac Medical assembling medical kits that test for lead poisoning. I am very grateful for this job! While I have been home I have been reading loads of books. I finished These is my Words, Peter and the Starcatchers, Hunger Games, and Pictures of Hollis Woods. I loved all of these books! I haven't been able to go to the pool as often as I would like but overall I have had a great summer! Another thing I have become obsessed with editing photos.

Fireflies

Fireflies lit up that summer I turned six.
My brothers decided to show me the art of firefly catching.

Casey and I ran down the creaky stairs to the dimly lit storage room. My heart beat with excitement as we grabbed a couple of canning jars. Poking holes on top, we allowed the fireflies to breathe.

Hand in hand with my two brothers, I stepped outside and breathed the scent of honeysuckles. The fireflies’ lights dotted the evening sky, capturing my heart and imagination. They were ballerinas gliding across a starlit stage.

Tyson caught one of them. I took a breath, scared of what would happen next. He immediately put her in the jar. The jar blazed with light. Tyson and Casey soon caught others, and each time the light grew brighter.

Now it was my turn. I gently caught her, feeling her heart beat pulsing through me. Tenderly placing her in the jar, I reflected on the glass walls that held her in. I opened the lid, setting her free. Shining so brightly against the dark night, I longed to be her, flying free. Still in the jar, protected from the storms of life. One day I would be set free into the night and would have to make the choice to shine.

Thoughts from the mind of a second semester freshmen

I can't believe that in like 4 weeks I officially become a sophmore in college! As I turn 20 this july, I have been reflecting on my life up to this point. I don't feel like I have done alot in my short life. I have no medals or achievements, but I have learned some really important lessons.

This semester has been alot harder on me than last semester. Academically I am doing great, but I miss home so much. I have also been stressed about deciding on my major and what I want to be when I leave college. I have learned so much about myself and what I want to become. As of right now I am going to major in Child Development and cluster in Home and Family and Reading for a Lifetime. I can't wait to start taking classes for each one of these programs.

I found this quote from Helen Keller that has become my new favorite saying. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you can not see the shadow. It's what the sunflowers do." She truly was a wise woman. I have come to release that I need to not be afraid and to trust Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ that everything will work out.

Here are the things that make me the most happy: My family, my friends, the gospel of Jesus Christ, my children's literature class and my other classes, phone calls from family and friends, packages, cheap groceries, comfortable pants, a sunny day without wind, all different kinds of flowers, the route I take for my walk, Patsy's porch, seeing the preschool children on campus, Shopping at the dollar spot in Target

Frosty the Snowman

In good old Colorado style we experienced the biggest snowstorm in March. On March 24, 2010 we had a blizzard. While this snowstorm was happening , I got to play mom for Maddie, Isabelle, and Charlotte. It was fun and hard at the same time. I don't know how moms do it at all. You have absolutely no time for yourself. I learned loads from this experience. I learned how I need to be more patient and to appreciate my own parents and what they do for me. I learned that I do really want to be a mom someday.

On Thursday, my mom, the three girls and I decided to make a snowman. I took pictures of the snowman but, I cannot find my camera cord so you will just have to imagine for yourselves what he looks like. He was definitely the best snowman I have ever made.

Home Sweet Home

I can't begin to explain how much I am loving life and just being home in sunny Colorado. I have officially decided that I don't want to live anywhere else except Colorado. I love the people, the weather, and the mountains. I can't believe how much I have been blessed lately. Here are a few pictures from the view of my back porch.

This picture was taken during a foggy day in centennial town.

Look at the beautiful sunset in these two next pictures. I love the sunsets here!

Don't Feed the Animals

A couple of weeks ago I was eating a orange looking out onto the backyard. I saw a squirrel eating some bark off of our aspen tree. Here I am eating a delicious orange while this squirrel is eating bark. I felt bad for the poor creature.

I decided to give the squirrel some of my orange. I threw out a couple of slices onto the porch. The squirrel paced around the porch avoiding the orange at first deciding if perhaps the orange was some sort of trap. After about 5 minutes, the squirrel decided to grab the orange and gobble it down.

Day after day the squirrel came to our house and waited outside the door for a slice of orange. I didn't give him any more. Then a couple days later the squirrel decided to chew on my mom's rug that she left outside to get dry. My mom was so mad. She blamed me and told me to never feed squirrels again. The moral of this story is never feed wild animals especially ones that can be found in your own backyard.