Miss America

So, I've had this blog for a while, and I can't believe that I've not said anything about this! If you are not a fan of Miss America, I think that you should become one this year. My sister will be competing!! She won the title of Miss Utah at the end of June this year, and will be competing in Miss America in January. So everyone should watch. I'm going to try my best to actually be there for the competition to see her.

She is also making history. I think that she is the first woman who is a war veteran to compete in the Miss America Pageant. Below is a picture of her as a combat medic in Afghanistan.

So, make sure you are watching this year to root her on. It should be pretty fun to see!

Amazing Pictures

My mom sent me these pictures in an email. It didn't say who the artist was - but it did say that he was featured in Readers Digest. He only does things like this with his hands. I just thought these pictures were so great! Hope you enjoy them. Just FYI - if you want to make the picture bigger, just click on it.

Homecoming Game

Here's kind of a fun video. Last Thursday, Bonneville High School had their Homecoming Football game, and the band played at the beginning. This is the closest thing to a marching band that Bonneville has. The video was taken with a cell phone camera, so it's not very good quality. But, if you look really close you can see me directing the band. Student teaching has been great, and I'm going to miss these kids when I go to a different school.

Promotion!!!

Kirk received a promotion at work!! We are so excited. He works on the French team at Melaleuca in Idaho Falls, and was given the job as a supervisor over some of the French, Spanish, Korean, and Russian associates. He's been waiting for a position like this for a long time, and we are so glad he's finally got it!

As many of you know, I have been furiously trying to learn how to play the guitar for student teaching. I had never played the guitar in my life when I found out that I was going to be teaching a beginning guitar class. (I was so stressed out about it that I was losing sleep!!) Well, Kirk took this video of me a few weeks ago and I thought it was fun to see my amazing guitar skills :-) I'm not that great - but I'm getting better everyday. It's been fun to try and pretend I know what I'm doing in front of a class of 20 students~!!