First days

Monday was the first day of my fall semester and of my internship. I have three classes this semester, thanks to some summer school, and I am working at two elementary schools with the same school counselor. She splits her time between the two, so now do I. I like it so far. I went on my first home visit, chatted with a few kids, watched the counselor give a lesson in class... nothing like starting out running. Today I went to the other school, but as it was the first day of school for this school, we didn't do much with the kids. I still feel a little... ok A LOT nervous and completely unsure of what I am doing,but I know as the year progresses I will build self confidence and knowledge of how to be a great school counselor! But until then... wish me luck!

If at first you don't succeed...

For my birthday one of my presents was a fabulous cupcake cookbook! I love looking through it... but cookbooks are not just there for looking at pictures, so I looked through it in hopes of finding a recipe that not only looked yummy, but also that I had all the ingredients for in my pantry. Sure enough I found one. I was super excited and proud that we had everything I needed already stocked. I feel like I followed the recipe, but my cupcakes sadly did not turn out the way I was expecting. Not to say they didn't turn out the way they were supposed to... just that I was expecting something a bit different. I made some yummy cream cheese frosting and cut up strawberries for the top. A little variation from the finish the cookbook suggested but I didn't think that would matter. So I tried again... this time I adjusted the recipe in a way I thought might help. It didn't. Sad. The second batch turned out worse than the first. Oh well right. I will have to try it again sometime.

From St George to LA

After our first day of back roads we stopped in St. George for the night. We celebrated my sister's b-day with a yummy dinner and a barbie birthday cake! The next day Kristen and I had plans to take more side roads from St. George to Agoura (The good life). We decided we would take a trip by Hoover Dam. We left the I-15 at the Logandale/Overton exit and drove around Lake Mead on our way to Hoover Dam. I have one thing to say... it was HOT! 114 degrees, hot. We got out a couple times to take pictures and one time nearly lost our directions as the two open doors created a wind tunnel. We also encountered some road construction (what trip to or from Utah would be complete without it) where we had to drive on dirt roads for a while... good times. Why did we not think that Hoover Dam would be just as busy as any other state or national park on the weekend. The line of cars was pretty long to get in, and of course they had a security checkpoint to make sure there were no shinanagons. As we were walking around we heard a ruccos and we noticed there was a fight! We went to get a closer look. In the end Megatron was defeated! We were safe! After that we had figured we had enough of an adventure... so we headed back to California. We took more side roads till we met up with the 15 again outside of Vegas. Good times...