Schools out for the summer (don't I wish)

Yeah I wish school was out for the summer... then I wouldn't be dealing with the constant anxiety of driving in the snow. This past Tues was probably the worst day I have had here in Utah. I tried twice to go to my internship, but the roads were just awful. I ended up turning around both times and spent the rest of the day at home. It was frustrating! But now school is out for the winter break, and I actually have mixed feelings. My little group of school counseling students has spent much of the past year and a half with students from the licensed professional counseling program. Wednesday was our last class together. Its funny how people say they will call, get lunch, hang out... but it never happens. I would love to think I will see these people again, and some I might. but for the most part I will never see these people again. School and with that, these classmates, have been a major part of my life lately... so its a little sad. But! At the same time, one more semester under my belt, and one more to go! Crazy to think about it.

I ♥ LA

Somewhere in the middle of LA, on a freeway on the way to the happiest place on earth (no not Agoura), We drove by this little floral mural... yes flowers, rose parade like flowers, on the side of the freeway.

One cute little courtyard

I went back to California for my fall break and while I was there had the opportunity to go back to CSUCI, where I found one of my favorite little places.

In-N-Out update

They are going to start taking applicants in November!

The calm before the storm

West Jordan In-n-out

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May be the only horse I will ever own

I went to toys-r-us one day... and saw this lego set. I think I am going to start my own collection. The boys (oh that is my brothers) have big buckets, I have a long way to go! So I haven't put it together yet, but when I was at my brother's I was telling my family and they said my niece has the same set! So I put it together... fun!

Don't drink the water Bear Grylls

On a recent trip to St George to visit the parents, my sister and her boyfriend, Kristen, and my mom and dad went to look at petroglyphs that are actually all over the area around st George. It was fun, as we started walking down the trail, Kristen noticed there was water in a big rock (it rained the night before, so we were pretty sure it was new). Ok, we drank the water... mmm. Earthy. Later Kristen interpreted one of the petroglyphs... if you drink the water where the animals go you will die. Good thing I don't think the animals could get to the water we drank!

So then we went to one of my dad's favorite places... he calls it glitter gulch. He gets his supply of rrocks or whatever this stuff is. My mom told me like 5 times, but I couldn't even remember. It reminds me of Superman's house...

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...