The Annual Phaedra and Danielle Snow Creation Extravaganza

So I have not posted for a while. Life is busy as always. It is nice to finally have a break after the semester. So last year my roommate and I made a very spectacular snow women with a pink dress (colored by pink lemonade). This year we decided to go another route. My roommate suggested Bob the Glob from Monsters vs. Aliens. So that is what we set out to make on Saturday after a storm the day before. The snow was perfect. We made two big snowballs and had to lift one of them on top of the other. It about killed both of us. It also took a lot of blue water and hand strength to get it blue. We decided on a different name for our friend.
QB-Bubba

This was a few hours later and as you can tell the blue had soaked in so he did not look as blue. Sad Day!

Coloring Books and Pencil Sharpeners

So my friend bought herself a coloring book and decided to color while she was at my house. So of course I got jealous and had to go buy my own. I was very lucky to find a Handy Manny coloring book that is totally awesome. Today I colored a picture of some pliers named squeeze! Katie and I also had to go on a pencil sharpener quest as well in order to find a quality sharpener. Just a word of warning, the cheap ones really are not what I would define as quality. Once I got through half of my pencil and it still was not sharp I decided that it just did not qualify. So we ventured the whole 3 min. drive to the local staples to continue our search. I ended up buying one of the crank ones that suction to a table. It reminds me of those wonderful days sharpening my money pencils in elementary school. Anyways the pencil sharpener did not prove itself right away, but it works now after some good breaking in. Now I have pencils sharp enough to cause some serious damage. Sorry this is kind of a random post, but I guess its just a random day!!!

Spring Break Update!

So I have been enjoying the last week so much considering it is the wonderful time of the year for students called spring break. A whole week free from classes and in my case lots of kids! (I still love kids, this comment just refers to how nice a break is sometimes). No worries Chelley and Josh my nephew's and niece do not count! I probably won't make it home to visit family this week though. Monday we had a huge storm, it snowed for 24 hours and dumped about 1 1/2 feet of snow on us. Needless to say my roommate and I left only to venture to the store for ingredients for her yummy ham cauliflower soup! So most of Monday and Tuesday consisted of watching movies, and reading. I strongly recommend The Secret Life of Bee's it is sad but excellent! We have also started watching the Lord of the Rings Trilogy again! Today will probably be spent reading the fourth Harry Potter and watching more movies! I needed some time to relax before school starts again. Tomorrow and Saturday will not be as relaxing, but they will be exciting. I am going to Provo with two of my favorite work buddies Camille and Brionne! We are going to the Utah Early Childhood Conference on Saturday, but we will be taking off tomorrow for some Friday night fun. 

Birthdays

Well it is almost my birthday, and it feels extremely weird to almost be 23. My life may not be exactly what I thought it would be five years ago, but I like it. I am so glad to have figured out what I want to do, it may be some what stressful at times but I have a passion for it. I also found a place that I love living. I know that Logan is an hour and a half away from my family, but it really feels like home right now. I love going to school as well, even though I am feeling the college senioritis so much right now. I also have great friends, I have met some great people in my college life. One of the most exciting things I have going for me right now is moving to a new apartment my roommate Phaedra. This means that I will be able to get away from any stressful situations that are currently going on. Let me just say, people that talk about you on the phone without saying your name must think you are stupid to not guess who they are talking about. Anyways, I am looking forward to having two windows in the kitchen!!!

This weekend I am home to spend some time with my family. I have not spent a lot of time home since Christmas. It has been somewhat busy. Anyways I am excited to see my niece and nephews as well as my brothers and of course my sister-in-laws (yes mom and dad I am happy to see you too). I love my family, even my extended family. Tonight is the Jensen family party and I am so excited. I love all of my aunts!!! If we are lucky my Aunt Eva will make my Grandma's famous apple squares.

The Good Ole' Times!!!

So I have been getting in touch with a lot of people that I have not talked to for a while and it has been really great. I finally got a letter from Nadine in Thailand and I was just excited (I got a bonus too when I saw the very exciting envelope that the letter came in!). Sometimes I am not so good at keeping in touch with everyone, that is something I have really got to work on. Life has calmed down a little bit and I feel more prepared to manage it all. I am so grateful to my professor Kaelin because she just makes my day and made me feel like it was completely fine to extend one more semester. Today though I began realizing how long I have been in school. My friend Amy just got back from her mission and today she talked so I went to see her. There were a lot of people that I had not seen for a long time, and they were asking me what I was up to. I felt weird to have everyone ask me if I was done yet and then have to say no I was supposed to be done this semester but we all know how that turned out. I am really excited to see my family tonight at Jill's birthday party, I miss them so much. I have been a super family member and have not really been home much since Christmas. So I plan to make up for that by coming home for a whole weekend over the 20th to the 22nd. Yay!!!
I have to say though that I am so glad for the gospel in my life, it has been a great comfort to me and I hope that it can really be of comfort to some others that really need it. Yesterday a family friend died from cancer and it was hard to hear it. She was a wonderful lady who made an effort to make everyone feel so special (including me and my mom). I loved her and am glad that we know that she will be with her family again!

Yay for a Break (If you can call it that)

So I did it, I dropped my class! It worked out really well when I did not have to write my paper and take the test for that class this week! I just feel like I need this time for myself to be able to put my efforts into my job, into my thesis, family and friends, and hopefully myself as well. I am currently at work, just taking a little break (I used to be in class right now). I am glad that today is going a little bit better, yesterday was like the preschool day from hell (sorry there was no other way to describe it). Just overall I was having a really hard time. The end of it seemed to calm down a little so when I left for home I was feeling much better about things. Today is much better! I really love teaching, sometimes it is a huge challange but it is so worth it to me! Anyways I need to go pick up some kids!