MAR VISTA WARD RULES!!!!

It is crazy fun and I LOVE my ward!!! We had karaoke night tonight for FHE and it was crazy fun times! There is some major talent in the ward and I totally am just so blessed to know these people. Tomorrow we are going to the LA Temple and I am going to attend my first Baptisms for the dead!!
I seriously am making fast friends and it is just so amazingly fun to go and spend time with all of them. I forgot how wonderful it was to be close to others who are members of the church and I am so glad that my Heavenly Father has helped me to open my heart and make friends. I have been praying for it and I am glad that he has let me see that in order to make friends I must first involved myself in the ward and show that I do want to make a connection.
This summer we YSAs in California have been called to attend a Young Single Adult Summer Conference on August 8th and 9th....I am going to attend the temple at least three times this summer and I am going to be opening myself up to less active sisters members and nonmembers in order to get them to come!!!!! I invited Charlie to come and several MGs are going to be attending which will be fun to meet them!
I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She Doodled on my drawing!!!

I LOVE WORKING WITH KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So tonight while watching the kids whose parents are in the PIQUE class at the school..I was drawing a picture and I turned my back for two seconds and this two year old girl decided that she needed to draw curly cues all over it!! She was cute though and she andthis other girl had me playing puzzles for and hour and a half.

It was so stressful today because I got to work and ALL the fourth graders were missing! I was running around the school trying to figure out where they were..turns out they ended up in the Preschool building because they didn't fit anywhere else. It was sooo funny because the girls were wanting me to tell them stories...and I was but they would be like...tell us the beaver story again!! The fifth graders were not so good when it was their turn in the preschool building....ugh they were a mess!!! But I have hopes that tomorrow the fourth graders test first and THAN I get the fourth graders the rest of the day!!!!

I NEED TO GO TO THE GYM!!!!! I will tomorrow....after I got to the Photography lab...again....I hate that my camera is not taking pictures on the film! GRR!!!

Staff Appreciation Day

Today was completely awesome...there was Staff Appreciation Day at work and they fed us food. I won a raffle!!! I got this really pretty brown necklace...I never win anything and today I won something!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also found out that I get to have TWO fun days next week with the fourth graders!!! So I get to plan two full days of fun and no work for them!!! AHA!!! FUN STUFF TO THE MAX!!!!

Went to Sizzler tonight which was awesome...yep...

Some of my work...

I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY!!!!! Here are some of my favorite Pictures that I have taken...

Jenny and Dennis while her brother and sister in law enjoy their first dance.

My Cousin Anna in the right corner at Disneyland...Ilike it because of the way it looks...it intrigues me.

My dog Piper with her favorite toy...I used a close range shot for this.

Sadness at work

Okay so I LOVE my job and I love working with these kids and all of their personalities...but it has come to a point where BOTH the teacher and I feel like we are getting nowhere with most of the children. They have so many problems at home and most of them really just have no real drive to even attempt at making something of themselves!! It is so frustrating to go in everyday and to try and open this whole new world to them, but to continually get shot down and to keep hitting a wall. When kids are in the fifth grade and they have given up on life...*sigh* it is hard to not lose hope.

I didn't go to work yesterday because I woke up sick (No I didn't freak out and think it was Swine Flu) I just was lethargic and really couldn't move...it was a pj and hot cocoa day! YAY!!!! I am still feeling a little..okay a lot drained...but it ain't going to kill me or anything!!! I will survive!

Flash forward to tomorrow where I wake up dead. Even though technically it isn't possible I will find a way!!! Barbara told me today that there is a guy in her science class who looks just like McGee from NCIS! I told her she needs to be friends with him so that we can drool over him from afar. I LOVE McGee! I love NCIS!!!
I need to work on a list of expenses for my move to BYU Idaho and I need to call the school tomorrow. I got my transcripts sent to them from CSN and I have to wait for the end of RIO's semester to send those transcripts too. I really hope I can get to Idaho in the fall...it would drive me nuts if I had to stay down here longer!