Birthday Extravaganza's

So as of last Wednesday I am officially 21 and legal! It's pretty exciting even though I won't be drinking. But still it's fun to know I could if I wanted to. So the weekend before my birthday I got to fly home thanks to Colton's brother. That weekend was the best! Friday we went to Jacob's school musical and I have to say he was pretty awesome. Saturday I got to spend the whole day with Colton. First we went to the Utah vs. TCU game. Yes it was pathetic and they lost horribly but it was still fun to go to. After we went to California Pizza Kitchen for dinner and then saw "Red". Dinner was super delicious and the movie was pretty funny. All in all it was a fantastic day :) Sunday I had my birthday dinner with my family and Colton and my grandparents came over for cake. I was really sad when the weekend was over and I had to go back to Cedar :(

Me and Colton at the Utah game

Wednesday was my actual birthday but everyone was crazy busy so we didn't get to go out to dinner. Kati did make me a cake though and we did candles that night which was all I wanted. Aubree and Kati also decorated my room. It was so nice and my room is still covered balloons. Sorry I didn't get any pictures of it before everything fell down.

My Cake

Blowing out my candles
So excited :) It was a delicious cake :)

Thursday I went to dinner with Kati, Aubree and Jen. We went to Pizza Factory. It was fun and delicious :)

Check out my awesome crown and party glasses :)

I love these girls :)

Basically it was a great Birthday!

Preschool Fun!

So one of the classes I had to take this semester was Guidance which teaches how to teach children basically. For it we have to work at the SUU Preschool once a week. I am not going to lie I have complained about taking this class all semester because I am not going to be a teacher. It's fun playing with the kids and stuff but I hated the teaching part and learning how to teach them because that's not what I'm going to do. Okay let me rephrase, I'm not going to be a school teacher, and dance teacher yes, school teacher no. Anyway, so we are required to do two lesson plans during the semester. The first one our teacher required us to read a book to the children. I was so nervous for it but it went well. The head teacher at the preschool said I did really well with it and had good control of the children. It made me feel good and I have to give credit to the good control coming from teaching dance, so I have had lots of practice. For our second lesson we could do whatever we wanted and me being a dance teacher of course wanted to do something with dance. So I decided to do Freeze Dance. This is a game i play almost every week with my classes cause they love it. You play music and let the kids dance around however we want, then you stop the music and they have to freeze. It is a lot of fun so I thought why not do it at preschool. Well let's just say I couldn't have planned it to go as good as it did. The kids had so much fun! There were even some kids that didn't want to leave! Every now and then when I would stop the music i would tell them they could only move certain parts of their body like they're heads or arms, or they would have to be sitting down or dance with a partner. It was so funny to watch. The best was I told them they could only move their faces, it was hilarious! And it was all around just a really fun time. Well after the head teacher told me that it was an amazing job and even wrote a note on my lesson plan to my teacher saying it was one of the best lessons one of her students has done and she asked me to get her a copy of my music. It made me feel incredible! I am now on this happy high and I haven't felt this good in a long time! Today I decided that if I wasn't so close to graduating I would possibly consider switching my major to Early Childhood, but that isn't going to happen. But it did reafirm my love for teaching little kids. Not that I don't love my 5 year class at the studio because I really do. Sometimes it's nice to hear though that you're doing a good job because you wonder sometimes as a teacher if the kids are having fun. And so it was really good to hear today. None of you probably care about this but I don't care. I really wanted to tell about my good news :)