high/low Thursday

Share your Highs and Lows of the week
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High: Cuddle time with sweet baby Clara, Painting with Jamie
Low: Cultural Heritage class (really hard to understand sometimes) and Child Welfare movie (brought the past back a little to close for comfort)

Friday Night at Hope College!

Rachel, Alayna, Me, Rebecca, & Aftan

Tonight some friends and I went to a local ice rink to skate. we tried to do this last week, but unfortunately the website had the wrong times posted, we ended up getting free passes which we used tonight. I had NEVER been ice skating, and am quite a klutz (last year, broken foot, year before sprained ankle, every year prior twisted ankles, stitches, bruises etc)

Here we are going round the rink!

Here I am! look no hands! (in pink hat, from my wonderful Aunt's care package of winter supplies) with Rachel spotting me in case i took a tumble... guess what blog world... I DIDN"T FALL ONCE!

Becca had skated before but it had been a while and she was just about as nervous as I was. Luckily, Aftan is a patient and kind teacher!

This is from our Meijer Run (aka, grocery shopping for poor college students) I could not pass up getting a pic of my Montana friend Aftan. You can take the girl out of Montana, but you can't take the Montana out of the girl!

And now, I will drink tea and cuddle up with some reading for my Theology class, in my new cozy PJs, also from my aunt's care package (Thanks Aunt Coleen!)

Great contest for cold winter days!

Head on over to simple

(http://simple-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/01/keen-footwear.html) to find out about a great contest to win some boots to keep your tootsies toasty warm!

High/Lo Thursday

This post is part of "Hi/Lo Thursday" on Riggs Family Blog (www.riggsfamilyblog.com):

High: Staying focused on School work and taking Becca to get her Tattoo! oh and babysitting for new babies!

Low: Lack of sleep and not being able to go to Taj India :( oh and short work week = less $

Favorite College Memories

Baby Picture Sunday!

This week's theme is Black and WHITE

This is me and Sophia... a glimpse into my future family of beautiful multicultural children.

I won my first blog contest!

With the Greatest of Ease had a contest this past week. I am so excited! :)

Random Picture Challenge

4 little men says "Go to your MAY picture folder

pick the 21st picture and post it on your blog!"

This pic is of some daycare kids, they are so funny and love having their pictures taken. (which is good for me because i love taking them) All I have to do is get out my camera and say who wants to play photographer and they all cooperate (mostly) this was one of many shots that day and as you can see one of my subjects had gotten tired of playing photographer and taken off!

New Semester

Ah, the winter wonderland that is Hope college, sludgy sidewalks and icy patches, sledding, falling and hustling to classes that are across campus from each other. I am so glad to be back!

I am currently enrolled in the following classes:

Intro to Theology: Christian Feminism (no, i am not a bra burning, man-hater) It is very interesting to discover some of the ways that the church had viewed women. woman are equal to men, but different, we give birth, we are relationship and linguistically connected, we are able to do that is my view in a nutshell.

Introduction to Emotional Impairments (EI) : hasn't started up yet but will be beginning my field placement soon, hopefully it will not be in GR. I took Intro to Learning Disabilities (LD) last semester.

Child Welfare: A social work class, i really enjoy so far... I am totally going to kick butt in that class with my life experiences/ Interests with the foster and adoption stuff. The prof. is really great too.

Cultural Heritage I: Yuck! lol... history class from the beginning of time to a really really really long time ago lol...


Tonight is the veratas forum http://www.veritas.org/hope/ I am looking forward to it, but am really not in the mood to listen to more lectures from professors.

Saturday will be my last fun day of the semester, before things get super busy and money runs out... Ice Skating (my first time ever) and Taj India (my favorite Indian restaurant) Yum Chicken Curry!

Baby Picture Sunday!

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