Last Day in Southfork

For my Senior Practicum class this semester I've been teaching 2nd grade at Southfork Elementary in Rigby, Idaho. I love these kids! My last day there was last week and I was so sad to leave them! They say the funniest things and make me smile every time I'm there. They made me a bag and they all sighned it-some even put their phone number on there so I could call them! Then they all wrote me the sweetest cards and I laughed when I read them. One little boy told me I was smarter than the ginger bread man! How cute! Another little girl told me she wished I was her sister! Tender! I'm planning on going back to visit them one more time before I move home, but I've loved teaching them and will miss seeing them every week.

These are some pictures of the bag they made me. How cute!!!

Student Teaching Placement

Last week I got my student teaching placement for next semester and I will be teaching 6th grade at West Valley Elementary in West Valley, Utah. I'm glad that we finally found out where we're going, but I am not happy about 6th grade. I've been teaching 2nd grade this whole semester and have fallen in love with them! 6th graders scare me!!!!!!!! I'll admit the idea is growing on me, but I still wish I was in a lower grade. But for now I'll just look for the positive and try to get ready to start on January 4th, 2010. Wish me luck!!!

Birthday Festivities!

My 23rd birthday was on Friday, November 13, and let me just say it was a blast! First of all, uh what??? I'm 23??? Suhweet! :) This whole past weekend has just been so so great and I'm so thankful to be surrounded by such great people! I am so lucky! So here's a few pictures of the birthday festivities.....My roommate Nadya's birthday was also in November so we went out to Red Robin for a joint birthday dinner.

This was the BEST surprise!!!! These girls-and their husbands!-drove all the way from Provo to surprise me at my party on Friday night!!!!! I couldn't have asked for a better present!

Seriously, love them!!!!

Blowing out the candles.....almost a fire hazard ha ha.

Mmmm...delicious cake.

Aww, how tender are we?

Everyone that came for the rockin party!

Trynda was sweet enough to throw me this party-Thanks Trynda!

Me and my roommate Alaina. My flowers are from my parents for my birthday and her flowers are from her boyfriend for their one year aniversary, and have seen better days, ha ha.

Saying goodbye at Jenn's old stompin grounds :(

My Vera Bradley wallet! I love it! So cute!

So my parents got me a GPS for my birthday. Apparently they're tired of me calling and getting directions from them all the time, ha ha.

Birthday cake with my family.

Once again, I'm so thankful to everyone who make this weekend so special! I love you all!!!!!

3 Days.....

Enough said.

Student Teaching!!!

So, I'm student teaching in January, and I just found out that I'm going to be teaching in Utah at Granite School District. I don't really know anything about that district, but I'm excited to know where I'm going, and to know that it's really happening! I can't believe that I'm actually going to be student teaching! I always knew it would come someday, but it feels like I just barely started college. Anyway, I'm excited and will hopefully find out more soon!

Student Ambassadors

So, it's the beginning of my last semester at BYU-Idaho. Sad :( I've always wanted to be involved in an organization on campus, so this semester I joined an organization called Student Ambassadors. The main thing we do is give tours of campus to prospective BYU-Idaho students and we also have visit days on Fridays, which is when we actually take the prospective students to our classes with us and give them a personal tour of Rexburg and BYU-Idaho. Yesterday we had a retreat all day, and it was actually really fun. We went to the Ropes Course on campus and did a lot of teambuilding activities. Then we went out by Beaver Dick and had some training and a barbeque. I met a lot of fun people and am excited to work with them throughout the semester.

This is a picture of the golf carts I'll be driving around campus to give my tours. Ours actually isn't this nice, but it's pretty close.

St. George

My family recently took a trip to St. George for a few days. Despite the long drive it was really fun. The weather was great and it was so warm every day! We spent a day in Zions National Park, which was really cool. We went on a few hikes there that were really beautiful. We also went to see the musical Footloose at the Tuacan Theater, which was outside and it was so so good! Here's a few pictures!

The family at Zions National Park.

I know I only seem to get pictures of Eden when she's crying, but I promise she wasn't like this the whole time.

Kyran and I waiting to see Footloose.

Eden and I at the St. George Temple.

Eden and I were riding buddies all the way down and back to St. George. I was pretty proud of myself for entertaining her most of the time.

All done!

First of all I am completely 100% done with classes for this semester! Woo hoo! Now I just have to pack and clean-yay :( But I'm excited to relax for a few weeks before getting back into school. I finished my final cake project for cake decorating and let me tell you, I am so so so happy this thing is done! After working on it for 6 hours straight some days it's a good feeling.

Although I'm happy to be done with school, it's a bitter sweet ending for me. This was my last semester living with my BEST girlfriends and I'm going to be so sad when I return to an apartment without them! They've really been the best roommates and friends anyone could ask for and even though I'm going to miss them so much I know that they're doing great things in their lives. Here's just a few pictures of us throughout our time living together. Love these girls!

Aberdeen Daze

One of my favorite childhood memories is Aberdeen Daze in the summer. This summer I brought all my roommates and some friends-a total of 11 people!- home to Aberdeen to celebrate Aberdeen Daze. We had so much fun! We ate breakfast in the park, then went boating all day long and it was great! The weather was perfect and we all got some pretty good sun. We also watched the parade and ate at the fish fry. It was such a great weekend and I loved being able to spend it with my favorite people and get to show them my small hometown. Also, a big shout out to my family for putting up with us and my mom for making sure we never went hungry!

Waiting in line for breakfast.

The funnest slumber party ever!

I love these girls so much and am so lucky to get to live with such amazing people!

The whole group-all 11 of us!

My niece Eden and I-she was tired. The boys, Kyran loved them!

This was the funnest tube ever!

Enjoying a boat ride Friday night.


The extended Palmer Family :)

Cake Decorating

My roommate Anessa and I are taking a cake decorating class this semester. It is so much fun, but so much more work than I ever thought it would be! I'm learning a lot and my eyes have been opened to a whole new world of culinary arts that I never knew existed. Here are some of the cakes we've made in our class:

This was the first buttercream cake I made.

This is my roommate Anessa and I with out fondant projects. They took soooo long!

This is the cake we made for my roommate Jenni's bridal shower. We also made sugar cookies for the guests. This was tons of fun and she loved it :)

This is my Royal Icing project.

This is Eden and I with her cake :)

And then just one of the two of us for fun!