When I found this blog I decided this year I wanted to celebrate the spirit of Christ each day of December and have the spirit in my life just a little bit more.
This semester I am taking 16 credits and 3 of them are in the preschool lab!!! I love all of the little kids and we have so much fun. They are just so cute, they say funny things, color me pictures at home, and we get to make fun things. Taking this practicum makes me know that this really is what I want to do with my life even if it does take up a ton of time. I spend at least 15 hours a week in the classroom and that's not making lesson plans or getting the activities ready. Even though it does take up so much time the children make it all worth it.
For our Koenig-Guisti family reunion we went to San Diego. I got some much needed sun but am still the whitest in the family, I guess that's what going to school in Rexburg does to ya. It was a lot of fun to catch some waves (on some boogie boards) and relax.
On Friday, Kenny, Davis, my mom and I went to Tahoe. We went on a mile and a half hike to Floating Island Lake. Our originally plan was to hike further to Cathedral Lake but because I had a cold I couldn't breath very well and ruined that plan. When we first got to the lake, there were no islands in sight and we were kind of bummed. My mom even wanted to rename the lake. Someone noticed that they were all against the shore because the wind had blown them. Kenny and Davis decided to try and move an island... and it worked! We were happy with the naming of the lake, the islands just aren't constantly floating. The hike was beautiful.
Last week I spent Friday at my aunts with my cousins. We had a day full of sun and summer events. We played on a slip-n-slide, rode bikes, played catch and hula hooped. In the afternoon Kenny took us to the zoo. We had all sorts of fun. We even got to watch the workers feed the penguins! It was just a little zoo but it had monkeys and that was all the kids really wanted to see. It had a mini petting zoo and the kids got to brush a goat.