Ahh, I'm please to say that Spring is in the air! We had our first snow "storm" since Christmas last week, and it actually made things feel more like Spring! As you can see, there's a promise of flowers outside my window! I feel like my "blahs" are over too. I celebrated by learning how to Salsa dance :). It wasn't nearly has difficult as I always thought it would be. I thought the basics were actually quite a bit easier than swing. It's most certainly been on my list of "things I never thought I would do" list. My high school 10 year reunion is coming up this year, and it has made me reflect on my life since then, and how different it is from what I would have predicted. I'm pretty sure that, if I had been told as a high school senior to specifically predict where I'd be and what kinds of things I'd do, I would have gotten only 2 things on the list correct (I went to college and ran a marathon - actually, two marathons but who's counting). Here's a few things I never would have guessed... living in Utah (I'm pretty sure it would have been at least my 45th guess about which state I'd be in)..my job (hadn't heard of Child Life yet).. my travel experiences (Papua New Guinea is where??)..learning to rock climb and becoming proficient at a team sport (In Iowa, rock climbing is a little obscure, and my junior high sport endeavers were legendarily laughable).. learning to dance (where I come from, the "lawn sprinkler" is considered quite respectable).. repeated nominations for church deacon (I seem to remember several spirited classes discussing the appropriatness of such a position for females).. several interviews for the local news channel and my name in the Washington Post (although I am proud to say I made several entrees into the Sioux Center news growing up :).. and many other adventures too complex to describe here! Sometimes at the hospital I work with high school students who missed out on several typical life experiences because of their cancer. For them, understandably, it feels like the end of their world. I sometimes wish, though, that they could understand how much life there is after graduation. I never imagined how interesting life would be!
Another exciting event this week was the birth of my close friends' baby girl. I spent most of the day at the hospital on Wednesday cuddling this sweet little bundle. I'm looking foward to watching her grow!
I've posted a couple of pictures on this before, but I thought it was time to take a couple of pictures from the Open Door, the place I volunteer, again since it's a part of my weekly routine. Here, we are making the ever popular clay objects. It's always hard to get a picture or two in, because there's rarely a calm moment! We're looking foward to warm weather again, so that we can let the kids have a little bit more space outside!
Yet another highlight of the week was going down to St George for the weekend with a few friends. We went to a Colby Caillat concert, stayed up half the night chatting, went shopping, and watched a few chick flicks. A true girls' weekend away!
Looking foward to another fun-filled week ahead! :)
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