Just a thought...

Maybe it's just me...but when someone tells me that I can't do something, or they don't think I'll make it, I just want to punch them in the nose and say "Yes I can!!". And then it makes me want to try all the more harder to prove them wrong :) Yes, I do have a goal to defend my thesis on May 28th...and, yes, logically I should say--no way--seeing as I still have a long road to go. However, I don't think really it is the date that I am focused on at this point. I want to have a summer--with no more graduate program. I want to feel free of this so that I can rest from 2 years of sheer pain! So to me, May 28th is just a date---and honestly, I just may not get the date..but moreso May 28th is a goal to work to the bone, and, even if I don't get it defended that day--I will know that I have put my EVERY EFFORT into trying. So--maybe it's just me--just a thought---sometimes people say things and it lights a fire in you to prove them all wrong! So, here's to a full-blooded month of work...my goal--to work to the best that I know how, using every minute to focus on this day, even if I don't reach it. :)

Little big people touch my heart...

So in a few days, it's my nephew Stuart's birthday. Stuart is now on a mission, and I think this is the cutest picture that I have ever seen in my life! He is serving in Arcadia, California and returns in just 2 months. It seems like this boy just barely left! I can't believe that time goes by so fast--all my nieces and nephews are growing up and I'm just getting old and fat :0

I'm thankful to have all of these sweet kids in my family--and I just love them all to death! You know, sometimes when I feel alone or just feel like the world is closing in on me I just have to take a break to go see one of them and hear a "Karen!!!", and then everything just feels better...and I feel like I can make it through another day. Life is good...especially with these little big people.

First farmer tan of the season....nice...

Today my 4th Graders went to the Springville track for the "Hershey Track meet"against all the fourth graders in Nebo district. I wish that I would have had something like this as a kid...it's such a great experience, and challenges kids to get active and work hard for something. Here's the thing...I enjoy teaching, I really do. Sometimes, however, I just want to be just "friends" with the little people I teach...not that I'm not friends with them already, it's just that sometimes I don't like being this authoritative figure over them--and so it's times like these that I really appreciate my job. Seeing the kids cheer for eachother and just sitting in the sun joking with them. What awesome little athletes I have! So a few of them came out with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place from our school--and all I came out with is my very first "farmer tan" of the season. Gotta love it.

Ah! I miss scrapbooking...

So while I have been doing my thesis all weekend, my sisters and mom have been scrapbooking and having a blast together :( This is a digital scrapbook page that my mom finished while having fun with the girls. Cute, eh?

Somehow we're all getting older...

Wow. So this is a recent picture of a few of my oldest nieces/nephews. I remember holding each one of them in my arms...their tiny hands and feet smaller than the palm of my hand...and now, they overpower me in height and strength. It's amazing how time just passes so fast. For instance, I remember Mic, on far right-and how I used to babysit him after school when I was in junior high. He loved to be rocked to "Air Supply" songs--and that was the only way to get him to sleep and stop crying. And that was like my most favorite "tape" to listen to. Somehow we're all getting older, eh?

Time-crunch

So randomly I deleted my other blog--don't know how that actually happened, but I think I am "computered-out" if I might say so myself. I'm at a huge time-crunch right now, and so it seems like everything is going wrong unless I am just focusing on what I should. I guess I shouldn't be working on my blog then, huh? But after looking at so many cute blogs of my most favs, I feel like I should repent on the blogging!! As some of you may know, I am currently finishing up my graduate program at BYU. If things go as planned, I will defend my thesis on May 28th...let's hope...let's pray... However, if it doesn't happen, I won't bawl my eyes out...just won't move up on the pay scale for a year. But, here's wishing...