Friday, May 21, 2010

My love for Yodeling

In my marriage and family class, we end class by a classmate sharing a song with us. I decided to go with a German song. I made a little movie to go along with the Yodeling. It is only a minute long.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

My new nephew

On May 7, I drove to Garden City, Kansas to help my sister, Heidi, who was expecting a baby any day. When I went to bed on May 9, I could footsteps upstairs walking back and forth and I knew something was up. Heidi came into my room around 11ish and told me that her water broke. I have never been around someone when they went into labor so I was panicking. Heidi was as calm as could be. She and Robert went to the hospital around 11:30 and on May 10, at 7:15 am, Gavin Michael Kennington was born. He is such a cute baby.

Gavin is a good sleeper.

I love this picture of him. He probably won't appreciate it when he is older, but is just so cute.

He also likes to cuddle up against you.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

One year down

Well, I survived my first year of graduate school. Academically it was not challenging. It was emotionally draining and some days I struggled to get along with the liberal world, but I survived it. Now all I have left is two summer classes and next year. I think I will graduate on May 7, 2011. I really never thought I would get a masters. I thought I wasn't smart enough, but I guess I picked the right masters because it is not academically rigorous.

Other than my two summer classes, I am going to continue to work at the Disability Support Services and mountain bike a lot. Laramie may be super cold, small, and windy, but there are great hiking and mountain biking trails close by.

I also decided to join AmeriCorps. I am really not sure what this all entails. I have to do 300 service hours, but my Internship next year will cover this. I will receive a scholarship which will help me pay for summer school. That is why I joined. Other than AmericCorps, I have decided I am going to limit myself to my calling, school, GA and internship. I told the athletic academic coordinator that I was not going to be a mentor again next year. This is big for me to say NO. I am not very good at it and I ended getting to busy. I figure with the things I have going I will be able to stay out of trouble.