Closet BYU Fan

So, about two weeks ago, UW played BYU in the Women's NIT Tournament here in Laramie. The game was the same night my 1st cousnelor and I were to do Relief Society visits. Well, my counselor said she would not be able to go because she had tickets to the game. My secretary said she would go with me instead. Well, I told my secretary that we needed to do something to my counselor's house while she was at the game. We decided since my cousnelor and her husband are HUGE UW fans, we would have a BYU theme be our guidance for a prank. We made two posters and got blue and white balloons to decorate their house. We thought it would be appropriate to take pictures and then email them a few days later.

Well, we emailed the pictures Saturday night and were a little confused that Mary didn't say anything to us at church. So, we decided she hadn't checked her email. Then in our presidency meeting, Mary asked how Thursday visits went. I started laughing and Tamia put a paper in front of her face, but I pulled it off and Mary had NO idea it was us until she saw the email. She and her husband thought it was a couple in the Stake that are BYU fans that Mary doesn't really care for. Her husband was pretty mad. When she told her husband it was us he said, "I thought they were my friends."

Notice the UW posters in the window.

Reunited with my best friend

Finally, after so many seconds, hours, days, and months apart my best friend and I are finally reunited. I was hoping for an earlier reunion but I could not get my garage door open because it was frozen shut. What? Don't you keep your best friend locked up in your garage over the winter? Well, Sunday, it finally had warmed up enough and I was able to get my bike out of storage and begin riding to school. I was so happy today riding to school with my best friend.

Wyoming Winter Art

Tour of the University of Wyoming

I thought I would give you a little taste of the buildings that I call home here at UW. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday I work at the University Disability Support Services. I have about 64 students on my case load and I help students with disabilities received accommodations they need to be successful in college. I also am advocate when they need me. Not all the students use the services but I have kept pretty busy this semester.

This is Knight Hall where I work. Also in this building are the registrar's office, financial aid, and other student affairs offices.

This is the first time in my life that I have an office. Although in a few weeks I am getting a new office...a CORNER office. It is in the corner in the basement. I currently work in the basement and I am just moving down the hall.

This is the Education Annex where I have all my classes but one.

My department is part of the education department so I also spend a fair amount of time in this building. Our counseling clinic is in the basement so I see clients here from 2-6 every Thursday. Also in this building there is a k-9 school called the LAB school. Many of the students that attend this school have parents that work on campus.

Here is Jamie in the observation room where we watch each other "Therapize". Jamie kept telling us she wanted a leopard print snuggie and since she didn't get one for Christmas, we bought her one for her birthday.

I know this picture didn't turn out well but imagine green grass. This is the middle of campus and is called Praxy's Pasture and it is literally still a pasture. Although, I have yet to see cows grazing. But UW can say they have a pasture in the middle of campus.

Communicating at the counseling level

One of my graduate classmates told the rest of the class that she likes to communicate orally with other people. Now that is a new concept.

Today we are teaching poodles how to fly

So, today in class I had to present a counseling technique with two other classmates. I was in charge of introducing an activity we were going to do to illustrate the technique. I started by saying "Today we are teaching poodles how to fly." I didn't quite get the reaction I had hoped for. Most people sat there with a confused expression, but I know Raul would of been proud.

I was about to publish this post but I could hear a certain family member telling me that I probably want to explain why this is funny. One of the world's most cinematic treasures is a movie called "UHF" starring Weird Al Yankovic. "UHF" is about a TV station and one of the programs on this station is Raul's Animal Kingdom. On one episode from his second story apartment Raul attempts but fails to teach poodles how to fly. By the way did you know the turtle is nature's suction cup.

Steamboat

About a month ago, Owen and I went to Steamboat to go snowboarding. We had a great weather and pretty good snow. On the way there all the plants were covered in hoar frost. It was so beautiful.

Here is a picture of me. Owen and I spent most of the day on this run. It was perfect for our level and not too busy.

Owen about to go off a jump and get 10 ft. of air. Not really, we are both pretty cautious.

Right after I took this picture, Owen sprayed me with snow. It was pretty funny.

Can you tell Owen is pointing at my head? I think he is jealous of my intellecutal abilities.
(Did you notice I spelled intellectual wrong?)

On the way home we had a spectacular sunset to finish off a great day.