Playing Catch Up

    It has been a crazy past month or so! I have majorly neglected the blog, but I am back to play a whole lot of catch up. I finished up another semester, and this last winter was definitely the hardest semester yet. I was taking 19 credits and working about 20 hours a week. It was insane! I do not recommend it to anyone, I don't care how dedicated you are, it was torture. But I actually ended the semester with the best grades of my college career, so that was a real treat. Having no time whatsoever for any sort of social life payed off I guess...But now that semester is over and I am just starting another one. This semester will hopefully be less stressful, and its spring so it is automatically better!
     Over the week break between semesters I was able to meet my dad in Texas. Why Texas you ask? Well I am working on becoming a Child Life Specialist and there are a lot of really great children's hospitals in Texas and it just so happened that there was a Child Life workshop being held at one of the hospitals over my break. So my Dad and I planned a parents weekend, but instead of at school we took it all the way to Texas. And let me tell you, I fell in love with that state! It was so beautiful and the weather was perfect. I also absolutely fell in love with a hospital that I went to. We were able to walk around Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth and was so impressed with it! I now have high hopes of where I want to do an internship come January.
     It was such a good weekend. Dad and I were able to go to so many places. We explored Fort Worth and Dallas, went to an American Airlines Museum and to The Sixth Floor Museum, which is all about the John F. Kennedy assassination. It was amazing!

View from The Sixth Floor Museum

    We also were able to go to a baseball game during the MLB Opening Week. I love baseball, in fact our whole family loves it. Some of my fondest memories with my Dad are at baseball games, whether they were my brothers, my own softball games, or the Dodgers and Cubs games we always went to. So it was so fun being able to go to yet another stadium with him! It was so much fun, and I am so glad that I am lucky enough to be able to do these great things with my dad. It allows for us to create so many great memories. It is great to just be able to hang out without him having to worry about work or me about school. It was just a few days for us to be together which is so nice because I don't get to make it home very often, with them being in Connecticut and me in Idaho. I love it, wish Mom could have been there too, but sometimes a girl just needs time with her Dad!

     And now like I said I am back to another semester, it is crazy to think that within the next few months I will be applying for internships and officially applying for graduation. It is so weird, it seems like I just started here at BYU-I and after this semester I will only have one more left. It is scary and exciting all at the same time. 

"Go confidently in the directions of your dreams, live the life you imagined."

-Thoreau