The last five months of my life have all been filled with new things.  I’m 30 – I shouldn’t have all this newness in my life, but then again, I chose all this newness.

First, I haven’t been blogging.  Why?  Mostly because I’m busy – so busy.  I wonder how a person like me, someone who doesn’t know very many people can be just so overwhelmed with life.

Reason #1: My new job.

You would think teaching English in Utah wouldn’t be much different than teaching in Wyoming, but there you would be wrong.  Would you ever be wrong.  I feel like a brand new, first year teacher all over again.  I’m teaching seniors and sophomores.  But here is the real kicker – I’m only .7 time – not even full time.  But I’m creating everything from scratch and learning the state testing, district assessments, and even trying to get down how they grade here.  It is all so new and different.

In September I went on a school trip to Jackson Hole to an Art Festival.  Imagine being a chaperone for kids you don’t even know.  It was fun and we got to see cool art like this:

Old Faithful:

And the Tetons – of course:

Reason #2 – New Calling.

I was called to be the YW First Counselor about 4 weeks after I moved in.  I love it.  I really love working with the girls.  We have a small Young Womens – only about 7, but not a small ward.  But YW is one of those callings that you have activities every week, sometimes 2x a week (not including Sunday meetings), so it can be a tad overwhelming.

But how can you not LOVE working with girls like this?

Reason #3 – New Town.

You would think I would be traveling around, taking pictures, and enjoying the Wild Wyoming scenery.  But no.  I’m distracted by all the wildlife.  I really should bring my fancy camera with me everywhere.  But here are a few shots from my iPhone.

The sunrises and sunsets here are beautiful! I think it is because of the clouds, but I can’t decide.

Deer right in my back alleyway. Weird. And there are whole herds that live in the fields on the side of the rode. My car insurance actually went up because Sheridan County has a really high rate of deer/car collisions. In fact, I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t see a dead deer on the side of the road Sad.

These are across the street from my friend’s house:

Wild Turkey crossing people – and this on a road where the speed limit is 55 mph.

And believe me – they move at their own pace!

They really aren’t very pretty.

Reason #4 – New Hobbies.

I’ve started quilting.  Initially I started so that I would have something to do, but now I can see that if I had only waited a few weeks, I would have had way more to do and wouldn’t need quilting.  But you know what?  I love it!  Really.  I’m the youngest women in my quilting group.  (hee hee)

I got adventurous and I am taking a class to make this quilt:

Here is my progress:

Organizing all my pieces of fabric – all 272 different strips in 272 different colors.

Putting all of it together:

Now I start on a color gradation in the checkerboard border where I have to label and number every piece. Whew!

So, there is a very brief update.  I will try and blog more, but no promises.

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