Oh no! I don't post anymore!

Well, I've gotten much better at reading two blogs: my sister-in-law Amy's and my dance coach Betsy's. They make such fun posts! Maybe that's why I don't post. I don't have children to post about. How fun is blog without pictures of kids?

Solution: post pictures of other people's kids. Yes! This is me holding my nephew Jonah this past April. I love this picture because it shows I love him! :)

So what have I been doing lately? I'll tell you.

1) Dance! As always. First competition with my new partner, Ben, this coming Saturday! We're not ready! Also, I'm on the ballroom team at school now, so that takes a little time. And I'm in gold 2 standard. And I'm still doing my tap company. Fun stuff... keeps me active.

2) School. Oh, the daily grind. I always have so much homework... and I constantly feel behind in everything! But I am doing all right and I will graduate with a Master's in Math Education some time this coming summer.

3) Teaching. AHHHHHH!!!! It stresses me out, yet I love it.

4) Social Dance Club. I'm the president of an on campus club. For some reason, I like to take responsibilities upon myself that I can't really handle. But it's okay... I like the club :)

5) Nursery. In my ward I'm not the longest standing nursery leader. Which means I'm the one who knows what to do! And I am in charge. Of everything. :D They're great kids though, I love them so much! By the way, several of the kids I have in nursery now weren't born when I got called into nursery. I find that amusing.

6) Maintaining a long distance relationship. 5 months ago I started dating Chris even though we live an 8 hour drive away. He's supposed to move here soon, though!

Dance!

Well~

I haven't updated this in a long time. Thought I'd do a dance update! In January, my tap company (including me, obviously) did a huge performance at the Covey Center in Provo. So many of my friends and family came. (Thanks!!!!!) I've also done several tap performances since then, and I have many to come. Here's a picture from the big show in January. I'm in the black and purple, in case you can't tell with all the makeup.

Next up, a photo of me all makeup-ified for a ballroom competition. I do lots of them. They're fun! I've finally started placing. Not every time, but I do get into the finals sometimes. In the fall I got 4th place in pre-champ standard and 3rd in novice standard. Last week I got 5th in novice standard. Yay for becoming a better dancer!

Lastly, I have realized that I haven't posted a video of me dancing for a while. I decided you've seen me all practiced and polished, but probably not when I'm learning. The following is a video of me dancing the samba the first day me and Seth got it choreographed, so I was just barely learning it (actually, I still feel that we're just barely learning it... :P). I'm dancing with Brittney (my friend and coach) who choreographed it - the whole thing - that day, and Seth is videoing us. I'm dancing with her instead of Seth because we'd just learned it and that way we'd be able to watch the video and he could see her doing the steps he's supposed to do so he could copy it. Also I'd forgotten my dance shoes so I'm wearing jazz shoes, which look kind of dumb. :P