January - March

More and more and more school.
As always in my life.
Also I started working as a graduate assistant on campus.
This didn't actually change my life at all.
I just got paid for all the tasks my professors already always had me do.

I also got to meet this little punkin!

Courtney's baby Mason! 

He is so much bigger now. 

Its crazy how fast kids grow up. 

This pic is from when he was not quite a week old. 

This also happened. Right before I had a PhD interview at BYU.

Some lady t-boned me. 

I was fine but it still really sucked. 

I was just driving along and she just pulled out right into me.

Apparently she didn't see me. 

Apparently my car is invisible. 

The insurance company said it was totaled (who would have thought that word would only have one L).

But it did lead to me getting this!

Apparently I don't have any pictures of my actually car. 

This is just off the internet.

But it looks just like this. 

2010 Toyota Corolla. Very low milage.

I love Toyotas. 

(Thanks again sister!) 

(Cause I couldn't have gotten this car without her signature.)

This was a very stressful event but turned out for the best because I had a much more reliable car for my cross country move (remember the breaking down that happened before) (you'll have to wait for the move story.)

I also took a trip in March but it was so epic it will have to have its own post. 

September - December

Fall semester.
I kept plenty busy with school and my internship.
Always a lot of working and being pushed and learning so much.
I also had the opportunity to do some teaching in Canada.
Yeah thats right, I teach internationally. Ha ha.
We have a site-based program in Canada and our professors regularly travel up there to teach the cohort.
I got to tag along a few times and get some teaching experience.
My professors Paul and Lisa as well as my wonderful and amazing friend Meghan and I always had a blast on these trips (and got paid for it!).

This is also when it was thrown in my face by my wonderful professor Lisa that I was wasting my potential and should be going for a PhD.
It was very unexpected and I really didn't know what to do with the information.
She said things about how she was smart but I was smarter and could really go far.
I had to rethink my whole life plan.
I got together with the wonderful Meghan (who was already working on applying) to look into it.
I decided I would keep going until it didn't feel like the right thing for me.
That never happened and in two months I ended up retaking the GRE and applying to 10 PhD programs across the county.
It was madness. (I do not recommend applying in such a haphazard, late-in-the-game way.)

This was also the point in my life where my car broke down about an hour and a half from where I live and my sister had to come save me.
Very late at night. (Thanks sis!) (She doesn't actually read this blog but don't worry I thanked her plenty in real life.)

Christmas also happened.
I spent Christmas in Spokane with Mel (my sister) and Glenn (her boyfriend) and my Spokane family.
It was amazing and fun as always. Mel always takes care of me. :)
Apparently I have no pictures to share with you from this period.
Sorry.