Niah M. Anderson

My new niece, Niah, was born May 27th, 2009. One day before my birthday! I guess we will always have that in common:) I'm also finally an aunt!!! My nickname is Auntie Em, like on Wizard of Oz! Here are some pictures of my cute lil niece!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

My big 22nd!

The next summer story was my 22nd birthday. I had school that day, and it was fun to have all of my students wish me a happy birthday and my mentor teacher brought me a cookie cake:) Brett came to my school and brought me flowers. I thought that was very sweet of him. When I got home, Brett took me to the Cheesecake factory. I just love Cheesecake Factory:) Then we walked along the strip. I was dying because I wore high heels! I wanted to look cute! It was a low key birthday, but I liked just hanging out.

Field day May 2009

As I reflect on the events of this past year, I realized how blessed Brett and I are. It's been a whril-wind of a year, but we've loved every second of it. I promised I would write more stories about this summer. So the next event after the baseball game was field day at the elementary school that I student taught at. My mentor teacher was pregers so I filled in for her:) It was really fun for all of the kids and it was great to watch them. A lot of the events the students particapted in, they got ribbons if they got first, second or third. That was a good motivation for them to particapate.

The final event was kickball. It was teachers vs. students! I played second base. I was alright, a little rusty. And I totally embarassed myself by running to kick the ball and completely missed. Picture Charlie Brown and Lucee kicking the football... Well that was me!!! We ended up smashing them. I felt bad, but we tried to "pretend" that we were playing and letting them score, but they still lost. But here are some sweet pictures from that day:)

Look at that high kick!!!

Playing second base.

The beautiful view from the playground.