Life Needs A Little Variety!

So for the past 8 weeks I have been co-directing a Variety Show for the middle school where I work. I have been alongside the fabulous Mr. John Caldwell and we have had an absolute blast!

I did all the chroeography for the show and did some vocal coaching for the kids. It was honestly one of the most fun expereinces I have had thus far in my short life. Although it was stressful beyond belief, it was so worth it!

The show included numbers such as "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz, "It's a Hard Knock Life", and "It's Raining Men." Some skits were thrown in also. We had and I Love Lucy skit, Little Rascals, and the Brady Bunch.

My favorite thing about the whole process was watching these 6th and 7th graders gain confidence about themselves while developing new talents! I grew so close to them through this process. I wouldn't trade a single minute of it!

After all is said and done, this experience has made me more excited than EVER to graduate, move, and start working in a school and have students of my very own!

I LOVE TEACHING!! Seeing the joy and love on those kids faces is the most rewarding thing in the world!

G-O'ing all the break long!!

Spring Break. I feel like this is a "holiday" that has soo many pros and a few cons..

Pros:

1) getting out of Utah

2) seeing the sunlight

3) shopping

4) creating memories, memories, and TONS more memories

5) making new friends

Cons:

1) coming back to Utah

2) spending too much money

3) coming back to Utah

So here is a quick recap. I went with my Bestie Natalie to AZ!! Heaven on Earth.. No lie!!!

Love this shot... but I was happy to banish the snow from me for a week!

Momma Sarg took us for Pedi's!!

Nat and I went to her brother-in-laws softball game

Boy Chloe (Robbie, nats little brother) finally discovered what was making the

wretched squeaking noise that I was convinced was a

mouse stuck in the car!

To end the week we stopped in Provo and ate dinner with our best friends from

our homelands!!! Love my Brittainy!

UDA: Unconscious Displays of Affection

This may or may not be a semi awkward post, but regardless of the

possible humiliation it may cause me,

I have to share it.

3 nights ago (the Sabbath) my dearest room/bed mate Melissa and I had a very strange experience.

For the past school year we have shared a queen size bed... NBD right?.... married peeps do it all the time...so why can't we?

Melissa, is a sleep yeller/talker/walker/anything-elser you can think of.

She is one who sleeps through her alarm for an hour solid without moving a muscle.

I, on the other hand, am a freight train.

I snore louder than an angry mother grizzly defender her bear cub.

Melissa may be crushing on a boy.. we shall call him CG. So this particular night, Melissa dreams she is holding hands with the one and only CG. I, ironically enough, had the exact same dream. (however I do not have a crush on CG.. good thing because that would just make life more uncomfortable for everyone.)

Let's do the math together.

Melissa+Madison+CG+Dreaming =

Melissa and Madison holding hands.

End of story.

Awkward.

Unnerving.

Memorable.

Over it!

I am over it. Completely. Done. Moved on from the frigid winter.

Now I just want out....

OUT OF LOGAN!!!

I need sun.

I need warmth.

I need shopping.

I need Yogurtland.

I need hours by the pool.

I need Arizona.

Only 2 more weeks until I am with my best friend Natalie in the comfort on Tempe, AZ.

Call me DJ Madi-Slack!

so... let's be honest! I have been more than the average slacker as of late! I don't blog.. mostly due to the facebook stalking that has consumed me =)

So Today.. I vow.. that I will reduce my FB time by 15 minutes one day a week.. to blog. ( That doesn't sound as hard as it is.) haha

Here are a few activities that have kept me busy in the past month!

Went to visit the Gramps in SLC.

Good visit!

Lindsey's 2nd Baby shower!

Lots of sisterly love going on here!

(minus one)

We held our own themed weekend party!

Theme: Toy Story 3

Everyone was assigned a costume... it was dress up or die..

BLAST!

Night Skiing with the Bestie Nat!

Working Mardi Gras partay with the 2 besties!

We all worked in the psychic room.

All I have to say about that business is that I AIN'T MESSIN' WITH IT!

That is some interesting crap.

Like I am a skeptic (don't get me wrong) BUUTTTT

Those ladies knew what they were talking about.. and I believe all that jazz is real. It just

does NOT come from the right place...End of Story.

Love.

So my dear sister Lindsey, whom I love very much, is having a baby. Ordinary you might say, but it is quite the contrary. For the past 11 years she has wanted a baby, but unfortunately that gift wasn't given to her.

This past summer, her and her husband decided to try invitro fertilization... and it WORKED!!!! Miracles do happen.

Last weekend I got to go with my sister to her long awaited baby shower given to her by her dear friend Kim.

It was an experience that I am so grateful for and I am so glad I could see the love and happiness she is feeling at this time in her life.

I Love you Linds!

Live it up

For the past 3 weeks I have been back in the lovely land of my upbringing. Arkansas is simple amazing. I would not trade this place and these memories for anything in the world!

Every time I come back I am reminded of the people who love me and the people who made me what I am.

I have had a blast with my brother, who is hands down the funniest person I have ever known..

My mom and I had many great times together. Between shopping and sewing, memories were created.

Liz, my newest sister-in-law, have gotten to be close and I love it.

Lauren and Emily continue to grow up and learn all about life. It is hilarious.

My best friend Kaitlin is absolutely wonderful. We have gone from fighting over halloween costumes and who got to sing which part of which disney songs, to galavanting around town or the bowling ally making fools of ourselves and loving every minute of it!

I love this place. I love to come back. I love the people. I love my life.