Home for the Holidays 2010

Good News on the Home Front

Well- I planned on doing 5 reasons why to not get your tonsils taken out, I decided to take a little more of a positive spin.
Well its 1 week in and huge news... I can eat Easy Mac... Wow, I know, amazing! The pain is going down (except when I have to take my medicine- that burns a LOT). With the reduction of pain comes more food- I'm now eating oatmeal, soup, mac and cheese, and potatoes!!! Wahoo I know.

Thanks for everyone's warm wishes and the few cards I've gotten! :)
Progress is being made and ill keep you all updated!

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TFA is one of the Top 100 companies!!

http://www.Fortune.com/BestCompanies

Teach For America was just named one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For.
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Action Sports International

Action Sports International

Half Marathon Finish

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Yay- I finished!
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GOOOOO HAWKS!

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Recapping December - Moving to the New Year

Well, the New Year has begun and I have already faltered on my resolutions - I forgot to workout a few days. That being said, I wanted to do a quick photo recap of my December and put a link to the Picasa Album for the pictures explained below for all 6 of you who read my blog! This blog will also entail a bit of a January Update (all 3 days of it) and my plans for the upcoming 2011 year! Enjoy.

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Winter 2010-2011

December started with beautiful weather as evidenced here with my hike with my friend Jackie.

After that, my friends and I decided that we wanted a little cold weather so we headed North to Flagstaff, Az. We have been to Flag for the last 2 years, so we couldn't have a winter without our annual trip. Our annual trip always includes Altitudes (pictured here) and train shots (a $1 shot every time the train goes by - which, I'm pretty sure the waitress lied a couple of times to get us to buy more :) ).

After Altitudes bar, we, again, always go to this pub that I can't remember the name of right now. Here we are there:

My time in Phoenix concluded with lots of Christmas cheer for the 3rd Annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Party. Here are some pics from that fiasco of a party!

After that festive occasion, I headed north for the holidays! A few days into being home, Mom, Dad, Lauren and I went skiing and snowboarding. We had an absolute blast at Summit Central getting our snow legs back under us.

And for the best picture of the year:

After skiing/snowboarding, we went to go get our 27th Annual (24th for me) picture with Santa... except... Santa forgot to come. He was busy delivering presents around the world, so Lauren and I just sat in his chair.

Christmas occurred the next day. To see pictures of this joyous day, please check out Lauren's Pictures.

Following Christmas and the wonderful few days of having family over, we decided to hit the slopes again, this time at Crystal Mountain. My oh my does Snoqualmie seem small after going to Crystal. After a few hours of skiing (boarding for me) we stopped for some grub and beer and hit the slopes again. Here is a pic during our stopped time:

Because we couldn't get enough snow, we went back to the mountains the next day (or maybe a couple days after - I seem to have lost track). Here I am in the snow.

We had a great time going up to the pass, driving around in the snow, and going to a sweet bar (everyone should check out the Brick at some point in their lives). The only bad part of this trip was the 5 hour drive back because of accidents on the pass... booooo.

My stint in Washington ended with some awesome friend time. Here was our quick Ballroom girls reunion in Seattle! Oh how I miss these girls... but it was amazing seeing them.

Then, New Years was here as Susy came in from Phoenix to celebrate!!! We traveled around North Bend and Snoqualmie, reliving the roots :) Then, the night ended with a great dinner at an awesome pizza place with Susy, Lauren, Bryan, Kate, Luke, and Andrea... so yummy, and then a trip to Salty's on Alkai beach (sans Lauren and Bryan). Drinks and an amazing view was had by all!

Now, here I am back in Phoenix, and going back to work tomorrow. ACK.

5 Thing to Look Forward To (or not) in January:

1) SEAHAWKS MADE THE PLAYOFFS - can't wait to watch the game on Saturday

2) Going to a Coyote's game this Saturday after watching the Seahawks

3) Go Oregon - going to Glendale to watch the BCS Championship Game

4) Apparently I am running a half marathon... oops, somehow training slipped my mind...

5) Mom and Dad are coming down (for the Tonsil removal - this is the not fun part of January)

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Anyone want to go... Haha, who knew?

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