Today is Tuesday, December 21st. Christmas is this Saturday and I LOVE IT! I love this time of year! I love all the lights and decorations, parties, family get-together’s, and just the spirit in the air. And, then a month after Christmas is the 2 year mark of when I had my accident! It’s amazing how time has flown!! The Fall Semester for BYU-Idaho is now over and that is SO CRAZY! I remember like it was yesterday and thinking it would never start and now IT’S OVER! I mean, part’s of school seemed like forever while I was in it, but now that it is over, seems like time had flown! Now, I just wish we could skip the winter and then it be spring time haha but I know I need to be patient. I decided that I won’t survive going to class everyday in the snow and, then when it becomes ice, that scares me! I was thinking maybe I’ll take online classes and live in the same apartment up in Idaho but I realized I might go insane, since I can’t really go on my own any places, I would always feel trapped. I feel like going up to school this last semester was so important and it helped me a lot in so many things! It helped me to become independent again and it pushed me to become closer to my old self again. It helped me to become social again, helped me to learn how to take care of myself again, I learned how I can live on my own again, and so much more.

During the Semester I had been working with Sister Dienhart, a teacher at BYU-Idaho who teaches ballet and had a stroke herself. I mentioned I was planning on working with her in an earlier post, I had been going to a beginning ballet class of hers and then we had worked one-on-one once a week also, to get back my ability to dance again. I had to hold onto the bar when the class would move to the middle of the dance floor and still when the semester ended but I improved in being able to control my foot a lot moore and my energy improved by the end of the Semester. She was an angel to work with and is an inspiration to me that I will be able to dance again!

My room-mates and I before going to church. From left to Right there is me, Amanda Ellis, Alex Grooms, Laura Hargiss, and Stephanie Cumsille.

Last Friday I came home after the Semester had ended at byu-i and on Sunday my family and I went to see the lights at Temple Square, they were BEAUTIFUL!