2011 Review!

January

• I started 2011 in the hospital for a handful of inconclusive tests.
• Back to Chicago for another semester at Moody!
• Annie and I tried to make rice milk. It was gross. We’ll stick to buying it!
• Fiction writing is not for me.
• Founders week at Moody.

February

• Massive Chicago blizzard.
• I got kicked out of my first class ever. And I cried.
• Blog Post: All I Need to Be.
• I fell in love with Cary Grant.

March

• All the bridal shower madness started.
• Blog Post: Explosive Anger
  
• My mom started teaching me to sew! I started and finished my first dress.
• I stayed in CA for a few extra days over Spring break

April

• I saw Tangled for the first time with Baylee and Jaxon!
• Annie and I ate more french fries than countable.
• Junior Senior Banquet.
• The Royal Wedding!

May

• Photographer for the Grad School Banquet
• Blog Post: Elijah and I.
  
• Finished another semester at Moody.
• Back to California for the summer.
• VBS Prep with Alicia - AKA How many times will we get kicked out of the church office for being too loud.
• Blog Post: I Want.
• I started my internship at Shepherd’s Gate!
• Spent a lazy weekend with Robert.
• Summer school.

June (AKA the medical disaster month)

• More VBS prep in the office.
• I got pneumonia.
• Lots of time with baby Vi and Trina.
• Blog Post: But is he qualified?
• I tore a ligament in my foot.
• I taught a VBS class of 25 1st graders!
• Blog Post: But is he qualified?
• Pinched nerve in my back = vicodin
• Trip to Morro Bay with my family
• Lots of worship team time.

July

• I was the photographer at the Alameda 4th of July parade.
• FIREWORKS!!! :)
• Month of internship, working, and music.
  
• Summer classes are done!

August

• Spirit West Coast.
• Led worship outside at Cedar Grove!
• Santa Cruz beach trip with the high school youth group.
• I sang and played guitar in Alicia’s brother’s wedding!
• Back to Chicago for my senior year at Moody!
• Blog Post: Striving, Stillness, Adventures, and Me.
• Women’s Ministry training.
• Church at New Life Lincoln Park.
• Blog Post: “I’m Sorry.”
• Aaron Shust concert.
• Annnnndddd I’m single.

September

• Back to CA for a long weekend.
• Started working on www.moodystandard.com as the events coordinator!
• I started a small group with my Smith 5 girls!
• Blog Post: You’re Who?

October

• My camera broke.
• Missions Conference.
• Blog Post: Not Guilty.
• Back home to CA for a long weekend.
• Lots of time with Danny & Kendra and their girls!
• Back to Chicago for the remainder of the semester.
  
• Campus safety and student engineers invaded our room to fix the heater in the middle of the night.
• Internship interview is done!
• Blog Post: I used to be...
• I got my camera back!

November

• Blog Post: Tangled Up.
• I road the ferris wheel at Navy Pier for the first time!
• Official Thanksgiving Day photographer!
• Thanksgiving dinner with Dawn and Josh.
• Day after Thanksgiving dinner with Laura.

December

• 23rd birthday!
• Aimee’s assistant for the Grad School banquet.
• Social Justice presentation.
• Blog Post: Social Justice
• Romans exegetical paper.
• Isaiah project.
• Adventures in the airport with Carley!
• Epic shopping trip with Alicia.
• Coffee with my godfather.
• Christmas Eve service. AKA Band party on the stage!
• Christmas Morning service.

Over all, it was a very up and down kind of a year and I'm glad I don't have to repeat it And, if nothing else, I've been reminded over and over again that God is undeniably good.