Anne Shirley in the books

Anne Shirley
She is the best.
Once upon my childhood I started reading the classic book. Unfortunately, those books did not capture my attention. I must find them and start over again.
The movies are wonderful however. I bought my sister all three for Christmas and I think it was one of the best gifts I've given. Sure, it wasn't homemade and it was quite expensive but every single penny was worth it. I think she may have almost shed a tear. I was nervous and excited all Christmas break while we were in New Hampshire anticipating her reaction. We celebrated Christmas with my family when we got home around New Years. They always say that anticipation is greater than the event itself (...Gary Dunn?) but this was one of those cases that the event was just as great if not more.
Let me tell you something about my sister that may illustrate how much she loved this gift.
I call her Anne. Her name is Anna. In my phone, her name is Anne Shirley. My name is Jane Austen in her phone. Our alternate names. That's as close as we get to second life. ha.
Anyways. She really liked the gift and I really like giving it to her. I realized after giving her the wonderful collection of DVD's that I had not seen the final installment of the movies. This wasn't a huge deal given the fact that I didn't make it through the first book, but I wanted to see it nonetheless. This weekend I was granted the pleasure of watching Anne Shirley make her way through the front lines of WW1.
Here's my dilemma. I was bored. I didn't like it. She was all grown up and spending more time with other men and I wanted to see more of Gil. I missed the little stories of her childhood and the funny situations she was put in. It happened in all the books so why not in this movie? Well the movie makers did a little stunt and created this after story for Anne. It wasn't true to her or to the books. It tried to move along a plot and Anne just doesn't live a life like that. Her life is what she wrote-silly little stories of people she loves most. I didn't get to see that in the final installment of the movies.
I will forever be grateful I gave my sister those DVD's. I am also glad I got to see them all and from now on, I will only watch the first two.
Books win.
I suppose I'll check back in after I watch The Hunger Games this Saturday. I'm anticipating a wonderful event they could change my book vs movie opinion :)

Itis of a Senior

I have been at Brigham Young University for 9 1/2 semesters. That's a long time and I am not graduating in April.
Perhaps I should tell you that I was a Dance Education major for two semesters. It was fantastic. And I tried out mostly to prove to myself that I was a good enough dancer and that I could do hard things. It worked and now I believe that dancing is a talent of mine. In the middle of my junior year however, I decided that this major was not for me. Mostly I just wanted to educate people and dancing was not the medium I am supposed to teach through. I found a major that fit me perfectly.
Family and Consumer Science Education. In a year's time I will be able to teach the following classes:
Foods 1, 2, Pro-Start
CTE courses
Sewing of all levels
Fashion Design (and I pray I never have to)
Teen Living
Adult Roles
Child Development
Interior Design
Financial Literacy
Early childhood education
I can run the preschools in the high school
Food and Science
Human Development
Life Management
Hospitality Services--I have yet to know what the class teaches...

That's a lot of classes. Not to mention other jobs I can get with my degree outside of the education system. Thank goodness I found such a fabulous fit for me...
But I'm tired.
I'm tired of writing papers, of reading chapters and responding to questions that my teacher never discusses. I'm tired of memorizing facts without application.

I'm tired of taking classes that are supposed to teach me how to teach...and they don't.
Don't get me wrong, the education program at BYU is great I'm sure, but the course content seems so vague and out there that I'm getting frustrated.
I am just tired.
I have all of four more classes to take in the Fall and then I'll student teach. If I get any more tired I don't know what will happen.
This blog post was written to merely pass the time. In the future I will think of better things to say. I will tell you of the picnic Tanner and I had Sunday. That's at least somewhat entertaining right?

Flowers

I'm just really excited to have a flower party tonight. A dear friend of mine is getting married tomorrow!!!! My mom and I are doing flowers and it will just be a party. Yay for marriage and flowers.

I reactivated my account on facebook so I could grab these pictures (I'm on campus with a long break before I go to a master class with the Russian Red Army (world renowned dance group-yesss))

Here are some of my beautiful flowers from my wedding. All pictures from Amanda Castleberry. Flowers done by my wonderful aunt, cousin and mom.



Handsome

This is just a funny picture..but the bouquet is lovely.


A bridal shot


The bouquet for my bridals


Beautiful cake by Dani Talbot Wilkinson


Probably my favorite part of the flowers.


Huge splay.


Centerpiece-they were all different


Cute bridesmaids-hydrangeas


Bouquet for the day


Pretty flowers tucked in the desk drawers


I love flowers, don't you?