The Holidays sure are HAPPY!

I have been looking forward to Christmas since about oooh January? I wasn't in America for Christmas last year and well... while it was really fabulous in Taiwan it just wasn't the same....

Here are some reasons that have made the Holidays FABULOUS for me so far....

#1- Bowling
It's a Thanksgiving tradition to go bowling on Thanksgiving in the Larsen family. Let me tell ya it is always quite the adventure. We're a family of real bowlers.... especially myself....
Let's just say my Grandma (82 years young mind you) won me by 40 points....
I know where my talent lies..

#2- Christmas Tree!

Alright, i'm sorry I know this picture is kinda crappy but. you get the jist of it! Can you see why I LOVE Christmas trees?
Well..... while this tree is rather grand and quite the spectacle, it was not always like that.
We cut this baby down at the Kapp tree farm in Mt. Green. Every year we kid around, like man this tree is going to fall off the car. (some years it has come disgustingly close and by the time we get home it's horizontally on the car) Well folks.....
this year, here are the Larsen's driving home with their lovely tree strapped on top, thanks to Dave Larsen. We're in Weber Canyon (this is a FREEWAY mind you) the wind starts picking up, CRACK, BOOM BASH, the tree is OFF THE CAR!
I'm pooping my pants at this point. A car runs over the tree, luckily it was ok and they just keep driving. I got out of the car and booked it as fast as my little legs would go and pulled it out of the road.
Our twine was broken..... uh.... we had nothing to tie it back onto the car with...
being the Larsen's we had a BRILLIANT idea. Shove the TWENTY FOOT tree INSIDE of the car....
So we did. i'm sure it was rather comical to those driving around us.
It was rather comical to me.
But on the bright side at least we didn't cause some 20 car pileup or something, and guess what? The tree wasn't even damaged.

#3- Dave Larsen the newest Christmas "rapper"
My dad is a funny guy.... or so he thinks so.
They went Christmas shopping this morning and my mom is already wrapping the presents.
Dave, the great man he is, thinks he should make up a Christmas rap, while they wrap.
He's been bouncing around the house rapping the most ridiculous Christmas "wrap" i've ever heard.

See why these Holidays are just Happy?
YAHOO

Ohhhhh did I really just do that?

Ya know how sometimes you have those moments where you do something and a split second later you wish nothing less than that you could just take that back?

I did that today....
and ya know, it happens to me all too often. crap.

Here's my story:

I went to the fieldhouse (Utah State's gym) today to get nice and sweaty. Well, it's just a smidge chilly outside now and I don't want to free my thighs off walking up so I put sweats on OVER my workout shorts.
Normal right? I do it all the time.
Well, I don't know if my brain in lacking on remembering how to work because I have 3 (THREE and this is Thanksgiving week. YOU SUCK professors) okay, off my soap box now or if I just am REALLY EXCITED (really) for Thanksgiving and can only think about food but I walk in, go the bathroom, this is my normal routine.
Then I walk upstairs to the little cubbies where you can put your things. Mind you these cubbies are not in private places in the gym... rather they are just on the side wall, so you have view of them from pretty much the whole gym.
I take off my coat, them I take on my pants.....
Well here's where the magic happens.....
Apparently I'm an idiot and didn't realize I had not only grabbed the elastic waistband on my sweat put also my shorts.... Uhhhhh
So there I stood with my pants and shorts to my knees. Yep, I had some pink undies on today and I just really wanted to make sure people saw them!
After it happened I wasn't sure if I should just walk out or workout. I worked out. Obviously keeping my head down and avoided eye contact at all costs!
Yep, I'm that girl that everyone thinks, "oh poor thing I feel so bad for her"
At least I made their day right?
Let's be honest it's rather comical and it made mine too!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Back in Action and FULL of GREAT news.

Uhh.. HELLO?

Want to know something so amazingly fantastic it just tickles me beyond pink?!?!?!?

I. Kailey.Jean.Larsen. Got. Accepted. To. Do. Teach. For. America.

UHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!

Do you know what this means?!
1) For the next 2 years I will be living in North Carolina
2) I will be Teaching English (possibly secondary education as well if i'm really lucky)
3) It's my first big girl job- retirement, paid-time off, salary, 401k plan, the whole nine yards
4) I will get my Masters in Education
5) This opens up oodles of doors for me for my future career (Harvard for an MBA? Most likely come 2014)
(ok ok ok it's alright for me to live in a dream world right? Ok, I will don't worry)
6) Most importantly it means i'm just really excited to be accepted to be a part of this incredible organization!!

You may be like what in the hail is Teach For America anyway Kailey. Well.... I'll tell you, did you know there is a disgusting achievement gap in America? There is, our education system in low-income communities is downright not ok. A child that does not finish High School is 8 TIMES more like to go to prison, 8 in 10 kids don't graduate from High School in low-income areas where Teach For America goes... America needs to step up their education a notch.

Every child deserves the chance to succeed. I'm going to do my VERY best to give these kids the opportunity to.

Better yet.... Will you PLEASE just watch a movie called Waiting for Superman? It's pretty much explains the missions of Teach For America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKTfaro96dg

it's reeeeaallll good.

I'm reeeeaalll nervous. BUT EVEN MORE EXCITED.

I'll keep you posted.