A Little Late On The Thankfulness Train... But here it goes!

For me, I think there are seasons to life. Times of happiness, times of thankfulness, and times of celebration. My life has been so incredibly blessed to have all of these aspects to them lately and I couldn't feel more loved.

About 2 months ago I applied to Disney's College Program and recently I found out that I was given the chance to be a Disney worker starting in January until May. I can't tell you how thankful I am for this opportunity. It has been a constant dream of mine to work at the happiest place on Earth. My family and I have joked about me being there for years and now it's all coming true. And because of that, it feels so surreal. I will be working and LIVING at Walt Disney World... WHAT?! It's sooo awesome and crazy, I've known about it for a little while now and it still feels unreal to me. -To top it off? My best friend got a professional internship with the architecture program at Disney World... Weird how God works sometimes. We will both be in Florida together and working at Walt Disney World (pretty much) and living in the same city for the first time in our relationship. How awesome!

I couldn't be more thankful for the people I've had around me throughout this whole process; my roommates, my family, my best friends, and all of my GV family (that have known about this a little longer than most and have been able to keep it quiet until I was ready to tell the FB world) have been incredible. This is something I couldn't fathom doing without them. Their constant encouragement to follow what I've always wanted to do has been so motivating to do my best as I went through the application process.

Rachel is someone that has been a big influence on my life in the last year and I couldn't be more thankful for her. She is going to Israel this summer on a 15-day trip. She is taking pictures and the money she earns doing that is going towards her trip, since Tyler and I haven't ever had pictures taken by someone, other than pictures after performances, I thought this was a perfect opportunity. I am so thankful for Rachel and her ability to catch some really fun moments of Tyler and I and the random things that make us laugh, or just me laugh, so hard.

So many things to be thankful for this month and being able to spend time with my friends in the dance department is a big one. Especially since this is my only semester with them this month and that I'll have to be saying goodbye to a lot of the seniors earlier than the rest of the department. Luckily, I get they know I like taking pictures of my friends and they're taking advantage of that, in a good way. A few nights in the last couple of weeks, I had the chance to take pictures of my friends and here are some of my favorites.

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