Cupcakes and Races

Each week seems to go by faster and faster. How is it almost July already!?

Although this week flew by, I had a lot of accomplishments this week: they entail cupcakes and races. Mallory and I are taking a cake decorating class this summer. It gives us something to do to keep busy and I'm always wanting to learn new skills. We've been in the class for 3 weeks now. Next week is our last class of the basic lesson, and then we'll start the next 4 week lesson.
This last week we had to make cupcakes and bring them to class to decorate. Mallory and I had a little bit of trouble with our cupcakes. First we tried using a yellow cake mix, but Mallory had added bad eggs and bad oil to the mix and so the mix tasted awful. So we tried another box mix, this time it was a butter cake mix. The mix seemed to taste fine this time, so we put them in the oven. However, every time they came out, they sunk! Turns out the cake mix was expired! Ha ha ha!
So Mallory tried again the next day and brought perfect cupcakes to our class. Down below are my decorated cupcakes! :-) It was fun learning new techniques, I'm not very good, but with practice I'm sure I'll get there!

The other accomplishment this week was running a 5K. It was for my work company Columbine Health Systems. I made Mo run with me, it was a lot of fun. I love running 5K's, especially with my friends!

Ooops!

So I was looking at my blog and realized that I haven't blogged in forever! Oooops!
I guess I just got so busy the last 6 months that I forgot about blogging! Not to worry, I'm back now. To catch you all up: I graduated in May with my bachelor's in Social Work and a minor in Anthropology. Yay for the $24,000 piece of paper I earned! Ha ha!

I've also started my career. I'm officially a Social Worker at North Shore Health and Rehab in Loveland. I work as an admissions coordinator on the weekends and work as the Mountainview Social Worker for Long Term Care. I love my job, it's just rough...a lot to remember...a lot of responsibility...a lot to do!

I've also been accepted to University of Pennsylvania Grad School Program of Social Policy and Practice. It's a 1 year program where I can get my masters in Social work and Social Policy. I deferred it a year so I could get some work experience, so I'll actually start the program July of 2011. I'm very excited about it. In fact this last week on my visit to PA, I stopped by the campus to check it out. It's beautiful and I think I'll like it. :-)

So far life is going pretty good! Got a Job (and I am very grateful and blessed for it, especially to have a job using my degree), got accepted to UPenn to get my masters degree and it's summer!