I am currently earning my degree in Elementary Education with a concentration in Special Education. I was a gymnastics coach for five years. I coached children from as young as 18 months to 18 years old. I also coached my local high school and junior high gymnastics team as well. My favorite part was working with the competitive gymnasts and teaching (and perfecting) their routines!

I love to cook and am currently putting together several cookbooks for publication. I am willing to try almost any food. Cheese is probably one of my absolute favorite foods. I love to experiment with recipes and develop new ideas for cooking all the time. I also like to enter recipe contests as well!

I was the activities director and editor for Operation Razorback Support Our Troops. ORSOT was a local and non-profit organization that provided our local military troops with care packages monthly. We did hundreds of fund raisers and booth set ups to collect money. Unfortunately it grew faster than we anticipated, or could handle, and the cost got out of hand and the program ended.

I was never much one for school, so I took the initiative to take college classes while in high school and graduated high school early! So I entered college with already 15 hours behind me. So that was a big plus. My boyfriend, David, is a journalism/english major and we will both be attending a study abroad trip this summer in Ireland! I wrote a very long story (at least for a non-English major, it seemed long!) to get accepted into the program so I could go with him! As an elementary education major, there aern't many opportunites to study abroad. The one "abroad" place was Africa and I didn't know if I was into that or not!

I do not consider myself an artist by any means but I do enjoy painting. I am not much of one on drawing because it is a lot easier to cover up your mistakes with paint than it is to erase!! I took a painting class in high school and really loved it. Here is a picture of Ronnie Van Zant (singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd)

I also love classic rock and blues. I have seen Van Halen, Bob Marley's son, .38 Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Collective Soul, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Foo Fighters ,Foghat and Molly Hatchet in concert! I saw Rush in April. If I could go back in time to see any concert it would be such a difficult choice between Boston and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
(Thought you might enjoy this! My boyfriend and I dressed up complete '80's for Halloween last year!