The end of another year

I look forward to this post all year, the one where I remember what I've doing during the past twelve months. 2015 has been a pretty good year.

January. It was a warm, dry January. It was kind of depressing, actually. I did research for my boss, Reid Neilson, and sometimes research was easier than at other times.

I began spending my Thursday evenings by helping tutor some Tongan high school kids in Salt Lake. One Thursday night after going to tutoring, I got a call from Reid Neilson--he wanted me to look over some press releases, because the next day it was announced that he had been appointed as a new Assistant Church Historian.

February. Another warm, dry month. I saw Woods Cross High's production of Mary Poppins on February 6, and the next day the wind blew our recycling all over the neighborhood, the same day I went to an awkward concert of the Utah Pioneer Heritage Arts at the Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum. On Valentine's Day, my family went to Promontory Point.

March. March wasn't a really eventful month. My laptop got knocked to the floor and the charger broke. I began working as a contingent (contract) employee, but I was doing the same things I was doing as an intern. But with better pay and benefits. Apparently it was so uneventful that I don't have any pictures to share, so instead I'll post this music video that came out in March.

April. I got a new laptop to replace my broken one. On Easter I made a picture with what I imagine  Isaiah was describing when he talked about "wizards that peep and mutter":

 I went to Thanksgiving Point for a tulip festival. I had some fun experiences with trail running: I discovered beautiful North Canyon on Arbor Day, and one night I got very lost.

May. It didn't snow like I was hoping, but we did have an impressive hailstorm.

I was given a calling as a stake family history director, so I had to begin going to the Bountiful Heights Family History Center on Saturdays. My family went down to Cedar City and Millard County for a cousin's baby shower and a cousin's farewell. On Memorial Day, I ran (mostly) to Ensign Peak and nearly stepped on a snake.

June. On June 1, I had an impromptu trail run up to Elephant Rock in Mueller Park, even though I wasn't dressed for it. Reid Neilson asked me to take his place on a women's history tour as part of the Mormon History Association convention in Provo, and that same weekend I went on a ward trip near Altamont, Utah. I got my broken laptop repaired, resulting in me having two. My June evenings were spent eradicating goathead plants and seeing sego lilies along trails.

At the end of the month, I ran North Salt Lake's 5k and discovered I've gotten much slower, even though I can run farther. And my nephews arrived from California for a few weeks.

July. Spent the Fourth of July with my nephews, and then we drove to California to take them home. It was a very fast trip, and we only had one full day in California. We went to Muir Beach.

This summer was the first time I formally celebrated Pioneer Day, because I learned more about the early celebrations of the day. One Friday night I drove up Parleys Canyon for a work party and got stranded up there because my car wouldn't start. I took it in to be fixed, but they couldn't figure out the problem, because it started just fine for them.

August. In the beginning of the month, my family went to a family reunion in Fillmore, and we got to see many of the artifacts of my pioneer ancestors. Most of the reunion was at a hotel built in the 1920s, when people were apparently shorter.

I also went on a short hike near the U with two other people and we got lost (but not really). I began transitioning to a new job, working on a women's discourses project with the Church History Department. I went to see the National Parks (band) in Kaysville.

September. I began working full time on the women's discourses project, and I began a pumpkinundation roundup on this blog. I was flattered when Reid Neilson gave me cookies for my birthday. I began my new calling as an assistant ward clerk, and my stake calling got busy as we had to coordinate stake FHEs. We made murals to support family history, not knowing they were too heavy, so they kept falling down.

October. I dressed up as Vector from Despicable Me for Halloween, and in that costume I won a North Salt Lake Halloween 3k, but that's because most of the people were children and their parents. My parents went to Hawaii, leaving me alone in the house for the days before Halloween and the beginning of November. I spent Halloween with my niece, and on Halloween night our cat brought us a rat. Not a mouse like she usually does, but a huge rat.

November. I went to Orem to see the Addams Family musical, and there was a certain Mark Melville there who had gotten my tickets in addition to his own. My family went to California to spend Thanksgiving with my brother's family. We went out to eat for Thanksgiving, but I had a stomach bug of some kind and could only eat a little bit. We took family pictures while we were there.

December. We got a late start to the Christmas season, since we had been in California for Thanksgiving weekend. We had lots of snow, to the point that I stayed an entire day home from work. I went to Christmas concerts by the Lower Lights and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. We made gingerbread houses.

It was an enjoyable Christmas.

Although there aren't a lot words in this blog, it took a while to gather all the memories. I don't feel like writing anything else, except

 ~Happy New Year!~