10 Things:
- I was born in California, but attended Centerville, East Middle School, and Great Falls High (so am basically a Montana native)
- My husband and I have been together for over 20 years
- I have one daughter
- I have 2 dogs (Jack Russell Terrier and Rhodesian Ridgeback), 2 hedgehogs, and a lot of freshwater fish
- I love/hate running and was lucky enough to run 4 half-marathons with friends this last summer
- I taught kindergarten for 6 years and 5th Grade for 6 years before coming to middle school to teach
- Watermelon is my favorite food, as well as bread and chocolate chip cookies
- I love to travel
- I read a lot (a lot)
- My original plan was to become a geneticist (back when the human genome project was big news) and I interned for two summers at McLaughlin Research Institute before switching my major to education