lead like lizard

if you didn't know, one of my first nicknames was "lizardbreath" yes, ew i know, but it sounds like "elizabeth".  my uncle made it up and it has stuck in the family.  hence, the title of this post.

STATE STUCO 
i am the dakota valley vice president.  monica, buck, spence, laura, audrey, mr. schmitt, and i drove up to the capital of south dakota.  what is it you might ask?  pierre, aka in the middle of NO WHERE. population?  13,600ish.   itty bitty.  we had a blast though,  buck brought an adapter, so we watched a movie from his ipod on the TV in the hotel room.  spencer turned 16! we went to seminars to be taught how to be a better leader, except, either we are already fabulous leaders already or the kids teaching the classes are aweful teachers.  we made the long drive home (4.5 hours) and made a lip sync to JB's baby.  stopped at the famous buffalo statues.  win!

atempting to climb buffalo.

birthday door.

birthday games

birthday cake.

birthday cutie.

my BEST friends.

the group..

get ready for some candid moments..

this was me when everyone was passing the camera around the table.. not too happy.

FBLA (future business leaders of america) that i am. 
around 80 kids from DV and i traveled an hour north and attended the FBLA conference.  most just do it to get out of school.  i competed in two presentations where i placed fourth in the "Emerging Business Issues" with Logan and Monica.  the next day went on to taking SIX 100 question tests every hour.  then, karissa and i skipped the lame country dance, and watched the march madness championship. boo kentucky.  overall, 5 good things came out of it. 
1.  we learned that shelby can out push-up contest us all. 
2. lizzy knows how to do the worm
3. monica is scared of dark hallways
4. you can never have enough sweet and sour sauce.
5. wallets should never be in the same boxes as pancakes.
 (i lost my wallet.. it was in a box of pancakes)

yes, that is sweet and sour sause.

abbie(y)/elizabeth sandwich.

HONOR SOCIETY

just thought this was funny.  i was at the honor society induction, taking pictures of the five students that exceeded the 100 hours of service.   assuming that they would be all seniors, but nope.  one of the people was me.  i was just standing on the side of the stage, and then i heard my name! surprise!

awarded..

frandds.

winners of 100+ hours :)

<3 <3

in recap.  i have been to so many leadership things in the passed month, i think if i have to go to another in the very near future, i might explode in ideas for leading/ good examples.