Top 50 Ian Moments

Since I haven't done a top moments blog for a while and I thought it'd be fun to do a top 50 moments for my 50th blog, here goes my top 50 moments that I have ever had in my life:
50: my first Honor Roll report card (7th grade)
49: my first field goal in a regulation game (8th grade)
48: my first A in High School (9th grade)
47: my first gold medal in Special Olympics (5th grade)
46: my first roommate (6th grade)
45: my first baseball game (6th grade)
44: my first live basketball game (5th grade)
43: my first day in the group home (6th grade)
42: my K-Kid of the Month Awards (5th and 6th grade)
41: winning the geography bee (7th grade)
40: my Best Conqueror of Challenge Award (8th grade)
39: my first 3-pointer in a regulation game (9th grade)
38: my first talent show (5th grade)
37: my Choir Choice Award/Director Choice Award combo (12th grade)
36: my first leadership role in a club (11.5th grade)
35: my first photograph (10th grade)
34: my first time liking coffee (9th grade)
33: my Special Education Student of the Year Award (12th grade)
32: my first time mentoring someone in college (my second underclassmen year of college)
31: my first time getting paid at a job (summer before my third underclassmen year of college)
30: my first time as an officer of a club (my first full Sophomore year of college)
29: my first time winning a raffle (5th grade)
28: my first time bowling a 100 game (6th grade)
27: my first time doing the 30-hour famine (10th grade)
26: my first time doing Service Saturday (first Junior Year of college)
25: my first time volunteering at college (1st year of college)
24: my first time doing a day trip in the Outdoor Program (Junior Year of college)
23: my first weekend trip with a college group (Sophomore year of college)
22: my first time out of North America (and so far only) (Summer before second underclassmen year of college)
21: my first time at a week-long trip with a college group (summer before my second Sophomore year of college)
20: professing my faith on my own for the first time (10th grade)
19: moving from the group home into an agency (Sophomore year of college)
18: my first award-winning poem (11.5th grade)
17: starting Self-Advocacy Leadership Network (last semester of my Junior year in college)
16: beginning yoga in earnest (second Junior year in college)
15: first gold medal in basketball (11.5th grade)
14: only gold medal in softball (second underclassmen year in college)
13: reading the Bible cover-to-cover for the first time (Junior year in college)
12: winning Boise State Volunteer of the Year (second Junior year in college)
11: first and only out-of-the country trip with a school group (last semester of 3rd Junior Year in college)
10: first solo plane flight without an escort (summer before my second Junior year in college)
9: going to a national conference for autism (second Senior year in college)
8: getting a 4.0 the semester after getting hit by a car (second Junior year in college)
7: getting an A in Math (second Senior year in college)
6: moving to Self-Direction (second Senior year in college)
5: getting a 3.271 and a 3.65 my first two semesters of all upper-division classes (first and second Senior years in college)
4: being selected to go to Leadershape (3rd Junior year in college)
3: being brave enough to come out as bisexual (2nd Senior year in college)
2: graduating from high school with a 3.217 GPA (2003)
1: winning Spirit of Boise State (2nd Senior year in college)

In A Moment

In A Moment
By I. Jimmy Bott
In a moment life can be an amazing joy
Or a struggle that is too hard to bear
In a moment I can see people trying to understand where I am at
And meet me there
In a moment I can function well
And still try to see my life as God would intend it
Even with my struggles as real
It is a wonder if things are truly evident
In a moment when autism and depression
Collide I feel pain and struggle
Anguish and excitement
And trying to achieve my life goal of being a hope
Sometimes all at the same time
In a moment I can change to happiness
Which the truth brings
And my strength to carry on comes from a strengthened
Faith from within
And in a moment
I truly wish to be even stronger through this strengthened moment-IJB