"Primary Idol"

I tried to think of a fun way to 'review' the primary songs this year for senior primary and after looking over the ideas posted here and there, I came up with one of my own,....I know that's pretty unusual for me. Brad downloaded the theme music for me and I had Marilyn Traub paint my signs (she is amazing isn't she?!) We didn't get to do anything but take their pictures this week as we ran out of time but I am excited for next week. Each class will sing a song and our wonderful judges, will critic them and we will have a winner each week. I think the kids will have alot of fun with this and it will be a fun way to review till our program in November. so, I'll keep you posted! Junior is playing Base ball and I will post pics next week of them.

Our judges, "Simon, Paula and Randy"

Each class came up with their own name and here they are.....

stay tuned.....

We are in the process of getting a virus off of our other computer (which has many pics on it) and hopefully that will be done soon and I'll write more about vacation, camps and stuff.

Dead dead dead....

Here is our current garden. it is a pretty sorry sight! However, it is about time to get ready to plant again so we have hope for some yummy things to eat.

Our grapefruit tree has something wrong with it and branches keep dying. We are very sad because they are the most delicious grapefruits we have ever had. waaaa! We did ask bishop about it and he told us a treatment for bores (I don't know if that is even how you spell it) anyway, it helped some but maybe it was too far gone. We hope some of it will survive and will rejuvenate and produce again.

This is after 3 big branches had to be cut off. "sniff sniff"

All I want for Christmas is my three front teeth!

It is a bit hard for Jenna to bite anything these days, she is missing so many teeth! She has another loose tooth on the bottom. Having no teeth doesn't help too much with her speech between f's and th's can't really tell the difference..

"Holy Big Book Batman!"

This is just ONE of Brad's books! Yikes!

Good thing Jenna doesn't have to read this monster! I would never survive!

First Day of School

So here are the traditional "first day of School" pictures for 2009!

Too cool for words! (He thinks!)

Brad's first day was the 24th of this month. He is going to Chandler Gilbert Community College. He is taking 15 credit hours, Pre Calc, Biology, English, Institute and Mythology. He has to take the Mythology as a requirement for the scholarship he got for being such a smart boy. He has alot of untapped potential. He sauntered down to the college to take the placement tests and came away placing very high. His counselor suggested he apply for the presidential scholarship so he did (that day was the deadline) and sure enough, about a week later he got a letter saying he got it. So that pays for his credit hours. He just has to pay for books! YIKES! they are stinkin expensive! We did get most of them on Amazon which saved us a bundle!!!! So, I ask myself, what kind of scholarship could he have gotten had he applied himself during high school? "The world will never know!"

There he goes "sniff sniff" first day of college. Alot different than dropping him off for the first day of kindergarten.

Here is Shannon, the lovely Junior who gets her "real" drivers license in 27 days. She will then be the proud driver of the above vehicle and Brad will use the white car till he leaves.

Next comes Michelle (Shelly to her friends) the new freshman!!!

She likes High School and is hoping to be on the Basket Ball team!! Go Shelly!

The Healthy! (finally) 5th Grader

Here she is sporting her "hero of the month" T-shirt she earned from her days in the hospital! She will be a good big sister to Jenna and look out for her to and from school. She has the same teacher this year as Mrs Bunger rolled up with her class. She is excited.

Last but certainly not least the big 1st Grader!

She is SOOOOO excited to finally be in first grade. Her teacher seems like she will be a good fit for her. The teacher dressed up as a pirate for the 'meet the teacher' night and Jenna was sold!

Computer difficulties......

Due to summer AND some computer dificulties, I haven't been able to post for a LONG time! I definately will be on next week updating, so much to post,....scout camp, girls camp, reunions, birthday, missing teeth, start of school, etc.....