School Fun!

Remember when I didn't like chocolate...well, those days have been over for a long time. For my technology course my partner and I created a 1st grade math lesson last week using M&M's and the graphing tool on PowerPoint. I'm creating a digital story next week in technology so I'll try to post that next week. I went to a sleepover last night with the girls in my Provo Elementary Education group. We talked lots, played Taboo, and watched a bit of Lion King (we're true future teachers).

Chunkiness Report

Ok, I'm going to try to post something once a week (at LEAST twice a month), so hold me to it. At the beginning of this semester I made this chunky poster and put it in my binder. So far I've been pretty chunky. I just came back from my friends' soccer game and it was tons of fun!

Chunkiness report: In the past 30 days I've gone to the Bombay House and ate Indian food for the first time (delicious!), celebrated my birthday, gone sledding, cooked for a ward Progressive Dinner, sang with friends at a nursing home, watched The Ultimate Gift, went to SLC and watched the Joseph Smith movie with friends, watched Barbie: The Island Princess with my cousin Courtney (little kid movies are right up my alley), volunteered and played game and did crafts with kids, went to a BYU men's basketball game, ate at Cafe Rio, played Settlers of Catan, watched Nacho Libre (it reminded me how ridiculous I think that movie is), and went out for ice-cream twice (cookies and cream is my favorite now that BYU doesn't make graham canyon anymore-oh, and by the way, in this picture I had only gotten 5 hours of sleep max and I love sticking my tongue out).

Oh, and by the way...school and work is going great too...I fit that in every now and again in between all of my chunkiness :)

Happy 21st Birthday Meg!

This is the smile Meg gives when she is feeling squirty.

I can't believe I ate the whole thing! (At least it wasn't celery)

What a cute baby!

21 things we love about Meg...

1. Kids love her and so do adults!
2. She's a great piano player. Mostly because she's the only one that kept taking lessons.
3. She busts out into song randomly. -She's our own High School Musical
4. Her hair is so wavy. (We are jealous!)
5. She's always a good listener. Even when you just need to vent.

6. She's the cutest girl ever, don't cha know?!
7. She is really accident prone, but we love her anyway! No broken bones, but plenty of scars.
8. She will eat anything! (Except maybe celery.)
9. She makes you feel good about yourself.
10.When she was little she had huge eyes and she used to hang onto my hair like a baby
monkey. Boy, do I miss those days. I can't believe you are 21!
11.She's positively positive! She really can make the best of any situation. If any of you want to be on The Amazing Race, pick Meagan for your team!
12.She loves to read.

13.She's more than halfway done with her college degree. Yeah, only 3 more semesters!
14.She's going to Mexico for 4 months this summer and we think she is so brave.
15.She likes Disney movies. When we play "can you guess the movie quote" she can hold her own.
16.She can plug her nose with her upper lip when she swims. It's quite a talent!
17.She is a hard worker. She is totally supporting herself at BYU.
18.She can speak Spanish.
19.She is a great friend!
20.She is really funny and sometimes when she smiles she has a mischievous look
in her eye that we love. (Refer to the 1st picture to see what we mean.)
21.She is the only child in our family that knows how to drive a stickshift.

Still squirty after all these years! We love you Meg!

Busy As A Man Can Be, He's Our Bishop!

Today, Richard was sustained as the Bishop...
AGAIN! We had lots of crazy times, but lots of fun
ones too when he was Bishop 4 years ago.

He is a good man and we are glad that he is willing
to take another spin at being the Bishop.

It's Time to be Chunky!

This is my motto for this semester. One of my friends gave me the analogy of the peanut butter at the end of last semester. She said that too many people are creamy peanut butter and spread way too thin, we need more chunky peanut butter! I'm really going to try this semester!

Great news! My classes have been wonderful so far (I'm really going to like my children's literacy class-an excuse to read, yay!) and I got a job today as a math research assistant (this is elementary school math-I'm an elementary education major, NOT a math major). Looks like it'll be a great semester-with plenty of chunkiness:)

Homeless man? Nope! Just our Dad! :)

One day for Disneyland our Father, whom we love,

decided to go out in public looking like this....
a hobo!

Well....Dad took it a little too far. After

all the hobo name calling from his famiy

he began to really act like a hobo!

Let me add that this was right in the middle

of California Adventures! There were people

stopping to laugh at him as we took these pictures.

He gathered quite the crowd.

Then, he began looking for change. Thankfully,
he wasn't begging for it!

We drew the line when he asked us

to take a picture of him digging change

out of a water fountain.

We love you Dad, but we do have our limits!

More Christmas Fun!

These pictures are from Allie's camera. Just so you know, the ladybugs are just as bad as the teacups (but the girls still love them)!

Check out our styling 3-D glasses. Paige is striking a model pose.

Look at our cute explorers! They would have given the Crocodile Hunter a run for his money!

"There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you." -Mr. Waternoose. No worries though, it's just Matt, he's not as toxic as the average human. He's one great guy!

They arranged themselves according to height, not age-although people often think Matt is older than he is, once somebody thought he was Meagan's husband :)

Paige and Meagan blast into the future on a ride in TomorrowLand.

Wall-E...every girl's dream...or so I've heard. Eve (aka Allie) loves that movie! Woa!