Adam's Mission Call

Adam has been called to preach the gospel in the
Minneapolis, Minnesota mission,
Hmong speaking.


Adam was thrilled to be called to teach the Hmong people. They hail from parts of China, Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.


Adam was SOOO excited to get his long-awaited mission call that he made Steve & I come right home from lunch so he could open it. Actually, Steve was pretty happy to wrap up lunch as well, as I started blubbering in the restaurant when Adam called us. Yeah - I hold up REAL well. I'll have NO problem seeing him off at the MTC! He reports May 27, 2009 and will be gone for two years.

Steve's Birthday trip to CA

Noah & Dallen having fun at Knott's Berry Farm. I wanted to go to an education forum in SLC for the weekend... but NOOOOO, Steve wanted to go to Knott's for his birthday! hehe It was fun.


My sister, Ola, and Emily on the mine ride.



Ivie and Nathan being SOOOO cute and lovey!




Paying close attention to the presentation on the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Just look at that rapt attention. They'll watch ANYTHING now that we don't watch tv anymore!





Here's the silly birthday boy at Knott's.






Nathan laughed so hard at the ducks that he was drooling!



A replica of the inside of Independence Hall where the 2nd Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence. This is outside of Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA.


This replica of the Liberty Bell is only 20 lbs lighter than the original, but is the same size. Its was so neat to see.


Outside of Independence Hall. It was an awesome little side trip when we went to CA. I had more fun there than at Knott's. I'm such a history nerd, I know. The kids and Steve really enjoyed it as well.


What can I say? The man is 44 and still acts like a goofball! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Honey!
Hope you had a great birthday!

Shakespeare Faire

Two days after I hosted the Blue & Gold Banquet, I held a Shakespeare Faire for my students and their families. We had about 125 people there (or more) and it was a TON of fun. Each family provided an activity/booth for everyone to enjoy. We had blind dagger fights, archery, pastry shops, jousting, face painting, people put into stocks for drinking soda (LOL), etc. and my students did 4 Shakespeare scenes. Here are three of my students portraying the three witches in Macbeth.


Aubrey in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". She's becoming a terrific and expressive actor.



Dallen got locked up for non-compliance.




Cody portraying Macbeth in a scene with the witches.





Aubrey got to play the harp!

February Blue and Gold Dinner

Noah (with cheetos in his teeth) was a special guest of honor as he'll be a new Cub Scout in August.


Cubmaster Tina preparing for Pack Meeting.



Dallen is a Bear Scout.

Cody and some other Scouts came and did a great flag ceremony for the Cub at our Blue & Gold dinner.

Family times

One of our crazy FHE activities. Each kid chose an important principle or doctrine of Christ's church (scriptures, baptism, prophets, missionary work, etc) and we built our tower like the organized church. When the apostasy came, the church fell (and so did all the kids with lots of giggles), then each went and sat down in their own place to show how each religion that came along chose which principles of the true church they would adhere to. No one religion had ALL the truth. Then we built the tower back up and learned about the Restoration. Brandon's friend (in yellow) came over that night for FHE and he said our Family Home Evenings were a blast compared to his. (You can see little Nathan in the background, looking like he'd love to climb to the top of that mountain!) He's a climber


I had to add this picture of Steve, because I have hundreds just like this, and this is to teach him a lesson about making so many faces when I try to take his picture. Say, cheese, please~!



Steve was complaining that it was too dark in the living to read during scripture time, so for a joke I went and got him the BIG Book of Mormon that I use to teach the younger children to read from. He LOVED, and now he uses it everytime we read the scriptures. He's getting to be an old fogey!

More pics of Ola & kids

Ola and her children came to celebrate her birthday.


Cousins are CRAZY - FUN!



Riding in the car to California.

Ola's birthday

My sister, Ola, turned 38, so we threw her a little birthday party when we were in CA. I LOVE my sis!

Kim and Jared's wedding

Way too long since I've blogged! What's been going on in our family? Everything. We went to San Diego over Valentine's Day to see Steve's sister, Kim, married in the temple to Jared. What a wonderful day that was, and so great to be in the temple with so much family.