Chaz's Choir Concert

Chaz had a choir concert this week. It was so good!











Guitar Fun

We had fun this weekend playing with a guitar DVD that came with the new Yamaha Jr. we bought for Ruth and Jared. That means we now have four guitars at our house.










Children's Museum

(stock photo) Wednesday was a free day at the big children's museum in town. Since Ruth and Jared are off track we decided to make the drive into downtown and check it out. It was a crazy madhouse, but we were able to do a few fun things like making paper airplains and then testing them out in a wind tunnel, climbing a rock wall, and doing a weather forcast in front of a green screen.




Kaitlin's Art

Kaitlin finished the poster she's been working on for the past month.

A Friday Night at our House

What goes on at our house on a normal Friday night you might ask. Well I went around after dinner on Friday night and took some pictures so you could see.

Friday is "Clean your Room Day" at our house. You have until 9:00pm (scripture time) to clean your room and your bathroom. On this night I caught Jared hard at work putting those last minute touches on his room.

Ruth was strumming away on the new Palmer Electric/Acoustic guitar I bought myself this week. She is becoming quite the guitar player.

Kaitin was caught at her favorite pastime - drawing. She's been working on this poster for several weeks. Her teacher asked her to draw it for his classroom. It's a picture of Percy Jackson from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books.

Chaz is usually out with friends on weekend nights. But this time I was able to capture him doing one of his favorite things, reading and listening to music.

I didn't take a picture of Chuck or I, but Chuck was working on his laptop, which is what I would have probably been doing as well, if I weren't taking pictures of the family.


Oh, I'm going to add one last picture...




Here is Summer. This picture wasn't from Friday night, but this is what you can find her doing much of the time - relaxing in her litter box. She loves laying there - we can't figure out why.

Follow the Prophet Primary Activity

This past Saturday was our Follow the Prophet Primary Activity. We had 70 kids attend and a great time was had by all.

There were four different stations. Each station focusing on a prophet from the Primary song "Follow the Prophet."

Daniel and the Lion's Den Interactive Story.

My secretary, Jayna, is a fabulous teacher and story teller. She got all the kids involved in an interactive story of Daniel and the Lion's den.

Noah's Arc Masks

The kids had a great time making animal masks with my counselors Sarah and Emily as they learned about the story of Noah's Ark. The masks came from this site.

President Monson Multimedia Trivia!

My station was a trivia game on Power Point where all the children got to vote for the answer they thought was correct and then we watched a video to see if they were right.

Jonah and the Whale

The kids had a blast reenacting the story of Jonah with my counselor Krystal and a giant parachute I borrowed from my friend, Lisa. They made the rough waves, and finally were swallowed by the whale by running under the parachute.

Welcome Spring

The tulips are pushing up through the mud (in the back yard at least) and the sun is shining on us a few hours a day. Chuck and I have both taken spins on our respective two wheeled motorized vehicles. (Chuck installed a new fork on mine). And most excitingly, we set up the trampoline! In coats and blankets, Jared and Ruth have been out every day jumping and shivering.

The Mexican Hat Dance

Chaz and I played a trumpet/guitar duet of the Mexican Hat Dance for 200 people at the Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet this last week. I promised some of you video - unfortunately, we forgot our camera. Let's just say, I don't think we'll be getting work at the Blue Iguana any time soon. But it was fun. The girl Chaz likes was there right on the front row. Chaz was a real sport when they put a big sombrero on his head. All evening Chaz was able to sit by that girl so it worked out okay in the end.




www.ldsfiction.net

I'm happy to announce that after only a week my new site now has a presence on one of the three big search engines. If you search for "lds fiction" on Yahoo my site comes up #6! Nothing yet on Bing or Google, but I'm told that it takes weeks sometimes. I'm doing all that I can think to do, so I hope it works out. If you haven't visited the site in a week, check it out again. It has its final look - with a banner that Kaitlin and I designed. I even had my first stranger sign up on the site, so yeah! for me! My next goals are to: 1) try to generate some writers to contribute their work to the site, 2)try to integrate some kind of forum on the site.