Medals

Yesterday night BYU had national judges come in to grade our dancing on a national scale. It was really cool. We danced the Foxtrot and the Cha-cha. Wednesday night, I practiced with my Teacher's Assistant, and she seemed really positive, which is always a good sign. Apparently, the judge that was judging that night when I danced was judging a lot harder than the judge from earlier in the day. But I still got a 93 out of 100! I was really excited. Dancing is so fun! I'm going to take Dance 280 (Intermediate Social Dance) next semester, and then this summer I'm going to help Kami Lowe teach the dance class at the Student Ward there in Springfield. Anyway, just thought I would let everyone know how I did and brag a little bit :)

She walks

Well I tried to get a good video of Lydia walking, but it took some prompting. The first little bit is her fake coughing. She is so funny.

Silent Night

I have been learning some new Christmas songs, so I thought I'd share them with you. Our web cam isn't the greratest quality, and that's what I recorded it with, so just pretend it sounds clear. This is one a learned a couple weeks ago. And if I can perfect a few others I'll post some more Christmas songs later too. :) Let me know if you have any requests and I'll see if I can find the music.

Our Little Over Achiever

Well I'm still waiting on Halloween pictures from my sister inlaw. But as soon as I get them I'll post the super cute ones, which willb e hard casue they were all pretty super cute. And in other news, Lydia is offically walking as of teh day after thanksgiving. A week short of 10 months. I think she has been able to do it for a long time but hasnt had the confidence, but when we were at Garry and Sheri's for thanksgiving, she had motivation to try casue they have the hard industrial carpet adn Lydia was getting big sores on her little knees, so after 2 days she had had enough and started walking all over like she really knew how to do it al along but was just waiting for the perfect time. It was fun, but of course she is a stuborn little toad and wont do it when we want to show her off, so it may be a few days before I can actually get a good video of it. But when I do I'll post it. She is our little over achiever. :)

Batman Mikey

Well this is all the halloween footage we got...I know it's like SUPER late, but here's mikey with his friend "the scarecrow" Jacob on Halloween running in the hallway. Our friend from Chruch recorded it. It's cute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wghj9fpt7Q4

Once there was a Snowman...

Well, it snowed in Willard last night. First snow of the season. When Lilly got up she was excited. I asked if we needed to make a snowman before I went to work this morning and she heartily agreed. SOOOOO.... We donned our snoiw gear and headed out into the harsh winter wasteland. (If you look closely at the pictures you will see that the grass is green, not snow covered). The resources for making a snowman were a little on the skimpy side. However, we were able to find snow on the slippery slide, the trampoline and on the fort. So that's what we used.

As you can see from the smile on his face, he is one happy snowman (and Lilly is one happy little girl). We came in just in time to sit down to a warm breakfast of Biscuits and sausage gravy --YUM YUM. Lilly said the blessing and started by telling Heavenly Father about our snowman with a "baby carrot" nose and stick hands. She did remember to thank Him for the food, though. I think the smile on the snowman is indicative of the way we felt this morning. AAAAHHHHH, life is good :)

Vote For me!

Hey I just entered into a photo contest. You can only submit one photo...so I just took one out of one of my old files any how. The one with the most votes wins! So go to this webaddress and vote for my picture PLEASE! You guys can join in too!

http://www.picture.com/voteforme/photovote1.asp?PID=2414806

It's the maple tree in mom's front yard right after it rained.

Happy Thanksgiving

Now that we are all 10 lbs fatter than we were on the 21st we need to see some pictures of everyone's Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful day even if I did only set two tables. I just want you all to know how thankful I am for the blessings in my life and at the top of the list is my eternal family. I love you all so much and I'm so grateful for the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ and all that brings into our life.

More November Birthdays

Can you believe we have MORE birthdays this month? Tomorrow is Dale's He will be 15 (unbelievable!) then Melissa and Hyrum both have birthdays on the 21st. I think Hyrum turns 11 and I'm pretty sure Melissa is 21 and holding. Then Lindy has her 19th on the 24th. Wow! It's a good thing I don't do birthday gifts or I would be broke after November and couldn't afford to get Christmas gifts (that I don't do) in December.

Ha ha ha

My sister forwarded me this picture with the caption, and I laughed. Thought I'd share it. (HINT: Click on it so it's bigger and you can read the caption.)

National Championships

The University of Utah came short of a National Title this last weekend. OUr first game was against Grand Valley State University, and it wasn't pretty. My players and I were star struck and nervous to even be in the championships that it got the best of us, and before we had a chance to get into it, the game was over and we lost 11-6.
That put us out of the running for the National Title, but we went on to play and win Texas A&M, Georgia Tech, and Oregon, to take 9th place over all, winning the losers bracket and ending the season with the 3rd best winning record in the Nation.

F.Y.I.

I just thought I would let everyone know within the Salt Lake vicinity that Tom will be speaking in church (a.k.a his farewell) on November 25th. Our ward's sacrament meeting starts at 12:45p.m.

Dancesport

Right now I'm in Dance 180 here at BYU, which is the basic social dance class. It's tons of fun. Probably one of my favorite classes. Well, every semester, BYU has a dance competition called Dancesport. It's not mandatory to compete, but we are all encouraged to compete. And me, loving not only dancing, but performing as well, couldn't resist an opportunity like this. So I asked one of the girls in my class if she would be my partner for Dancesport. (I made sure that she was a good dancer too) We practiced in class and outside of class a few times. We knew that we were pretty good, but we weren't sure how far we would go in the competition. There were about 210 couples in the Dance 180 competition. We were doing Bronze American Cha Cha. We made it all the way up to the quarter finals. There were only 24 couples left in the quarter finals. But we were one of the 12 couples cut before the semi finals. We may not have made it all the way to the top, but there was only one other couple in our class who made it further than we did, and they won. So we felt pretty satisfied with our performance. These are just a few pictures of us after the competition and then of us dancing.

Happy 19th to Tom

Happy Birthday to Tom. Big 19!!!! I would have posted before but we just got home from our week at the temple. Yeah Tom!

An awesome experience!

Today in Seminary we had a student from Tel Aviv come and visit. She came with the Student body president who was in my 5th period.

It was one of the best Old Testament lessons we have had all year, as the students were able to answer questiosn about everything she was wondering. It was so great to see the Holy Ghost use the informatoin of the Old Testament and modern day israel to testify of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a Prophet today! We just got done teaching the Abrahamic Covenant and the opportunity to teach that to a Jew with the realization of a Temple and the covenants we make at Baptism made Leah understand how important the covenant is.

The Old Testament is amazing! It is Temple Prep, Restoration Prep, and Mission Prep all over the place! Just thought I'd share...
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November birthdays

Happy birthday tomorrow (Nov. 3) to Garry they Younger and Sunday (the 4th) to Shanell. You kids just keep stacking up the birthdays! Hugs and kisses to both of you.

white rabbit

Well, for Halloween, I went as a samurai. Big surprise there huh? I had a dance lab for my dance class that I went to. It was a lot of fun. They played only music that we know how to dance to. So I got to do a lot of Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Waltz, and some Swing too. It was really funny to walk around campus yesterday and see all sorts of fun costumes. I even found Waldo from "Where's Waldo"!

Not much new is going on here in my life. Just school and work. Next weekend I am going to participate in a dance competition though. I'm really excited. We are dancing Cha Cha for our competition. It's a lot of fun. :) I'll let you all know how that goes. And hopefully, I'll be able to post some more pictures.

Forgotten birthday

Well it's kinda late, but Mike's birthday was on friday. Just to let everyone know. He didn't have school that day so he got work off and just had a day at home...It was the best ever. Not to mention he got a free ice cream from coldstone cause it was his birthday. SWEET!

Happy Late Birthday Mike

Halloween

We went trick-or-treating with our little moo-cow tonight. It was fun. He tried to walk into a couple of people's houses, and some other people dressed up as aliens scared him. Actually, he seemed more disturbed than scared. He didn't cry or anything, just wouldn't go near them...even though they were offering FULL SIZE candybars! Bah. I cringed inside when they would let him pick his own candy out of their bowls because he invariably went for the dum dums. I mean, they would have ALMOND JOYS in there and he would pick a yucky ol' dum dum. It hurt to watch that. But what could I do? It was his candy, after all. (Well, at least until we got home and enacted the candy tax. The government must get their cut, you know.) Fortunately, even when we got home, his main interest was in those horrid dum dums, so Big Garry and I got all the good chocolate. Mua ha. So yeah. He had fun. We had fun. And he was the cutest little cow in the universe. He even had a waggly cow tail.