Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!
Since last time I wrote, I had a birthday and now feel really old. Justin was wonderful as always and we went out to eat and I got steak - yum!
December went really fast. I started babysitting for a little girl 3 or 4 times a week. She's 8 months old now and a cutie patootie. She was premature so her development level is only about 4-5 months. It's a lot of fun getting to know her little personality.
Christmas was a lot of fun. Justin and I went down to my parents' house in Tucson. We drove the whole way (16 hours one way). We listened to audio books the whole way and really enjoyed them. We stayed for a week and spent the whole time relaxing and pretty much being lazy bums - it was nice.
Justin got me a new external hard drive to keep all my many pictures in. I got him a new suit. It didn't fit very well so we are still looking for one.
It's New Year's Eve and I hope you all have a very fun and very safe new year celebration!
Since last time I wrote, I had a birthday and now feel really old. Justin was wonderful as always and we went out to eat and I got steak - yum!
December went really fast. I started babysitting for a little girl 3 or 4 times a week. She's 8 months old now and a cutie patootie. She was premature so her development level is only about 4-5 months. It's a lot of fun getting to know her little personality.
Christmas was a lot of fun. Justin and I went down to my parents' house in Tucson. We drove the whole way (16 hours one way). We listened to audio books the whole way and really enjoyed them. We stayed for a week and spent the whole time relaxing and pretty much being lazy bums - it was nice.
Justin got me a new external hard drive to keep all my many pictures in. I got him a new suit. It didn't fit very well so we are still looking for one.
It's New Year's Eve and I hope you all have a very fun and very safe new year celebration!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wow!
Wow, it's been a really long time since we've updated this!
So...the past couple months:
Nothing really significant really happened in September as far as I can remember. I was busy all month getting ready for our Primary Program at church. The kids did such a good job when it finally came time. They sang so loud and smiled and recited their parts really well!
Our most exciting news is that we moved on Halloween day. We found a really wonderful house whose owner was going to live out of the country for a while and wanted someone to watch her house!
We are still in Fort Collins and have a great 3 bd/2 ba house with an almost full basement. We've got a great backyard and a garage too! We've been cleaning and re-painting and fixing it up a little bit, but it's starting to look really nice.
I will get some good pictures up pretty soon. But...if anybody is in town, come visit us!
So...the past couple months:
Nothing really significant really happened in September as far as I can remember. I was busy all month getting ready for our Primary Program at church. The kids did such a good job when it finally came time. They sang so loud and smiled and recited their parts really well!
Our most exciting news is that we moved on Halloween day. We found a really wonderful house whose owner was going to live out of the country for a while and wanted someone to watch her house!
We are still in Fort Collins and have a great 3 bd/2 ba house with an almost full basement. We've got a great backyard and a garage too! We've been cleaning and re-painting and fixing it up a little bit, but it's starting to look really nice.
I will get some good pictures up pretty soon. But...if anybody is in town, come visit us!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
AH HA! #2
I've actually had a lot of fun working on this blog all evening. I figured out how to make it 3 columns rather than just 2 columns. I had to change the html code. I followed directions 'here'. After I did that I realized that some of it didn't look quite right, so by trial-and-error I changed a few more things in the code to make it look better. I learned a lot about html code - I feel smart.
Keeping Busy
So, as most of you know already, my real estate job doesn't give me a whole lot of work because the market is so slow right now. At least, that's what I tell myself the reason is. I actually really like the work that I do there, I just find it hard to do lately. Anyway, I'm still working there but it's not keeping me really busy.
A lady in our ward, Sister Nash, is a good friend of ours. We occasionally spend Sunday evenings at her house eating and talking with other friends who come too. She's a fantastic cook (she's from Taiwan) and she's extremely sweet - you can't help but like her. She also runs a home daycare during the week for about 5 kids.
Two weeks ago she talked to me about maybe starting to come a few times a week to teach a music class to the kids. I went last week for the first time and we had a lot of fun!! I just spend an hour three times a week teaching music (singing songs, playing with instruments, dancing, etc...) There aren't that many kids and they're 3 yrs old and younger so it's kind of hard coming up with things that they can do related to music, but I'm actually enjoying it. I will probably start incorporating art projects and maybe some play drama with the 2 and 3 yr olds.
Today we did a lot of moving songs like the Hokey Pokey and the Limbo. Yesterday we listened to a bunch of different music and talked about what emotion we felt with each song, and on Tuesday we watched videos of about 10 different instruments and pretended to play them. Then I let them play on my flute, guitar and keyboard.
I think I'm going to start introducing them to music from around the world and we can learn about how music from different countries sounds a little different.
So, if anybody out there has a good idea that I can use, I would really appreciate it.
A lady in our ward, Sister Nash, is a good friend of ours. We occasionally spend Sunday evenings at her house eating and talking with other friends who come too. She's a fantastic cook (she's from Taiwan) and she's extremely sweet - you can't help but like her. She also runs a home daycare during the week for about 5 kids.
Two weeks ago she talked to me about maybe starting to come a few times a week to teach a music class to the kids. I went last week for the first time and we had a lot of fun!! I just spend an hour three times a week teaching music (singing songs, playing with instruments, dancing, etc...) There aren't that many kids and they're 3 yrs old and younger so it's kind of hard coming up with things that they can do related to music, but I'm actually enjoying it. I will probably start incorporating art projects and maybe some play drama with the 2 and 3 yr olds.
Today we did a lot of moving songs like the Hokey Pokey and the Limbo. Yesterday we listened to a bunch of different music and talked about what emotion we felt with each song, and on Tuesday we watched videos of about 10 different instruments and pretended to play them. Then I let them play on my flute, guitar and keyboard.
I think I'm going to start introducing them to music from around the world and we can learn about how music from different countries sounds a little different.
So, if anybody out there has a good idea that I can use, I would really appreciate it.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Mormon Tabernacle Choir!
I am so lucky! My wonderful husband took me to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Denver on the 29th. It was so wonderful.
At first I was a little miserable because we had to walk up from the lower parking lot - it took about 30-45 minutes to walk up all the steps and ramps from ground level up the the theater. Needless to say, I was quite exhausted by the time we found our seats. We were on row 56- right in the middle with a straight shot towards the choir.
When the concert started, they announced (and we had already heard a rumor) that the Prophet was there!!! Pres. Monson stood up and waved and I got a picture of him, but it was from really far away.
So, the concert was wonderful and I just feel even more determined to move to Utah and join the choir!
At first I was a little miserable because we had to walk up from the lower parking lot - it took about 30-45 minutes to walk up all the steps and ramps from ground level up the the theater. Needless to say, I was quite exhausted by the time we found our seats. We were on row 56- right in the middle with a straight shot towards the choir.
When the concert started, they announced (and we had already heard a rumor) that the Prophet was there!!! Pres. Monson stood up and waved and I got a picture of him, but it was from really far away.
So, the concert was wonderful and I just feel even more determined to move to Utah and join the choir!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
For fun
So, I was looking at a few sites on the internet for some help with Primary Music ideas and I stumbled across a fun blog with a few political cartoon thingys. Now, these are purely for the benefit of my family who loves to discuss (somewhat loudly) politics. I prefer to usually sit on the sidelines and listen, but I saw these and was very amused. I thought they might enjoy them - especially Matthew.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Family Summer Vacation
Justin and I just got back from family vacation in Texas Wed night. We visited my grandparents College Station, TX and then my Grandpa and Frances in Rockport, TX. We had such a good time. Luckily, a lot of my cousins were in town both places too, so we got to catch up with them. A lot of my family had not yet met Justin so it was nice for him to get to know them and vice versa.
In College Station we hiked around a lot of wilderness land that belongs to my Grandpa and Dad. It was so hot and sticky that I was exhausted afterward. We even saw a dead cow that had been picked clean. It was pretty gross. We celebrated my sister's birthday, which was on June 3rd. And we all say around visiting and then playing pool.
In Rockport, we ate some delicious ribs that Frances and Grandpa made. I love ribs. We went to South Padre Island beach on Monday and swam in the ocean and made sand castles. Justin and I got extremely sunburned. Justin more so than I. Poor guy. We put a lot of sunscreen on, but it was the spray kind we'd never used before and I guess we just didn't put on enough of it. We've lathered ourselves up with aloe at least twice every day since then.
Justin and Mandy got to go kayaking for the first time in my Grandpa's canal behind his house. That was really fun. He fell out twice after climbing in, but third time's a charm and he had a nice long ride down the canal a few times.
We learned a new game called Montana Golf that was pretty fun and simple. I wasn't that good at it. Oh well.
We also got to visit with Frances' grandkids - Justin Lee, Meagan Lee, and Caitlyn Rowden. I guess they would be called my step-cousins. Anyway, they are all extremely sweet and we had a really good time with them. I've known Caitlyn since she was very little because she lived in Cedar Hill the same time my family did. Her mom even gave me piano lessons.
It was so nice to visit with all my family. I got to meet my cousin's boyfriend for the first time and I met my other cousin's wife Alainna for the first time. I also got to play with my nephew Luke a lot. I don't get to see him much because my brother Matthew and his wife Ashley live in Arizona. I did get to see him when he was two weeks old, but now he's 5 months!! We all had a good time in College Station. I hope that some day we'll be able to go back and stay there for a little longer.
In College Station we hiked around a lot of wilderness land that belongs to my Grandpa and Dad. It was so hot and sticky that I was exhausted afterward. We even saw a dead cow that had been picked clean. It was pretty gross. We celebrated my sister's birthday, which was on June 3rd. And we all say around visiting and then playing pool.
In Rockport, we ate some delicious ribs that Frances and Grandpa made. I love ribs. We went to South Padre Island beach on Monday and swam in the ocean and made sand castles. Justin and I got extremely sunburned. Justin more so than I. Poor guy. We put a lot of sunscreen on, but it was the spray kind we'd never used before and I guess we just didn't put on enough of it. We've lathered ourselves up with aloe at least twice every day since then.
Justin and Mandy got to go kayaking for the first time in my Grandpa's canal behind his house. That was really fun. He fell out twice after climbing in, but third time's a charm and he had a nice long ride down the canal a few times.
We learned a new game called Montana Golf that was pretty fun and simple. I wasn't that good at it. Oh well.
We also got to visit with Frances' grandkids - Justin Lee, Meagan Lee, and Caitlyn Rowden. I guess they would be called my step-cousins. Anyway, they are all extremely sweet and we had a really good time with them. I've known Caitlyn since she was very little because she lived in Cedar Hill the same time my family did. Her mom even gave me piano lessons.
It was so nice to visit with all my family. I got to meet my cousin's boyfriend for the first time and I met my other cousin's wife Alainna for the first time. I also got to play with my nephew Luke a lot. I don't get to see him much because my brother Matthew and his wife Ashley live in Arizona. I did get to see him when he was two weeks old, but now he's 5 months!! We all had a good time in College Station. I hope that some day we'll be able to go back and stay there for a little longer.
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