Soooo... I said I would write this yesterday, but I didn't, so here it is today. :)
Our stake center, the one that burned down. It was almost 2 years ago that an arsonist entered the building and lit it on fire. In those two years, we have had wards in different buildings in different stakes, meetings at the Red Mountain Institute building, and so many tender mercies of the Lord.
A little over a year ago, in September, we had the ground breaking ceremony for our new stake center, and in that year, there have been continued miracles, and building.
And it has all culminated in this. I was a part of the choir that sang at the dedication. We sang a special number, and then Pres. Ahlstrom, our stake president, talked. He talked about when the call came, he talked about the miracles that happened, and told a couple of stories of objects from the original building that had been checked out from the library, other hymn books sent to be rebound, the building being as clean as it could be, and a page from Preach my Gospel that hadn't been completely destroyed in the fire. It was an amazing talk. Sadly, it was accentuated by a boy being carried out by his dad, who then puked, all over the brand new carpet.
Following Pres. Ahlstrom, the speaker, and general authority to dedicate the building, was Elder. David Lesuer. He did a wonderful job, and it was a sweet experience. The closing song was Hymn #2, The Spirit of God. Usually the Hosanna chorus is reserved for temple dedications, but our choir was privileged to sing it, and we sounded awesome.
It was a wonderful experience. I only wish that James could have been there to attend it. But he will be home soon enough. :) (9 days today)
Oh how the Lord blesses us, and I believe that with all my heart.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
A musing of a marvelous (somewhat lazy) me
I have homework to do, so naturally I'm putting it off to post and facebook and do all sorts of things that probably aren't that important.
Life is pretty crazy. The semester is half over, I have sooooo much to do that I've put off.... so much. And yet... I feel mostly at peace right now. I don't know if it's from going to the dedication of our brand new stake center, or I'm just feeling close to the Lord, but I like this.
I finally had a revelation about my BLE class. Not necessarily spiritual, but it was a revelation for me, because it brings things into perspective about the class, and my schooling in general.
For those of you that don't know, my BLE class is my torture class. I don't pay much attention, and only do what I have to. Here is the concluding paragraph of my BLE midterm paper that I had to write.
That just made me so happy. Something for that just kinda clicked in my head. It's not about being the best, it's just about doing the best you can, because that's really all anyone can do, and that doesn't just apply to school or learning. It can be applied to anything, and I think that's what's so amazing.
(Tomorrow I will blog about our Stake center dedication. :) It was pretty cool.)
Life is pretty crazy. The semester is half over, I have sooooo much to do that I've put off.... so much. And yet... I feel mostly at peace right now. I don't know if it's from going to the dedication of our brand new stake center, or I'm just feeling close to the Lord, but I like this.
I finally had a revelation about my BLE class. Not necessarily spiritual, but it was a revelation for me, because it brings things into perspective about the class, and my schooling in general.
For those of you that don't know, my BLE class is my torture class. I don't pay much attention, and only do what I have to. Here is the concluding paragraph of my BLE midterm paper that I had to write.
As I think about what I have learned, I can't say specifically that I learned this in this class and that in that class. It all blends together creating my own knowledge of what is truth and what I am able to, or what I desperately want to use in my own class in the future. That's really what learning is all about. We learn all sorts of different things, but connect it to everything we have learned, everything we are learning, and at some point, everything we will learn. That's what makes teachers "good". They understand that learning isn't just something linear, we make connections to everything. What's in math doesn't stay in math, and what's literature and reading doesn't stay there. It branches out and connects to as many things that we know as we let it. So while I can't say I learned anything specifically from the readings, or from the class, what I have learned, whether how little or how much, has become so entwined with the knowledge I have, that I'm just storing it until I can use it when I need to.
That just made me so happy. Something for that just kinda clicked in my head. It's not about being the best, it's just about doing the best you can, because that's really all anyone can do, and that doesn't just apply to school or learning. It can be applied to anything, and I think that's what's so amazing.
(Tomorrow I will blog about our Stake center dedication. :) It was pretty cool.)
Thursday, October 15, 2009
2 WEEKS!!!!!
So um.... I really have nothing to say.... The title says it all. XD James gets home 2 weeks from today! :D
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Another Goodbye
Alright, I know I don't usually, or ever post twice in the same day, but today requires it.
Not many, or Idk if any of you knew that we had a cat. (He was an outdoor only cat, and one of the sweetest things ever.)
Well, this sweet cat passed away today. :( I don't know what happened, but Alana and I figure he got hit by a car or something, because he was laying on the side of the road. So that's two of my childhood pets now, and the only two we've had since I was actually a kid, that have passed away. Shiloh (14yrs) they put to sleep a little more than 7 ish years ago, which was the dog they had from before I was born. And now Wicket, who was at the ripe old age of 17, but still kind and sweet.
I know that he's in a better place, but he will still be missed.
The worst part is most of the family is on a cruise for the next week, and they won't know until they get back. And since we couldn't wait that long for them to see him, we buried him in the garden, next to Shiloh. :(
He was a great cat, and he will be sorely missed.
EDIT: I emailed my dad, hoping he would get it before the week was over, and he did. So the family knows now.
Not many, or Idk if any of you knew that we had a cat. (He was an outdoor only cat, and one of the sweetest things ever.)
Well, this sweet cat passed away today. :( I don't know what happened, but Alana and I figure he got hit by a car or something, because he was laying on the side of the road. So that's two of my childhood pets now, and the only two we've had since I was actually a kid, that have passed away. Shiloh (14yrs) they put to sleep a little more than 7 ish years ago, which was the dog they had from before I was born. And now Wicket, who was at the ripe old age of 17, but still kind and sweet.
I know that he's in a better place, but he will still be missed.
The worst part is most of the family is on a cruise for the next week, and they won't know until they get back. And since we couldn't wait that long for them to see him, we buried him in the garden, next to Shiloh. :(
He was a great cat, and he will be sorely missed.
EDIT: I emailed my dad, hoping he would get it before the week was over, and he did. So the family knows now.
Week 7.... I think....
This has been another crazy crazy week. It all started out just fine.
Monday: Boring, as usual. I decided my Monday night teacher is one of the worst teachers ever, and should go spend more time with her 9 week old baby. "Don't use power points for everything." *we look up at the projector screen: on it, a white slide with black words* We say, "Uh-huh.... right...." But I survived it, barely, made it home, and pretty much bawled my eyes out.
Tuesday: I had class. We thought it would be the regular 4 hours, but we were done by 11:30, thankfully. (Hurray for the teacher having meetings clear in Phoenix!!) The worst part was I sitting next to someone who was sick, and she kept COUGHING ON ME!!! >:-( I was not happy. But I got to go home and eat lunch with my mom before going to institute, and then to work. Then later, we had our Relief Society book club meeting, where we talked about Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture". (If you haven't read it yet, READ IT!!!!!)
Wednesday: I had class in the morning, and then headed to interning. :) I love interning. My class is flipping awesome! I followed interning with working, which was work, so I survived. :) (It's really not too bad.)
Thursday: I started the day off with interning. I felt fine, I loved spending time with the kids, but I noticed a slight discomfort of a tickle in my throat, making me cough. I ignored it. It wasn't a big deal. I left interning and went to institute, where I enjoyed a wonderful lesson, finishing up 2nd Nephi. I was a little tired, but that's normal for Thursdays, since I wake up so much earlier. So I went to class, where we learned about assessment and stuff. :D It was interesting, and fun as always. Then I got into my costume, or what I have so far, and got ready to help with the Carnival, and more particular, "Freaky Frostville", the 6th grade haunted house. it was awesome! :D I was kinda getting a headache, but I hadn't eaten much, and that's what happens. I finished the carnival and headed home, looking forward to being home after more than 12 hours being away. I got home, and I was chilly (like always), and put my robe on. I kept getting more and more tired, and then I alternated between hot and cold, and that was when I knew I was sick. NO BUENO. I went to bed.
Friday: I woke up, and knew there was no way I was going to make it to work. I called out sick. And then I pretty much slept all day. So you must be thinking... "Oh, so you got to spend the weekend recovering? What a nice time to get sick." YEAH, RIGHT. I wish. No, I had a Saturday class. 6 HOURS. Anyways, I rested pretty much all Friday (My highest temp was like 100.3 F.)
Saturday: I woke up at 6am, cuz my family was leaving on their cruise. :( I didn't get to hug them goodbye, cuz I was sick and didn't want to get them sick. So, I went back to bed for a while, to get some more rest. I woke up, ate breakfast, and then took another half hour nap, before getting up and leaving for class. I started out fine. I was awake, for the most part, and only mentally out of it. I sat and sat and coughed and sat and coughed and coughed and played games and coughed and sat...... etc. You get the point. I survived the 6 hours and came home, got a 3 hour nap, and then was awake for a while, cuz I didn't want to miss SNL. XD I loved the Gilly skit. XD It rocked.
Anyways, that was pretty much my week. I'm still kinda sick, but I'm feeling much better (Thankfully). I hope everyone's weekend was better than mine. :)
(18 days!!!)
Another post coming Thursday. ;)
Monday: Boring, as usual. I decided my Monday night teacher is one of the worst teachers ever, and should go spend more time with her 9 week old baby. "Don't use power points for everything." *we look up at the projector screen: on it, a white slide with black words* We say, "Uh-huh.... right...." But I survived it, barely, made it home, and pretty much bawled my eyes out.
Tuesday: I had class. We thought it would be the regular 4 hours, but we were done by 11:30, thankfully. (Hurray for the teacher having meetings clear in Phoenix!!) The worst part was I sitting next to someone who was sick, and she kept COUGHING ON ME!!! >:-( I was not happy. But I got to go home and eat lunch with my mom before going to institute, and then to work. Then later, we had our Relief Society book club meeting, where we talked about Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture". (If you haven't read it yet, READ IT!!!!!)
Wednesday: I had class in the morning, and then headed to interning. :) I love interning. My class is flipping awesome! I followed interning with working, which was work, so I survived. :) (It's really not too bad.)
Thursday: I started the day off with interning. I felt fine, I loved spending time with the kids, but I noticed a slight discomfort of a tickle in my throat, making me cough. I ignored it. It wasn't a big deal. I left interning and went to institute, where I enjoyed a wonderful lesson, finishing up 2nd Nephi. I was a little tired, but that's normal for Thursdays, since I wake up so much earlier. So I went to class, where we learned about assessment and stuff. :D It was interesting, and fun as always. Then I got into my costume, or what I have so far, and got ready to help with the Carnival, and more particular, "Freaky Frostville", the 6th grade haunted house. it was awesome! :D I was kinda getting a headache, but I hadn't eaten much, and that's what happens. I finished the carnival and headed home, looking forward to being home after more than 12 hours being away. I got home, and I was chilly (like always), and put my robe on. I kept getting more and more tired, and then I alternated between hot and cold, and that was when I knew I was sick. NO BUENO. I went to bed.
Friday: I woke up, and knew there was no way I was going to make it to work. I called out sick. And then I pretty much slept all day. So you must be thinking... "Oh, so you got to spend the weekend recovering? What a nice time to get sick." YEAH, RIGHT. I wish. No, I had a Saturday class. 6 HOURS. Anyways, I rested pretty much all Friday (My highest temp was like 100.3 F.)
Saturday: I woke up at 6am, cuz my family was leaving on their cruise. :( I didn't get to hug them goodbye, cuz I was sick and didn't want to get them sick. So, I went back to bed for a while, to get some more rest. I woke up, ate breakfast, and then took another half hour nap, before getting up and leaving for class. I started out fine. I was awake, for the most part, and only mentally out of it. I sat and sat and coughed and sat and coughed and coughed and played games and coughed and sat...... etc. You get the point. I survived the 6 hours and came home, got a 3 hour nap, and then was awake for a while, cuz I didn't want to miss SNL. XD I loved the Gilly skit. XD It rocked.
Anyways, that was pretty much my week. I'm still kinda sick, but I'm feeling much better (Thankfully). I hope everyone's weekend was better than mine. :)
(18 days!!!)
Another post coming Thursday. ;)
Sunday, October 4, 2009
What a Week!
This week has been crazy! Between school, work, starting my costume, drill team performance, Conference, and everything else, it's been SOOOOO super busy.
Monday was class day..... all day, super boring, like always. :S Well, not the middle of the day, really, but most of it was pretty dull.
Tuesday was class, where I butchered my first lesson plan for practicum, but I guess it's alright, since it's practice. Then I went and enjoyed a lovely Institute lesson, followed by heading to work for a few hours. Then, we had drill practice, which was our dress rehearsal. We did pretty well. :) All those weeks of practice were paying off!
Wednesday, I was supposed to have class, but my teacher emailed out sick. :S Sooo... I spent the morning preparing for interning, and went and interned, followed by work, where I got to see Mary's puppy Kai, which I helped feed while he was still a very little puppy. (He's not so little anymore. XD He's 9 weeks old and 14 ish pounds. Definitely German Shepherd in him.) After work, I went home and did homework.... woohoo! *rolls eyes*
Thursday was interning morning. I got to my class a little earlier than I have gotten there so far. We spent the first hour in the morning doing math and something else, and then we got down to business with presentations. So we watched those until lunch, and then watched them a little more after lunch, until I had to leave. I went to institute, where we had another wonderful lesson. After that, I headed back to the school for my Thursday class, which was fun! In then went home and started working on my Halloween costume, because I wanted to wear it this Thursday (the 8th) at their Carnival. I cut out all the pieces from the material.
Friday, I was supposed to have class, but my teacher was still sick, did not send out an email, so we were sitting in class when someone came and told us it was canceled. So, I went to work, where I was there for several hours doing random stuff, until I decided to leave, cuz I ran out of things to do. I got home and found out that I didn't have to give the horse I was riding a bath until the next day, so I spent the night working on sewing the pieces together. And I got it almost all done! For the blue part, at least. The white part will be done by Halloween, but most likely not by Thursday. It's looking pretty awesome! ^_^
Saturday was BUSY!! I got up at 5:30, got dressed, headed over to Sam's house, where we were picked up by Brett Biggs and Krista Schwan to take us down to Horseshoe park in Queen Creek for our drill performance. We got there at 7:10, and started getting ready for our practice run. After which, we practiced for another little bit, before getting ready to perform. We were to perform at 2:10, so we had a ways to go. We talked and got the horses ready, and about an hour before, we started to really get ready. The horses were stenciled with glitter, their hooves were glittered, and we were saddling them up. Then we got our shirts on and we were ready to go, after taking pictures of each individual girl, and then group photos. :) We looked pretty snazzy! (Pics will come as soon as I get them.) We did WONDERFUL! Mary rated us at a 9, and Marilyn gave us an 8, but whoever the judges were, gave us a 9.5 (out of 10, we're assuming) for technical, execution, and presentation. So, when asked whether we won or not, Marilyn replied with a "Hands down". ^_^ It was sooo much fun seeing all the horses (like an 18 hand (72 ish inches, or 6') Gypsy Vanner and the maybe 5 hand (20" tall) miniature horses). I ended up getting sunburned. XD Darn sun. And I woke up this beautiful Sunday of General Conference morning, and had a crazy sore back and arms and legs.... so I'm pretty much sore all over. XD But it really was fun. And the stares we got as we were walking to and from the performance arena was awesome! We looked SNAZZY!
Anyways, I enjoyed conference, and got to play with my Grandpa and Bethsy's new puppy, which is STINKING CUTE! It's at least mostly chihuahua. Super cute, though! It's been a good day, and a pretty good week. I can't wait to finish my costume, and be able to wear it!
Good times!
(25 days)
Monday was class day..... all day, super boring, like always. :S Well, not the middle of the day, really, but most of it was pretty dull.
Tuesday was class, where I butchered my first lesson plan for practicum, but I guess it's alright, since it's practice. Then I went and enjoyed a lovely Institute lesson, followed by heading to work for a few hours. Then, we had drill practice, which was our dress rehearsal. We did pretty well. :) All those weeks of practice were paying off!
Wednesday, I was supposed to have class, but my teacher emailed out sick. :S Sooo... I spent the morning preparing for interning, and went and interned, followed by work, where I got to see Mary's puppy Kai, which I helped feed while he was still a very little puppy. (He's not so little anymore. XD He's 9 weeks old and 14 ish pounds. Definitely German Shepherd in him.) After work, I went home and did homework.... woohoo! *rolls eyes*
Thursday was interning morning. I got to my class a little earlier than I have gotten there so far. We spent the first hour in the morning doing math and something else, and then we got down to business with presentations. So we watched those until lunch, and then watched them a little more after lunch, until I had to leave. I went to institute, where we had another wonderful lesson. After that, I headed back to the school for my Thursday class, which was fun! In then went home and started working on my Halloween costume, because I wanted to wear it this Thursday (the 8th) at their Carnival. I cut out all the pieces from the material.
Friday, I was supposed to have class, but my teacher was still sick, did not send out an email, so we were sitting in class when someone came and told us it was canceled. So, I went to work, where I was there for several hours doing random stuff, until I decided to leave, cuz I ran out of things to do. I got home and found out that I didn't have to give the horse I was riding a bath until the next day, so I spent the night working on sewing the pieces together. And I got it almost all done! For the blue part, at least. The white part will be done by Halloween, but most likely not by Thursday. It's looking pretty awesome! ^_^
Saturday was BUSY!! I got up at 5:30, got dressed, headed over to Sam's house, where we were picked up by Brett Biggs and Krista Schwan to take us down to Horseshoe park in Queen Creek for our drill performance. We got there at 7:10, and started getting ready for our practice run. After which, we practiced for another little bit, before getting ready to perform. We were to perform at 2:10, so we had a ways to go. We talked and got the horses ready, and about an hour before, we started to really get ready. The horses were stenciled with glitter, their hooves were glittered, and we were saddling them up. Then we got our shirts on and we were ready to go, after taking pictures of each individual girl, and then group photos. :) We looked pretty snazzy! (Pics will come as soon as I get them.) We did WONDERFUL! Mary rated us at a 9, and Marilyn gave us an 8, but whoever the judges were, gave us a 9.5 (out of 10, we're assuming) for technical, execution, and presentation. So, when asked whether we won or not, Marilyn replied with a "Hands down". ^_^ It was sooo much fun seeing all the horses (like an 18 hand (72 ish inches, or 6') Gypsy Vanner and the maybe 5 hand (20" tall) miniature horses). I ended up getting sunburned. XD Darn sun. And I woke up this beautiful Sunday of General Conference morning, and had a crazy sore back and arms and legs.... so I'm pretty much sore all over. XD But it really was fun. And the stares we got as we were walking to and from the performance arena was awesome! We looked SNAZZY!
Anyways, I enjoyed conference, and got to play with my Grandpa and Bethsy's new puppy, which is STINKING CUTE! It's at least mostly chihuahua. Super cute, though! It's been a good day, and a pretty good week. I can't wait to finish my costume, and be able to wear it!
Good times!
(25 days)
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