despiertate!

I'd imagine that before we came here
Our father said "Wake up, have no fear."
So it was our turn to come down here.
We start over, clean slate, w/o knowledge, we might fear.
Throughout life, the Lord is speaking. Can we hear?
"Wake up & follow me, ye shall not fear"
"Satan don't kick no dead dogs," don't you hear?
The evil one is out there, he wants you to fear.
Our father will support us in trials here.
He loves us and says "Wake up, I am here, have no fear!"
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Job Perks

One of my favorite things to do as a teacher is intercept notes the kids send back and forth to each other. I've had some pretty good ones, and some pretty scary ones that I've had to turn into the office.

I just thought I would share a couple of them with you.

Letter #1 (written in red ink)

Hay,

Don't mind the blood. I'm realy upset.

I'm sory. I'm crying and the tears, I just smuged the tears and I am so sad my dog died and she was a sister to me that I broke up with you. You probably hate me so I'm so mad at myself taht I coped the notes you sent me and burned the copy of them.
I probibly won't tack for a whyle I'm so diprest my mom put her to sleep and so I'm sorry.
You are probibly having more fun with your new g/f so good-by!!!

me!!!

P.S. You will probible get a real kiss from your g/f!!!!!!
GOOD-BY!!!
P.S. Your g/f will get mad if she sees us together.

Letter #2

Alex are you mad at me? If you are I don't know what I did to you. I wonder if you still want to go out with me. Do you still want to go out with me? Because I do and I will never break-up with you. I also think you like someone else. If you like somebody else just tell me. Well you can give me your answer about you being mad at me after school.

Love you and need you!!
Love,
Lisa

Love you and hope you love me back.

I love Junior High kids. They make my job fun!!

New Table

I have been wanting a kitchen table for a long time now. The other day a friend called me to tell me that he found a table for sale in the nickel ads. So I called the lady, and now I have a table. It also came with two chairs, and a bench. The table has a butterfly leaf in it as well. Thank goodness. I don't know where I would store a regular leaf. I love it. It's a little beat up, but I can refinish it.

It looks great with the place mats I got from Ryan and LaCee last year.

Bravest Girl Ever

Well, I did it! I danced in the branch talent show. I was so scared I was shaking. Fortunately I was second on the program, so I got to enjoy the rest of the program. It went alright, but at the beginning of my dance the cd skipped, so I was way off with the music. I just kind of fumbled around for a few min. until I knew were to pick up and finish of the dance. But I'm glad that part of my life is over!! If you would like to see a briefing of the talent show, you can go here.

State Fair

Two weeks ago the Idaho State Fair was going on. There were lots of fun activities, and I was lucky enough to participate in two of the coolest of them all! First of all, the Josh Turner/Wreckers concert. For those of you that don't know (mom) they are country singers. It was really good. I have to admit though, I liked Josh's stage performance a LOT more than the Wreckers.
Jeremy, Brooke, Jeremy, Tracie, Chris Waiting in line for the concert
The Wreckers
Josh Turner
You can't go to the fair without going to see the animals. We stumbled upon this Ginormous Pig. He (it's definitely a HE) was only 2 years old, but weighed 770 lbs. He's a monster!!

The next fun activity I got to go to was the demolition derby. I haven't been to one in a really long time, and it was awesome. My favorite round was the powderpuff round. It was awesome. Those girls were vicious.

One the side of one of the cars it said "Nacho Derbre". At the end of his round, the guy got out of his car, and he was wearing the Nacho Libre suit. It was pretty funny!

I do have a pretty gross story from this night too...When we were at the fair the night before for the concert, one of the guys we were with bought a gyro. It looked really good, so I decided that's what I was going to have when I came down for the derby. Well, I got my gyro, and was eating along telling the guy I was with about how I hated onions when all of a sudden I bit into a huge onion. I open up my gyro to dig out all the onions to find a HUGE fly right in the middle. It was so gross. It made me feel really sick that I had already eaten half of it. (half of the gyro, not half of the fly! Thank goodness!!) So I took it back and they gave me a new one (without onions) I was sure to check it out before I ate any of it though! Oh the joys of fair food! But I'm grateful for my hatred of onions...it saved me from eating a fly.



Some Smashed up cars
Nacho DerbreThis picture is mostly for Suzette and some of my friends here in Idaho. We have a running joke that my wedding colors (I'm not making an announcement, just speaking of the future) are going to be brown and green. My bridesmaids are going to wear brown dresses with a strip of green down the front to look like thin mints. My refreshments are going to be brownies with mint chocolate chip ice cream on top.....and at the fair, I found the perfect cake for the occasion!!

Stupid Squirrels Part 2

I had to bring my swing pad in the house because the squirrels wouldn't leave it alone. Here's what it looks like now! I'm ticked!

Branch Talent Show

So in a couple of weeks my branch is having a talent show. I was thinking of being brave and doing a little clogging performance. I haven't told them that yet, I figured I would put on my shoes and see if I still even remember how. Well, while looking for my shoes, I found all my old clogging uniforms. I decided that if I was going to dance, I needed a uniform, so I decided to try them on and see if they still fit. And amazingly enough....or sadly enough they do...more or less.

So I decided to take pictures and let you all decide which one I should wear. Not that your vote is really going to count, but I thought you would all like to see what happens when I'm bored. :)
So here they are! They're a little matted and wrinkled from being shoved in a bag for 10 years, but not bad.


This is the oldest one! It's a little short!

This one has a reversible vest! It's actually a bit big for me. I think this was from our Texas tour.

Hot pink AND puffy sleeves. I'm not sure if you can beat this one! I think this is from the Tennessee Tour.

This was the latest outfit. This was from the Florida/Bahamas tour.

I decided to dance around in this one for a while. I don't know how I ever survived Florida and the Bahamas in it. I was dying of heat today!

I was talking to Katie in all of these pictures.