Pam

We only met her a few days ago. And only knew her a short while. But in that time she touched our hearts and we will never forget her memorable smile, her sweet laugh, or her precious way of asking guests if they want Pepsi :) We love her. Our hearts and prayers are with Kelly, Aubrey, and Raul as well as all her other loved ones still on the earth. I'm sure the family rejoiced when she joined them!

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Hi All!
We have been having fun over here in Louisiana keeping busy with all kinds of things. We are now ward missionaries in our ward and that keeps us pretty busy doing new member discussions and such. I have also been working hard to prepare my students for their performance which is coming up on Thursday night. They are going to do well I think. For my theater students, we just had tryouts for the play we will be doing "Much Ado About Nothing" They did SOOOO well. I think our performance is going o be phenomenal. And with all that going on, we also had a performance of our own yesterday. I sang in the Messiah with the Vernon Parish Community Choir. The choir director was my fifth grade music teacher and he is a really funny old black man! I just love him! My siblings and I have been performing with these guys for many years so its kind of a family tradition. Daniel didn't sing with us this year but he was sad he didn't. So now he is excited to do it next year :)
Its fun, but exhausting. And now we are ready to head up to AZ!! Woo Hoo! Actually we're not quite ready. We have got some packing and CD burning and all that jazz to accomplish. (Not to mention my kids' performance. We will see how it turns out!

Snow Day!!

Wow! One day it was 75 degrees and the next morning we had snow on the ground! What a difference. The weather men kept saying we were going to get snow and I did not believe it until I woke up on Thursday morning to see snow on our ground. I ran to wake Daniel up and get the camera. It has not snowed here in like 20 years. So anyway, we had fun in the early morning cold.

Here is Daniel with a hat from one of our lawn ornaments.
















Our fence was kinda pretty. It was way lighter outside, but my camera was taking dark pics for some reason.














This is our car with all the snow on it.














And the ground.


There wasn't enough here to stay home from school. It melted by 9:30 where we live, but about 30 minutes away (at a school that I go to) the snow stayed all through the next day and those kids got out of school. I thought that was nice. Anyway, I hope everything is going well for everyone and we can't wait to see you all!

Wow! Has it been a long time

Hello out there!
Just wanted to let you know we did not fall off the face of the earth. We've just bee really busy. I am going nuts teaching in two parishes. Its pretty crazy. But I will deal until something else comes up.

My birthday was AWESOME! My dear friend, Patty rushed to get to school before me so she could put my present next to the sign-in sheet and surprise me. It was SOoo cute. She gave me a card with a little old man playing the accordion and two little old ladies dancing next to him. When you open it, it says "Its your birthday! Act Accordionly." Super cute. And she always tells me I sound like Sleeping Beauty when I hum to myself so she got me the Special edition DVD of Sleeping Beauty and a Disney Princess Calendar. :) When I got home, Daniel brought me twenty-four gorgeous roses :) (One for each year I have been alive) And he built me a computer, and got me a game for the wii.It was a wonderful day.

And things have been going well for Daniel in school, although he is still working on a paper that was due three weeks ago! I can't believe him! But he says it will be fine. He does not have school tomorrow thanks to Veteran's Day. I still have school. No good. And I haven't heard anyone at any of my schools talking about it at all. CRaZy! Oh well, ya win some ya lose some.

Our house is ummmmmmm progressing I guess. I have kinda taken a break from it because I have been so busy with work. We still need to finish the walls and all that other stuff and we also need to save for a new kitchen.

Happy Late b-day Janae! Love you little girl! It sounds like you guys had a great time. Happy Anniversary Raul and Kelly! Love y'all

I thought this was really cute

A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like."

The Lord led the holy man to two doors.

He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew, which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water.

The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their arms and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful. But because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths.

The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering.

The Lord said, "You have seen Hell."

They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. The holy man said, "I don't understand."

It is simple," said the Lord. "It requires but one skill. You see they have learned to feed each other, while the greedy think only of themselves."

Bomb Threat!

There was a bomb threat today at one of the schools I go to. So while they were making everyone pile into the stadium I asked if I could get out of there. And the principal said yes so I packed up all of the essentials and hurried out. And so I have some extra time. YEA! But i didn't have time to pack up my keyboard which stinks kuz I need it for my other classes. Oh well.
Also, We went to supercraft saturday this weekend and it was SOOO fun. I learned how to texture walls and it was so easy Daniel and I decided thats what we were gonna do! Finally we can get a move on with this house! So we have begun. And our house is dirty again. But its not so bad. I am actually enjoying it and it will be finished soon. Our hope is to have the walls in the dining room and living room textured, sanded, and primed by the time my family gets here on Saturday. I think its do-able if we work hard everyday. I actually have 98% of the walls finished in the dining room and one large wall textured in the living room. It doesn't take that much to sand its just dirty. Yea! We are getting somewhere, now we just need to figure out what colors we want.

This is the wall in the living room. It looks really good so far but you can't really see it in these pics.

And here is the wall in the dining room. It was the first attempt so its not as great. If we have mud left over I will probably go over it again.

I have pictures of the process, but I will post those in the HUGE upcoming post of the house from start to finish. Which will probably be a while since we still have to do crown moulding and paint the bedrooms and get curtains etc...Its never ending. Oh well.

We went to Raul and Kelly's this weekend. It was really fun. Although there were a lot of people at the housewarming party Daniel still enjoyed it. And the food really was excellent. Kudos to Kelly and Raul. We also enjoyed hanging out with them. Its always good to do that and catch up. Yes, we did watch the Paradine Case and it was pretty good. We also watched Chocolat which is one of my favorite movies. Every time I watch it I CRAVE chocolate. So I am READY for Halloween to come so I can get my candy fix. Kelly wanted to teach me how to ride a bike while we were there but I was too scared and wouldn't let her. Its too scary. I don't like falling off and scraping myself up. Anyway it was a wonderful weekend and we are looking forward to Arizona.

This weekend, I am taking a friend to Super Craft Saturday. It is the Relief Society Activity at our church. We are going to learn a whole lot of stuff. I can't wait. So SO So fun. And next weekend my family is coming down and we are going to have a party for my niece Natalie. She is turning eight! And the very next day she will be baptized! I am so excited for her. She is such a precious daughter of Heavenly Father. I know He is proud of her. And I am proud of her too. She always helps around the house and gets very good grades. She loves her sisters and her mommy and daddy very much and is a super cuddle bug!I am glad I get to be her aunt.