Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Courtney's Fake Hair
Courtney had to get a fake hair piece to wear with her outfit for her dance group. The song they are dancing to is "I Whip My Hair." It's a really catchy but annoying song. The dance coach sent the hair piece home so we could figure out how to get it hooked in her hair and have it stay there while she whipped her hair back and forth. Courtney loved playing with it and I think we figured it out. Now we'll have to wait and see if it works! (It actually only adds a few inches to her hair but she feels cool wit hit on.)
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Busy Saturday
We had a crazy Saturday morning.
9 a.m. - Day of Service Project - weeding in the neighborhood which gave everyone allergy attacks so now we have runny noses and sneezes. But the weeds in the neighborhood are kind of gone.
9:30 - I leave the service project to change and run to the Stake Center to play the piano for the Stake Baptisms.
Note: Today is Ivins Heritage Day/Snow Canyon High School Homecoming/Ivins Stake Day of Service, so I was called to sub on the piano because all the other pianists said they were busy. No kidding!!
10:15 - The service project ends and Bryan and the kids go home to change and leave for Courtney's soccer game.
11 - Courtney's soccer game went GREAT!! The girls were on today and Courtney scored 2 goals. The final score was 8-1. She was pretty happy with herself, but it's the second game in a row I have had to miss. Ugh.
3 p.m. - The "best babysitter in the world" (minus grandparents, of course), according to Courtney, came over and Bryan and I did sealings at the Temple.
The kids are now in bed and I am not too far behind. Bryan has his Stake meetings at 6 a.m. tomorrow and I have Ward Council at 10, so we need our sleep.
Hopefully BYU will win without us watching the game. It's an 8:15 p.m. start and we don't get the game on TV (we usually go my parent's house but it's so late at night that we didn't want to) so the radio will have to do, if we can stay awake.
9 a.m. - Day of Service Project - weeding in the neighborhood which gave everyone allergy attacks so now we have runny noses and sneezes. But the weeds in the neighborhood are kind of gone.
9:30 - I leave the service project to change and run to the Stake Center to play the piano for the Stake Baptisms.
Note: Today is Ivins Heritage Day/Snow Canyon High School Homecoming/Ivins Stake Day of Service, so I was called to sub on the piano because all the other pianists said they were busy. No kidding!!
10:15 - The service project ends and Bryan and the kids go home to change and leave for Courtney's soccer game.
11 - Courtney's soccer game went GREAT!! The girls were on today and Courtney scored 2 goals. The final score was 8-1. She was pretty happy with herself, but it's the second game in a row I have had to miss. Ugh.
3 p.m. - The "best babysitter in the world" (minus grandparents, of course), according to Courtney, came over and Bryan and I did sealings at the Temple.
The kids are now in bed and I am not too far behind. Bryan has his Stake meetings at 6 a.m. tomorrow and I have Ward Council at 10, so we need our sleep.
Hopefully BYU will win without us watching the game. It's an 8:15 p.m. start and we don't get the game on TV (we usually go my parent's house but it's so late at night that we didn't want to) so the radio will have to do, if we can stay awake.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Flag Football Team
Here is the photo of Ethan's flag football team:
In the game last Tuesday Ethan made a TOUCHDOWN! I was so happy for him and it really fired him up for the rest of the game (as much as Ethan gets fired up). ;)
It had been raining all day long and we were out of sorts on Tuesday...forgot the treats, forgot the mouth guard, didn't wear warm clothes, etc. Poor Bryan ended up driving back and forth to our house twice to get things we had forgotten! Ugh! But it was a good game.
In the game last Tuesday Ethan made a TOUCHDOWN! I was so happy for him and it really fired him up for the rest of the game (as much as Ethan gets fired up). ;)
It had been raining all day long and we were out of sorts on Tuesday...forgot the treats, forgot the mouth guard, didn't wear warm clothes, etc. Poor Bryan ended up driving back and forth to our house twice to get things we had forgotten! Ugh! But it was a good game.
Master Preserver
I just finished a 6 week Master Preserver course through the Utah State Extension Service in St. George. We met for 3 hours every Wednesday night for 6 weeks. Each week we would have a 10 minute lecture and spend the rest of the time bottling something to enforce what we had learned about. It was chaos but I learned a lot.
The canning process hasn't changed much in years but there are a lot more regulations/rules that there didn't used to be. The old Ball Book that I have been using for years is now outdated and shouldn't be used. Because of the differences in foods now (tomatoes aren't as acidic, for example) there are new recipes you have to use to make them safe. I always used a steam canner and those now aren't safe according to the FDA. I learned how to process meats in a pressure canner (now I just need one instead of having to borrow my moms that I don't know how to work) and how to properly water bath bottles. I also learned that food tastes a lot better when you bottle it yourself, especially pineapple!
We had to process a lot of different foods to see the various processes. Some things surprised me and others did not. I really liked the peach salsa (yes, it had tomatoes and peaches mixed with onions and peppers), jicama is actually tasty unless it's dehydrated (then it's like eating bark), and garlic jelly is actually okay tasting when put on a cracker with cream cheese. I found out that I don't like dehydrated pastrami, orange jam made with orange juice concentrate is really yummy (my neighbors may get this for Christmas), cherry tomatoes are really potent when dehydrated, and I like to have sugar in my pie fillings.
I also found one way that Bryan won't eat mushrooms....PICKLED! I didn't taste them because I don't like mushrooms but he said they were too potent.
Anyway, there is an additional on-line preserver course from the FDA that I think I'll take just to have some more recipes/knowledge. It's pretty fun.
The canning process hasn't changed much in years but there are a lot more regulations/rules that there didn't used to be. The old Ball Book that I have been using for years is now outdated and shouldn't be used. Because of the differences in foods now (tomatoes aren't as acidic, for example) there are new recipes you have to use to make them safe. I always used a steam canner and those now aren't safe according to the FDA. I learned how to process meats in a pressure canner (now I just need one instead of having to borrow my moms that I don't know how to work) and how to properly water bath bottles. I also learned that food tastes a lot better when you bottle it yourself, especially pineapple!
We had to process a lot of different foods to see the various processes. Some things surprised me and others did not. I really liked the peach salsa (yes, it had tomatoes and peaches mixed with onions and peppers), jicama is actually tasty unless it's dehydrated (then it's like eating bark), and garlic jelly is actually okay tasting when put on a cracker with cream cheese. I found out that I don't like dehydrated pastrami, orange jam made with orange juice concentrate is really yummy (my neighbors may get this for Christmas), cherry tomatoes are really potent when dehydrated, and I like to have sugar in my pie fillings.
I also found one way that Bryan won't eat mushrooms....PICKLED! I didn't taste them because I don't like mushrooms but he said they were too potent.
Anyway, there is an additional on-line preserver course from the FDA that I think I'll take just to have some more recipes/knowledge. It's pretty fun.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Ethan's Recital
Here is Ethan's performance at his piano recital last week at the St. George Tabernacle. He did a great job!!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Piano Evaluation
Ethan had another piano evaluation on Saturday and he did a GREAT JOB!!
He has been working on the song for a couple of months and was ready. I took him to Dixie State to the Eccles Building where the evaluation would be held. He took a few minutes to warm up and get the butterflies out. Then they called his name and he took his music and went in the room.
I could hear him play from the hallway and he did great!! He didn't make any mistakes. When he came out he was really happy with how well he had performed his song. The man in charge of the evaluations went into the room to find out Ethan's score. When he came out Ethan was anxious to hear how he had been judged. He got a Superior Minus. The top is Superior so he was a bit disappointed but still very happy with his score.
Ethan said that next year he is going to practice a bit more and work on dynamics better so he can get a Superior rating. Those with Superior ratings got to play in a recital/competition last night and that's his goal.
Great job buddy!!!
He has been working on the song for a couple of months and was ready. I took him to Dixie State to the Eccles Building where the evaluation would be held. He took a few minutes to warm up and get the butterflies out. Then they called his name and he took his music and went in the room.
I could hear him play from the hallway and he did great!! He didn't make any mistakes. When he came out he was really happy with how well he had performed his song. The man in charge of the evaluations went into the room to find out Ethan's score. When he came out Ethan was anxious to hear how he had been judged. He got a Superior Minus. The top is Superior so he was a bit disappointed but still very happy with his score.
Ethan said that next year he is going to practice a bit more and work on dynamics better so he can get a Superior rating. Those with Superior ratings got to play in a recital/competition last night and that's his goal.
Great job buddy!!!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Ethan's Boogie
Ethan has another piano evaluation this Saturday so he has been working really hard on his song (really, he knows there is no way I could stand to hear the same song played for 30 minutes so if he practices the same song over and over he thinks I will only have him practice part of the time....wrong!).
I wanted to video tape it if we don't get it at his recital next week we will still have record of it. He realized what I was doing pretty quickly and, after a few takes, we got the one he wants me to post. He is such a ham!!!
I wanted to video tape it if we don't get it at his recital next week we will still have record of it. He realized what I was doing pretty quickly and, after a few takes, we got the one he wants me to post. He is such a ham!!!
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