The year is coming to a close and it is a time for an update.
Felycia will graduate from Dixie State College in 1 year with a bachelors' degree in elementary education. She found out earlier this month that she passed the PRAXIS test. She has to pass in order to get a teaching license. Not only did she pass, but she scored in the top 15% of all people who have taken the test. That got her an extra certificate to go in her portfolio. I don't sound like a proud mom, do I?
Deric plans to graduate with 2 associates' degrees from College of Southern Nevada at the same time. (Pre-engineering and Spanish) He works as a SafeKey cashier at O'Roarke Elementary School. He tries to use his Spanish sometimes, but Latinos don't understand Spanish from a gringo, even if it is perfect Spanish. Funny how that works.
Conrad is plugging along as the bishop of our ward. For now, his job is fairly secure and quite hectic. He has good days and bad days as far as his health is concerned. More good than bad, though. The last colonoscopy came back ok but he is much lighter than he was a year ago. He and Deric wear almost the same size pants. Not a good thing for Deric.
I have a new calling. I was released from YW and called to be a Family History Consultant. I am still working part-time at the front desk at Mirabelli and staying busy with my yarn and fabric.
We have enjoyed being together as a family this past week. We enjoyed church meetings and family time on Christmas. Then, we packed up the car and headed to Long Beach, California for a few days to just get away and relax. What fun!! We got a new book on CD to listen to. It was a sequel so we had to listen to Part 1 on the way down and then the new one on the way home.
We had a great time shopping at Shoreline Village. We took a drive to the LA Temple Visitors' Center one evening. We spent most of one day at the Aquarium of the Pacific. I highly recommend this one. We had a ball and we don't even have little kids to take with us. We were there for about 6 hours. They have shows and exhibits and shopping. It was quite crowded by the time we left because all the kids are out of school. We would like to go back sometime when there might not be so many people.
We walked around the waterfront area and up to the lighthouse to take pictures of the QueenMary and the surrounding sights. It was almost sunset when we got back to the car so we drove up to the top of the parking garage to get some cool shots before heading back to the hotel for a rest before dinner.
One of the coolest things we did in Long Beach is that we went to the grocery store downtown and the parking was up on the roof. I think this is the first time I have ever had to take an elevator down to shop for food. Another interesting thing is that plastic grocery bags are a no-no in Long Beach. You have to have your own bags or pay for paper ones at the checkout. Luckily, we had some bags in the trunk of the car. Not that we needed one for our two bags of Hostess Donettes.
We enjoyed the BYU football game today. At least the last 2 minutes of it. I think that was the only exciting part. I love this time of year because it is non-stop sports. Basketball...football...soccer...I love it all. Now, if I could just have no interruptions and the house all to myself to watch.
Time for a New Year's Resolution: I will update my blog at least once a month in 2012. That will be easier to keep than the standard diet and exercise resolutions. Well, it's written down now so I have to keep it. And all my friends and family know about it so it's ok to bug me if I'm not keeping it.
Happy New Year!!!
Friday, December 30, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Update
Felycia constantly reminds me that I haven't updated for way too long. Just a quick note of what we are doing.
Felycia has 3 semesters left until she has her degree. She is working more hours now at the dance studio. She is starting a program that requires 300 hours of community service in a K-5 setting during the next year. That will definitely keep her busy. She is also busy with church. She is still a Relief Society teacher. She loves that calling. At the beginning of the summer, she was called to be the Chairman of the Temple and Family History Committee. She has been working had to arrange temple trips for baptism and endowment sessions. They have family history classes on Thursday nights where she has been teaching everyone to do the indexing for FamilySearch.
Deric is enrolled at CSN this semester. He is working on a Pre-Engineering Associate Degree. He should have that done in May and then he will look at transferring to a 4-year college for a Mechanical Engineering degree. Deric got a job as a cashier for the Safekey program at O'Rourke Elementary School. His boss, Louise, is the sister of my boss, Linda. Louise happened to come to Mirabelli one day when Deric was there just helping. Linda told Louise that she should hire Deric until there is a place for him at Mirabelli. Within a week, Deric had a job. So far, he likes it. He works 7-9am, 3 days a week and 4-6:30pm, 5 days a week. Today was his first time attending the singles' ward. He enjoyed it so much that he stayed after to go to choir practice.
I am working 19 hours a week at Mirabelli. I love being there. I have so much fun with the people I work with. I am still in YW. One of the girls told me that I need to stay in YW until she graduates. She has just started her JR year. I told her that might be ok if I don't have to go to Girls' Camp and sleep in a tent.
Conrad is staying busy as the Bishop. He works long hours besides spending lots of time at the church. His health is pretty much how it has been for a few years. He has good days and bad days. We do try to make time for relaxing and having fun with our family. That helps.
We've had a great summer as a family.
Our trip to Honduras was great. I will work on posting photos and telling some fun stories of the things we did.
We have spent lots of time with everyone home. We've been to Family Reunions. We have been to see "The Little Mermaid" and "Grease" at Tuacahn. Great shows! We took friends and family with us both nights.
Felycia got her wisdom teeth pulled at the beginning of August. With all the horror stories you hear about pain and swelling, I was worried about her. She didn't have any problems at all. I kept telling her to take her pain meds and she finally said, "Mom - It doesn't hurt. Leave me alone." Her jaw was a little puffy from one tooth that was impacted but she drove home to St. George and went to work 3 days later.
Now that school has started back up and we are getting into a routine, maybe we will be able to keep the blog up to date.
Felycia has 3 semesters left until she has her degree. She is working more hours now at the dance studio. She is starting a program that requires 300 hours of community service in a K-5 setting during the next year. That will definitely keep her busy. She is also busy with church. She is still a Relief Society teacher. She loves that calling. At the beginning of the summer, she was called to be the Chairman of the Temple and Family History Committee. She has been working had to arrange temple trips for baptism and endowment sessions. They have family history classes on Thursday nights where she has been teaching everyone to do the indexing for FamilySearch.
Deric is enrolled at CSN this semester. He is working on a Pre-Engineering Associate Degree. He should have that done in May and then he will look at transferring to a 4-year college for a Mechanical Engineering degree. Deric got a job as a cashier for the Safekey program at O'Rourke Elementary School. His boss, Louise, is the sister of my boss, Linda. Louise happened to come to Mirabelli one day when Deric was there just helping. Linda told Louise that she should hire Deric until there is a place for him at Mirabelli. Within a week, Deric had a job. So far, he likes it. He works 7-9am, 3 days a week and 4-6:30pm, 5 days a week. Today was his first time attending the singles' ward. He enjoyed it so much that he stayed after to go to choir practice.
I am working 19 hours a week at Mirabelli. I love being there. I have so much fun with the people I work with. I am still in YW. One of the girls told me that I need to stay in YW until she graduates. She has just started her JR year. I told her that might be ok if I don't have to go to Girls' Camp and sleep in a tent.
Conrad is staying busy as the Bishop. He works long hours besides spending lots of time at the church. His health is pretty much how it has been for a few years. He has good days and bad days. We do try to make time for relaxing and having fun with our family. That helps.
We've had a great summer as a family.
Our trip to Honduras was great. I will work on posting photos and telling some fun stories of the things we did.
We have spent lots of time with everyone home. We've been to Family Reunions. We have been to see "The Little Mermaid" and "Grease" at Tuacahn. Great shows! We took friends and family with us both nights.
Felycia got her wisdom teeth pulled at the beginning of August. With all the horror stories you hear about pain and swelling, I was worried about her. She didn't have any problems at all. I kept telling her to take her pain meds and she finally said, "Mom - It doesn't hurt. Leave me alone." Her jaw was a little puffy from one tooth that was impacted but she drove home to St. George and went to work 3 days later.
Now that school has started back up and we are getting into a routine, maybe we will be able to keep the blog up to date.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Summer, 2011
Well, lots have happened since my last post. I went to girls' camp, we took a trip to Honduras to get Deric, and life is continuing at break-neck speed.
First, girls' camp... I worked with Level I. What a fun group of girls! We did lots of eating and working and goofing around together. On the last day, I even did the zip line. That was my "out of comfort zone" experience for the year. Conrad said he would need proof to believe it, so Crystal made sure I got in the video.
Bishops' Night was great. They put on a 'pageant' of sorts with the bishops all competing. They had to answer a question that had something to do with their wives and then a talent. Conrad was last for the talent part of the night. All of the other bishops had done goofy things that weren't really talents at all, so everyone was surprised when Conrad got up and did yo-yo tricks for his talent. His question was "What pick up line did you use on your wife?" His answer, "Who's your friend?"
It didn't end there. When we got to our ward campfire, Conrad spoke about how our life is like a yo-yo and there are ups and downs. He said that if we are the yo-yo going up and down, then our Heavenly Father is the one holding the string. He said that there is always a way back no matter what we do. Brother Jackson then observed that the Savior would be the string because he is the only way back to Heavenly Father. All of the girls got their own yo-yo and we had Rice Krispie Treats and donuts for dessert. It was a great evening.
Two days after I got home from camp, we headed to Honduras. Our flight left Las Vegas at 1am and we got to Honduras at about noon. We had a layover in Houston for a few hours so we got to know the international terminal quite well even though we just wanted to sleep. I kept a pretty good journal while we were in Honduras so I will post my daily journal entries separately with pictures.
We are enjoying having Deric home with us. Felycia was able to stay for about 10 days before she had to head back to work and church responsibilities. I really got used to my empty nest. I'm not sure I'm ready to give it up. Deric wants his room back. I kind of took it over with my sewing and craft stuff. I had a great set up and now I need a new place for everything. I'll have to see if I can take over Felycia's room next.
Our next few weeks are going to be taken up with a family reunion and lots of doctor, eye doctor, and dentist appointments. School will be here before we know it. I'm actually looking forward to getting into the routine of everyone having things to do every day.
First, girls' camp... I worked with Level I. What a fun group of girls! We did lots of eating and working and goofing around together. On the last day, I even did the zip line. That was my "out of comfort zone" experience for the year. Conrad said he would need proof to believe it, so Crystal made sure I got in the video.
Bishops' Night was great. They put on a 'pageant' of sorts with the bishops all competing. They had to answer a question that had something to do with their wives and then a talent. Conrad was last for the talent part of the night. All of the other bishops had done goofy things that weren't really talents at all, so everyone was surprised when Conrad got up and did yo-yo tricks for his talent. His question was "What pick up line did you use on your wife?" His answer, "Who's your friend?"
It didn't end there. When we got to our ward campfire, Conrad spoke about how our life is like a yo-yo and there are ups and downs. He said that if we are the yo-yo going up and down, then our Heavenly Father is the one holding the string. He said that there is always a way back no matter what we do. Brother Jackson then observed that the Savior would be the string because he is the only way back to Heavenly Father. All of the girls got their own yo-yo and we had Rice Krispie Treats and donuts for dessert. It was a great evening.
Two days after I got home from camp, we headed to Honduras. Our flight left Las Vegas at 1am and we got to Honduras at about noon. We had a layover in Houston for a few hours so we got to know the international terminal quite well even though we just wanted to sleep. I kept a pretty good journal while we were in Honduras so I will post my daily journal entries separately with pictures.
We are enjoying having Deric home with us. Felycia was able to stay for about 10 days before she had to head back to work and church responsibilities. I really got used to my empty nest. I'm not sure I'm ready to give it up. Deric wants his room back. I kind of took it over with my sewing and craft stuff. I had a great set up and now I need a new place for everything. I'll have to see if I can take over Felycia's room next.
Our next few weeks are going to be taken up with a family reunion and lots of doctor, eye doctor, and dentist appointments. School will be here before we know it. I'm actually looking forward to getting into the routine of everyone having things to do every day.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Allyssa's Talent Show
Allyssa was in her school talent show with her cousin, Tyler, on Wednesday. They did a really cute dance routine. They came out all dressed up and began waltzing to the music.
Suddenly, the music stopped. They looked at each other like something was wrong.
Then the music (hip hop style) started back up. They lost the dressy clothes and did a hip hop routine. It was great.
Suddenly, the music stopped. They looked at each other like something was wrong.
Then the music (hip hop style) started back up. They lost the dressy clothes and did a hip hop routine. It was great.
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