Josh's Mission Call

Here is the video I got of Josh opening his call. Enjoy!

Lisette's Baptism

Here is one of John's family, well, part of itI can't get these where I want them, the aweful one of Joseph and I should be at the bottom






















Lisette and Family (where is Regina?) before.












Lisette is so pretty. and it was such a nice day!

































She and I had matching shoes, so I had to have a picture!

Coming Soon . . . .

So, we are finally in a house and we finally found a way to download our pictures. So if we have taken pictures for you in the last 6ish months then look for them up here soon. We will have pictures such as:

• Lisette's Baptism *
  
• Josh's Farewell. *
  
• Possibly video of Josh opening his mission call *
  
• Pool Party at Becca's House
• Just my way Cute Kids
• The picture I keep telling Corrine about when all four kids were sitting on the stairs *
  
• And finally pictures of the new house for you out-of-towners (*)
  

So look for those coming soon!

*Sigh* Updates

So, the buyer we had couldn't seem to get their act together and we had received another offer, so we are currently going with the new offer. We are currently scheduled to close on the 7th of December. As soon as we are finally able to close on our house we will make an offer on whatever house we want to buy. Hopefully we can get moved in before Christmas. They have done the appraisal and the home inspection So we might actually close on this offer. Keep praying for us please! And we hope you all had a GREAT THANKSGIVING!

Jonicatt's request

As per requested here is an update:

The Bountiful house was lost. We were planning on waiting till we had an offer on our house till we put another offer on one in Bountiful. Well we got another offer yesterday, though don't get your hopes up yet. They have made comments that they could pull out for no reason at all. So we will see what happens. And tomorrow we are going to look at some other houses in Bountiful. Updates to come, I guess

Work? Lisa is working full time. It is working out really well. This week is a crazy week of meetings. Always something crazy going on.

Mike had a couple scares of going to Russia then it was Whales and now he isn't going at all. I hate it when Mike leaves me so I am glad he isn't going. Though it would have been a great opportunity for him. Maybe some other time when I can join him some place fun.

Any questions?

Typical Henry

Henry: All done Dad, All done.

Dad: Do you want another Noodle?

Henry: All done.

Then he gets up in the chair and proceeds to eat a noodle.

Henry: All done Dad. Cheese?

Everything has to be his idea and done the way he thinks it needs to be done. He makes us laugh so much.
Today he wanted to play outside. So I told him to go get his jacket that had been left in the car. They went and got it and we got it put on and zipped up. He then decided that it was somehow hurting him and HAD to have it taken off. I asked if he wanted to play outside. Of course the answer was yes. So I told him he had to leave the jacket on. He was bawling at this point. So I finally took the jacket off and he beelined for the door. I grabbed him and told him that he couldn't go outside unless he put his jacket on. He still would have nothing to do with it. When he finally calmed down he asked to have his car jammas on. I told him to go get them. I guess he got distracted cause he just came back with Spider. He is one crazy kid!

And as an update: Libby did awesome on the program, and did her part very well both times! There was some confusion and ended up saying it twice. But she did it all by herself and you could understand what she said! Go LIBBY!

speaking of Chaos . . .

Reading others' blogs I am feeling very inadequate. I obviously don't write nearly enough. But I do have somewhat of an excuse. Life has definitely been chaotic around here.
Our house is still up for sale, so if you know anyone looking for a house . . . .
As my school was 124 students short on the enrollment we have lost three teachers which will force me into full time teaching starting on Monday. This will be a grand adventure. More to come on that front . . .
At church my three callings are keeping me on my toes. The Primary Program is this Sunday, Libby's first. She has her line memorized and her class will be singing "I am a Child of God." We are also working on planning our Super Saturday around being an "8 cow wife." This is going to be a lot of fun. And I should be sleeping right now as we are headed to Manti tomorrow for a temple trip.
The U's homecoming is next Saturday and I think we have decided to not attend this year and Saturday's are a good day for us to unwind. I can't believe that we might not go, I love going back and being in the marching band again. =(
That is all I can think of right now, but I am pretty sure that there is something that I am leaving out. Oh well, See you around!

long time no see

It has been a long time, sorry. We have put our house up for sale and have an offer accepted on a house in Bountiful. We have gotten new carpet, put in tile, a ton of painting, and I think that is it, on our house. (Is that grammar bad enough for you?) The first day of school was today. This year is going to be lots of fun. Libby starts Pre-school next week. She gets to go to school three days a week and is so excited that she cried when she found out she didn't get to go today. Poor kid! There was something that I was going to write about but now I can't think of it. Well, when I do I guess I will post again. Talk to you all later, Lisa

Interesting tidbit of info

I think I might have heard this before but I am not sure. Did you know that MTV was created to be like sesame street? Go-Go-Go!!!

Mission Call

My brother-in-law received his mission call today. Amazingly he is called to Mongolia!!! I am not kidding. When he was calling everyone he told them that he is going to outer-Mongolia. He leaves in just a month and a half. He will be gone before we know it. I will keep you updated on how it goes!

Wild Child

I guess I always thought Henry would have the first "no-no", for lack of a better word, that would be bad enough that no punishment would be needed. Instead tonight after we put the kids to bed after about forty-five minutes we heard a huge thud coming from the kids rooms. I went up there and Libby had apparently been hanging from the curtains and they just couldn't hold her weight anymore. I think she was standing on her bed hanging when it happened and she ended up on the floor. She was crying because the rod hit her on the head. She even said at one point that she was twisting around. I think the bonk on the head and the fright of having it give out on her was punishment enough. Her conclusion from it all was, "You don't hang on the curtains because they will bonk you on the head." A very good conclusion if you ask me! Lesson learned.

Good stuff I have been learning

I keep trying to tell people about some of the awesome stuff that I am learning in my Creating a Learning Environment class that I am taking this summer, so I am just going to blog it. And Monica if you read this, it goes along with the conversation that we had while you guys were here.

First of all there are three voices that people can use while talking to another person. Child, Parent or adult.
CHILD: defensive, emotional, victim, whining, strongly negative, demanding, playful, spontaneous, and the one I am the most guilty of is sarcasm. Sarcasm is perceived as an attack 98% of the time. OOPS!
PARENT: Authoritative, judgmental, evaluative, win/loose mentality, demanding, sometimes threatening, wants to be in charge and take care of others on their terms.
ADULT: non judgmental, free of negative, win/win attitude, factual, often question format, reasons & problem solves, agrees to disagree.

Somethings that they would say:
CHILD: (me, me, me)
Quit picking on me
You don't love/like me
It's all your fault
You made me do it
Don't blame me

PARENT:
You should/shouldn't do that
It's wrong/right to do
That's stupid
You are good/bad
Why can't you be more like _____
Wants to pass judgment

ADULT:
In what ways could this be resolved?
what facts will be used to determine this decision?
I am comfortable/uncomfortable with ________
For me to be comfortable I need the following to occur:
We agree to disagree
The adult voice doesn't have to win or be right

Now the other thing is the different kinds of behaviours. Keep in mind that we are talking about the classroom, but I think that if you use these with your kids as soon as possible they will do better in school because you will have trained them how to react in different situations?
Passive. I loose you win. (-/+) If I make fun of myself and even better do it before you do it won't hurt as much. As long as everyone else is happy I'm ok.
Aggressive. (+/-) pretty much explains itself.
Passive/Aggressive. She described it as a form of Aggressive. (+/-) Won't engage, won't do anything, may roll their eyes. (Sorry mom!) This is the behavior that can take over a classroom!! YIKES
Assertive. (+/+) Agree to Disagree (Sound familiar?) I statements

Make sure that you are careful about using assertive behaviors with Authority, it can come off as aggressive. Assertive means I can listen. And with all of this Body language trumps all!!! Since learning all of this I have tried to be more assertive, Mike has noticed a big difference. Like when he asks me where I want to go for dinner, I tell him what I am thinking of and then we work from there. I used to say, "I don't know." When in all actuality I knew perfectly where I wanted to go but didn't want to tell him. I wanted him to figure it out. That is a combo of the Parent/Child voice and me being passive/aggressive. Make sense?

I think I figured it out

An update for those of you that I have told about the doll that mysteriously showed up on our front porch. I think it came from the neighbors across the street. They are doing some major house cleaning and they more recently left a bag of star wars toys for Henry. He told me about the bag of toys so I am guessing about the doll.

a couple pictures

I think these are my favorite pictures that I got the other night. Isn't it a bad thing when the photographer looks very confused and his wife is also very confused? And don't my guys look so darn cute? (My two in particular)

Don't expect much

Well I am trying this out so that I can have a place to talk about the cute/fun things that happen so maybe I won't focus on the negative so much. And maybe you guys can more easily keep up with our chaos!! Also I hope to be able to share pictures that I take at all sorts of things! Hope you all enjoy.
Some other blogs you can check out are: Corrine's and Monica's