BYU Folk Dancers

BYU Internationl Folk Dance Ensemble 

is coming to San Gabriel Valley on Thursday, March 14.     

Provo Tabernacle Tribute

My sister-in-law, Kerri wrote a beautiful tribute to the New Provo temple:

When the "fires" or trials of life get us down and we feel a hollowed out empty shell, do we collapse or do we clean out the wreckage and rebuild ourselves into something better than we ever could have imagined for ourselves? The beautiful, historic Provo tabernacle was destroyed by fire a couple of years ago. It was a devastating loss, however there was a good foundation and sturdy walls. Now it is being rebuilt and will go from being a beautiful tabernacle to an exquisite temple. May we do the same when the "fires" try to destroy us.

You can also see the above video by clicking here

You can see the progress of rebuilding the temple

You can also see the above video by clicking here. 


Below you can also see another video that was made just before the dedication .

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16 Year Old Boy + $10 Gift Card = .......

Sam received a $10 Ralph's Grocery Store gift card.  

I was wondering, What would Sam buy from Ralph's?  

I found out the answer when I got back from an inservice meeting I attended today.
(I didn't know Sam was going to walk to the grocery store while I was gone.
I thought he was at home cleaning his room.)

He told me he bought everything he liked that he knew I wouldn't buy for him.   

He's such a great kid!  He let me eat half of his can of  Pringles. 

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

It's beginning STILL looks a lot like Christmas!  Look at the date (January 12th) and we still have our Christmas decorations up.    Life has been too busy with other things going on to take the time to take them down.  I don't mind.  I really like what we have collected over the past 35 years of marriage.

The other day I went around the house and took pictures of some of my favorite decorations.  I decided to do a blog post about the pictures I took.

I got this nativity set when I was around 10 years old from my church primary class.  

We were to use it to help tell the story of Jesus' birth to our family. 

Lisa picked up the nativity set that us underneath the shelf from Guatemala when she visited there on a study abroad. 

When Scott worked for Temple City Unified School District, 

he purchased this cute tree from a fundraising boutique put on by the PTA.

It is not typical for Scott to pick up a  boutique item.

 This is the view of our family room. 

I'm glad that when we added on to our house 20+ years ago we included a fireplace.

 I got this on clearance from Pic 'N Save for $5 one year after Christmas.

I was with my Mom when I got it.  It reminds me of her.

 We were married in December 1977. 

 Dip and drape was the rage in the 70's.

Someone made us this set for a wedding gift. 

I got the etched nativity glass to the right from a thrift store (look closely, it's hard to see it in the picture)

 My Sister-in-law, Kerri, hand painted this porcelain nativity set. 

I think of her when I put it out.

I love collecting nativity sets.  These are a few that I have collected.  

They are on a low table so when any children come over, they can play with them. 

The plan is to take the decorations down tomorrow...If it doesn't happen, that's OK.  We'll try again next week. 

Christmas Performers

Christmas bells are ringing....

Brother Mike Miller has been conducting 

the Arcadia Youth Bell choir for the past 18 years. 

 

Taylor and Sam

The Arcadia Stake Youth Bell Choir 

after they performed at the Los Angeles  Temple's Visitor Center

The Salt Lake Symphonic Choir

Check out the cute singer on the back row

 

It was worth the getting up at 4:50 am 

and the 10 hour drive to hear Rachel sing.

Look Who Visited the Magpad

Lukas, Amber, Evan, Kristine

Merry Christmas from the Magpad 2012

Word Picture Game

This is a group game that is fun to play as you are gathering for a party.  These word pictures describe a word phrase.  For example the first on is: tiptoe through the tulips.  The second one is:  6 feet underground, and so forth. 

Have fun!

(click on picture to enlarge)

Pass this out for the player to write their answers in.

 Answers:

(click on picture above to inlarge or see answer below)

Answers:

Tip toe through the tulips

6 feet underground

Just between you and me

Just a little misunderstanding

Right between the eyes

Mind over matter

3 degrees below zero

6 of one or 1/2 dozen of another 

Railroad crossing

Growing pains

Swearing on a stack of bibles

2 peas in a pod

Eggs over easy

Backwards glance

Reading between the lines

Box car

Ring around the rose

Searching high and low

Double decker

Singing in the rain

Life after death

Split personality check

Long underwear

Neon light

once upon a time

I before e except after c

Sunken chest

He's beside himself

Rock around the clock

Head over heals

Go stand in the corner  

Parakeet

Pineapple upside down cake

Backwards flip

I'm between jobs

An after thought I was left in the dark

Falling in love

A little bit underdressed

Shadow boxing Jack in the box

Banana split

Halloween Candy Quiz

Answer sheet: (cut it in half and save paper)

You can format your own worksheet or you can copy and print the above worksheets.

Halloween Candy Quiz:

1. A famous swashbuckling trio
2. Indian burial grounds
3. Galaxy
4. What bees make
5. Round flotation device
6. Twin letters
7. Red planet
8. Not laughing out loud
9. Can't hold onto anything
10. A famous author
11. Famous former baseball player
12. Famous New York street
13. A sweet sign of affection
14. A favorite day of working people
15. Nut Happiness
16. Pleasantly plump
17. Two feminine pronouns
18. A feline
19. Single women look for this
20. Sun explosion
21. Bite with a crunch noise
22. Dry cow
23. Children of the cane
24. A lottery amount

Answers

1. 3 Musketeers
2. Mounds
3. Milky Way
4. Bit-O-Honey
5. Life Saver
6. M&M
7. Mars
8. Snickers
9. Butterfingers
10. O'Henry
11. Babe Ruth
12. Fifth Avenue
13. Kisses
14. Pay Day
15. Almond Joy
16. Chunky
17. Hershey
18. Kit Kat
19. Big Hunk
20. Star Burst
21. Nestles Crunch
22. Milk Duds
23. Sugar Babies
24. 100 Grand

Hello, Sandy!

Kristine meets Sandy  -  Hurricane Sandy, that is.

We were able to communicate with Kristine as she experienced her first hurricane.  We "chatted" via the Internet.

This was the first picture she sent before the rain came.  It looks like some pretty strong winds are going on.  (check out the palm trees)

This is a picture of her walking back to her dorm after dinner on Thursday. She wore her snorkeling mask so her face and eyes could be protected from the flying debris.  

Hi, Sandy.  How are you?

Here is part of Kristine's last email home.

I survived my first hurricane. Here is what I learned:

-Trees with shallow roots fall down

-Everything gets wet and stays wet (you go outside for like ten seconds with your jacket and your jacket will be wet for days)

-I can’t imagine what a category 5 hurricane would be like (we were in a category 2 and a category 5 can EASILY kill people)

-It’s not so much as the wind and the rain that is dangerous, it’s the things that can fly around and hit people…or trees falling on stuff

Campus pretty much always had power and internet and phone usage. Also yesterday and today the phone system has been down and the internet has been on and off. It’s off right now so I’m typing this on a word document and I’ll copy and paste it on the email tomorrow…if it’s back up again. But man, if we didn’t have power, all of our food would have gone bad and it would be really boring without having any lights on at night. I pretty much read Thursday night when the storm was blowing through full force... Campus is right on the beach but we don’t ever have waves cuz we are in something called “the sound”, it’s kind of like a bay. So we didn’t have waves crashing up on shore and flooding us, the water level just rose a lot and there were some waves, but they weren’t that big. A lot of the buildings leaked and made them smelly. Luckily the girls dorm didn’t leak. It just got smelly from everyone’s wet clothes hanging everywhere and not drying. We had sustains winds over 105 mph. Crazy.....

.....K, I’m going bed. Night all!

Goodnight, Kristine.  Sweet dreams.