GO UofA!!!!!

Just an update about what is going on with us. Randon is up to his neck in homework and studies all the time with some good friends he has made in his classes. His major is Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. I am teaching (choir, drama, and a musical theater class) full time and I love it! Although, it certainly has it's ups and downs! It reminds me daily how lucky I am to have the Gospel and the blessings it brings. Randon is the 11 year old scout master in our war, and I am the Laurel Advisor. We both love our callings, and our ward! Recently we got some sweet tickets (from my Dad) for the UofA vs. Stanford football game and took some good friends of ours (Melanie and Chris James, who we absolutely love!). They lost by one point at the very end of the game! But we had a really good time! I have never really understood football either, so it was fun to have Randon as my own personal announcer, telling me play-by-play what was going on.

Spirit Week at Compass High School!

So me and Kelly and Kerk (my coworkers) were in charge of Spirit Week last week! We had so much fun...we were a little stressed, but we had fun! Kelly and I took care of the dance stuff and Kerk made a really awesome haunted house (which I got to do the scary make up for). Anyway, these are just some fun pics of that week.....

Viva Las Vegas!!!!

It was so fun to see Lisa and John and of course Isaac and Easton! I had to go for a music conference so we bought Randon a plane ticket and he came with me! We had so much fun! My work paid for me to get a rental car but when we got there they were all out of the size we had wanted so they let me pick any other one. So of course I picked a VW bug convertible! It's my dream car! The only problem was...it's Lisa's dream car, too, so we were always debating over who got to drive it! John and Randon studied together most of the time (sigh...will school ever end?) And when I wasn't at my conference I got to hang with Lisa and play with the boys!

It's Raining, It's Pouring...

Our introduction to Tucson had been very interesting with the last 3 weeks filled with a lot of rain. Somehow we pictured in our minds something hotter and drier than the valley but we have been surprised. Today we just couldn't stand watching it anymore so we dropped what we were doing and ran out and played in the rain. It was fun to just play in it and not try to drive in it. The sad thing was we didn't see any kids out there playing with us. We sure had a good time though. . Below I am out there being the usual kid I am and playing in the rain.



Here you can really see how much rain has fallen as you see bicyclists and motorist try and trudge through the street.



What a blast! Next time we will have to prepare ahead of time and make some paper boats or something.

Snow Day

Definitely one of the funnest days of my life. About 6pm Sunday night we get a call from one of our cousins saying that it was snowing down at there house. Nobody really believed him. But sure enough, by about eight we started seeing flakes. We played out in the snow for a while that night, grateful for what we got. We hurried and made a snowman, ate flakes out of the air, had a snowball fight, and did just about all we could to enjoy the blessing. However, after sleeping the night through, we woke up to find about 8 inches of snow on the ground. With piles of fresh snow and canceled school, it had all the makings of a great day. we did everything we did the day before and much more.



After a couple of hours we perfected pulling each other behind the four wheeler. We started with pieces of plastic and signs and eventually moved our way to a neighbor’s sled. We had a blast and probably the funniest part about all of it was when Matt pulled me through a huge patch of mud. Check out Matt's skills below.