First week of fall photos

Nothing really exiting has happened lately so I took some pictures so you would have something to look at :)

                                         Mom is going to learn how to play this on the guitar someday.

Samoan 9th Branch birthday party

Last Friday the Samoans had their 9th branch birthday party at the Bloomington Stake center. They called it a birthday, because they were celebrating the birth of the branch. Any who, here are some pictures of what went on :)

As soon as you walked in the door you were greeted by all these water bottles!

As always the Samoans go all out with the food.

These were all full of pork.

Mmm... lettuce.  They later had watermelon and cantalope on top of it.

They split us into groups, one side was the leaders and leaders only, the other side was the people who aren't leaders and the leaders children. These were our center pieces.

Yum... raw fish.  Mom says it's good.

Mom looking all pretty

Tanner Jones and Lori playing a game on a napkin.

The place was packed!

My dad and Bishop Jones going up to be honored by the Samoans.

They had entertainment while they were serving the food. I had a video of them dancing but it wouldn't upload.

After we were all done eating they turned on some music and everyone started dancing.

Mom and dad danced a lot.  I was the official photographer.

9/11

I know it's a little bit late but I would like to pay tribute to all the people that died on 9/11. These are a couple of newspapers that came out surrounding 9/11.

Yard Sale!

Can you believe it? We actually got rid of stuff!! We had a yard sale yesterday, so many people came which made us happy :) We made a total of 237 dollars and something cents. 120 of it is going to the Chatwin Family fund. Anyways! Here are some pictures of our yard sale.

Ah... I love the smell of money :) Olé!

Our moolah.

All of our yard sale stuff under the tarp.

Mom setting up.

Don't ask...

Our somewhat 5,000 pairs of airport confiscated scissors! It seems like everyone who came there bought at least 2 pairs or more!

I've been tagged... like three months ago

O.K mom, I'm doing it!

Joys:

1. Dancing

2. Singing out loud to myself

3. My nieces and nephew

Fears:

1. Pressurized biscuit cans

2. Sleeping in the dark, I have to have a night light. Other than that I love the dark!

3. Roller coasters

Goals:

1. To get my Young Womanhood Recognition

2. Being able to do the splits in the air and on the ground :)

3. To be able to walk down the hall and yell out sentences in spanish by the end of the year.

Obsessions/Collections:

1. Big collection of purses and jewelry!

2. One of my obsessions is that I absolutely have to make someone laugh during the day or else I feel lost.

3. Pens that click open and shut always have to be clicked shut after use or else it drives me crazy!

Things you may or may not know about me:

1. I am prone to tell really random stories at random times.

2. I hate chalkboards

3. I am best friends with a 5 year old

4. I have a bum knee

Well there you have it! Speaking of random things, here are some random pictures that I took!

Our water meter in front of our house.

My bike.

We Have Class

The week after school started, Rich and I attended Education Week at BYU.  We stayed with the Thaynes in Payson.  Thanks, Sherri and Jeff!  Kevin and Lori and Hattie watched Megan and let her stay with them.  Lori even drove Meg to ballet.  Thanks!  Anyway, Rich and I had a lot of fun together.  We were there three days and went to twenty classes.  I really hope we can go again next year.  There are 1,000 different classes to choose from, and they are all so inspiring that you don't even want to break for lunch.  So we found ourselves eating as we walked to our next class.  We met on this campus over 30 years ago, you know.  We now know where the best place to park the car is, even if it involved climbing 143 stairs to get to your first class.  Next time I'm wearing a pedometer.

Megan is an eighth grader now and started middle school the 12th of August.  The weather was still in the triple digit range!  Her favorite classes are Spanish, Home Ec and PE.  She's taking guitar, too but says it isn't her favorite.  Dang it.  At least she doesn't have to take her guitar back and forth to school, because we have plenty of them at home just waiting to be practiced on.  

Her ballet lessons began that same week.  Her ballet teacher retired last year, so we had to transfer her to a school that has huge classes, (sixteen girls instead of six. Six is so much better if you really want to learn anything and improve.)   But at least they do the Nutcracker, so she auditioned and got a part.  Rich and I are going to be in the opening party scene.  I figured we may as well, as long as we have to take her to rehearsal, we may as well get some waltzing time in ourselves.