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Spring is FINALLY here and I couldnt be happier. So much has happened in the month and a half since my last posting that has kept me busy! School has started to pick up as we near the end of the semester and its going to be doozy of an ending. All my major projects are due during dead week and at the end of this coming week, i will be dealing with the new registration system that ISU decided to implement and already I am having a hard time navagating through it to find the class offerings! Just another headache that has ISU written all over it.  All I can say is that it will be a breath of fresh air ones the first week of May is done and over with. **Woosah....**


Not only has school started to pick up but so have my church callings (in fact I should be getting a nursery lesson put together instead of blogging....whoops!). We are now breaking in three new kids into our nursery and the first week was an absolute nightmare! We had surround sound crying and screaming. Luckily it was General Conference the following week so we didnt have to go through that mess again. It gave us time to regroup and conquer with a new plan of attack since the last one didn't work. Last Sunday was actually pretty good. The two new kids that were giving us the "issues" we had the parents stay in there with them to help ease them into this transition. Yup, no more drop and leave. It is now drop and stay. Now if we can only convince the parents to come pick their kids directly up after church lets out and not 15 mins later. Grr.....


It is also my turn to teach the lessons this month on top of singing time. I love singing time, I would be happy if I could do just that. Maybe if and when we get our third helper, we can get them to take over my lessons so I can just focus on the singing. The only down side is that I find some of the cutest handouts and always like to share them with the kids during my lessons. I am all about the handouts! I am thinking about doing the ice cream cone builder for singing tomorrow....we havent done that yet and it should be a little fun. We can see how many scoops of ice cream we can get ontop of our cone before the time is out. Now if I can only find a hand out i like for tomorrows lesson i would be good to go....hmmm.


So not only has nursery picked up, but so has choir. We are back to our monthly schedule again. I have yet to be called back to this position. I know but your thinking wait, aren't you playing for the choir? The answer is yes, but after they released me from it when my dad died, they never put me back in and the choir director seems to like what i do and so he has me play for them. I dont know who is technically suppose to play but I feel kinda bad about taking it from them. So it is unofficially an official calling for me.


GIRLS CAMP has kicked off for our ward this past Wednesday. The Stake theme is Warriors of Cummorah and having all the wards base their ward theme off of a Book of Mormon hero. Our ward is Alma the Younger. Which is a good story and I know the girls could get a lot from it. I need to get with Holly and see if we (as the camp and assistant directors) get a meeting scheduled with the Young Women's presidency to see what all we can get planned and get the ball rolling on assignments and decorations and what not. So when it actually comes down to the time we leave, we can just worry about the fine little details and be more prepared than we were last year. It was disasterous last year and the planning was crap (well from what i gathered from it anyway. I wasnt involved in it till last minute and that was because the bishopbric got on the previous camp directors butt to include me) and things were over looked and forgotten and not well planned. I don't want to see the same happen this year. We got awesome girls and for a lot of them, this will be their first year and we want to make sure we get them to come back next year!


We had our first aid clinic for certification today. It went off alright. We had five girls there (which from what i gather was pretty much the number of girls going) and it seemed like they had fun. Apparently all the girls now are aware of one vital sign of shock----diellated pupils---VOOM!! Hey, if they remember it all the more power to them, but it was roflol type moment! All of  them are unique and different in their own little way, it will be awesome to watch them grow during that week of camp. So if everything goes they way i would like (and mind you i am only the assistant camp director), the girls will walk out of their with a greater respect of the gospel, the Book of Mormon, Alma the Younger and of course greater respect for themselves.  So here is to hoping....

Cruel 2B Kind

Who would have thought that January is gone and now it is February.  Time has just been flying by and I for one have no idea where it has gone!


I am sad to report that within a 24 hour time period, we have received like 6 inches of that ugly white stuff from above. I thought we were done with it and all of a sudden here it came falling from the sky. Can we say yucky!! **and yes I jus used the word yucky**


So yesterday (Sunday) was a fairly interesting day. We had a pop choir musical number during sacrement meeting and yours truly got to play for it. Now I am a dang good pianist, I just suck at playing hymns. I can play them...I just cant play them. I know that makes no sense at all and your right it doesnt, but you would have to know me to really get what I mean by that.  Nursery was nice. It was way quiet, only two kids were there. We are slowly working on breaking in our primary president's little boy (he comes in April) a little each week so that by the time the first part of April comes around, he will be ready and adjusted. We will finally have more than one little boy in there now and little "T" will have a buddy to play with.  I am not sure what it is with our nursery, but we always seem to lean towards have more girls than boys.


However small nursery was, it did make it for a long afternoon. Both I and my other leader were tired and the kids were tired. Little "T" is beginning to get his two year old molars and let me tell you, he has been really good all things considering. He was a little emotional and just about crashed in my arms from crying so hard but everything turned out ok. He is so cute to watch sing the songs during singing time. Oh yeah, I also am in charge of music in the Nursery. I was afraid that i would be singing solos for most of the year, but really the kids (even though they are still pretty young) are singing and doing the actions to them. I just get a kick out of watching their expressions, it is priceless!!! I love working with them.


After church we had a SHORT choir rehersal. Yes, we are starting that back up because the choir was asked to sing a song for ward conference on the 14th. They have chosen the old hymn Come Thou Font Of Every Blessing. I love the song and it was a relief to be able to play it the first time around. They had 5 people there. It was kinda sad and I am sure that next week wont be any better, as it is Super Bowl Sunday! So we shall see what happens.


The other eventfull thing that happened to me at church was the bishop cornered me in the chapel right before Sacrement meeting and asked if I would be willing to go back to girls camp this summer as the assistant camp director. I told him that he really should talk to his camp director first and see if she would want me to work with her. He told me that he isnt even sure that she knows i was called to that position or if she evens knows me. I told him he better talk to her first. That way, if she wants to work with me he will know or if she doesnt want to work with me, then they can work on finding someone else.  So we shall see.  I do love girls camp and last year wasnt so bad. I did learn a few things while I was up there though. 

THINGS I LEARNED AT GIRLS CAMP 2009

1. CHECK THE AREA FOR POISONOUS PLANTS!!!

2. Small flashlights should be carried in the pocket, that way when you have to dive out of sight, so it doesnt fall out of your hoodie pocket and you are stuck using your cell phone as a light to find your light.

3. Canvas area BEFORE it gets dark...that way you know where every little

rock, ditch and logs are.

4. Girls do like playing in the yucky water to catch frogs, its not just a boy thing.

5. Frogs need more than an inch of water and a plastic cup to survive, not direct sunlight!!

6. Frozen pot stickers should be eaten before the ice starts to melt so they

are not one big gooey mess.

7. Tarps are A MUST!!!

8.Blessings are the best over the counter medicine for allergies!

9. Pranks are a must...*evil grin*

10. Beware of those with water guns. There is no such thing as an innocent bystander.

11. COLD AIR WILL DRAIN BATTERY POWER: CHARGER A MUST!

12. Harry Potter is hot.

13. Hiding information pertaining to a prank from the rest of the camp is OK.

14. "Caligraphy" is a hilarious form of punishment.