I'm sad...

I found out today that a wonderful lady I knew in my college years has passed away due to cancer. Laura Benson was an incredible person and friend.

I knew her husband, Jan first as he was the faculty advisor for a program called S.T.O.P. (Students taking over prevention) that I participated in. We presented a program to schools to help kids "Just Say No".

I met Laura when we were in a production of "Oklahoma!" together in Logan, UT in 1994. She was so much fun (as was all the cast) and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know her. I am sad at her passing and my prayers are going out to her family. Goodbye to the best "Ado Annie" there ever was.

Family Home Evening insanity

Okay, I know that FHE is a great program, but how do you get a bunch of wiggly kids (even the 10 year old) to listen? I always feel my frustration growing as I teach the lesson (which I keep to about 5-10 minutes anyway) while they make faces at one another, giggle and crawl under the table. Hopefully this week's lesson on keeping the Sabbath day holy will sink in during the week or we will have an interesting Sunday. We can't play outside? We can't play with friends? No TV (except for church videos)?! Are we grounded? Yes, I will admit that I enjoy my nap time on Sunday which means I haven't enforced those standard Mormon rules mentioned above enough. I am repenting of that. We will see how it all goes down. I need to mention my deep satisfaction when I said to Brayden (the wiggly 10 year old), "Brayden, you will be giving the lesson next week" to which he looked at me in shock and said, "WHAT?!?!" So funny. Can't wait to see what he comes up with. (insert evil laugh here).

Lost tooth!

The tooth fairy has been busy at our house...Daniel lost his first tooth this week and then Brayden lost his 10th tooth not even 24 hours later! They both have two more loose teeth. Daniel was soooo excited to get 4 quarters under his pillow. Brayden also got a dollar, but I just gave it to him as he no longer believes in the tooth fairy.

Watch "According to Jim" tomorrow night (June 2nd)...see why below!

Ok, I was not a big follower of "According to Jim", but my sister Joan and my sister-in-law Becky and her daughter (my niece, of course) Tali wanted to experience a television show taping while we were in Los Angeles together last September. We went and saw a taping of "According to Jim" and I was surprised by how HILARIOUS this episode was. We have been waiting and waiting for it to air and finally, FINALLY, it is airing tomorrow night on ABC. It will be the 1st episode of the two back-to-back episodes on ABC. 7pm MST and 8pm PST. Go watch! It will be worth it! ;)

In other news (and I will blog about this tomorrow)...drum-roll...Daniel lost his first tooth tonight! He looks so cute with that little gap in his teeth. Two other teeth are wiggly. Brayden would want you to know that he has 3 loose teeth also. :) I will post a photo tomorrow. :)

Goodnight for now!
Julie