School Magic Party 1 Year Anniversary

Ehre and Ben's Day Care celebrated their 1 year anniversary.

They celebrated it with a Magic Show!

Fun Photos

We drew some pictures for Elder Robinson, since his birthday is comming up, we're going to email them to him since I realized that we can't mail them to him since they are not on white paper. :( But the kids and I had a lot of fun!

We've started decorating for the fall season! We love it! (Bet you couldn't tell that the stem on this pumpkin broke off and is now held on with toothpicks!)

My cleaning helper, isn't she cute! Sorry she isn't out for hire!

My Project

Ok I found this old window, and it was flaky white (like really really old) I painted it black, for a little while we put some handdrawn pictures in it, until I printed our family photos, and now we have this final result. I love it! (...only sad part is that I had to paint on th glass a black border, becuase the white caulking from the other side showed through, you can see it in the first image, but hey I like it!!!)

Labor Day Dinner with the Jacksons

This was fun, Ben loved playing in the hammock, and a father and sun put togther a really cool nerf gun too!

These are not UTAH rainstorms!

I caught these girls playing as I was home wokring on homeowrk, oooh they were so cute! (Neighbors girls)

Labor Day Breakfast

We always tend to put together dinners, so this time we put together a Labor Day Breakfast! We had a great turn out, it was a wondeful breakfast with friends.

Dr. Chappel Work Party @ Turkey Run

Fwd: Survey only 2 more to go!

Here are the final two surveys that I need:

 

Ok this one takes only 1-2 minutes its fast:

http://purdue.qualtrics.com/WRQualtricsSurveyEngine?Q_SS=dgI5rrZuLYdivM8_agZey89kbnaO1jm&SVID=Prod

This one is also really quick too!!!!

 

http://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_byCFm3X058POvlO&SVID=Prod This is a different survey, our group needs 30 responces!

 

 

Thanks

Ann

 

 

 

 

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"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
-- Malcolm S. Forbes

Short Survey I need 30 responces please!

http://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_byCFm3X058POvlO&SVID=Prod

 

I just need 30 responces, so if you can quickly answer this I'd appreciate it (only two more small surveys left till graduation!)

 

Ann

Peanut-Butter

Ehre asked Jeff and I, as we were driving to school if it is possible to put people together with peanut butter, (she was eating a PB sandwich at the time)...Jeff and I laughed and asked her to explain. She said that since it sticks the bread together it should work on people too... It was great!!!!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/transcript-president-obama-address-joint-congress-health-care/story?id=8527252

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/transcript-president-obama-address-joint-congress-health-care/story?id=8527252

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Senior Project Survey

This is the link to my Senior Survey Project for one of my classes. It only takes 2-3 minutes and gets you thinking. :) Please take a few minutes and quickly respond, I need 100 responses, 12 so far!

Ann

http://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_07cWf4YGMNx4vXe&SVID=Prod
You can copy this link, then paste it into an email or website.

Ehre: Featured Child of the Week

...her responces are just sooooo cute!

The Privilege and Blessing of Work

 

by Joseph Walker

It has always struck me as more than just a little bit ironic that every year about this time America pays tribute to her working men and women by not working.

I appreciate a day off as much as the next worker bee. It's just the logic of Labor Day that throws me. I mean, on Thanksgiving we actually give thanks. On Christmas we celebrate a gift from God by giving gifts ourselves. On Easter we observe another divine gift by eating multi-colored eggs that were supposedly delivered by a rabbit.

Okay, so the logic of Easter eludes me, too.

Still, it stands to reason that if we are going to celebrate America's workers, there ought to be something . . . you know . . . laborious about it.

Mom and Dad understood the concept. Around our house, Labor Day was just that: a day to labor. I don't remember any Labor Day picnics or parties or barbecues. We'd just had a full summer for that. Labor Day meant that school was back in session and it was time to work.

And so we did. We prepared the garden bed for winter. We pruned fruit trees. We bottled peaches and tomatoes until the inside of our house was thick with steam and aroma. Sometimes there were special projects that we didn’t finish during the summer: painting the trim around the house; taking out an old, dead stump; planting new grass in that patch of dirt in the middle of the lawn that we used as home plate during spirited games of whiffle ball.

For me, however, the job was always the same: mowing, edging, and raking the lawn. As the youngest of eight children, I always got the easiest - and most boring - duty.

"It's not fair!" I protested one Labor Day. "I do the lawn all summer. Why can't somebody else do it today?"

"Because everyone else already has a job," Mom said.

So much for labor negotiations.

A late summer trip had interrupted regularly scheduled lawn care that year, and our yard looked it. The grass was tall and thick - especially the edges. I shuddered. Dad didn't believe in power mowers or edgers, so this would require hours of back-breaking, wrist-snapping, energy-sapping labor.

What a way to spend Labor Day, huh?

Don't ask me how, but I survived the ordeal. My fingers ached from squeezing Dad's rusty grass clippers. And I was itchy from the grass that seemed to cover me. But for some reason, as I sat out on the front porch looking out over the aesthetic results of my labors, none of that mattered. I was weary, but content. And I wasn't sure why until Mom came out with the lemonade.

"That's why we have you mow the lawn," she said as she handed me a tall, cool glass. "You do such a good job."

In retrospect, I'm sure other lawns in our neighborhood looked as good as ours. Maybe better. But that night I was King Lawnboy, and all was right in my carefully clipped kingdom.

I've never forgotten the feeling of satisfaction that came from a job well done. That's the feeling we ought to celebrate on Labor Day, for much of what we are as a nation we owe to the efforts of workers who are willing to work, and who take pride in the results of their labors. So do something laborious this Labor Day, and savor the privilege and blessing of work.

'Tis the season, you know.

PLEASE RESPOND

Hey readers:

Ok this is weird, using my blog for homework. I have a survey for homework I need 30 respondents so if you can answer the questions and email them back to me I would be eternally grateful...and hey you can count it towards helping me graduate in December!

Thanks

Ann

Effectiveness of Abstinence Programs/Access to Birth Control Information Survey:

1.  What is your Gender?    Male/ Female

2.  What is your age? 18-24, 25-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-64, 65+

3.  With which political party do you identify? Republican, Democrat, Independent

4.  Indicate how religious you are: very religious, somewhat religious, not at all religious

5.   Do you think that programs to promote abstinence have been effective in preventing or reducing?:

	Very Effective	Somewhat Effective	Not Very Effective	Not at All.
HIV/AIDS
Unwanted Pregnancies
Extramarital Sex

6.       Based on what you know or have heard, compared to European countries like England, France and Germany, how would you compare Americans' access to birth control?

__ Americans have better access to birth control

__ Americans have worse access to birth control

__ Americans and Europeans access to birth control are about the same

__ Not sure

7.      Please indicate whether you tend to agree or disagree with the following statements:

                                  Tend to Agree   Tend to Disagree    Not Sure

People should have more access to information about birth control options.
Providing people with access to birth control is a good way to prevent abortions.
Access to birth control should not be limited by someone's ability to pay.
Abstinence is the best option for protecting teens from unwanted pregnancies.
The "morning after" pill should be easily available in all pharmacies.
Teens should be allowed access to birth control without their parents' knowledge.
If a pharmacist, for moral or religious reasons, prefers not to dispense birth control he or she should not be required to do so.
It's too easy to get birth control in the U.S.; tighter restrictions are needed as to how and when it is used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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