The Fence

A couple weeks ago we talked with the young women a little bit about the law of chastity. One of the other leaders created a fabulous visual!

If you have noticed there are often beautiful fences going around the temple grounds. That fence is like chastity. It defines the boundaries of the world and a Holy Place. 

This picture popped into to my mind. To me it represents the wonderful blessings that can come from keeping within the boundaries that the Lord has set for us. Both before marriage (abstinence) and after marriage (complete fidelity). What a wonderful blessing! I will never look at his photo the same way again. 

SquashHead 4H

Afton had to meet at the Fair early to wash and finish getting the sheep ready to show.  They washed them, then ran some kind of squeegee over them to get rid of most of the water. Then they used these high powered driers to help get them dry before putting the blankets on them.  Right before the show they fluffed their hair and their legs and gave them a bit of a trim.  They looked so good!

Their club did great!!  The light purple ribbons were runner up but the dark purple is best in show.  Afton was able to do a great job managing her lamb.  It was a younger animal and didn't do as well in the rankings, but she had fun helping out!  

The project that the club put together showing all the activities they did this year won a purple ribbon as well.  It's been such a wonderful experience!  Their leaders Kaeli and Dave Robbins are amazing!  They have put in so much time to help these kids learn. They were honored by the Mayor and City Council on Wednesday night and given a plaque in recognition for all their service and hard work this year.

A Day at the Fair

Last week we went to the State Fair to watch Afton show sheep with her 4H group.  It ended up costing us a pretty penny, but the kids had a blast.  I got a little sun burned as well, but it's all good.  We walked around for a little while and saw all the exhibits and animals.  There was also a little FFA exhibit that had the kids do some fun activities.  They also made wool bracelets.  Then there were of course the rides.  So much fun!!

Sheep that the girls put together.

Bonnie went on this giant slide once and was done.  She didn't like big slides! The other kids went on it several times though.

Isaac said this was his favorite!

This sickening thing was Khora's favorite.  She is such a thrill seeker!

Lightning Storm

 The sunset was amazing.  I loved watching as the pink in the sky grew! A storm was coming so I stayed outside and watched. The lightning storm was awesome.  I finally figured out my camera enough that I could get some pictures anyway.  Beautiful!!

More Beginnings

First week of school. The boys made the bus for the first day of school on Tuesday.  They seemed pretty excited to go.

Isaac is starting 7th grade for the first time in public school and Jacob is an old timer and starting 9th grade.  both are going to Payson Jr. High School this year. First time on the bus.

Purple Rolls

It's county fair season and Afton was able to enter some rolls on Monday. Our neighbor Sister Rundell agreed to help teach her. She found out on Wednesday that they were awarded a purple ribbon! (That's higher than a blue). Her 4H group had 16 entries and were awarded 9 purple, 5 blue, 1 red and 1 white. Their group project was also awarded a purple ribbon.  It's been a lot of fun for her and she was pretty excited about it.

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Afton received her cash prize $3 for her purple award.

2014_Summer School

I finally finished my first semester at school.  Both of my classes concluded this week. I turned in my final project for my photography class. It's a PDF file of my portfolio that was created in Lightroom using pictures from my class. It just highlights the different aspects we learned about. I don't think it's necessarily representative of me, but more of just my work this summer. It was a good class though.  She just has to grade my final project, but without it I'm getting 96.8% in that class.

It was also my last week in Humanities.  Monday we met for a field trip in downtown Provo to go over the architecture section.  It was really nice meeting some of the other students in the class for the first time.  I met an adorable girl from Chile.  She's studying to teach English and minoring in Humanities.  She's been a member of the church her whole life and loves living in Utah with her husband who is also from Chile. Her parents especially love to visit since there is so much LDS culture to visit here.  Wednesday was our in class final. Team Jeopordy.  I made up all of Team Santaquin. It started out terribly, I didn't do well under so much pressure and missed some pretty easy questions, without the benefit of group input. It got better as it went on though and I didn't do too terrible in the end. After taking the online final on Thursday and turning in a couple papers I was able to finish up that class as well.  I got 97.9%. The professor even asked if he could use a couple of the papers that I wrote as examples. (Dennis is a great writing tutor.) I included a word file in Dropbox of the poem that I wrote for my creative project for the class.

Grades are in.  I have a 4.0 at the end of my first semester!  Yeah!!!