Wherein I Try Something New

I tried something new: I made an online photo book.  I am a paper scrapbooker who hasn’t really had time to fuss with learning any digital scrapping except cropping and printing photos.  A friend regularly makes online photo books that become hardbound books and has been encouraging me to try it for a very long [...]

wrap-up The 2nd Challenge 2010

Challenge Guidelines: There are four levels: – Curious – Read 3 novels that are 2nd in a series or second time you’ve read the author. – Fascinated – Read 6 that are 2nd in a series or second time you’ve read the author. – Addicted – Read 12 novels that are 2nd in a series [...]

Some good news from each of us

Scott: switched our TV service from Comcast to Direct TV so that we have the correct stations to see ALL the BYU football games this year. Sue: received “Mockingjay, book 3 of the Hunger Games” in the mail today and will be starting to read it tonight. Mark: after spending all summer talking to various [...]

2010 National PTA Convention

I attended the National PTA Convention in Memphis, Tennessee in June.  The convention was great and I came home with lots of great ideas for my volunteer position this year.  While there, I had a culinary tour de force and ate alot of great food.  I also bought several BBQ rubs for Scott to try [...]

Tuacahn 2010

We made our annual summer pilgrimage to Broadway in the Desert last weekend and had a great time!  The Tuacahn shows in St. George this year are “Cats” and the regional premiere of “Tarzan, the Musical”.  This was the first time we had seen “Cats” and the dancing was really amazing.  Some of the leads [...]

wrap-up post-What’s in a Name? 3

I finished the What’s in a Name? 3 Challenge with a very different list than I anticipated at the beginning of the year.  Only one book remained the same, but changing it up during the year is fun, too! Between January 1 and December 31, 2010, read one book in each of the following categories: [...]

Countdown 2010 Wrap-up

I finished this reading challenge 3 months early!  The goal of the challenge is to read the number of books first published in a given year that corresponds to the last digit of each year in the 2000s — 10 books from 2010, 9 books from 2009, 8 books from 2008, etc. The total number [...]

Hogwarts Reading Challenge 2010

I know I said I wouldn’t join any more challenges this year, but this one was just too fun to pass up.  The Hogwarts Reading Challenge runs March 8 2010 to December 13 2010.  I am a student at Hogwarts and was sorted into Gryffindor House.  Now I need to attend class (read books) to [...]