Spider of Death!

While James and I were setting up our fake spider webs for Halloween we saw this ferocious spider near our apartment. My heart stopped and I did not know what to do with such a huge thing. We were affraid to squish him just in case there were babies on his back. My idea was for James to get a glass bottle so we could take it far far far far away from our home.

James, my hero, concluded that it must be dead because it was in the middle of no where, and it had not moved in a long time. He grabed a piece of paper and poked it. The spider's leggs moved a little, but thank goodness it was dead!




James placed the spider on the paper and we took it to the street just in case it came back to life.

Last Sunday Evening

The following pictures are of what James and I love to do on Sunday evenings when there is no one to visit, and nothing really to do. James built a horse drawn space ship using every single piece of lego that he currently has. I built a tower out of domioes, and then we both built a domino train. We love our sunday evenings together :)

our cute apartment in Logan!

Picture #1: The front of our apartment. We live downstairs, and there are 3 college girls upstairs.

Picture #2: Our beautiful backyard!

Picture #3: The front/living room, and our 46 inch big screen t.v. that we bought at DI for only $45! It works great! The only down side is that it takes about 5-10 min. to warm up :)

Picture #4: This is our bathroom vanity.

Picture #5: Now on to my favorite part of the apt. The kitchen! It is very big, has a lot of cupboard space, very nice counter tops, and a large pantry that can not be seen from this picture.

Our lives

It's been a long time since we have updated our blog! We just wanted to let you know what we are doing. James recently got a job at western watts. Which he doesn't love, but it helps pay the bills. He is going to school at Bridgerland applied technology college on Tues, wed, and Thurs in the evenings from 6-9pm. He also goes to school at USU on Mon, wed, and Fri mornings. James is a very busy man!
I, on the other hand, do not find myself as busy. I work at Edith Bowen Laboratory Elementary School on campus in a first grade class, and I absolutely love it! I get to work with the children a lot and i have so much fun doing it. Of course it is not all fun and games; those kids can get out of hand easily if the right actions are not taken, and sometimes that takes a lot of energy! I get paid $11 an hour, but i am only allowed to work 15 hours a week. If i work anymore than that I simply do not get paid for those hours. This is both inconvenient for me and the teacher i work for. But i can't complain too much, because I really enjoy every moment that I'm there. As for school, I am taking 14 credits at USU and I'm working my hardest. I got 90% on my most recent midterm! Yeah!
That's us for now.

Yeah! I finally got it to work

It has been a very long time since we could get into our blog becuase we couldn't remember which email address we used. Either way, it's good to be back :)

My Hero

Everyone has someone special in their lives (other than their parents) who has taught them everything they know. For me, that special person is my grandpa Penrod! He taught me how to blow bubbles in my bubble gum, how to tie my shoes the fast way, how to dance, how to laugh, the true meaning of hard work and most importantly, he taught me how to love the Gospel of Jesus Christ! He was one of the most spiritual men I knew, and he lived each day of his life in the fullness of the gospel. Two or three times a week he was a worker in the Ogden temple and he loved it so much! He was even able to officiate the session when my brother was endowed. That was a wonderful experience that I will never forget. Grandpa Penrod loved to serve! Whenever he got a chance he would help anyone that needed an extra hand. He fell out of a tree last Saturday because he was helping someone trim it. Even until the last moments of his life he was working hard and helping others. I remember vividly the advice he gave me over and over again as I was a growing teen. He always said that if i truly wanted to achieve something i would have to work hard to get it, because if i didn't it would slip through my hands. When i decided to throw shot put, he was there supporting me the whole way. Each time he saw me he would ask, "So Mindy, what are you doing to improve?" Those words will stay with me the rest of my life as i ask myself daily, "So Mindy, what are you doing to improve?" He was and will always be an inspiration to me. I hope I can live my life with the same kind of love and dedication that he did his. I love my Grandpa Penrod, and i can not wait to see him again!

Sorry if i made any mistakes in my typing; is seems as though i was unable to see the screen or keyboard as i typed.

Nursery Teachers or Lion Tamers, same diff.

So there we was, in the forest.. er. well the church, walking steadily towards where we though they might be, and we jumped out from behind a bush... well.. i mean.... walked through the door and then we spotted them, four children. "Phew" we was saying, but their zoo keeper was like, "if you could go to Nursery A, that would be good." and so we does. upon arriving there we find out two things. first off, There are no smiles on Sunday Mornings in Nursery. second Children Don't like Strangers, well for at least five minutes. Well there we was in the middle of a clearing surround by snarling youth, knashing their teeth, and crying for mommy. Right Terrifying they was too, but finding large bins loaded with Distraction devices, we tossed brightly colored plastic knick knacks and fluffy recreations of other wild life into their drooling fangs and slobber covered claws. after that, trying to civilize them with a lesson, was almost a cinch, that was until they got hungry. so before they tore us limb from limb we gave them food, and lots of it. then we sang to them until their Mothers rescued them. And that was Mindy and My First Day in the Nursery. (Picture that was provided is a Re-enactment, by an unpaid professional volunteer to our cause seeing as we are not allowed to take pictures of specimens found in Nursery, our thanks to the lovely photograph Modeled by Sam Peterson.)