Youth Video on Church Website

Paul & I were visiting with the Lake Mills ward this morning, he had to give a talk. It's nice to visit other wards, especially when we get to bump into youth that we use to see at stake events. We bumped into Ashley Nathan and David Luifau, who at one point I thought his name was Karl but that must be a brother! They are engaged to get married, which is awesome itself but what impressed me most was when they told me that Dan, David's younger brother did a little bit on the church. The video is posted online at the church website and I was able to go and download it. If the video doesn't work, here's the link from the website. It impressed me so much that I wanted to add it here. Enjoy!

http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/search?&query=Luifau&bucket=AllNewsroomContent&maxResults=10&pageNumber=1&totalHits=1

Fall Season of TV update

Alright, I realize that i have not been keeping up with all my TV stuff. So, here's where I am at. So I have been keeping up with Dancing with the stars (truthfully, Paul likes to watch, I usually do too but this season is such a bust). Anyway after last night's dances Here is where my standing is.

Toni Braxton to get the boot. I'm sorry I just so bored with her routine. Unfortunately my pick would have been Cloris the old lady but she actually impressed me a bit. Toni made me fall asleep.



My pick to go all the way is none other than Derek Huff & Brooke the model. She has impressed me with her picking up the steps. She makes it look so easy! She's my pick to win all the way! We'll see how that works out.



NBC's The Biggest Loser: Families

I wish that these broadcasting networks would get it through their hard heads that helping people is not about ratings but really helping people. I hate having to sit week to week watching someone get booted off just because someone hates them. Well anyway, I do learn alot from watching this show it can be entertaining. My pick to win the whole thing is Vicky from the Brown team. She seems more determined and had her one on one sit down with her hubby about realizing that she will be fine if left alone to work out! So here it is Vicky from Brown team to win it all.



NBC Heroes -

Totally loving the story line that it's taking but they are adding so much more character's this season that it is starting to become hard to follow the story lines but I like where it's going, I just hope it doesn't get out of hand.

Solomon Update

This picture was taken a couple of days ago, before his surgery. Solomon all of sudden malled paul and jumped on the chair with him, he looks so happy! Solomon is doing great and recoverying fine. 6 stiches and sent home with pain killers and antibiotics, he has to wear an e-collar still and seems to be in a grim mood .. no vigorous activities for 14 days (this will drive Paul nuts!) that means no walking, running, horse playing .. which is fine by me! I hate exercise. heh heh Anyway, thanks to all that sent me an email of your concern about him.

More Etiquette Night Video's

Paul & Anna, Paul getting a critique

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Paul & Anna & Brett & Brittney

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Beehive / Deacon Etiquette Night

Paul & Rebecca

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I had the pleasure of accompanying Paul to Beehive/Deacon Etiquette Night. It's a tradition we have in our stake to have a special night for our 13 year old before they turn 14 and attend stake act ivies, or dances. We teach them and discuss manners, conduct, cleanliness, and yes - dance. I knew there would be a reason I should take my camera! I shot some video of the dance part and pictures. They are pretty funny. Paul had the pleasure of dancing with a couple of the Beehives from our ward. Also, because we only had 5 YM show up and 14 YW, the ratio was really off - so we asked the men and some of the women leaders to help with the partner dancing. Of course I helped but because my camera was only used for the most part when I was taking the pictures, you don't get to see me except with Paul at the end of the night! :-) heh heh, enjoy!

Latest Project

OK, so my latest project has been trying to finish up these frames I have been working on for awhile. I just got myself a new sander and before I knew it, my project on the 1st frame is done. 1 down and 6 more to go! Hooray! Let me know what you think! The top of the fram is actually on its side starting with the words, "The Love in Our Family"... -Enjoy

Oh NO, not again!!!

My poor pup, yet again to live with the lampshade! What happened this time? He grew a sore on his right side and what started off small grew on us in a week, so we went to the vet to see what it was. Well, he was no help and said that it could be a couple of things including the dreaded word - T U M O R ... so he gave us some options like, we could cut it out or send you home with anti - infamatories and anti biotics .. so of course we chose the latter and we'll see him again on Friday! My poor pup, he's had so many abnormal injuries and situations, but as in suite as our other dog that left us last year, he's a "Duhacek" Dog true and true! I'll update on Friday.

Young Women in Excellence

This was a great evening. I was really proud of the Mia Maid class for putting together such a classy evening. Our evening theme was called a Garden of Values. I was impressed, the parents did their research. Not that I didn't expect them to but some of them went online and found meanings of what each flower meant, etc etc. It was good to hear a lot of the qualities that the girls had and see their parents happy to share with us. I was really proud of our girls and the projects they presented. I've included a slideshow of the pictures to the Right side of the evening for your enjoyment. -Enjoy

Before I post any pictures of Young Women in Excellence last night, I read on Alysha and Nate's blog about - "All aboujt Alysha" and I thought, ok - I'll bite and try to spend 1/2 hr or so on spending time on letting you guys know what I'm about. If anyone else is interested, be my guest! I look forward to hearing about you

All about Esther .. it's about time!

This is one of those Q & A posts where you're supposed to tag people at the end so they do the post too and you get to read crazy stuff about them as well.

1. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Turkey, of course!
2. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Hello? Of course!
3. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Not enough!
4. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Yeah! I wouldn't pay for it though!
5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? It's between regular Cheerios and Honey Bunches of Oats.
6. FRUITS OR VEGETABLES? It's a tie but if I had to pick than veggies for sure!
7. WHAT COLOR SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? I have socks on but the last pair I had on were crocks.
8. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? Devil's cake Jello pudding cup with whip cream - the best! yummy.
9. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? My favorite color is Navy Blue but if I had to pick a color to be, it would be white!
10. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? American Football of course, though living in Wisconsin has turned me into a packer fan not really a big fan without Brett Farve right now!
11. HAIR COLOR? Black with highlight's of red in it.
12. EYE COLOR? Brown
13. FAVORITE FOOD? too many to list!
14. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Ewww, if you knew me you'd say scary movies but I love happy endings as well!
15. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My stomach, gross!
16. FAVORITE SMELLS? Clean Laundry straight from the dryer with dryer sheet smell and FLowers - nice smelly kind.
17. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Paul but my sister sent me a text last night via cell phone and I replied, does that count?
18. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer of course, but I love winter as well!
19. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? Didn't I was at church with youth activities.
20. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
21. FAVORITE DESSERT? heh heh, ok I am technically not suppose to have sugar but I love pies!
22. BURGER KING OR MCDONALDS? McDonald's - their fries are the best but Burger King is "supposingly" healthier!
23. DO YOU FOLLOW A LIST WHEN YOU SHOP OR DO YOU GO UP AND DOWN ALL THE AISLES? Yeah, usually - I'm crazy that way.
24. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? Too many but right now - Hunger Games.

Alrighty, that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and took me 10 minutes tops .. I'm sure I'll regret some of the answers because I whizzed through this really quick. Good luck everyone and i'll be checking out your blog to see if you did the same!