"All things are cause for either laughter or weeping."- Seneca

SO. . . . . I happened to be at the dollar store last weekend, and I came across a package of various bible themed card and trivia games, and since we are studying the Old Testament in our Sunday school class, I decided some of my friends who are teachers of this class could benefit from something of this nature, especially since sometimes that particular block of church can use a little something to get people to participate.

Now the quality of things purchased at the dollar store is never very top notch, because it's THE DOLLAR STORE, but little did I know what a gem of an investment I was making!


I decided to keep for myself the "Bible Trivia Flash Cards" mainly because this picture of Christ was on the cover. . . . . .so I knew what was inside had to be good!



Why does The Saviour only have four fingers in this picture? (PS this card's question on the front says "Jesus rose form the dead in how many days?" if you were curious.)






OK Here's the question for the next card. . . . . . .




What did Jesus do for Lazarus?

What has two thumbs and was resurrected. . . . . This Guy!!!

Who was in the Belly of the Whale?

Nice Goggles Jonah. . . . .and was that the belly or the blow hole?

Who were the first humans?

Wait, wasn't the snake the bad guy in this story. . . . I wanna take this snake home, he doesn't not look like a threat to my salvation at all!!!!

Who was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah (spelled Gamora on the card. . . . not that I'm one to judge about spelling, but it just adds to the credibility)?

Get it? she's a salt shaker?. . . . . . just plain silly is what this is!

I saved the best one for last. . . . let's see if you have the same reaction I did!

Which disciple betrayed Jesus?

Does this shot make you as uncomfortable as it did me?

I cannot understand what made the creators of this game think, this picture didn't look a little shifty. . . . but then again they did only give Christ 4 fingers. . . . . oh silly dollar store game!

Anyway, I just thought I'd share with you this amazing find, it made me laugh, and I hope it did the same for you!

Peace Out!

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"- Henri Bergson

In 2001. . . . . .


I was shocked by the announcement of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's divorce ( If they can't make it no one can. . . I thought) the death of Aaliyah one of my favorite singers and. . . . . . how unattractive Halle Berry is when she cries (due to her tearful acceptance of the Oscar for Best Actress making her the first women of color to receive one)


but in all seriousness


I think the event that rocked 'o1 for everybody not just me was 9/11! Everybody has a story about where they were and what was happening at that moment and how it affected them, the thing that I thought was funny was the year America was probably at it's lowest I had one of my biggest personal triumphs, 2001 treated me well.



I got a new job at Perkins as a Hostess (JonathINN's wasn't giving me any hours!)



I did 2 plays: Fame ( I had a small part as Mrs. Schwartz the overbearing stage Mother) and Dracula ( I played a female Reinfield, it was pretty fun!)




But that September while the world was astonished and saddened by the terrorist attacks in New York and D.C. Ivan Craddock and I were named Homecoming King and Queen.



I remember the night of the big game was the same night they had that telethon to raise money for the victim's families of 9/11. The one that almost every television and radio station had cancelled it's regular programming so as they could all broadcast the same event.




My Father was driving me to Lions field where the game took place and we were listening to that program. I remember feeling a little guilty that it was such a somber time for our Nation, and I was having one of the most exciting and memorable nights of my life to date. It was humbling, I have never felt so big and yet so small in one moment.

Big things really started poppin' in '02






Kelly Clarkson was crowned the 1st American Idol, Britney Spears made her film debut in the BLOCKBUSTER "Crossroads" and both NSYNC and Backstreet Boys disbanded!







but there were lots of life changes and monumental moments for me as well. . . . .









1. I ended my High School theatre experience as The Wicked Stepmother in "Cinderella"







2. Graduated from High School







and said farewell to my best friends








3. Entered the Moses Lake Young Single Adult Ward!








4. Got a sweet Bank job!





and. . . . . .






5. Hit up the Big Apple-





Oh man in 2002 the world was my Oyster! I was a fresh faced 18 yr old ready to make my mark! Little did I know it would take me a lot longer then expected to do that. . . . but that's growing up eh?







OK I know it's a double dose

but what were your favorite moments of 01-02?

". . . . .Oh Two Thousand Zero Zero Party Over OOps Out of Time!" - Prince

Well people the end of the decade is upon us, and I really can't believe it's been ten years!!! It's seems like only yesterday I was preparing my bomb shelter with the necessary means to survive the end of the world! :)

Seriously though, do you remember where you were that New Year's Eve? When the Y2K was supposed to be the end of it all! I was at my buddy Lacey Martin's House with all my BFF's at the time. Lacey, Katie Jensen (Reese), Crystal Montoya (Harris), Lena Campbell (Gilbert) and Danny Payne. I remember there was sparkling cider and I'm pretty sure I fell asleep when everyone was watching "Strange Brew", lucky for us the world went right on turning after the clock struck midnight, because man were we party animals!!!!

This has caused me to take a walk down memory lane and contemplate the highlights of my life over the last decade and so the next few blog posts will be dedicated to the reminiscing of my life from 2000-2009!

IN THE YEAR 2000. . . . . .

Coyote Ugly, Bring It On, and Centerstage where some of my favorite movies, and I could be found singing ". . . I'm sorry Ms. Jackson, whooooo, I am fo REEEAAUUULLL!" at the top of my lungs because that song was THA JAM!!!

It was a year of firsts for me in January I got my first legit job AS a Waitress at this little Restaurant called JonathINN's. It was located less then a mile away from my house, and the owners knew my parents, so that helped me land it, even though I had zero experience! I still crave their steak and twice baked potatoes to this day!

I turned 16 the end of 1999, but because I've always been a late bloomer I didn't end up getting my license until that summer (mainly because it took me three trys to pass the written exam!). In July of 2000 my father bought me my first car, a 1986 White Ford Tempo I later dubbed "The Temptation"! That car made many a pilgrimage to McDonald's for the 49 cent Cheeseburger's with my good buddies DeeAnne Green (Mecham) and Ryan Schmidt! Those were good times!

And I had my first lead role in the Musical "Our Miss Brooks". I played Connie Brooks a Single English Teacher in the 1960's, who gets thrown into producing the school Musical and spends most of her time fighting with the School's Athletic Coach Hugo Longacre (played by Noble Brown) who she then ends up falling in love with, and blah blah blah yada Yada yada!

The end of the year I got to play one of my most favorite parts. . . . Yente the Matchmaker in "Fiddler on the Roof"

This is me with one of my Best friends (and lunch buddies) from High School Ryan Schmidt, He played Motel the Tailor!

I went to my first High School Dance, finished my term as Secretary and moved on to Vice President of Masque and Gavel (My High School Drama club) I got into Jazz Choir which had been my goal since my sister was involved, and it's also the year I became obsessed with Jewish culture and using Yiddish words like "Mazeltov", "Faklemped" or "Mommalla". I blame "Fiddler" and studying the Old Testament in Seminary!

I don't recall having a lot of care's or worries that year, life was good, I was right were I wanted to be, I had good friends, plenty of stage time, and a car that only broke down on a occasion and even then all I had to do was call my Dad and we'd get it fixed!

2000 it was a good year!

What were some of your greatest moments for Y2K?

"Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there." ~Amy Li

Last week was my sister Amy's Birthday, Wednesday we decided to do a little sisterly bonding to commerate! We did lunch, got a pedicure, and bought matching hats! All was enjoyable. . . well except for the tickle fight I had with the guy that did my toes! :) But that's beside the point.

One of the things I love most about my sister is she always found a way to make me feel special when it was my day! Weither it was Balloons, funny cards, cute stuffed animals, or a ticket to a movie I was dying to see, she made birthdays special and It's my hope to live up to that someday!

I'm sorry it was two days late, but I hope you know I love you Amus!

Before

AFTER!!!

I felt bad though because she didn't get a cake this year. . . . .but we did get matching hats right??? SO I hope that makes up for it. . . . . .

With that said. . . . . .

Happy Belated Birthday to my favorite Sister in all the world!

Peace Out!!!!

"Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special."- Chris Rock

Get ready ladies and gent's for a Halloween picture EXPLOSION!!!!!





No seriously I have an assanign amount of pictures from Halloween and I'm sorry, but that's just how it is!







I'm over Enrichment activities for the Relief Society at church and this month we made Halloween treats like these Frankenbrownies and magic cookie eyeballs, also attempted were Carmel apples (eating those things makes my face hurt. . . anyone else have that problem?)!









This is Joy White sampling the goodies for herself

Big Bend's Halloween dance was on a Friday this year due to scheduling conflicts but Thursday I gave the Officers and my programmers little things to wear along with their promo-shirts to help advertise for the dance. Unfortunately I didn't get a shot of everyone (I mad the mistake of giving my Programmer Jacob a biker hat and gloves and it ended up looking more gay stripper then masculine biker dude, so he took it off as soon as possible and I didn't get a picture of it, probably the saddest day of my life!)

Jeff being creepy as usual! :)

Devin going for the gold in his super swim gear!

Here's Carmen Rodriguez
as our Prom Queen, Me as a flapper, and Ginna Fontaine as a Devil!

Pimp Daddy Buhler at your service!

I couldn't put these pictures in an order that flowed and made sense, so these are just going to have to be scadywompus and I'll explain as I go. I decided to go with a "Mad Scientist" theme for the dance at school this year mainly because I saw a sweet Frankenstein balloon in a catalog and I thought I must have that for something! from there I started looking for Specimen jars and potion bottles I asked our DJ if he would dress up as the mad scientist I asked catering if they could score some dry ice, Kim ordered a life size blow up Frankenstein, she came up with the idea to play the "she blinded me with science" video on the big screen, and test tubes to put punch in. Then Angie found a cool DYI Specimen jars site and helped me figure out how to not spend a million dollars on that part and well slowly but surely we pieced it all together, but we ran into some snags our Frankenstein had several holes in him so he didn't stay inflated, everywhere in town was out of dry ice
and My Goodness that conference center we have events in is so huge it's very difficult to fill up and I'm afraid my idea got swallowed up in the vastness of the room, but failed idea aside it turned out to be a great evening, my sister came along and we had an awesome time together as usual!

Amy cuddling up to one of our sweet Frankenstein balloons!

'So i Put My hands Up, they're playing my song. . . . !"

I thought this girl on the right had a pretty sweet costume, those are leopard PJ's and I totally want them!

Big thanks to Beka for loaning me the Gorilla suit, I think Rhoan looks good in coconuts!

Cupid Shuffle. . . . a fan favorite!

Halloween dances are the only time we allow carnies to join in on the fun! i think this girl in the right is a strawberry daiquiri!

This couple is in my Institute class Bob and Alyssia they are super adorable!

Kelsey and Becky testing out the test tubes. . . . gee I wonder what sport they play for Big Bend?

This cross dressing couple was one of our Best Costume Winners!

pictured here is our very own "Ghost Rider" His mother did his make up and believe me the picture does not do it justice it was super sweet, and a pretty creative idea I thought!

I wanna give a Little shout out to my main man Jacob he helped me out a ton with the specimen jars and getting things set -up before everyone else got there, even after i dressed him up like the guy from the village people! You are a gem Jacob! This is him with his buddy from Seattle who also helped us out!

Pictured here Rhoan in the Monkey Suit, Devin as the member of the Parliament, and John Buhler as a Rock Star complete with inflatable guitar! I dressed all three of these boys thank you!

I think the Ugg Boot crew didn't realize this is not a costume in Moses Lake. . . . better luck next year ladies! :)

Hey Kanickie and Rizzo are here!

MJ came back from the grave for a special appearance!

I have no idea who these ladies are, but props to them for going with a group theme! and pulling it off!

My sad inflatable Frankenstein. . . .I'm still very upset about this!

Oh hey ghost Rider found a date!

Probably the scariest costumes of the night!

here's Eric Dover the Mad Scientist Himself! He was such a sport!

Oh yeah we had sexy nurses don't you worry!

Here's a few shots of what was supposed to be our experiment table.

Doesn't this Rat look like it's gonna attack you if you come near it?

this was a gummy two headed snake I found at Wal-mart, we decided to make it look like it was escaping.

Jacob and I had tons of fun hot gluing roaches and spiders to the jars, I think that gave it a pretty sweet effect!

This rat reminds me of something from Princess Bride!

We Found lots of gummy things to use for decor. Gummy Body parts in test tubes and jars and little individually wrapped packages.

I told jeff he should be Yosemite Sam and this is what we came up with for his outfit!

Pictured here we have Nicole Eckhart as a Ballerina, Rhoan (you already know), Christian Manly as a geek (complete with a guide to insects in his pocket), jeff aka Yosemite, Me in all my glory, Russell as himself, and John with his rockstar Mo-Hawk this time!

My Sister and I! Minus the feathers and wig, this is what my sister wore to prom, my mother added the feathers for her Mae West Costume and then I stole it for my outfit for the evening, any suggestions on what I should have called myself, I never really came up with an exact title?

This is a nice before shot my sister snapped of me!

I tell you what I was totally pooped and decorated out by saturday, but I still had a whole other party to help put together and for once in my life I was actually not excited, but after the night kicked into high gear I got my pep back! and We had a pretty great time Probably one of the best halloween dances the Singles ward had in a long time! thanks to everyone bringing their best attitudes

game time was fun too!

kelly earl the spider lady!

Ok so I was a troll doll but this picture was taken later in the evening when I couldn't handle the nose I'd purchased to make me look more legit.

Don't be alarmed by the naked fireman, no we didn't hire a striper, Rhoan just got a littel excited about the "Fire Burning" song!

Miss Jarna and I (yes my nose squeaked. . .jealous?)

Kelsey and Becky showing everyone how it's done!

Brandon Platt as an Angel of Death?. . . . Or just plain scary either one!

Thanks for dressing up Professor Poth!

Adam looks like he stepped right out of the Offspring's "Pretty Fly For a White Guy" video

". . . . Taylor Started the fire!"

real mature Matt Wall, Real Mature!

Rachel pictuer here on the left was a Kindergarten Teacher, and Jessica on the Right was Abby from NCIS

I think if Ron Jeremy and Mr. T had a love child it would be Ryan Duvall!

First shot of me right after I finished battling with that frickin' prostetic nose!

Full shot of Whitney and I in full costume! I love her stereotypical Asian poise in this one

Bailey and KaeLani looking BEAUTIFUL!!!!

Jessica Watowski looking very Groovy indeed!

Best dressed couple of the night!

Where else but on Halloween do Avril Lavigne, a mime, and Dorothy show up at the same party?

Joy as a "Mail Order Bride" very clever!

Apparently Ryan got inspired by Rhoan's earlier antics!

Me and Ottley Keepin' it real!

Check out Miss Breanne Ritchie's creepy contacts!

I think Jarna is practicing her Flamenco dancing in this picture?

Oh wait I spoke too soon, perhaps there is a tie for best dressed couple of the night!

Sierra and Kacey gettin' their dance on!

Oh look Jarna got someone to join her!

Phew are you glad that's over?. . . . me too. . . .anyway, Big Thanks to Bishop Merril's daughter and Son in Law for letting us use their home for our activity!

So here's a few goals I have for next year;

1. Find a reason to dress up atleast 4 different times (my personal record is 3)

2. But don't allow any outfits with feathers and or glitter on my face!

3. Find a way to not be in charge of anything so I can actually win a friggin costume contest for once on my life!

Oh halloween, how I do love you!

I hope you all had as much fun as I did!

Peace Out!