Julie's visit!

My sister moved up to BYU a few months ago, and this week she came to visit. It's been pretty fun. We started out her visit by going to Costco, but eventually it got more interesting. On Wednesday, we went to the Desert Museum. Almost no one was there, which was really nice. I was pretty impressed by Caleb's stamina, he walked the whole time!

Make a Smilebox postcard

The program I used for that is Caleb's favorite new "computer game". It's pretty fun to play with, although you're rather limited in what you can do. You can't change fonts or put text anywhere unless it's intended to be there.

Yesterday we met up to take pictures and then went to lunch at Macayo's. I haven't been there in years, so it was fun. I had a Baja Pizza. It was a flour tortilla with chicken, cheese and baja sauce. I wouldn't want to eat it every day, but I did enjoy it. Caleb wasn't a fan, though. He ate some of William's beef chimichanga and was a lot happier with that.

Kaiana is desperately trying to learn to crawl. She's started scooting backwards, so she's on her way! She also thinks that if you beat the ground hard enough with your hands, you can get wherever you want to go. It's pretty fun to watch. She also has a second tooth, also on bottom. It's not very pleasant to let her gnaw on my hands anymore...

Reflections of Christ

A while ago when I was at the Temple, I walked through an exhibit called Reflections of Christ. It's really beautiful and so peaceful. My friend, Joyce, just sent me a website about it and it's got a video showing the photographs. I highly recommend checking it out!

Reflections of Christ

Kaiana is on the move all the time, now. She's been rolling over for a while, but she's getting aiming down really well. Her favorite place to play is underneath the computer chair, especially when Daniel is sitting in it. She will tug on his pant leg until he looks at her, then smile at him. It's really sweet.

I have a new calling. I'm the Primary secretary now. Even though our old secretary moved away a few weeks ago, she was really organized and left good instructions, so I think I'll be able to do an all right job. :-)

Today is Daniel's last day of freedom. School starts tomorrow. He had a whole week and a half between summer and fall session. We're hoping he can take next summer off and just work to get more of a break!

A real cloaking device?

Daniel just sent me an article from CNN about scientists getting closer to creating a cloaking device. I guess Star Trek isn't as unbelievable as we all thought! :-)

Here's a link:
Scientists say they're closer to invisibility material

A tooth!

Kaiana was chewing on my finger this morning, and I noticed that she has the tip of a tooth poking through! It's on the bottom and you can just barely see it. I couldn't get a picture of the tooth very easily, so I just took a picture of her. :-)

Politics & Disney Princesses

I just got my early ballot in the mail for the primary elections, so I've been checking out everyone's websites, trying to decide who to vote for (I get to actually vote in 2 races, none of the other races have more candidates than slots available.) While reading up on the candidates for Corporation Comissioner, I've come to the conclusion that it must not matter who I vote for, because apparently they will all do exactly the same things. I figure that has to be true, because every website says the exact same thing. "I will lower water usage... I will protect ratepayers... yada, yada, yada." I think it would really help candidates if they would try and make themselves stand out a little, but apparently that's not what the people want. :-)

I prefer real elections to primaries, because there you get to vote in issues. Propositions are so cut and dried. You read it and say, "Oh, that makes sense! I want that to happen!" or "Oh, that's a bad idea... Who ever thought that was intelligent?" But with people, it's so much harder! First, you have to glean from minuscule amounts of information what they actually plan to do, but you can't trust that they will really do what they say they will anyway. Also, the more campaigning I see, the less I tend to like the candidates. :-)

To take a break from politics, I decided to look for a personality quiz online (I think they're fun. :-D) I found a Disney Princess personality quiz, and here are my results:

According to the answers you have just chosen you are most like the Disney Princess Belle.

Belle is as lovely as her name implies but her natural unaffected beauty is far more than skin deep. An intelligent and avid reader Belle yearns for faraway places and exciting adventures. She is a loyal, loving daughter and when the beast finally wins her trust she gives him all her kindness and patience and then realizes she has also given him her heart. With her inner strength and outward beauty, Belle is a young woman who can and does make things happen.

Belle has always been my favorite Disney Princess (it may have something to do with how she spends all of her time reading... :-D) so that turned out rather well.

Soccer

Caleb loves sports of any kind... At least in theory. Generally he gets a little bored playing them for more than a few minutes. :-) We were trying to play soccer with him, but he didn't understand that you were supposed to kick the ball, he wanted to play catch with it. So we went on youtube to find videos of people playing soccer. I found this one and thought it was pretty amusing. :-)

Word Vine and Iron Man

Daniel found a really fun game on www.miniclip.com. It's called word vine. You should give it a try if you have a little extra time. :-) It starts out really easy, but gradually gets more difficult and interesting.

Word Vine Place word on the vine and link every word to finish the level!

Play this free game now!!

We went to see "Iron Man" on Tuesday. It was nice to have a date and get out of the house, plus the cheap theater has Dollar Tuesdays, so it was really inexpensive. That's always nice. :-) We were kind of disappointed in "Iron Man", though. There were some really funny parts, but it had a rather tacky scene at the beginning that kind of ruined it for us. It was also more intense than I really like my movies to be.