Help!

Okay, so I need the help of all of my creative, teaching sisters and cousins! Jason and I have to do sharing time in a couple weeks, and we need ideas! The topic is "showing respect and kindness to all of God's children." I've never done sharing time before, and I am having a hard time coming up with anything. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Twilight!!!

Hooray!!! I've somehow convinced Jason to come see Twilight with me!! We bought our tickets yesterday, and we're going on opening day!! I'm so excited!!

8 Tag

RULES

1) Post rules on your blog
2) Answer the six "8" items
3) Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment

8 Favorite TV Shows:
1. The Office
2. Lost
3. ALIAS
4. Everybody Loves Raymond
5. 24
6. Home Improvement
7. Super Nanny
8. Biggest Loser

8 Things I did Yesterday
1. Woke up at 6:00 am
2. Went to 4 hours of classes
3. Ate lunch with Jason
4. Went to 2 more hours of class (orchestra)
5. Went to work for 4 hours
6. Got home after 7:00
7. Ate pizza for dinner
8. Relaxed on the couch and watched TV with Jason instead of studying or practicing

8 Things I look forward to
1. The weekend (as always)
2. The end of my 3rd round of midterms
3. The Twilight movie!!
4. The end of this semester
5. Thanksgiving
6. Christmas
7. The day I get to see my parents, sisters, brothers-in-law, nieces, and nephews again (whenever that'll be...)
8. Graduation!!!!

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. On the Border
2. Olive Garden
3. Outback Steakhouse
4. Ruby River
5. The Mayan (that's where Jason and I went to dinner the night he proposed!)
6. Wendy's
7. Joe's Crab Shack
8. Cafe Rio

8 Things on my wish list
1. Internet
2. A dog...some things never change :)
3. A printer that works!
4. Time
5. One of those little buggy's that took us to and from the huge ruin in Cozumel to take me to my class and work (except then I'd get fat)
6. A treadmill!!
7. Canon Rebel
8. A day off

8 People to tag
1. Shanna
2. Stefani Mann
3. Stefanie Martin
4. Sheri
5.-8. Andrea stole mine...I have no other friends...

Good Luck!

Thankful Thursday

I liked Melissa's idea of thankful Thursday, so I want to add my own thanks.

Today I am thankful for the angels in my life. I loved Elder Hollands talk in general conference about angels. He talked about the people in our lives who can act as angels bringing us strength, comfort, and joy. Jason and I had a sweet angel (or angels) perform a simple act of kindness last week. Jason and I got home one night after a long day of school and work to find a surpise on our doorstep. Someone had left two carved pumkins and a plate of halloween cookies. They didn't leave a card or anything else to give away their identity. It was such a simple thing, but it really touched me. I can't explain the joy and love I felt from two carved pumkins and a plate of cookies.

Angels often come as an answer to prayer, and they manifest the Lord's love and concern for his children. You never know when you will be able to act as someone else's angel, but the impact that you can have on that person is great.

Halloween

Halloween was pretty fun. I had to work till 7, but we did have a party at work...sort of. Our party was in our "new" office (I'll discuss later), and there were 6 different times we could go in designated groups so that there were always people on the phones. I was assigned to go in the last group at 4:30. The group before us was really late getting back (15 minutes) and we didn't want to leave 3 people to handle all the calls (don't ask me why people would worry about their online classes on Halloween anyway). So we finally got to the party at 4:50. Now the party was supposed to consist of the Charlie Brown Halloween, Pin the Hat on the Witch, a cake walk, a costume contest, food and homemade root beer. When we arrived, they were already cleaning up, so we took some of the remaining food (the root beer was gone) and talked...Kinda lame, but whatever. I was being paid to eat food and relax for 20 minutes.

Jason had a nice surprise for me when I got home (he gets off at 5:00). He had cleaned the house and moved the couch in front of the TV with Halloween-ish movies and candy laid out. We made dinner (chicken and salad) and then enjoyed our evening together.

Yesterday was pretty busy. I now teach four students (one started yesterday), so that filled up my morning. Jason always does the yard work while I'm teaching. He mowed the lawn and cleaned up tons of leaves. Then we had our primary class party. We had planned to eat pizza, play games, and have a store for the points they had earned for being good. We passed out invitations last Sunday, but only ONE out of 6 kids came...so Leilani, Jason, and I ate pizza (we bought 2 pizzas), played Life, and Leilani picked out her prizes and went home. It was kind of disappointing, but we plan to actually call the parents next time in the hope of greater attendance. This morning in primary, three of the boys were sitting together at the other end of the row, and one of them came up to me with the saddest face and said "we all forgot to come to the party." It was really cute.