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Entries from March 21st, 2008

Messiah

March 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments · a day in the life, random, tina

Every Year, Utah State University and various members of the community put on a performance of Handel’s Messiah. For the last 4 years, I have filmed it. As such, I attended the dress rehearsal last night. It is always an awesome performance, and each year it seems to get better. Basically its volunteer soloists, choir, […]

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Movie Quiz: Answers

March 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · bridget, random

Here are the answers to Bridget’s movie quiz: Scary feet, scary feet. Monsters Inc. Sad girl. Her eye fall out. Played the piano. Corpse Bride Says I fell asleep, got beat up. Meet the Robinsons Goes Mike Wazowski, like that. Monsters Inc. Nemo touched the butt. Finding Nemo Saved the baby, huh? He was crying. […]

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Movie Quiz

March 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments · bridget, random

The following movie quiz is presented by Bridget. She often asks me to watch a movie by describing a scene or saying a line from the show. It is then up to me to figure out what she’s talking about. The best part is that she might describe the same movie differently each time. They […]

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Trouble with Scissors

March 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments · bridget

Do you know what the trouble with scissors is? Two Year Olds. We taught Bridget to cut with child scissors several months ago. She’s decent at it. She can hold the scissors correctly, and she can snip at the paper making small cuts. She can’t yet cut on a line, or curve. . . but […]

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Gratitude for Green Eggs

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments · bridget

I typically don’t post more than once per day, but I wanted to share something funny that happened this morning. Since it is St. Patrick’s Day, we had green eggs & ham and green milk for breakfast. We asked Bridget to offer the prayer. It started out pretty typically, but then she said, “. . […]

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St. Patty’s Day Dinner: Corned Beef & Cabbage

March 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · family, food

Growing up, it was a traditional St. Patrick’s Day meal at my house. . . Corned Beef and Cabbage. Yum Yum! What is Corned Beef you ask? Well, I think its a traditional Irish dish. But I’m not Irish, so I wouldn’t know. This is what wikipedia says: “Corned beef (also ‘bully beef’ in the […]

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Tagged: 5 Things

March 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments · a day in the life, random

5 Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago 1. Being a Junior in High School. 2. Hanging out with other thespians, performing in school plays, and going to cast parties. 3. Attending Utah Opera performances whenever possible. 4. Going to debate tournaments. 5. Driving my gray 1989 Dodge Omni. 5 Things On My To-Do List […]

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Code Monkey

March 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

This is Dave. For those that don’t know, I am currently employed by DuPont Authentication as a software developer. Having a background in software development and writing code, I have a healthy appreciation for Jonathan Coulton’s song, “Code Monkey.” Click Here to listen/download. I often consider myself a code monkey — particularly when looking at […]

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Visiting Teaching Survival Kit

March 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · a day in the life, random

Our Relief Society President put together these cute little “survival kits” for each of the sisters a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to include the kit info here for those of you who may not be in our ward. It really was a cute idea. (P.S. Its also great for me to record it […]

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Helping daddy tie his shoe

March 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments · bridget, dave, family

She tries so hard to be helpful. I think it might just be a year or two before she figures out the shoe-tying thing. She sure is cute trying though. She loves her daddy!

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