HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TIM AND CAROL!

Happy Anniversary guys! We are all so grateful that you wed. Thanks so much for being great parents, examples, and all around cool people! We all love and appreciate all you do for each of us individually and for our family as a whole.

Thanks for being the BEST PARENTS EVER!

Utah Theater Bloggers, Part II

And here are the reviews we've written in the past for UTBA:

Of Tragedies and Sitcoms – UVU’s ‘A Doll House’

‘Talley’s Folly’ is a Sweet 96 Minutes

Plan B’s ‘Amerigo’ Explores the New World

‘Brothers’ Doesn’t Quite Live Up to the Source Material

A bewildering Theatre Experience

Here is my latest review for Utah Theatre Bloggers:

“Immortal Hearts and Other Short Plays”: Playwright Mahonri Stewart Experiments With a Shorter Form

Also, when you go to this website you should click on the ads so UTBA can make some money. Thanks! 

Cool BYU HBLL Video

So I just got a job at the BYU HBLLibrary; yesterday, they released this little video, and within a day it's gotten 170,000 views on youtube, and it's being posted all over the place online--The Huffington Post, Time, everywhere. Wacky! I think it's so interesting to see the kind of impact the internet and social media have. In any case, it's a very cool and fun video though--check it out!

Some of Amanda's Favorite Scriptures

Psalms 46:10 " Be still and Know that I am God."
When Mr. T. was lost last year, I knelt down and prayed to ask for help and heard this scripture in my head. Matt and I searched for Mr. T. for two hours. I finally decided to take the scripture quite literally. I sat down close to where Mr. T. had taken off (with some pizza as a lure) and waited for T. Within minutes T popped his head out into the clearing of the forest where I was stationed and gradually came to me. The reunion was sweet!

Matthew 5:7 "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."
When I was in the MTC, I felt unworthy to be there. One night when I was upset and unsure about my place in the "Lord's Army," I felt like I should look up the scripture Matthew 5:7, not knowing what the reference was. It was one of the first moments that I really felt like Jesus is our Savior.

Alma 20:4 "Now Lamoni said unto Ammon: I know in the strength of the Lord, thou canst do all things."
Another missionary scripture. In the MTC, I felt lonely. Although I liked my district and companion, I hardly received any mail from the people that I loved. When I struggled with my loneliness, I chanted to myself, "I know in the strength of the Lord, thou canst do all things."

1 Nephi 8:12 "And as I partook of the fruit thereof it filled my soul with exceedingly great joy; wherefore I began to be desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was desirable above all other fruit."
This is a scripture that is bitter-sweet to me. I want my family to feel the same joy that I have felt through the atonement. I love them and pray for them, hoping that in a small way I can contribute to their happiness.

All of Moroni 7
This is the scripture that I have read the most. It is the scripture that motivates me the most to be the best that I can. It also helps me to have more faith in Christ.

Eliza Photos

Eliza wanted to take a picture with her arm around Joshua's shoulder. So we got a couple shots of strangling/hair/running away, etc.

 

Hyrum likes to pursue me when I have the camera. 

This is Eliza's model pose.

This is a hat I got for free that advertises my stuff. Give me money.

Eliza's Scary Bear Story (translation below)

This is from several months ago, but for some reason I haven't been able to put it online until now. Here it is in all it's thrilling glory.

Translation, if needed:

ELIZA: Once upon a time...
Grandma and Daddy and Mommy, went on a walk in the woods.
And...
Grandma Morrison said, "Eliza! There's a big brown bear! It's really scary!"
And...
Eliza say, "Yikes! Big brown bear?? It's really scary?? WHAT?! Mean Egyptians? Mean Egyptians...aaajjjdfkjdfjhk..mean Egypti---"

ME: (interrupting the "mean Egyptians" rant): Then what did you do with the bear?

ELIZA: I kill him.

ME: You did?

ELIZA: Uh huuh.
And...he died! And the mean Egyptians take him home. The End!